Has anyone ever had any luck at freezing fresh tomatoes? If so, how do you do it?

Answer 1

Wash them, dry them, and stick them in your freezer. That's it.

Obviously you won't be able to use them for salads or on sandwiches after freezing, But they are great in soups, stews, and tomato or pasta sauces to give a fresh flavor.

To thaw, just pull out of your freezer and set on the counter. In about 10 minutes, the skin will slip right off. Thenchop and add to whatever you're cooking!

Answer 2

My mother (age 62) has been doing this ever since I can remember looking in the deep freeze at home and I have been doing it for 15 years (since I left home). I put up 40 bags week before last.

Dip them in hot boiling water for about a minute or two and the skin will come right off. I crush them and put them in quart size freezer bags. You can chop them or leave them whole. Your choice. I use these for soups and stews, chili, salsa, basically any recipe calling for canned tomatoes. They taste fine, never can tell the difference in that or canned when used for cooking. The only thing I can think of that might be different is you may have to cook them a few minutes longer than canned when you make something out of them. They keep all year long and beyond.

If you still aren't sure why not do a bag and freeze them then take them out in a day or two and make something.

Yeah you have to cool them in cold water or ice water, I forgot to add that in.

Answer 3

Yes it real,real easy i've got some to freeze today?? All you do is drop the fresh washed tomatoes into hot boiling water and let boil for about 4-5 minutes take the tomatoes out and run cold tap water over them this will allow you to remove the skins ,take out the core and bag the in freezer zip lock bags ,lay them flat in freezer and freeze// Olay// your done and ready for soup this winter///You better give me 10 points ----just kidding

Answer 4

Check out Food Network for Alton Browns "Good Eats". He did a show about freezing strawberries using dry ice so that they are not all watery and smooshy when you are ready to use them. It is a technique called "flash freezing". It should be on there...I do not remember the whole process.

Answer 5

My mother did it all the time. She sliced the tomatoes approx. 3/4 inch and laid them on wax paper single layer in the freezer and when frozen she would then bag them. portion size. and thaw as needed

Answer 6

make a tomato sauce and then freeze it, not worth freezing them in their raw state. their texture is highly altered, if thawed they become mush, and the taste is gone entirely watered down

Answer 7

Nope, they usually never are as good once they are frozen, they get soft and sometimes watery when I thaw them. If I do at all, I leave them whole because if you freeze them presliced then you just end up with mush.

Answer 8

Big mistake. Pickle them, or make tomato sauce, or soup. Which you can then freeze. You might as well try freezing bananas.

Answer 9

I just remove the skins and chop them up and put them in freezer bags, it's worked real well for 3 years now. My granny would have a fit but it works for me.

Answer 10

One year we had tons of cherry tomatoes and I just washed them and put them in freezer bags and dated them and that winter I used them in my vegetable soup and chili, they work just fine. I wouldn't keep them more than one year though.