smoked tomatoes

soil · Fri Sep 30, 2011 5:30 pm

has anyone ever done anything so crazy. I got a bunch of sungold and various cherry tomatoes I want to dry. I'm wondering if they would smoke dry well. low temp of course (150 +/-) I made chipotle peppers the other day and I may try it next time I fire up the smoker.

RyNJ · Sun Nov 06, 2011 10:08 pm

I've never done this, but people do. https://www.virtualweberbullet.com/tomatoes1.html

I realize this is quite a long time after you posted the question, but whatever.

soil · Tue Nov 08, 2011 12:31 pm

its ok for the long delay. I did end up making them and they were awesome. once they were about 90% dry and were smoked I took them out and blended to a paste. lets just say it didnt last very long. and I will plan to make much much more next year. the smoked sungolds were amazing. I bet the stuff would have great storing properties from the smoking process.....if you could make it last long enough.

they made for an amazing addition to some homemade chili. just a little bit of the paste went a long way flavor wise.

RyNJ · Sun Nov 13, 2011 11:43 pm

I dried a large amount of my kinda tasteless better boys, and I was ABSOLUTELY amazed by how much drying them concentrated the flavor. Fresh they were disappointing, but dried, holy hell! When I went to try them I could almost not take that much tomatoeyness at one time. It was a very pleasant surprise.

soil · Mon Nov 14, 2011 10:59 am

now just add a little bit of smokey flavor to that. I will be doing lots of them next year for sure.

jal_ut · Tue Nov 15, 2011 1:14 am

OK, did you cut them up at all for drying?

GardenGnome · Sat Feb 11, 2012 2:07 pm

When smoking them its best to slice them. You will get more smoke flavor depening on how hard they are when you slice them. Some might fall threw a grill you can place them on foil and poke holes in the foil and then flip your tomatoes slices after awhile. If you do them whole it takes longer for the smoke to get threw the skin.