Tomatoes nowadays get old instead of rotting,we are eating rubbish fr
Tomatoes nowadays get old instead of rotting,we are eating rubbish fr
by Impressive_Towel6126
5 Comments
Tiny-Albatross518
Of course the very brst you can do is your home grown.
And the store shelf tomato is generally only a vague shadow of that.
But! If its past the season… and your home canned has run out… and you dont have any sun dried cherries left… they grow some hothouse grape tomatoes these days that are ok. Really. They’re not terrible.
icancount192
My home grown, heirloom tomatoes do the same if the humidity is low.
NPKzone8a
Is this a grocery-store tomato? If so, no big surprise that it is doing strange things on your shelf.
HandyForestRider
My wife sometimes sneaks a tomato into the refrigerator veggie drawer. Many weeks later I find something that looks like this.
Maple9404
This is a throwback to old times, not something new. Look up long keeper tomatoes. If the skin is thick enough, the tomato will often keep for quite a while and then wrinkle instead of rotting. Many apples will do the same. This is one of the ways people in northern climates survived the starving times at the end of winter. Any food that could get you through until new greenery sprouted was valuable.
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Of course the very brst you can do is your home grown.
And the store shelf tomato is generally only a vague shadow of that.
But! If its past the season… and your home canned has run out… and you dont have any sun dried cherries left… they grow some hothouse grape tomatoes these days that are ok. Really. They’re not terrible.
My home grown, heirloom tomatoes do the same if the humidity is low.
Is this a grocery-store tomato? If so, no big surprise that it is doing strange things on your shelf.
My wife sometimes sneaks a tomato into the refrigerator veggie drawer. Many weeks later I find something that looks like this.
This is a throwback to old times, not something new. Look up long keeper tomatoes. If the skin is thick enough, the tomato will often keep for quite a while and then wrinkle instead of rotting. Many apples will do the same. This is one of the ways people in northern climates survived the starving times at the end of winter. Any food that could get you through until new greenery sprouted was valuable.