This video demonstrates how sun dried tomatoes are made from freshly harvested tomatoes in California.
This video was taken at Morning Star Company (Valley Sun) in California's Central Valley, and follows the washing, slicing, preservative application, sun drying, sorting and packing of sun dried tomatoes.
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Video Chapters:
0:00 Overview of how sun dried tomatoes are made
0:13 Unloading freshly harvested tomatoes from the field
0:28 Tomatoes pass through two single-pass wash steps
0:57 The tomatoes are hand sorted to remove discolored tomatoes and any field debris
1:19 The tomatoes are mechanically sorted by size
1:40 The tomatoes receive a third single-pass wash step and are sliced in half
1:54 The tomatoes receive a fourth single-pass wash step and are transported onto wooden trays and hand sorted
2:12 The trays full of sliced tomatoes are stacked and transported to storage rooms to be gassed with Sulfur dioxide or to a dehydrating room
2:34 The trays are transported to the drying yard
3:10 Laying out the trays of tomatoes to dry and then picking them up
3:40 The trays of dried tomatoes are brought back to the packing line, where the trays are agitated to remove the tomatoes from the trays
4:17 The sun dried tomatoes are manually scraped off of the trays
4:54 Two shaking steps to remove skin, seeds or any debris and can then sort the dried tomatoes by size
5:34 The sun dried tomatoes are hand sorted and placed into bins for storage
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