beer kettle for tomato sauce!

[gatsby174]

Every year my bride and I process a total of about 5 bushels of roma tomatoes and cook it down to can as tomato sauce. The romas were very juicy this year and yielded 8 gallons from 2 bushels. Since I upgraded to ag, I was excited to use my 10g brew kettle and dark star burner to boil the sauce down in the garage. What I didn't expect was the hot break to be 10x worse than wort! I actually lost a couple drops of foam into the concrete floor. Can't wait to use the valve to bottle the jars instead of that stupid laddle I usually have to use! Anyway, anyone else use their brew kettle for sauce in the fall?

 

[Homercidal]

No but I've made syrup in the spring with mine.

 

[sboyajian]

That's funny! I've got a ton of tomatoes I just pulled from my garden and planned on using my kettle for the exact same thing!

 

[Melana]

Not yet... I'm waiting on having a garden big enough to produce masses of tomatoes. I love a nice roasted sauce though...

 

[HausBrauerei_Harvey]

I thought of this but didn't do sauce this year. Is there any concern of weird tasties getting into the kettle? Or a thorough scrubbing should take care of it no problem.

 

[Airplanedoc]

I have done a low country boil in mine e-keggle. No worries.

 

[IslandLizard]

I'm all for multi purposing.

I make chicken, turkey, and beef stock/soup in mine. Or large batches of anything for that matter, like Indian stew. The high walls also prevent that annoying splattering (tomato) sauces are infamous for.

 

[Homercidal]

My friend's mom has a great recipe for homemade sauce. I really need to get some kind of garden growing next season and plant some romas.