Need a little help getting your tomatoes preserved this season? Check out the freshTECH HarvestPro Sauce Maker from Ball Canning!
We are in the midst of tomato season here in the Philly area and I’ve been in something of a canning frenzy trying to get as many put up as I can before I hit the road again. I find that there is a huge flavor difference between home canned tomatoes and grocery store ones, and so I know that I’m going to be said come January if I don’t take action now.
I used to do most of my tomatoes whole and peeled, packed in water. However, these days I find that I like to do a fifty-fifty split of whole tomatoes and tomato puree. I started doing a lot more tomato puree a few years ago, in large part because an electric tomato press came into my life.
There are a few different brands of these handy machines on the market, and this year, our friends at Ball Canning added one called the HarvestPro to their freshTECH line of appliances.
Having used a number of different tools for pressing tomatoes into sauce, this HarvestPro Sauce Maker is by far the easiest to set up, run, and clean up when you’re all done. It doesn’t splatter like my previous electric press, and the motor base plants itself solidly on your countertop. I’m a huge fan and will be making permanent space for this in my kitchen (or, more realistically, in my coat closet).
Right now, all the freshTECH appliances are 15% off on the Fresh Preserving website (I’m also a really big fan of the Electric Water Bath Canner). If you want to see it in action, I’ll be streaming on Facebook Live tomorrow night (Tuesday, August 23) at 9 pm eastern time for about a half hour to show you how it works.
I also have one of these handy machines to give away this week. Use the widget below for your chance to enter!
Disclosure: Ball Canning sent me the HarvestPro you see pictured here for review purposes and they are providing the giveaway unit. What’s more, I am also a paid brand partner. However, this post is outside our paid agreement. I just really liked this particular machine and so asked if I could share it with my readers. All thoughts and opinions expressed are my own.
I love to make sauce or salsa. That way I am preserving more than tomatoes at a time.
this definitely would make life much easier. I always can tomatoes and sauce for soups, spaghetti, and such
I make lots of spaghetti sauce, crushed tomatoes and pizza sauce.
I like canning them
Matt and I were just looking at some of these sauce making gadgets and wondering how they’d compare to our chinois/hand press. That is the only way we’ve done tomatoes (sauce, mostly) and we own all the required tools, but it sure seems like these contraptions would be slick, if they worked as well as promised. So, I am glad to hear your review of this one, as we’d been reading up on them already.
I mostly freeze them because slipping the skins off is pretty easy.
Loved your video last night. Every summer I roast my San Marzano tomatoes and make sauce for the winter. Oh so good!
Diced tomatoes is my go to.
I can tomatoes every year but always just chunk them up and do it that way. I’d love to do something different and think this would be a great start.
Strangely enough, I make all kinds of salsa for other folks. But for myself, I am usually doing diced or sauce, maybe I’ll branch out into pureed or crushed this year!
I normally love tomatoes fresh, but I love to preserve dried tomatoes in oil.
I love roasting tomatoes and then freezing them. They become like tomato candy!
Looks like a great product
My favorite way to preserve tomatoes is roasting them, then popping them in the freezer to enjoy all winter. But–this year I have plans to do some canning of whole tomatoes as well!
Pasta sauce!
love the idea of this. i have fresh tech products and this would round it off nicely
I just finished two bushels of tomatoes and wished the whole time I had one of these!!
I can and I freeze.
I would love this! So much easier than a food mill.
My favorite way of preserving tomatoes is the tomato basil jam! (I also love just plain ol canned tomatoes to use in chili and things like that, but that tomato basil jam has a certain WOW factor that makes it taste like summer in a jar…)
Roasted romas are my favorite to pull out in the middle of winter. YUM!
I haven’t preserved them yet. I’ve been too scared of the process!
I like to roast some and freeze or can them whole packed in water. I’ve never done much with sauce since I don’t own a food mill. This would sure make it easy to can tomato sauce!
Tomato season lasts awhile in CA
My favorite is tomato jam! Thanks for the giveaway!
I am just learning how to make sauce. Thanks for the giveaway!
After visiting Italy and tasting the freshness of their pizza sauces, I would love to start making my own!
I make diced tomatoes and salsa.
Canning pasta sauce!
I’ve never had to preserve my tomatoes. I eat them as fast as I can grow them. Maybe the problem is I need more tomatoes.
I have been freezing them but this will be my first year to can.
Crushed tomatoes! Easy and tasty!
I’ll preserve them by canning crushed tomatoes and maybe some juice, too.
Crushed tomatoes are my standby! I also do salsa when I have a bumper crop of jalapenos and habaneros.
I’m a fan of simple diced tomatoes (though recently we’ve been tearing through our batches of arrabiata sauce).
Canned tomato sauce is a favorite, with tomato juice being a close second.
tomato and bacon jam canned
Diced tomatoes with jalapeño peppers are my favorite!
I like to make tomato sauce with Italian spices
We can a lot of tomatoes, but my favorites are pasta sauce and tomato soup.
I love to make homemade sauce and this will make my life easy!
My favorite way is to puree tomatoes and freeze them
I love to make your tomato jam recipe! Hands down my favorite way to preserve some tomatoes every year.
I like to can some as salsa, some as sauce, and some as crushed tomatoes
I like to preserve tomatoes in jars to use later for pizza and pasta sauce. I also like to dehydrate and freeze them, they are excellent on sandwiches and pizza!
Crushed plain tomatoes in jars is my favorite way to preserve them… so easy to open them up for soups, stews, or whatever kind of sauce we want.
Crushed or whole waterbath canning.
Would like to try this. Does it work with other fruits and vegetables?
I usually like to freeze them.
I like to skin and freeze then to make pasta and pizza sauce later.
I love dicing my tomatoes for preserving!
Canned whole, juiced, and pasta sauce
Sauced! In fact, I’m canning right now..