Do you like your tomatoes raw or cooked?

Question

I have *hated* veggies since I was young, being forced to eat them every single day... But ever since I discovered the tomato, I got hooked! It's the most delicious vegetable in the whole world!!! Cooked, that is.

My favourite is cherry tomatoes, those tiny, round, plump, savoury bombshells =a They complement almost any soup-y dish. The contrasting taste of salty (soup) and sweet (tomato), and the way they burst in your mouth at just a light prod with your front teeth... Heavenly! T_T

*But* I hate raw tomatoes. Especially the big ones. They taste *nothing* like cooked ones. Every single person I ask likes raw tomatoes. They're sour! In a not-so-delicious way. Cooked tomatoes are sweet! How can you *not* like them better?

So which do you like better, and why?

Answer 1

As a committed tomato lover, I must entreat you to try a perfect raw tomato before passing judgement on all raw tomatoes.

Keep in mind that most tomatoes you find in a grocery store, and most farmer's markets too, were picked when the fruit was green, then allowed to ripen to their red color on the way to market.

A true "vine-ripened" tomato has quite a different taste and texture. The skins tend to be thinner, the flesh sweet and not sour. Refrigerated tomatoes lose texture and flavor. A sun-warmed, fresh picked, ripe tomato from the vine is how you should experience a raw tomato.

Try growing a heirloom cherry tomato variety in a pot this next season. Keeping them on the vine until ripe is a problem though, as squirrels and chipmunks will do anything to steal them.

Answer 2

Canned tomatoes are additionally healthy. they are picked and canned on the top of ripeness that's while they carry the main food. in case you reside able the place there's a iciness climate and you're becoming to be your produce trucked in from California, Texas or Florida (or Mexico or Chile) and the tomatoes are picked while they are green and that they spend a week on a truck, something is used to cause them to turn crimson and that they arrive problematical and tasteless and value an arm and a leg supply me tinned tomatoes any day. Granted they are able to't be sliced and positioned on a sandwich yet while i'm cooking sauce the tinned are healthy. i'm going to savour my clean tomatoes as quickly as I can get clean, domestically grown and have confidence tinned because of the fact the extra healthy option something of the twelve months.

Answer 3

I can't stand raw tomatoes on a sandwich. I love all tomatoes as long as they're cooked, though.

Answer 4

I love a good tomato sandwich and of course tomato sauce

Answer 5

i like raw tomatoes sliced on sandwiches, but you're right, cooked cherry tomatoes are good.

Answer 6

prefer the raw tomatoes... then the cooked ones
veggies should be cooked properly.. they should be properly cooked, proper amt of spice, salt.. then they taste good

Answer 7

baked tomatoes and rice rocks.

Answer 8

I like both : )

Answer 9

both