Stop letting perfect tomatoes waste – do this instead
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Once picked from the plant, a tomato quickly loses moisture through the trunk scar and turns a once juicy tomato into an increasingly dry, wrinkled case of its former self. In order to slow down the loss of moisture and to help tomatoes to stay clumsy and juicy for longer, they store them upside down to cover the scarring of the fruit.
The tomato dilemma is real: you buy a tension span beautifully mature summer tomatoes, carefully transport them home without a single city and injured, and then put them on a switch to eat it in the next few days. But before they managed to enjoy them all, there are signs of wrinkles and collapse. It is the infinite tension between two very true things: mature, summer tomatoes are the best tomatoes (some would say only Tomatoes) and mature summer tomatoes turn the abyss of a shockingly fast decline.
What to do? As controversial as it is, you can Place the tomatoes on the edge in the fridge: We carried out the tests and it is by far the preferred option to collapse and disintegrate. But there is another thing that you can do first and it helps to ward off the premature tomato deaths and buy your time to actually enjoy these exquisite summer fruits: store them.
This is because the Stem end is a weak point in an otherwise well-coherent small package. Tomato rot is thin, but good to keep juices locked in the fruits. But the circular scar, in which the stem was once fastened, is like a wound: once picked from the plant, a tomato quickly loses moisture through the trunk scar and turns a once juicy tomato into an increasingly dry, crumpled shell of its former self.
By storing tomatoes on the head, the scar is blocked, which slows down the loss of moisture and helps them to stay up to date and juicy longer. You can even go one step further by covering the scar with a piece of adhesive tape to include even more from the water of the tomatoes. It is a method that many chefs use and one, the former editor Kenji showed that it works: Kenji found that in his tests Tomato The stored trunk side for three days lost only 1 to 2% of its weight, while the right side of fruit lost up to 7%. That could be the difference between a tomato that falls with juice, and someone who has shrunk.
So the next time you come home with a basket with beautiful heirloom tomatoes from the market, do yourself a favor and take a moment to position you properly. You will not remove the large tomato stilemma, but you will reduce it.
Serious food / Amanda Suarez
