don’t start with enough water, it takes a while to add more and get it back up to boiling.
once i get the small pot of water boiling, it’s time to begin. at the same time, i will prepare a sink full of cold water and add a tray of ice cubes to keep it cool.
i fill it up with just enough tomatoes so that they are all completely covered (or at least, very close). i use an oven timer and set it to 30 seconds as soon as they go in. occasionally a tomato will need closer to 45 seconds, but they usually end up getting close to that by 