Why Homegrown Tomatoes Are SO MUCH BETTER
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Date: 2019-08-15
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Adam Ragusea
Q: How do garden tomatoes compare to canned tomatoes? A: I want to research this topic properly and do a separate video on canned tomatoes. But certainly I think good-quality canned or cartoned tomatoes are far superior to grocery store tomatoes for most purposes. I would imagine that the tomato varieties grown for the can have better flavor, because they don't need to be bred to survive the trip from farm to consumer in their raw state. Top-level brands might also only use tomatoes grown outside and harvested in season, as opposed to tomatoes grown year-round in hot houses. Q: So what's better for sauce-making garden tomatoes or good canned tomatoes? A: You'll just have to wait for Thursday's recipe video. Q: What do you mean your garden tomatoes are salty enough because of your soil? A: I was just guessing that maybe my soil has something to do with it. I live on the coastal plain the ground here was recently ocean floor. But it could be any number of other factors, like the varieties I'm growing, how much rain I get, I honestly don't know. I only know that all tomatoes do contain some amount of salt naturally, and my tomatoes usually taste salty enough for me, for the purposes of eating raw. When I cook with them, I salt them. Q: How do you grow tomatoes? A: It's too late in the season for me to do that video. Next spring, I promiseQ: Why do your tomato plants look kinda rough? A: Because it's the end of my season, and because I don't spend much time caring for them. I buy seedlings from the store, plant them in cages, cover them in netting, and then leave them be. I don't weed. I don't prune. Sometimes I water if it hasn't rained in a while. But I'm a very busy person and I can't be bothered with fussy gardening. I get them going, and whatever harvest I get, I get. Also, it's hot AF here. Q: Are you bothered by the comment memes? A: Not at all. Memes = clicks = money. Also occasionally I see one that I think is funny. Q: Why haven't you done Q+As on your other recent videos? A: I've been on vacation Did I miss anything?
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Q: How do garden tomatoes compare to canned tomatoes? A: I want to research this topic properly and do a separate video on canned tomatoes. But certainly I think good-quality canned or cartoned tomatoes are far superior to grocery store tomatoes for most purposes. I would imagine that the tomato varieties grown for the can have better flavor, because they don't need to be bred to survive the trip from farm to consumer in their raw state. Top-level brands might also only use tomatoes grown outside and harvested in season, as opposed to tomatoes grown year-round in hot houses. Q: So what's better for sauce-making garden tomatoes or good canned tomatoes? A: You'll just have to wait for Thursday's recipe video. Q: What do you mean your garden tomatoes are salty enough because of your soil? A: I was just guessing that maybe my soil has something to do with it. I live on the coastal plain the ground here was recently ocean floor. But it could be any number of other factors, like the varieties I'm growing, how much rain I get, I honestly don't know. I only know that all tomatoes do contain some amount of salt naturally, and my tomatoes usually taste salty enough for me, for the purposes of eating raw. When I cook with them, I salt them. Q: How do you grow tomatoes? A: It's too late in the season for me to do that video. Next spring, I promiseQ: Why do your tomato plants look kinda rough? A: Because it's the end of my season, and because I don't spend much time caring for them. I buy seedlings from the store, plant them in cages, cover them in netting, and then leave them be. I don't weed. I don't prune. Sometimes I water if it hasn't rained in a while. But I'm a very busy person and I can't be bothered with fussy gardening. I get them going, and whatever harvest I get, I get. Also, it's hot AF here. Q: Are you bothered by the comment memes? A: Not at all. Memes = clicks = money. Also occasionally I see one that I think is funny. Q: Why haven't you done Q+As on your other recent videos? A: I've been on vacation Did I miss anything?
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mechonline1
I am a small farmer so i think i can answer some of your questions and give you some insights but i live in romania so my climate will be very diffrent from yours. Firstly the early picking that actually depends on the variety but it is mainly because of the very thin skin that tomatoes have and tne red one that you had was slightly overipe. Overripe tomatoes tend to develop cracks which ruins both shelf life and makes them very predesposed to rotting. Next point is the flavor and here is where you need to make a lot of research there exists thousand of cultivars of tomatoes which all have diffrent flavours, consitancy even juiciness vary wildly. Also the reason your tomatoes are salty might be because you dont water them enough or you have an abundace of micro elemets which the plant can use. Hope this helps P. S. english is not my first language so i apoligize for any mistakes
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I am a small farmer so i think i can answer some of your questions and give you some insights but i live in romania so my climate will be very diffrent from yours. Firstly the early picking that actually depends on the variety but it is mainly because of the very thin skin that tomatoes have and tne red one that you had was slightly overipe. Overripe tomatoes tend to develop cracks which ruins both shelf life and makes them very predesposed to rotting. Next point is the flavor and here is where you need to make a lot of research there exists thousand of cultivars of tomatoes which all have diffrent flavours, consitancy even juiciness vary wildly. Also the reason your tomatoes are salty might be because you dont water them enough or you have an abundace of micro elemets which the plant can use. Hope this helps P. S. english is not my first language so i apoligize for any mistakes
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zicada
Why wouldn't commercial growers simply pick tastier breeds of tomato? I'm not buying that any commercially viable breed is automatically lacking in taste. I don't see why capitalism isn't working like it does in every other similar scenario in this case. Surely there would be pressure to produce the tastiest brand, thereby putting a lot of resources into finding the best genetic starting point, as well as developing better handling. Put differently. I disagree that Adam would be able to pick out which is which in 100 out of 100 blind taste tests between commercial and heirloom. Maybe he would be able to get 60% correct, meaning 'so much better' in all caps is a bit of a stretch.
