At what age can I stop taking seeds out of blooming tomatoes!!???

[Dawnie6577]

(For my DS not me!)
Thanks in anticipation!

never ever took the seed s out of tomatos, or anything else, well, except the avocado maybe.

If you want skinned tomatoes, use tinned. If you want deseeded tomatoes for a tiny baby, use passata (check it hasn't had salt added)

I find that deseeding tomatoes takes away all their juice and most of their flavour, so never bother. Skinned tomatoes sometimes worth the effort for a taste benefit, but if you're going to cook them usually tinned is fine.

Annabel Karmel is a very fussy cook (as are many cookbooks) She is forever telling you to do one thing in one pan and something else perfectly compatible in a separate one, or do something in advance that can be done at the same time.

er never did !

Haven't heard of this before. Maybe the bit with the seeds in is more acidic? in which case it might make sense if your DCs' tummies are sensitive to that kind of thing, but that's all I can think of... and I might be totally wrong anyway.

Just checked Ruth Yarron (Super Baby Food) and she also says deseed them, but doesn't say why.

No worries Dawnie! I'm just glad you asked the question. Else I would have merrily carried on deseeding and skinning indefinitely. And it is a right juicy, messy curfuffle.

Hurrah, am free!

I can't find passata anywhere that doesn't have salt added ...

From AK website, I got a reply to say that they aren't digested properly.
But mums on there aren't bothering for too much faffing too!

so they deseed them by pooing them out.
let them.

funnily enough dawnie he does with potatoes. maybe we need a thread...at what age can i give DS a potato peeler and a mouli.

i will await the nappies with anticipation ...

If you want skinned tomatoes put a surface cut in the skin top to bottom then drop into boiling water the skin almost peels itself off.

Or don't bother at all. My DS has cherry tomatoes and deseeds them himself, the seeds are usually down his front or on his sleeves, ready to be rubbed onto my clothes hair etc etc etc.

The de-seeded is because the seeds are bitter, so presumably its easier to get a baby to take them de-seeded as they are sweeter.

The reason AK cooks things in separate pans is surely for KOSHER reasons, no?

I gave ds a tomato slice the other day, but it never occurred to me to remove the seeds!
Didn't seem to cause him a problem!

I do a lot of Annabel recipes but I never bothered with the deseeding. I do skin toms though as I think they end up a little softer and my 11mo ds still has no teeth!

I think it's because if they didn't say all this in baby food books they would just be ordinary cookbooks and lose their niche markets... Dawnie - push tinned tomatoes through a sieve. Voila! Passata. Dd has been eating tomatoes for ages - prob since about 7/8 months or earlier - didn't need teeth.

didn't realise you had to and my ds eats tomatoes more than he eats anything else and he's 13 months and no problem there so maybe try and see whether there is a reaction.

you have to take seeds out of tomatoes????

lol hvae just read the thread and find the "they poo them out" comment hilarious

was that my comment?

lol what funny thread, I can't imagonine the palaver it must be for you to deseed them. Your ds is lucky to have such a dedicated mum(!)

i suppose it could make sense to remove them but oh what faff, I work f/t so cant see me doing that, will think about this for my 7 mth old, in fact is there a suggested age for giving tomatoes?? does anyone give them as fingerfood?

how on earth do you even deseed a tomoto, does it not take forever?!

Hmmmmmm and Gina Ford reckons you should sterlise your freezer bags.

I hope we're all storing our deseeded tomato dishes in sterlised freezer bags, right?

I don't think you pick them out one by one Elf - you must just scoop the middle bit out altogether, surely?
Dragonbutter- yes. In this house we also have self-peeling grapes. Urgh!

I have never taken seeds out of tomatoes, nor skinned them.

But scooping out the middle bit just leaves a teeny tiny scrap of mush, surely?