[music] Alright!
This is John Kohler with discountjuicers.com, today we have another exciting episode for
you, in this episode what we’re going to do is we’re going to share with you guys
how to make a tomato paste out of fresh tomatoes using a juicer.
Now I always encourage you guys to eat as much fresh fruits and fresh vegetables as
possible, and it’s quite unfortunate that most tomato pastes that you buy come in a
can.
And in the can they might add things like preservatives and oils and even a lot of salt.
So I’m going to share with you guys how you can do it very quickly and easily with
a juicer without adding none of those additives, plus in addition many cans have a liner of
the BPA which is a thing that most people do not want to include in their diets it’s
been found to have some problems and challenges.
So in any case, we’re going to use some juicers today, and the two juicers I’m choosing
to use today are the Breville Juice Fountain Elite JE 800 XL.
This is one of the most Breville popular models, and the [inaudible] Breville is basically
this model it just come with a different juicing disk or blending disk.
This runs at 6500 rpm on the slow speed or low speed and that’s meant for fruits such
as the tomatoes, and on the high speed meant for the vegetables and whatnot it runs at
13,000 rpms so that’s incredibly fast, and it sounds fairly loud.
Over on this side we have the Slowstar Juicer, and it’s called the Slowstar Juicer because
it runs at a low and slow 47 rpms.
So that’s really slow.
So this really works by a blade, like if you grate carrots up there’s a blade that spins
around, it’s inside here and it basically grates up the tomatoes and then flings out
the juice in the front and flings out the pulp in the back.
And this happens all at high speed, and it’s done relatively quick, so we’re going to
be able to juice these tomatoes really fast.
Now this machine works a little bit different, this works more like crushing and squeezing,
so how this works is we have this auger here that basically the tomato or whatever you’re
putting in gets crushed by the duo blades here, and then it works its way down the auger
until whatever you put into it literally just squeeze, the juice is squeezed out in much
more gentle process.
Now I know some of you guys are super-busy people, and your like “John I don’t got
the time to wait for a slow juicer man I want it done fast,” I mean everybody wants that
fast sports car and all this stuff, but I would caution you that when you go to buy
a juicer or if you’re using a juicer, why not get the most benefits out of the food
you’re using?
Well I agree that using a fast juicer and making your own tomato paste is better than
buying canned tomato paste you know, or not eating tomato paste or tomato juice at all,
you know it would be far better to have a slow juicer because you’re going to retain
more of the beneficial phytonutrients and phytochemicals, vitamins and minerals in the
juice.
You know a recent study I saw where they compared a high-speed juicer to a slow juicer with
broccoli, they basically extracted juice from broccoli with a high-speed juicer and a slow
juicer, and then put that in the test tube with cancer cells, and the juice made with
the slow juicer had 50 percent more cancer-fighting abilities, right?
So I don’t know about you, but cancer’s one of the things that I’m going to avoid
and I’m going to eat healthy food, so I want more cancer protection instead of less
cancer protection.
And I want to encourage you guys, you guys are going to see how long it takes to juice
the tomatoes and yes, it will take long in the Slowstar but it’s not that much longer,
and what you’re going to get out of it is a more nutritious juice and you’ll see that
after we make it.
So I guess without further ado let’s go ahead and get into the juicing.
We’re going to go ahead and juice in the Breville first, we’re going to go ahead
and flip the switch up to the low speed, take out the plunger, and we’re just going to
take the pre-weighed out tomatoes and we have the Love at First Sight divine organic tomatoes
on the vine here, just going to dump these guys right in.
And look at that!
You’ve got to put your hand over this because otherwise you’ll get some splatter.
That went through the machine relatively quickly.
But look, look at this juice, oh my God.
Let me get the off button.
Does that look like juice or froth to you?
Alright, next let’s go ahead and use the Slowstar.
