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.
AreWeSure ago
They are not storing canned tomatoes. From your link
quantokitty ago
True enough. It's approximately 15 pounds of tomatoes for 8 pint jars of sauce. That's a phenomenally large amount to stock.
Re: the canned tomatoes, I was remembering the first quote from the other article he gave. It led me to believe he was canning the tomatoes.
[quote]Like our sauce — we harvest a whole crop of organic tomatoes — 10 tons of tomatoes every year. Can them all, store them in the basement, have like a harvest party when it gets loaded in.[unquote]