/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.19250816]

I'm planting heirloom tomatoes in the next few days. I will have a summer full of delicious, fresh heirloom tomatoes and you assholes will be stuck with shitty, tasteless, HARD grocery store tomatoes. HAHAHAHA

[Anonymous No.19250829]

>>19250816
I kneel

[Anonymous No.19250863]

My family has been passing down heirloom tomatoes for generations

[Anonymous No.19250893]

>>19250863
They must be quite rotten by this point

[Anonymous No.19250898]

>>19250816
Good for you, OP.

I live in Scandinavia, about the same latitude as Iceland. Don't cry for me. I'm already dead.

[Anonymous No.19250932]

>>19250816
Did you start them from seed?

[Anonymous No.19251303]

>>19250893
That's why we pass them down instead of eating them ourselves

[Anonymous No.19251314]

>>19250816
I live near a farmers market. I'll be ok

[Anonymous No.19251323]

>>19250816
for me? it's cherokee purple. The best sandwich tomato.

[Anonymous No.19251362]

Post tomatoes

[Anonymous No.19251369]

>>19250816
Lmao. I already planted my 48 tomato starts, sucker! Brandywine, black tula, pineapple, rosella, paul robeson, and cherokee purple.

Going to be a killer year. Have enough to engorge on tomatos, can a bunch, share a bunch, and sell the rest.

[Anonymous No.19252262]

Tom bump.

[Anonymous No.19252267]

>>19251303
Kek

[Anonymous No.19252272]

>>19251362
Ugh. I'm in zone 9 and have hardly planted shit yet. Pretty much have to hold out for the 2nd planting season this year (most of you don't even know what that is)

[Anonymous No.19252273]

>>19252272
It's the planting season after the first one

[Anonymous No.19252278]

>>19252272
Zone 9b over here, mothertrucker

[Anonymous No.19252283]

>>19250816

Actually I have beefsteak, Roma, cherry, grape, early girl tomatoes in my cellar growing now ready to plant outside in a week or two

[Anonymous No.19252375]

>>19250816
Those look great and remeber some chile peppers. Tomatoes and chile peppers go great together.

[Anonymous No.19252408]

>>19252283
For some reason that reminded me of that old chain Beefsteak Charlies, my mom used to take me out to there from time to time.
I miss my mom.

[Anonymous No.19252418]

>>19250816
What the fuck is heirloom tomato? Do you just mean self-grown?

[Anonymous No.19252422]

>>19252418
This is a guess but I think it means not standaed like the ones found in a grocery store. Some folk will grow stuff on their own then sell them at green markets, like chile peppers.
They're uncommon.

[Anonymous No.19252445]

>>19252418
It's a kind of tomato that hasn't been genetically modified. The tomatoes you find in grocery stores were genetically modified to be firm, to survive the shipping process from farm to supermarket, without getting bruised or otherwise damaged. But in the end, sacrificing flavor. Heirloom tomatoes are how tomatoes used to be, a hundred years ago, before modern supermarkets.

[Anonymous No.19252448]

>>19252445
>But in the end, sacrificing flavor
Eh, not really. The reason grocery store tomatoes suck is because they are harvested too early. There are plenty of non heirloom tomatoes that taste awesome, and even better than some heirlooms.

[Anonymous No.19252496]

>>19252448
>There are plenty of non heirloom tomatoes that taste awesome, and even better than some heirlooms.
LOL there's no point arguing with a cooklet who doesn't understand obvious facts. Enjoy your flavorless, firm tomatoes in your bland salsas and on your bland hamburgers.

[Anonymous No.19252569]

>>19252418
>>19252422
Tomatoes were only grown for their looks because they were completely indigestible. They didn't become a food until the 1700s when the Italians managed to rear the fruit without it containing solanine. It took until the 1800s for the plant to become a staple in Italy, then the rest of the world.

Ancienne ("heirloom") tomatoes refers to those old tomato varieties that were developed in and around the castles and estates of European nobles before the plant became an industrial staple.

[Anonymous No.19252575]

>>19251362
It's fucking MAY!
What are you doing nigga!?

[Anonymous No.19252577]

>>19251369
>sell the rest
>cherokee
No you won't. The Cherokee dishes out a handful of tomatoes and then it dies.

[Anonymous No.19252581]

>>19252496
I have heirloom tomatoes in my store. They can either taste great or they can taste like crunchy, mealy garbage.
Sorry anon, but most tomatoes are fine if you let them ripen fully. Commercially produced tomatoes never get to ripen to perfection, thus they taste like crap.

[Anonymous No.19252583]

>>19252577
8 plants of each type. The pineapple and Brandywine make many tomatoes. Got 70lbs of toms from half as many plants.

[Anonymous No.19252607]

>>19250816
can't find my tomato pics but this if from my garden

[Anonymous No.19252639]

>>19252418
heirloom ones typically have chlorophyl in fruit while "supermarket varieties" are devoid of it
that's why heirloom ones are ugly brown or green even when ripe while your typical ones are uniform red spheres without any blemishes (and flavor)

[Anonymous No.19252755]

>>19251323
these are delicious, but they don't grow well in my climate. Brandywines flourish and are nearly on par.

[Anonymous No.19252761]

>>19252448
>There are plenty of non heirloom tomatoes that taste awesome, and even better than some heirlooms.
name three

[Anonymous No.19254010]

>>19252607
that's a bell pepper not a tomato

[Anonymous No.19254023]

>>19252272
Lol I posted this while drunk and just spent 2 seconds wondering who has my exact life and thoughts. My God, I'm retarded.

[Anonymous No.19254092]

>>19254010
shut up

[Anonymous No.19254447]

Zone 3, but its gonna get hot. Fuck the last frost date.

[Anonymous No.19254515]

>>19254023
Well, what is second planting? What are you growing?

[Anonymous No.19254524]

>>19251362

[Anonymous No.19254602]

>>19254524
nice lookin maters