Pureeing Tomatoes to Make Gazpacho

"My name is Brandon Sarkis on behalf of Expert Village. Today, I'll be making a quick and easy traditional Spanish Gazpacho. Alright, so we're back with our tomatoes right here. And we're back with our hand blender and what we're going to do is we're going to go ahead and give these a little chop. And what you might want to do, is to stop from getting them all over the place is kind of put a towel over it. You want to be able to still see in there what you're doing, like this. But this way you're not going to run the risk of spraying it. I mean you still might get a little in your eye but not as much. And the reason we're doing the tomatoes separate is because you want to chop them up and make sure that nothing kind of sneaks past us. What you have to do if you use a hand blender like this. You have to pick it up and just keep moving it around. It's starting to get unruly on me. And kind of just stir it in there and you can kind of see where the big chunks are. So you can see that I've got some over here, so. As soon as you hear the motor spin freely, just turn it off and move it to a different location. Because you're not doing anything while you're just standing there. You just hear how, see how it just sounds like that? You're not doing any work at all. You're just spinning the blade for the sake of spinning the blade. Alright so that looks like a pretty good start. And you don't want to necessarily puree all your tomatoes at this point. You just want to make sure you get all your big chunks out of the way. You can see that I've done a pretty good job of that. Alright. So there is that. There's our fresh tomatoes. Now the next thing we're going to add is the oil, the salt and the vinegar. So, let's see. Let's go ahead and throw our oil in there. And when we put the oil in we're going to kind of want to mix it in with the mixer. So just a little bit at a time. And what we're going to want to do is we're going to want to make sure the oil is completely mixed in before we keep going. Otherwise it's just going to make things really difficult on us in a second. So put the towel on the top again. And you want to get the oil to emulsify as best you can at this point before you add anything else. Because what will happen is if you put the oil in, just drop it in and put the vinegar in, just drop it in, they're not going to get along because they're oil and vinegar and then they're going to separate and you're going to have a mess. So the next thing we'll do, now we'll add our vinegar. Little bit of balsamic. Alrighty. Let's move on to our next step now."