It is a canned tomato product where the tomatoes were cooked with onion and celery and sometimes spices before canning.
Cooked tomatoes are plain tomatoes perhaps with salt and pepper added. Stewed tomatoes generally include other things such as seasonings, onion, peppers and celery.
Wash them and (if you want) cut them, then cook them in a stock.
tomato sauce is tomatoes crushed up into a sauce, and stewed tomatoes are whole tomatoes, but they are just already boiled.
I guess you could do that. If you don't have any tomato sauce to put in whatever your making then stewed tomatoes sounds a good alternative.
Stewed tomatoes are cooked or stewed and diced tomatoes are cut into pieces but all tomatoes remain tomatoes no matter what you do to them. Not true at all. During processing of diced tomatoes a firmer less ripe tomato is used to hold up for a smaller cut, while stewed tomatoes are from fruit that is vine ripened longer and much more flavorful. Different tomatoes and lengths of ripening vary for all canned products which affects flavor.
sure why not
Yes, stewed tomatoes or picante sauce can be substituted in equal amounts for any recipe that calls for tomato juice or ketchup. My family likes to put their ketchup on the meat loaf after it is cooked, so using tomato juice or ketchup in the recipe was to much, but the stewed tomatoes give the dish a milder flavor. The picante sauce spices it up.
no because they have skin
Yes, provided the can is in date.
Sure, but it might have a slightly different flavor.
Yes, you can freeze stewed tomatoes.
Stewed tomatoes are just tomatoes cooked with other vegetables of your choice. Onions, celery, bell pepper and herbs or spices you like. There is no one recipe for them. Just peel and chop the tomatoes and add some onion, celery, etc. and simmer until everything is tender. Season to your taste.
yes you can. that would be better
Yes. You need to peel the tomatoes. Put them in very hot water for a few minutes and the skin will come off very easily. Now, cut them up in small pieces and boil them in one cup of water until they are soft. (That's stewed tomatoes.)
Rhubarb can be eaten raw but is most commonly cooked or stewed.
Stewed tomatoes have more juice and bits of tomato that aren't in the paste. It would change the moisture content and the texture of the dish. I don't think it would work out.