Oh, dear freakin' Lord!!! What a way to spend a Saturday, but I found it!!! Definitive proof that Bucks Camping and Fishing has a BASEMENT!!!
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Here's the article:
http://www.philly.com/philly/food/restaurants/20130822_San_Marzanos_vs__juicy_local_heirlooms.html
And I quote:
"Like Pastan, James Alefantis, owner of Comet Ping Pong in D.C., doesn't build his pizza sauce with DOP San Marzanos. For seven years, he has been buying late-harvest tomatoes from Toigo Orchards in Shippensburg, Pa., and canning them at nearby Stello Foods for use at Comet. Last year, Alefantis estimates, he bought 12 tons of Toigo tomatoes, which Stello turned into sauce and canned before trucking the jars to the basement at Buck's Fishing & Camping, Alefantis' other restaurant nearby."
Can I get a hallelujah and amen?
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quantokitty ago
Wow, last year he bought 12 tons of tomatoes? I wonder how much that translates into in terms of cans? Found this: 1 cup canned tomatoes = 1-1/2 cups fresh, chopped, cooked tomatoes. I'm thinking that has to be a huge basement!
DaveySemen ago
15 LBS of GRAPES makes one liter of wine, U people obviously know little of about how this stuff works. I would speculate that 200 LBS of raw tomatoes can make a 80LB bucket of tomatoe sauce. Which would be around 5 gallons.
Remember grapes, tomatoes, and humans are 95% water. ...
Do the math, what is it a few dozen pallets and those were the weight of fresh tomatoes, they have stew them before canning, which probably dropped the weight to 5 tons, which would be ten pallets, stacked it would just take a few sq-yards,
My bet is 5 gallon food grade sealed buckets, about 100LB each, that would be 50 buckets, could be piled to the ceiling again, just a few sq-yards.
Why do morons not investigate Besta-Pizza and ANDREW-KLINE DOJ?
quantokitty ago
Extracting liquid from grapes is not the same. They're CANNING tomatoes. This is the formula: 1 cup canned tomatoes = 1-1/2 cups fresh, chopped, cooked tomatoes. So for each 1 cup can you need 1 1/2 cups of fresh, chopped tomatoes.
DaveySemen ago
5The formula is how many LB of fresh tomatoes does it take to make "Ketchup" ... It's a Weight to Volume problem,
15 Lbs of Grapes make a liter of wine 10LBS of tomatoes makes a 4 litres of tomatoe juice, you cook ( reduce ) it to one litre.
A large can of whole tomatoes if you reduce it to make pizza-sauce you get about 1 cup of sauce, so its about 4 to 1 reduction.
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But what does this to do with pizzagate not a fucking thing, MY POINT is that 12 tons fresh tomatoes would take up very little space reduced as ketchup, the reason you reduce is you can always add back water. I dry tomatoes, it takes 50 kg of raw tomatoes to make 1kg of dried tomatoes, often for canning we make tomatoe paste, it takes 50 LB of tomatoes to make a bucket of tomatoes paste
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I'm sure James Alefantis has his tomatoes reduced to paste, that way you just add back in water and onions and garlic and olive oil as needed make sauce,
12 TONS of fresh tomatoes produces 480 buckets of tomato sauce, 500 litres, is about 20 - 5 gallon ( 19 liter ) buckets. This is NOT a big operation.
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Why do people do anything to avoid Besta-Pizza, or Podesta, or KLINE? ... Why only chat about Jimmy Comet?