tomatoes are awesome tho
I hate raw tomatoes. Stewed, sun dried, baked, in a Pico, salsa, whatever, but can't eat then by themselves for some reason
I'm the same way but I know exactly why. The goo like substance that the seeds come in makes me literally gag.
I'm generally the opposite. Pico is fresh enough, as is salsa, and some tomato sauces are fine, but I prefer fresh and firm.
They are, anyone who says otherwise is probably suffering through bad tomatoes. If the tomatoes aren't from somewhere local to you, they've probably been refrigerated and that destroys the flavour.
Also people don't always know the dark art of adding salt and pepper, then waiting a couple of minutes before using the tomatoes. It can even save supermarket tomatoes a little bit
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.
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.
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.
Grow your own tomatoes and they taste pretty good
My mother in law grows them along with other varieties. They are better, but I still prefer the smaller varieties for flavor.
Tomato flavored sugar!
Here's a nice recipe for homemade tomato sauce: https://youtu.be/uURB-vo9rZ4?si=mt4r6lfsAVlK32m9
If you don't like tomatoes, you haven't had a good tomato.
Tomatoes I've grown in the garden have almost always been superior in taste to whatever I could buy in the store
I grew up in the inner city, but my dad made space to grow tomatoes. I ask for no tomatoes at most restaurants, people assume I don't like them. They are wrong, I fucking love them.
I cannot stand this sentiment so much. Anything you don't like, someone will tell you you haven't had "a good one", or "well you haven't had it the way I make it." Nobody loves everything.
Tomatoes are the only thing I will ever use the argument for. Tomatoes that you get from the vast vast majority of restaurants are absolute dogshit. There is a huge difference from mass produced tomatoes vs a well grown one.
So it's not as simple as me just not seeing other people's perspective, and of course I acknowledge I used hyperbolic phrasing here, but tomatoes are absolutely the one thing that it's very likely that people do not like since most tomatoes that you will eat are significantly lower quality.
I feel personally attacked.
Thank you, brave slayer of tomatoes
My kids in a nutshell
Marinara is gross too though.
You're gross
No doubt.