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Why wouldn't commercial growers simply pick tastier breeds of tomato? I'm not buying that any commercially viable breed is automatically lacking in taste. I don't see why capitalism isn't working like it does in every other similar scenario in this case. Surely there would be pressure to produce the tastiest brand, thereby putting a lot of resources into finding the best genetic starting point, as well as developing better handling. Put differently. I disagree that Adam would be able to pick out which is which in 100 out of 100 blind taste tests between commercial and heirloom. Maybe he would be able to get 60% correct, meaning 'so much better' in all caps is a bit of a stretch.
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ndzapruder
Warm sliced tomatoes from the garden were a common accompaniment to the hamburger helper and canned green bean dinners I was raised on. When people tell me they don't like tomatoes, I understand. but it's a frustrated sort of understanding. If someone who'd only ever seen oil pastels by 6th graders on display in a mall said they didn't like art, you could just show them better art. How do I convince someone to put something in their mouth when I already know their expectations are strong enough to ruin the actual experience?
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Warm sliced tomatoes from the garden were a common accompaniment to the hamburger helper and canned green bean dinners I was raised on. When people tell me they don't like tomatoes, I understand. but it's a frustrated sort of understanding. If someone who'd only ever seen oil pastels by 6th graders on display in a mall said they didn't like art, you could just show them better art. How do I convince someone to put something in their mouth when I already know their expectations are strong enough to ruin the actual experience?
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Zolo X
I have huge tomato plants in my garden. The varietys are only cherry tomatoes and big beef tomatoes. They are almost as tall as I am (im short) I never watered them after the spring drenchings, but my Early Girls in a difffrent bed arn't doing so hot. I never bothered to fertilized but instead had a foot of leaves covering the entire garden that I then lighted on fire after all my plants died off and were picked. Could the leaves contain a nutrient that tomatoes need? You dont have to answer its just a wondering question.
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I have huge tomato plants in my garden. The varietys are only cherry tomatoes and big beef tomatoes. They are almost as tall as I am (im short) I never watered them after the spring drenchings, but my Early Girls in a difffrent bed arn't doing so hot. I never bothered to fertilized but instead had a foot of leaves covering the entire garden that I then lighted on fire after all my plants died off and were picked. Could the leaves contain a nutrient that tomatoes need? You dont have to answer its just a wondering question.
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Smurph
Can you go back to focusing on doing recipes quickly with no fluff. Your earlier videos got attention because of that main factor. Making a recipe quickly that also looked good. Anyone with google can figure out the reasons a tomato is better if grown yourself or bought at a market. People can figure out for themselves about garlic. Most your videos are not what a lot of us subbed to originally. Or don't but I'm going to unsub if this trend continues. Going by the attitude you show I doubt that matter much though.
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Can you go back to focusing on doing recipes quickly with no fluff. Your earlier videos got attention because of that main factor. Making a recipe quickly that also looked good. Anyone with google can figure out the reasons a tomato is better if grown yourself or bought at a market. People can figure out for themselves about garlic. Most your videos are not what a lot of us subbed to originally. Or don't but I'm going to unsub if this trend continues. Going by the attitude you show I doubt that matter much though.
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Stacy Lynn
They all look so delicious I plant a garden every summer, and always do a few variety of tomatoes but I just can't seem to like them and I want to They smell and look so good, and every year I try them hoping the taste grows on me but it just doesn't. I live in farm country Pennsylvania and grew up always having a garden and I could eat anything else straight from the vine, but tomatoes. Fingers crossed my taste buds magically except tomatoes one day
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They all look so delicious I plant a garden every summer, and always do a few variety of tomatoes but I just can't seem to like them and I want to They smell and look so good, and every year I try them hoping the taste grows on me but it just doesn't. I live in farm country Pennsylvania and grew up always having a garden and I could eat anything else straight from the vine, but tomatoes. Fingers crossed my taste buds magically except tomatoes one day
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Alistair Blaire
Excellent video. My mother used to grow backyard tomatoes and as a kid they always seemed exactly like grocery store tomatoes. But when you showed your sliced tomatoes I could see why. She always picked them at the time when they would be exactly like the grocery store varieties. I also noticed that smaller tomatoes from the store do taste better, glad it's not just me.
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Excellent video. My mother used to grow backyard tomatoes and as a kid they always seemed exactly like grocery store tomatoes. But when you showed your sliced tomatoes I could see why. She always picked them at the time when they would be exactly like the grocery store varieties. I also noticed that smaller tomatoes from the store do taste better, glad it's not just me.
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M
These are no replacement, but I find smaller tomato varieties can have a bit more flavor (Not just that sweetness some are known for, a lot of their textures feel less like a weirdly grainy mush too. Edit: and about the end of this video, these are also very convenient and tasty to just eat straight, they have a nice bite-size pop, although herbs/juice don't mix that way
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These are no replacement, but I find smaller tomato varieties can have a bit more flavor (Not just that sweetness some are known for, a lot of their textures feel less like a weirdly grainy mush too. Edit: and about the end of this video, these are also very convenient and tasty to just eat straight, they have a nice bite-size pop, although herbs/juice don't mix that way
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Cassie
I never really liked tomatoes when I was younger, it was until I studied in Florence and my host family made a tomatoe dish, that was literally just a hollow tomato with tuna and capers I realized tomatoes in America are severely lacking in flavor. I wonder what it could be about Italian growth methods that improved the quality?
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I never really liked tomatoes when I was younger, it was until I studied in Florence and my host family made a tomatoe dish, that was literally just a hollow tomato with tuna and capers I realized tomatoes in America are severely lacking in flavor. I wonder what it could be about Italian growth methods that improved the quality?
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