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Scar Tissue

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Post: # 52258Unread post slugworth
Sun Aug 15, 2021 4:46 am

Bottoms are ruined on these originally destined for BLT.
Must be the heatwave took it's toll.
Looks like a hemorrhoid operation gone bad with complications.
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Post: # 52260Unread post PlainJane
Sun Aug 15, 2021 7:25 am

I’ve seen this on some of my fruit once we get into June. Temp swings, sudden rain, sun intensity at full peak means I don’t get a lot of pristine tomatoes towards the end of my season.
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Post: # 52263Unread post slugworth
Sun Aug 15, 2021 8:48 am

Temp swings probably.
We had a heat wave then had to wear a jacket on memorial day,then normal temps, now back to heatwave.
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Post: # 52265Unread post worth1
Sun Aug 15, 2021 8:52 am

Looks like fused blossoms to.me.
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Post: # 52274Unread post Cole_Robbie
Sun Aug 15, 2021 2:29 pm

Yeah, fused like worth said, also with catfacing. Older varieties seem to catface the worst, idk if that is relevant here.

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Post: # 52288Unread post Tormato
Sun Aug 15, 2021 4:23 pm

Stop being a wimp. That tissue won't kill you. I liken it to eating 175 grit sand paper.


I'll add that I've only eaten such scar tissue once, and that was enough. ;)

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Mon Aug 16, 2021 7:35 pm

I agree most likely from a fused blossom. It is still edible. You can trim off the scar and use the rest.
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Tue Aug 17, 2021 4:21 pm

Tormato wrote: Sun Aug 15, 2021 4:23 pm Stop being a wimp. That tissue won't kill you. I liken it to eating 175 grit sand paper.


I'll add that I've only eaten such scar tissue once, and that was enough. ;)
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Wed Aug 18, 2021 2:11 am

I will have to have a tomato funeral.
I have a lot of picked ones nobody wants, that are rotting.
The tomato cemetery has marked graves where I can visit in the spring
to look for volunteers.
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Wed Aug 18, 2021 2:12 am

Garden is winding down,like me.
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Fri Aug 20, 2021 9:16 pm

I get fused blossoms like that...mostly on the first truss, and less so from the F1 hybrids. My best solution is to slice them apart, back into the 2 3 or 4 tomatoes that they would have been individually. Then trim and slice as a normal tomato. You don't get the huge full size bread slice, but hopefully they are the same ripeness and all taste good.

That top one is rough, I'll admit, looks like 4 flowers fused.

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Post: # 52644Unread post Ella NJ
Sun Aug 22, 2021 1:18 pm

This year I have more tomatoes with catfaceing than ever. They are going to be used in sauce.

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Sun Aug 22, 2021 1:25 pm

The Amish around here make great tomato sauce using all the tomato. Blend it up, and no one will be the wiser
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Tue Aug 24, 2021 11:32 am

Rockoe10 wrote: Sun Aug 22, 2021 1:25 pm The Amish around here make great tomato sauce using all the tomato. Blend it up, and no one will be the wiser
I'd be the wiser.

I once, and only once, left the skins in the sauce pot and eventually blended them in. THE worst sauce I ever made.

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Tue Aug 24, 2021 3:08 pm

A mill should take out the scarring, but I cut it out before milling anyway. I find it's totally worth it to stick with the prime ingredients, after all the time already put into it.

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Post: # 52762Unread post worth1
Tue Aug 24, 2021 6:55 pm

Tormato wrote: Tue Aug 24, 2021 11:32 am
Rockoe10 wrote: Sun Aug 22, 2021 1:25 pm The Amish around here make great tomato sauce using all the tomato. Blend it up, and no one will be the wiser
I'd be the wiser.

I once, and only once, left the skins in the sauce pot and eventually blended them in. THE worst sauce I ever made.
Skins and seeds in sauce is horrible.
The seeds alone make it nasty bitter.
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Post: # 52880Unread post Rockoe10
Thu Aug 26, 2021 6:38 am

That may be why the marine buddies are the ones who enjoy the spaghetti sauce. Must be nostalgic...😑
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Post: # 52923Unread post JRinPA
Fri Aug 27, 2021 12:24 am

I agree the skin and seeds are not something I'd want in a spaghetti sauce. I think an exception could be made for pizza sauce though, particularly if freezing it. That was how we originally kept pizza sauce, 1 cup frozen in each ziploc bag, which is enough for 2 pizzas. Quartered tomatoes, basil, onions, garlic, and everything else was run through the food processor and right into the cookpot. I daresay the "chunky" frozen version was better on pizza than what we currently make - the same recipe, but with everything milled/juiced for smoothness so it can be used for pizza/ravioli/sausage rigatoni/or a side for eggplant or mozzarella sticks.

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