Tomato sauce making, Mildura

March 2006

 

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          Melbourne to Mildura

 

The tomatoes say GO, so off we head to Mildura to help the folks with the annual sauce making.

 

The 6 hour drive from Melbourne to Mildura.  Not much to see except lots of flat country and a pretty good sunset…

 

 

          The sauce making

 

First we get the tomatoes (12 boxes of the red stuff!)…

 

 

These are Roma tomatoes, all the way from Kyabram about 5 hours from Mildura

 

 

 

Then we cut them in half, shake out the seeds and the juice, and then quarter them…  Heinz doesn’t put this much love and attention into their tomatoes!!

 

 

The cut tomatoes are then put through the sauce machine… fixed to a 30 year old electric contraption so Dad doesn’t have to wind the handle…

 

 

 

Then comes the bottling process…

 

 

 

 

The production line in full swing…

 

 

And here’s the final result – and lots of it…

 

 

Sealing the caps with yet another 30 year old contraption…

 

 

And there we have it… 190 bottles in total…

 

 

 

 

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