Core Tomatoes for Tomato Basil Soup

Video Transcript

"My name is Brandon Sarkis and on behalf of Expert Village today I am going to be making creamy basil soup. The first thing we are going to do today is we are going to cut up our tomatoes. We will put these all aside here. We are going to take the stems off. Just give them a little twist. This is in the event that you buy tomatoes on the vine or still on the stem or if you grow tomatoes. That is always a nice endeavor. You grab these with your thumb and this one is being rather difficult. What we are going to do if you have a tomato corer or a tomato shard you will have a much easier time with this step than I am going to have. Since I don't I am going to show you how to do it with a chef knife. I am going to get a smaller knife or a paring knife. I am going to grab my paring knife because I don't have a tomato corer on me. What I am going to do is grab my paring knife like this and grab my tomato like that and stick it in there. You want to keep it at an angle and a little sawing motion just cuts it right out and that way you don't have that little whole. A lot of people just cut the whole top of it off and when you do that you lose a pretty big chunk of your tomato. Once you get used to doing it as long as your tomato is not very tough you just stick it in there and give it a turn and it is a nice way just to get that core out that part that you don't want to eat see, nice and straight. This tomato is a little on the soft side so I don't want to go as deep. What will happen is that you really don't want this in your soup, that would not be good. Even if you puree it, and you have someone who is desperately trying to enjoy their soup and they get a tomato stem in their mouth, that is never enjoyable. Be careful not to cut yourself while you are doing this. I have yet to cut myself doing this thankfully. Now after you cut the tomatoes you want to store them in something in plastic or glass because metal can have some type of acid reaction and can make your tomatoes taste really strange. So let's go ahead and start chopping these up now."