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Summary: Before tomatoes are cut they are roasted on a grill. Learn more about roasting tomatoes for salsa in this free video about how salsa is made in a factory.
Robert Aranda's great-grandfather founded Casa Sanchez, the first tortilla factory in Northern California. At 14 years old, Robert’s first serious responsibility was in distribution....read more
"Now we're going to show you how we roast our tomatoes for our fresh roasted salsa. What we do first is, after we've hand picked our tomatoes, we go ahead and wash our tomatoes multiple times and we go and put the tomatoes on the grill like you see behind me which is a long process, very time consuming. These tomatoes are man made roasted. As you can see behind me there's a batch of five boxes of tomatoes being roasted which takes about forty minutes per batch, per five boxes. This process is very, very time consuming and very hard work. After forty minutes of roasting those five same boxes creates two trays of finished roasted product. When it's done it is sent to the cooler and waiting to be processed. Once it is processed it creates two hundred of the fresh roasted containers ready to be shipped out to supermarkets and into your refrigerator."
eHow Article: Roasting Tomatoes in a Salsa Factory