I'm up for the "stupid award"

[waterflow]

Yesterday I made my first batch of spaghetti sauce. I'm up to my eyeballs in tomatoes from the garden. I had it cooking in the crock pot so it wouldn't burn. All day it cooked, I stirred, cooked, stirred and it finally got thick but it would just not turn that dark red it should when it's done. I kept cooking and stirring it and then if finally dawned on me. I was using ALL yellow tomatoes. :loco: :bonk: :toilet: No matter how long I had cooked it that batch was not going to turn red. Unless I started to do my casting spell dance around it. I think I should give it up for the canning from now on don't you?? :rolleyes:

[SharonA]

Well...You didn't say if the sauce was any good after all the cooking. I have never had spaghetti sauce make with yellow 'maters. So tell us...Was it good??

[Briza]

Hey can you send me a giftbox of some of those tomatoes, please?:)
I can eat fresh tomatoes regardless of the color. I grew yellow tomatoes once, they were great and become ripe and ready to pick weeks if not months before the red ones do. Actually I didn't know I was growing yellow tomatoes til they produced fruit:bonk:...had never even heard of one. I guess the little spike plant identifier thingy got switched with a red tomato plant.

Since homegrown fresh yellow tomatoes are supposed to be lower in acid, I don't think you should give up on your canning just yet. THere is probably a high demand from ICers for low acid homegrown yellow tomato sauce, you could make a killing! So stop casting spells and dancing around your cauldron:smile tee, you could be in business for yourself soon!

Best wishes, Bri:)

[ICNDonna]

One year we had so many yellow tomatoes that I actually made yellow ketchup. I couldn't eat it, but the family thought it was great!

Donna

[VickiB]

Well, there's always red food coloring........

A friend gave me a yellow tomato last week, though she didn't say what variety by name. She did say that she grows them for her husband because they have low acid. I haven't had the courage to eat it without Prelief though.

So,...did your sauce taste good? If so, who cares what color it is!

Vicki