"Goomba38" > wrote in message
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> sf wrote:
>> On Mon, 15 Jan 2007 15:56:27 -0500, biig > wrote:
>>
>>> I made a pot of the Beef Barley Soup that was posted here last week. I
>>> didn't have whole canned tomatoes, so substituted a can of crushed. The
>>> soup was waaaay too tomatoey. Is there that much difference in the
>>> tomato content? I added more beef broth and lots of sliced cabbage and
>>> that helped, but it still had too much tomato flavour for my taste.
>>> Anyone??
>>>
>> Sharon, the whole tomatoes would have been crushed eventually, but
>> they would still be in big hunks.
>
> Perhaps the same sized can of whole tomatoes will probably hold less whole
> tomatoes than a can of the smaller tomato bits that doesn't contain extra
> liquid?

Time to break out the scale. Or, post 400 messages about it.