Homemade Heinz-Style Ketchup

Hi,

I do have a perhaps simple question, but unless I am not located in the states things could be different here in germany: Are you using single, double or triple concentrated tomato paste for the heinz style ketchup recipe?

Kind regards

Wilko

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tshewman

great question....I'm only aware of one type/level here in the US.

Matthew_Snyder_68770

In the comments section on the recipe, they say you can use any brand interchangeably. I'm guessing they use single, as that's most common.

Wilko_181259

+Matthew Snyder: Thx for the fast answer. I was aware about the comments - but good to know that the single one is common in the US. In Germany we mostly have tripple concentrated paste (in tubes)

+Todd Shewman Thx for the fast answer. I'll try it with the single one

Matthew_Snyder_68770

Yeah, they actually have links to Amazon or other e-tailers for many of the ingredients in their recipes. Just seems the tomato paste link they originally inserted is dead. Altho, looking at the URL text, I think it may have just been a search results page on Amazon.

Wilko_181259

Good hint. I entered the search term from the url into amazon's search and it looks like that tomato paste in cans seams to be single concentrated and in tubes double concentrated.

Matthew_Snyder_68770

Another tip: If you buy single concentrated, you can sort of bodge your way to a higher concentration by cooking the paste, treating it almost like a roux. Add it to, say, a mirepoix or sofrito, and cook it for anywhere from a couple minutes to maybe ten minutes. It'll react similarly to a roux, darkening and intensifying.

Of course, none of that matters if you're using it raw, like in a ketchup recipe. So what I just typed is kind of useless. As you were.

Wilko_181259

After a short email chefsteps told me that they are using 'Hunt's Tomato Paste' but they couldn't provide me informations about the concentration.

By checking out some more american brands, wikipedia and so on I found out (perhaps it is just my impression) that if no concentration is mention on the packaging it mostly means single concentrated. So in case of Hunt's Tomato Paste (and my theory) it should be single concentrated.

I was not able to get this brand in germany but tried it with a different (single concentrated) one and it worked out great - my niece loved it. For the adults I've added some liquid smoke, orange juice, garlic and chili and they loved it to.

Cheers - Wilko