today i am bottling my own "gas station/grocery store" style salsa (ie tostitos brand) to see if it's cost effective even with imported out of season ingredients
the steps, with pictures and a cost breakdown will follow
first i stemmed, cored and seeded 4 lbs of fleshy tomatoes
Kayden Foster
chop them all up put them in a pot
same with 2 medium white onions...
Hudson Hernandez
5 (?) scotch bonnets, stemmed, seeded, and finely chopped
Christian Morgan
chop up a few cilantro sprigs
Juan Rogers
8 oz lemon juice
crucial for proper ph
Henry Barnes
stir it all up, salt to taste, bring to a boil, and simmer for 3 minutes
Hunter Robinson
forgot pic
Jose Clark
pack into hot jars, remove air bubbles with a wooden spoon, leave 2 cm head space
Michael Ramirez
apply lids and bands, put them on a rack inside a large pot and bring to a rolling boil
boil for 15 minutes (sea level)
Sebastian Peterson
what the fuck is a scotch bonnet
Isaiah Evans
did you even look at the pictures/do a two second web search
Gavin Davis
>even with imported out of season ingredients
Honestly, man, I would have just used canned tomatoes, rather than out of season ones.
Caleb Mitchell
Looks good af desu senpai
Connor Reyes
they need to be fresh, canning already canned tomatoes will not yield a desirable result
Josiah Martin
allow the pot to rest for 5 minutes and then remove the jars to cool for 24 hours
price breakdown
$4 - tomatoes @ $0.99/lb $1 - onions @ 2/$1 $1 - peppers $0.50 cilantro (i mostly buy it for my pet rabbit) $0.02 water $0.36 electricity $0.83 canning lids
= $7.71 / 2500 ml
= $0.31 / 100 ml
compared to tostitos at walmart.ca $0.65 / 100ml
woo! i'm still ahead!
Colton Diaz
Salsa has lime juice, not lemon
Brody Myers
omg gross blue board gif
you're right but i had lemon juice so w/e
i also forgot to add it into my price breakdown
Elijah Reyes
I once bought myself a one month subscription to her site cause of that vid and one other.
It was worth it, downloaded almost everything from her members download section
Thomas Smith
pls stop infecting my wholesome salsa thread w/ degeneracy
Jaxon Roberts
No.
Thomas White
PLS?
Ian Green
NO
Logan Gray
...
Parker Hall
...
Hudson Gray
is it that bad??
Grayson Rodriguez
he looks like a shell of himself without the glasses
Joshua Ross
Tbh, I wouldn't can something that wasn't fresh and in season. I can 60 quarts of tomatoes in the summer every year and when we want salsa in the winter we make it from a jar of those tomatoes. With tomato being the primary ingredient, it most certainly won't be as good as using tomatoes home canned at the peak of freshness.
Benjamin Ortiz
How does it compare tastewise though?
Ethan Young
Looks good, OP. Every time I try salsa outside of homemade or from this one particular restaurant, I always get a bitter/sour taste that just ruins the whole thing.
Hudson Thomas
there is literally nothing wrong with Tostitos salsa, it's all natural, no sugar, works as a basic sofrito as well
Easton Sanchez
it tastes similar actually. a little fresher and the vegetables are firmer. it's quite nice
my only complaint is the yield
would definitely at least double it next time
Zachary Robinson
If you want it to taste closer to gas station shit add a little sugar and vinegar, and maybe some cumin.
Nice work though. I haven't bough cooked salsa in a decade since I realized how easy and cheap it is to make.