Wouldn’t this work just as well with whole canned tomatoes, since you are blending them anyway?

Totally understand what you mean by a silkier texture! The calcium chloride makes the meat firm, and just blending it into smaller pieces doesn’t change that fact.

But the sous chef who has a cold (or something else that involves a runny nose) but came in because they really need the hours right now doesn’t worry you.

I used to find this very helpful. My early days in helpdesk it was great to be able to focus on many small tasks/problems in rapid succession. Now that I’ve moved up to managing projects and teams, I have to work a lot harder to focus myself. Ear plugs, headphones, and having some semi-awkward conversations with loud…

attention youngsters: if he/she/whatever doesn’t dig you warts and all move on. in the words of the most worthy wayne campbell, I say hurl. If you blow chunks and she comes back, she’s yours. If you spew and she bolts, then it was never meant to be.

Well, if the surface is covered in bat guano from Kitum cave, there’s probably a reasonable concern there. In other situations, it does seem a bit hyperbolic.

No but I touch public surfaces with my hands all the time and I’m not losing my goddamn mind about that.

Cleaning a food processor can be a pain in the ass.

I’m odd about textures, but I really don’t like the jiggly, somewhat chewy tomato chunks that refuse to silkify!

To be fair, “Stop Buying Canned, Chopped Tomatoes” is a pretty aggressive headline, which makes people defensive immediately. My Chrome tab name indicates that “How to Chop Whole Canned Tomatoes” was the original headline, but I guess that didn’t have enough click-bait.

I think the firmness might be brand specific. Red Gold and Muir Glen chopped tomatoes never break down, but plenty of other brands do. Also, you seem to get more tomato in a can of chopped than a can of whole, although that varies by brand as well.

I do love my immersion blender, but I just love the way the chopped whole tomato kinda half melts into the sauce. It’s way silkier than a chopped, canned tomato, but still holds some vague form of shape.

One word, Chili.

Not for tomatoes, they aren’t.

I’ve been using caned, chopped tomatoes. At first they complained but after a while I think they started to like it.

Who throws elbows in a moshpit? Back in my metalhead days throwing punches, elbows, etc was considered bad etiquette. 

I don’t think anyone got trampled at the movie theater. They got shot. As for the nightclub, that’s a different story...That is crowded. I’m in my 40s and married, so my clubbing days are over. And like Artist, I stay away from crowds. Movie theater may be the only one, but you have seats between you and a mad rush…

They model large groups of people using the same techniques as hydromechanics, so the analogy is quite apt.

If you can, stay away from large crowds to begin with. As I got older, I realized there was nothing important enough for me to put up with large crowds unless compelled by law.

It’s like being caught in a river current, go with the flow and and work on getting to the riverbank, diagonally.