How to Make Tomato Paste in Sicily

[elkhound]

 

[Weedygarden]

In my wildest dreams, that is not at all how I would have expected it to be made. I would have just thought that it would have been cooked until it reduced down.

 

[Peanut]

That is pretty neat. I wouldn't have guessed either. This make a 2nd first for me concerning Sicily. I had never seen or heard of a blood orange before. I was in Sicily early in the year when a species of blood orange got ripe. It blew my mind. I remember blood oranges, bad drivers and the glow of the volcano at night (Mt. Etna).

 

[BBQJoe]

I have to say as well, I would never have guessed.
Quite interesting really, and look at the fuel saved reducing the tomatoes.

 

[Weedygarden]

There is one thing that I would have expected--flies. Are flies not attracted to tomatoes and tomato paste, or do they not have flies in Sicily?

 

[backlash]

There is one thing that I would have expected--flies. Are flies not attracted to tomatoes and tomato paste, or do they not have flies in Sicily?

I wondered the same thing.
I looked it up and it seems a lot of Europe doesn't have a big fly problem.
Lucky them.
Interesting video.
I would love to taste that tomato paste.

 

[winds-of-change]

Not only flies but it is left overnight. I’m surprised some critters don’t sniff it out for a meal.