This Is the Easiest Way to Crush Whole Tomatoes
by Claire Lower on Skillet, shared by Claire Lower to from Lifehacker on (#4ZHA6)
Most recipes featuring canned tomatoes will have you squash them with a wooden spoon against the side of your pot. It's a simple enough motion, but depending on the curvature of your spoon and the stubbornness of your tomato, it can send the whole fruit flying up out of the sauce, which results in splashing (a thing I"