• kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Normal beefsteak tomatoes are watery and nearly flavorless. All the other forms of tomato here have concentrated the tomato flavors into something that doesn’t just taste like tomato paste mixed into water. I generally only eat grape and cherry tomatoes raw because that actually taste good. Most other tomatoes are a chore to eat at best until cooked down in a sauce.

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      1 year ago

      Roma aren’t bad either, texturewise anyway. I generally us em for fresh salsa though. Grape and cherry for eating I agree are the best.

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        1 year ago

        Yea, I use Roma for salsa and pasta sauce. I honestly have next to no use for most of the big tomato varieties. No one in my family will eat them. I’ve used them along with several other types of tomatoes for a sauce before and it turned out really good, but they were all homegrown in my mother in law’s garden and I had Roma and even cherry tomatoes in there too. So not sure how fair a test that is.