On Fri, 26 Feb 2021 21:16:34 -0500, jmcquown >
wrote:

>On 2/25/2021 12:00 PM, Lenona wrote:
>> I made about a gallon of spaghetti sauce last night and I'd say it tasted very good. Just the right amount of pepper, for one thing.
>>
>> The recipe called for 18 tomatoes. I only had cans of diced and crushed tomatoes.
>>
>> Here's the weird part. When I googled, it said that there are two large or three medium tomatoes per pound, which certainly sounds right. But...when I asked how many tomatoes are in a 28-oz. CAN, it said...TEN tomatoes!
>>
>> How can there be more than six?

Depends on the can size, for sauce I buy cases of #10 cans, crushed so
how can anyone know the number of tomatoes

>As long as the tomato sauce turned out well, why worry about the number
>of tomatoes per can?
>
>Jill

I buy whole canned tomatoes by the case, with skins removed. Every
can contains different size tomatoes... most are a medium size with
smaller ones to fill in the spaces. I like to eat canned tomatoes
right from the can, much better than stupidmarket tomatoes. During
warm weather I eat vine ripened, I like Romas better than the larger
juicier salad tomatoes. For making sauce why concern oneself with the
number of tomatoes per can... I use crushed for sauce, no one can know
how many tomatoes were crushed. Canned tomatoes are sold by volume,
not by number of tomatoes. Still I put crushed tomatoes through my
Foley food mill to remove the seeds.