Tuesday’s Tip with The Kitchen Whisperer – How to Properly Store Garden Fresh Tomatoes

If you’re like me you love garden fresh fruits and veggies.  On today’s Tuesday’s Tip with The Kitchen Whisperer I’m sharing with you how to properly store your garden fresh tomatoes (or the ones get at the grocery store). So you already know that garden fresh tomatoes you never store in the fridge.  Any additionally ripening that needs to occur will halt completely once it hits the cold air. Additionally the cold air cause the skin to become hard and the insides to become mealy and tough.

I love scoring a big bushel of fresh tomatoes from the farmers market.  Marrying into an Italian family having fresh tomatoes on hand all the time is a must.  What I’ve found is the best way to store them is stem-side down.  Now I only do this IF the tomatoes are off of the stem.  If the stem is still attached I leave them set right-side up.  But apparently if you remove the stem but you’re not going to use it anytime in the near future, store it stem-end down (meaning the place where the stem USED to be).  What it does is it prevents air from entering and moisture from exiting where the stem used to be.   This is known as the ‘scar’ on the tomato.  By storing them this way your tomatoes will stay firm and farm fresh longer on the counter top.

 

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