Make your own ketchup

[ed rush]

its only balanced if the person prefers the taste of sugar over the taste of tomatoes. 

i heat the 'acid' claim being made about tomatoes but ive never noticed.

They're acidic. Take a carbon steel knife and slice up some tomatoes. A patina will form fairly quickly.

for shits and giggles i just sliced a tomato from my garden, several times, with a cutco knife and a chicago cutlery knife.  nothing...just some juices everywhere. no discoloration

Neither of those knives are carbon steel. If you are really trying to argue that tomatos aren't acidic then slash your wrists and squeeze a tomato over the wound before you bleed out.

[Infinityshock]

Yea...id prefer to use knives that are actually useful for cutting and not just a rust stick

Edit: whos mugshot?

[fanglekai]

Yea...id prefer to use knives that are actually useful for cutting and not just a rust stick

Edit: whos mugshot?

They aren't ruststicks. Use them, clean them, wipe them dry. Many high end chefs knives are made from Hitachi Aogami, Shirogami, W2, or even 1095 non-stainless steels. Nihonto are made from tamahagane, which is certainly not stainless, and many that are centuries old still survive. 

[Infinityshock]

Yea...id prefer to use knives that are actually useful for cutting and not just a rust stick

Edit: whos mugshot?

They aren't ruststicks. Use them, clean them, wipe them dry. Many high end chefs knives are made from Hitachi Aogami, Shirogami, W2, or even 1095 non-stainless steels. Nihonto are made from tamahagane, which is certainly not stainless, and many that are centuries old still survive.

im not a professional chef.  i may toss a knife into the sink to soak overnight.  i may leave a knife stuck in a piece of fruit for a couple of days in the fridge. all of my dishes get soaked in bleach after i was them and the low-quality cookwear (walmart pseudo-stainless mostly) starts corroding and rusting within a short period of time.  that is why i dont...and wont...use low-grade stainless or non-stainless knives.  rust is not on my list of favorite flavors

[fanglekai]

Yea...id prefer to use knives that are actually useful for cutting and not just a rust stick

Edit: whos mugshot?

They aren't ruststicks. Use them, clean them, wipe them dry. Many high end chefs knives are made from Hitachi Aogami, Shirogami, W2, or even 1095 non-stainless steels. Nihonto are made from tamahagane, which is certainly not stainless, and many that are centuries old still survive.

im not a professional chef.  i may toss a knife into the sink to soak overnight.  i may leave a knife stuck in a piece of fruit for a couple of days in the fridge. all of my dishes get soaked in bleach after i was them and the low-quality cookwear (walmart pseudo-stainless mostly) starts corroding and rusting within a short period of time.  that is why i dont...and wont...use low-grade stainless or non-stainless knives.  rust is not on my list of favorite flavors

"Quality" has nothing to do with corrosion resistance. Corrosion resistance is a material property. If that is a property you need you should pick a knife with a high free chromium %. I suggest the 8" or 10" Victorinox chefs knife. Highly corrosion resistant and excellent performance for its price.

[Infinityshock]

when i buy a knife i buy one that looks decent.  i dont perform a metallurgical analysis

the cutco one i bought was based on a sales pitch.  i didnt want to buy it but i told the chick if it cut thru a tire (i happened to have been changing out the tires on my car at the time) i would buy it.  surprisingly...the knife cut completely through a tire like a slice of bread, with very little resistance compared to what i would have expected.  the chick wasnt happy i did it...but she made the sale.

[buddha]

I like this recipe for that fact that I can leave out the fucking sugar. Heinz makes a decent low sugar Ketchup, but it's still kind of sweet. Which is why I don't eat it, shit's nasty.

[Infinityshock]

I like this recipe for that fact that I can leave out the fucking sugar. Heinz makes a decent low sugar Ketchup, but it's still kind of sweet. Which is why I don't eat it, shit's nasty.

Eggzactly. I dont see why everyone equates sweetness to good food quality.  There are several different taste buds other than sweet that are available for stimulating

[Rowan]

Recommend stevia as a sub for sugar. Depending on the season, what type of tomatoes you choose and where they are from you might get away without adding any sweetener but I would advise holding out judgement until you taste the final product.

[Rodrat]

The only problem with this recipe is it turns into ketchup *barf*

[Soso0]

Can you make sketti with this

[Ninja]

Recommend stevia as a sub for sugar. Depending on the season, what type of tomatoes you choose and where they are from you might get away without adding any sweetener but I would advise holding out judgement until you taste the final product.

Stevia tastes like shit. 

[Ninja]

I went on a 10 day water fast and then slowly reintroduced my body to different foods.  It was like eating everything for the first time. I absolutely hate sugar. It is a vile thing to poison food. If people were more in tune with their food and the true tastes of different ingredients, they might have a healthier relationship with food.  Instead, we just add tons of sugar to everything to drown out the flavors.

[fanglekai]

I went on a 10 day water fast and then slowly reintroduced my body to different foods.  It was like eating everything for the first time. I absolutely hate sugar. It is a vile thing to poison food. If people were more in tune with their food and the true tastes of different ingredients, they might have a healthier relationship with food.  Instead, we just add tons of sugar to everything to drown out the flavors.

A little sugar balances out the vinegar and acid from the tomatoes.......but yeah don't use any sugar.......

[Ninja]

I went on a 10 day water fast and then slowly reintroduced my body to different foods.  It was like eating everything for the first time. I absolutely hate sugar. It is a vile thing to poison food. If people were more in tune with their food and the true tastes of different ingredients, they might have a healthier relationship with food.  Instead, we just add tons of sugar to everything to drown out the flavors.

A little sugar balances out the vinegar and acid from the tomatoes.......but yeah don't use any sugar.......

You just need something sweet, not necessarily sugar.  You could just as easily add honey or fruit juice.