It’s a little bit slower and you know you put the tomatoes in, just drop them in one
at a time, that’s probably the best idea, you don’t want to put them all in at once
and they overload the slow juicer after all, it is a slow juicer, but nonetheless, it’s
going a little bit faster, it’s not splashing all over, and if I didn’t put my hand over
the top, this would have splashed all over and made a big mess.
This was about 12.7 ounces of tomatoes going through each machine.
Alright so that’s how easy it was, I mean obviously the Breville was faster but this
is a lot slower, but I really want to wait for this to finish and then show you the juice.
Another thing I really want to show you guys is the pulp that was generated, so we’re
going to go ahead and take this pulp catch bin out of the Breville and [inaudible] on
this side of the plate here, try to get all this pulp out for you guys.
So there is the pulp, and out of the Slowstar we’re going to go ahead and tip that guy
up a little bit so [inaudible] getting a lot of those drips out.
And there is some pulp still left in the Slowstar juicer, but we’ll take out the pulp that
it created and show you guys.
So as you guys can see this is the pulp, I mean there’s a lot of pulp here, this pulp
is still wringing wet.
Very wet, I mean if we look in here we can see whole pieces of tomato that really didn’t
even get juiced.
This is wasting food, and I mean in most produce items such as fruits and leafy greens, the
high speed machines, you’re basically throwing money down the drain because you’re throwing
away wet pulp.
In the Slowstar, I mean we basically just got the separation of the seeds and the skin
there, and yes there’s still some pulp stuck in the machine, so it didn’t all come out,
but look at the difference in the juice.
I mean, put this stopper down.
Look at this juice, I mean look at that juice!
This is clearly the difference between the juices.
I mean do you want to juice all the lycopene and just not, most of the lycopene is not
present, and it’s just frothy and almost clear, or do you want a rich, delicious red
juice rich in lycopene?
What I’m going to next actually is I want to get some more extraction out of that Breville
because I’m feeling I wasted some of my money when I use the Breville to juice my
tomatoes.
So we’re simply going to go ahead and take this tomato pulp that came out of the Breville
and pour it through the Slowstar.
We’re going to go ahead and put some more of the pulp through the Slowstar Juicer, and
check out all of that juice coming out, I mean we were pretty full, but even the Slowstar
so much more efficient than the Breville it can extract the pulp that came out of the
Breville and get more juice, look we almost got a full glass now by feeding all this pulp
back into the Slowstar and it’s taking that pulp, squeezing out, wringing out, breaking
open the cell walls, and extracting the really rich lycopene-rich juice.
The next thing I want to do is show you guys how to turn this tomato juice into tomato
paste without cooking.
Alright so now we got our juice and check it out, I mean this glass was partially full,
and then when we re-juiced the Breville pulp, we almost got a full glass of juice and look
at this once again, look at the difference in the juice, do you want to drink this nice
rich and red or a lot of froth and clear juice, right?
The main nutrients inside the fruits and the vegetables are basically locked up in fiber,
right?
And the juicer literally liberates those nutrients and puts it into a liquid state so that it’ll
be more available for you to uptake.
Now they say that eating a raw tomato you don’t get as much lycopene as if you cook
the tomato, and that’s because when you cook the tomato, you basically break open
the cell walls.
But juicing is doing the same thing by breaking open the cell walls as evidenced by the deep,
rich red color.
Another thing when cooking, is most nutrients decrease, it’s very rare that any nutrients
will increase, you may have an uptake increase in some certain phytonutrients, but nutrients
always decrease when you heat things, so for that reason I recommend heating things as
minimal as possible, or not heating things up.
So when we juice we liberate the lycopene from the cell walls so that we’ll get a
greater uptake of it, and in addition we’re going to have all the beneficial phytochemicals
and phytonutrients that are available in the tomato because we did not heat it.
And tomatoes have been shown to be anti-inflammatory, they have anti-oxidants which will help keep
you young, and there’s even research that says the tomato can help against cancer and
whatnot.
So what we’re going to do now is actually we’re going to go ahead and turn our tomato
juice into a tomato paste.
