[ponygirl]

The other I night I was making pasta bolognese and took out a can of Trader Joe's tomato sauce that had expired January 2024. I'm always hesitant about tomato products anyway, but this one popped and sprayed when I put the can opener into the lid.

That was a "nope" from me... into the trash can it went.

I usually can my own tomato products because they don't have that metallic taste that you get from the canned, but haven't had time lately. It's also such a mess of a production. I've heard you can buy canned sauce and just transfer it to jars and reprocess it. Anyone tried this?

[FamiliarFace]

Oh that does sound like a bad can. I bet it stunk, too.

I haven’t tried to jar a canned sauce. I either make my sauce from scratch or use Carfagna’s pasta/marinara/Pomodoro sauce (comes in a jar - a little pricey but I don’t have to add anything to it).

It used to be I could only find it in Ohio, but it has finally made its way to Indiana.

[metmom]

I usually can my own tomato products because they don't have that metallic taste that you get from the canned, but haven't had time lately. It's also such a mess of a production. I've heard you can buy canned sauce and just transfer it to jars and reprocess it. Anyone tried this?

I haven't heard that but it sounds like a good idea.

High acid foods can eat through the lining of the can. It's called *detinning*, and once the lining is gone, the acid destroys the metal. I actually saw that happen to maple syrup once. After that, when I buy maple syrup, I heat it to boiling on the stove and put it in hot jars and put a hot lid on it and screw the band down tight.

There's no need to process it as the temperature of something that high in sugar is well above boiling.