Читать книгу The Manufacture of Tomato Products. Including whole tomato pulp or puree, tomato catsup, chili sauce, tomato soup, trimming pulp онлайн

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Every sorting belt should have a boss—a competent sorter who knows his or her business, and who stands at the end of the belt and inspects the tomatoes just as they are about to leave the belt. This person can order the speed at which the tomatoes are fed to the sorters increased or decreased according to the quality, can see just what form of decay is predominating and caution the sorters to watch out for it, can see the mistakes that are being made in the sorting and try to correct them, and in addition can throw out into a receptacle such bad tomatoes as have passed by the sorters so that they can be sorted over again. It is not safe to put a bunch of women on the sorting belt with no one in authority who is on that particular job every minute, and expect an entire day’s run to come within the government limits.

There are many forms of rot, but the most common are the black rot, soft rot, and the mold growths in cracked tomatoes, either those which have cracked deeply around the stem end during their growth, or have been cracked or mashed in shipment. Just as soon as the skin is broken, either in a natural or unnatural way, molds start growing on that broken surface immediately, and develop very rapidly.