Preserve your Tomato Harvest - Tomato Juice (DIY)

If you plant tomatoes in quantities of more than a few plants, you will have to study the science of canning. Especially if you're already tired of distributing them for free to all your friends and relatives.

This is actually what I'm doing in the last week. This year we planted them quite a lot, more than 50 plants, that's for sure.
One of our tomato beds a month ago:

And somehow it turned out that they ripened almost all at once, so now we have a really hot season :)
Once something has grown up on your vegetable beds, it's not good to let it spoil, right?

It makes no sense to list everything that can be prepared using tomatoes (you have Google for this), I'll just show you the easiest way to preserve them. The way we do it.

Step 1. Washing

Step 2. Cutting

Step 3. Squeezing juice
with the help of a simple device with a power of 1 human power. The presence of a small assistant will not speed up the process, but will surely make it less boring.

By the way, about children... A strange thing, for some reason, many children do not like tomatoes, and this applies to both whole fresh tomatoes and tomato juice.
That's kinda "mission impossible" to persuade my child to even taste it. I'm OK with it because I myself did not like tomatoes in my childhood. It is strange how our taste preferences change with our growing up...

Step 4. 5 minutes of boiling
I do not add anything to the tomato juice. No salt, no sugar, no spices. All this can be added directly to the glass when the time for drinking comes. I just can the "pure product" as it is.

Step 5. Canning

Now it is ready for long-term storage. Our reserves for the winter:)