Hello all,

I wonder if we can freeze fresh tomatoes (chopped) to be used in cooking curries later on??. I believe frozen tomatoes can't be used in salads as they will be discoloured and slushy?.

Cheers.

I freeze them whole.

The reason is this:- When I then take them out of freezer, I leave them for a couple of minutes. So just the outer millimetre or two has defrosted. I can then slip the skin off very easily because the rest of the tomato is still frozen. It's a very easy way to skin the tomatoes! One's fingers get cold but that's not a big deal!

And the skin protects the tomato when it's in the freezer!

Oh great !! I will freeze them whole, but Kavey why would you want to take the tomato skin off ?

If I'm using them for cooking sauces, which is the best use for frozen/defrosted tomatoes, the skins can sometimes be a little thick/ tough. Some tomatoes have very thin skins which I'd leave on but other varieties are a bit too thick my liking and I don't like finding bits of them in my mouth!

OK IC.... thanks for your suggestion.

No probs!

Isnt this site great. Every time I come here I learn something new. I wish I'd known about mamtas tom sauce and now being able to freeze tomatoes towards the end of last summer. I had that many toms I couldnt give them away. I had bucket loads. Unfortunately most went into the compost bin. Thanks all. Its coming spring here now and my tom seedlings are almost ready to go into the vege garden.

Steve

Today i just froze tomates in plastic food bags, keeping 4 tomatoes in each bag,so each time when anybody is cooking , just take a bag out.

Cheers.