To do that we have the Vitamix, and we’re just going to go ahead and pour our tomato
juice in here.
So now that we got the tomato juice in there, we got about 14 ounces of tomatoes, we’re
going to put a few things in, because the tomato paste is normally sweet, so what I
got here is I got five dates, so these are naturally grown on a tree, sun dried, and
it’s very important to take out the date pit, so we’re going to put that in for a
little bit of sweetener.
I encourage you guys to always use whole foods instead of processed foods, so whole dates
will add some nice sugar, it will also add some fiber and other vitamins, minerals and
phytonutrients whereas white sugar simply just adds sugar that are empty calories because
there’s not any nutrients with the sugar other than just the sugar itself and calories.
So five dates, that’ll get this paste nice and sweet, and the next thing we’re going
to do is we’re just going to go ahead and simply add more tomatoes.
So these are tomatoes that I dehydrated myself, and these are just dried tomatoes, and we’re
just going to go ahead and put a pile of tomatoes in there, and what this is going to do, it’s
going to thicken up our tomato juice in there, and we’re going to have a nice tomato paste
that’s thicker and also a little bit sweeter so that we can use this paste for other uses,
whether that means you want to make a sauce, you want to make a delicious thick juice or
a puree or a pâté.
This would be great to do just that, you know?
So now we’re going to go ahead and turn on the Vitamix Turboblend VS, now it’s very
important, if you want to make this recipe and a lot of the recipes that I show I encourage
you guys, get a high power blender, and at the present time, the Vitamix Turboblend VS
is my favorite blender because it really has a powerful motor and sharp blades that get
in there and really fractionate the food.
So if you have a standard $20 dollar blender and you try to do this recipe you’re going
to get chunks of the sun-dried or dried tomatoes, and with the Vitamix it’s going to emulsify
the tomatoes in with the juice to make a nice creamy paste.
So let’s go ahead and start this up, I like to start it up on the low speed setting, and
then crank it up to high.
Alright so I think it’s about done, and this is nice and thick.
Check this out, it’s so thick that it won’t even come out, this could be a good base for
a ketchup or any kind of other recipe you want to use it for.
And look at how thick this stuff is man, I mean this is the power of the Vitamix, this
is not going to happen in a normal blender.
Look at that, that’s a nice delicious rich tomato paste that you can use as the base
of pretty much any recipe whether you want to make some kind of sauce up by putting in
some chopped up tomatoes, or whether you want to use this as a pizza sauce, or a marinara
sauce, I mean you could take this recipe in any direction you’d like.
What I’m going to probably do with this recipe tonight is I’m probably going to
maybe add some of this tomato juice and maybe add some other herbs and spices, maybe blend
it up with a handful of nuts, and when you add some nuts and blend it up with some nuts,
it makes it nice and creamy and it’ll increase the uptake of the lycopene that’s in there
because the fats slow down the digestion.
So that’s what I’m probably going to do, make a soup out of it.
So that’s pretty much it for this episode, share with you guys how to use the Breville
to make an inferior juice of tomatoes in my opinion, and how to use the Slowstar, and
how to turn that juice by using the Vitamix Turboblend VS into a nice, delicious rich
tomato paste that can be used for many things.
Now you will want to use this within three days, or minimally dehydrate it, and if you
dehydrate this into tomato sheets, then it’ll store indefinitely as a nice really rich and
thick tomato paste.
So hopefully you guys enjoyed this episode, learning more about the Slowstar and the Breville
and how it juices tomatoes and how to make fresh tomato paste that you can use at home
to increase the amount nutrition you get.
I mean that’s the beauty of the juicers and the blenders, they allow you to process
foods at home so you can get away from eating the pre-processed foods that have lower food
values and in my opinion, many of them are making Americans sick each and every day.
So eat more fruits and vegetables, get some of these appliances so that you can eat some
of the best and healthiest stuff on the planet.
Once again my name is John Kohler with discountjuicers.com, be sure to visit discountjuicers.com/youtube
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