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Canning and Seaming

How the tomatoes were cannedPart 5 of 8

A filmed step in the tomato line: once peeled and prepared, the fruit is placed in tin cans and sealed airtight, immediately before sterilization.

Written in French by Alain Manset, September 9, 2015. Quotations from period documents are left in the original. Lire l’original en français.

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Once the tomatoes had been peeled and prepared, they were placed in tin cans and sealed airtight before the next stage, sterilization.

In this series

  1. Taking in the tomatoes at the cannerySeptember 6, 2015 · Alain Manset · 1 min read
  2. First the Tomatoes Had to Be ScaldedSeptember 8, 2015 · Alain Manset · 1 min read
  3. The Work of the Tomato PeelersAugust 23, 2015 · Alain Manset · 1 min read
  4. Peeling with a SpoonSeptember 27, 2015 · Alain Manset · 1 min read
  5. Canning and SeamingSeptember 9, 2015 · Alain Manset · 1 min read
  6. Sterilizing the cans and making the ketchupFebruary 2, 2016 · Alain Manset · 1 min read
  7. Cooling the Cans, Then Labelling ThemSeptember 10, 2015 · Alain Manset · 1 min read
  8. KetchupSeptember 25, 2018 · Alain Manset · 1 min read

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