Supermarket pre packed tomatoes, anybody else find that the taste improves when they have been in the fridge?

Question

for about 2 weeks?

Answer 1

It'll probably improve even more outside the fridge. They pick then while they're not yet ripe, so they can last longer.

Unfortunately, all that "ripen at home" bollocks is just that. Unless it ripens on the bush or tree it's never gonna taste right. If you want the real thing, you'll have to put up with buying it fully ripe and then either eating it on the day or watching it rot in the next couple of days.

I still remember my granddad's tomatoes from the garden from when I was a kid in Bulgaria, and they taste nothing like the supermarket stuff. They actually have taste and texture and weight and they're heavy and full of juice and I've spent weeks feeding on them alone.

As you can see, I am passionate about my tomatoes, so please feel free to direct more questions.

The only tomato that has some resemblance of a real tomato in the UK supermarkets is (and this is odd) the organic cherry tomato from Waitrose.

Cherry tomatoes somehow seem to get at least a bit of the taste.
I think that's because they are not trying to achieve a uniform size there, the smaller the better.

Tomatoes can be so rich in flavour, that the difference between the real good one and the 45p per pound is immense. Unfortunately even in quality shops like Fresh'n'Wild, they still can't get that taste of the real tomato that you get from a well irrigated garden in quality soil under the scorching sun.

You need to go somewhere to the south of Europe to actually taste it, and it's more what people grow at home than what's in the supermarkets or even the farmers' markets.

Answer 2

That's entirely possible. Most of the tomato's you buy in the grocery store have been picked green and gassed to turn them red. Letting then set will cause them to ripen naturally. They will taste even better if you put them in the window sill for a day or two.

Answer 3

Tomatoes in the fridge are lovely, especially cherry tomatoes, =)but they never stay in the fridge for two weeks

Answer 4

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Answer 5

I always avoid tomatoes and fridges together - I think the taste goes completely when they have got cold.

Answer 6

No. By and large, I find tomatoes taste best at room temp.

Answer 7

I don't think it makes the taste better- in fact I think it makes them taste bad. I do know that you aren't supposed to refridgerate tomatoes because it changes the consitsancy inside the fruit (makes it grainy)

Answer 8

Yes I would agree with you ,
I have found my cherry tomato are tastier when they have been refrigerated

Answer 9

Tomatoes are absolutely disgusting either way lol

Answer 10

No, one should NEVER let tomatoes get below 40º