are very ripe tomatoes still edible?

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I usually buy more tomatoes than I use the same day. After a few days
they will start getting very soft/ripe. Are they still edible or have
they started to rot and should be discarded?

If they are edible, what sort of food could I use them in? They quickly
get too soft to cut nicely and use in a salad.

Tomato sauce.

-sw

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I usually buy more tomatoes than I use the same day. After a few days
they will start getting very soft/ripe. Are they still edible or have
they started to rot and should be discarded?

Taste.

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If they are edible, what sort of food could I use them in?

BLT

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They quickly get too soft to cut nicely and use in a salad.

Get a sharper knife.

Sheldon

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I usually buy more tomatoes than I use the same day. After a few days
they will start getting very soft/ripe. Are they still edible or have
they started to rot and should be discarded?

If they are edible, what sort of food could I use them in? They quickly
get too soft to cut nicely and use in a salad.

Salsa

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I usually buy more tomatoes than I use the same day. After a few days
they will start getting very soft/ripe. Are they still edible or have
they started to rot and should be discarded?

If they are edible, what sort of food could I use them in? They quickly
get too soft to cut nicely and use in a salad.

I generally blanch and peel over-ripe tomatoes, then chop them fine into
some sort of sauce.

If they are moldy, the I toss them.

Om

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I usually buy more tomatoes than I use the same day. After a few days
they will start getting very soft/ripe. Are they still edible or have
they started to rot and should be discarded?

If they are edible, what sort of food could I use them in? They quickly
get too soft to cut nicely and use in a salad.

Why don't you refrigerate them before they become so overripe?

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I usually buy more tomatoes than I use the same day. After a few days
they will start getting very soft/ripe. Are they still edible or have
they started to rot and should be discarded?

If they are edible, what sort of food could I use them in? They quickly
get too soft to cut nicely and use in a salad.

Why don't you refrigerate them before they become so overripe?

That's not going to stop them.... 😉
Only slow them down.

Om

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I usually buy more tomatoes than I use the same day. After a few days
they will start getting very soft/ripe. Are they still edible or have
they started to rot and should be discarded?

If they are edible, what sort of food could I use them in? They quickly
get too soft to cut nicely and use in a salad.

Why don't you refrigerate them before they become so overripe?

If you chill them they loose all/most of the flavor. Thats why a lot
of the tomatoes you buy are so tasteless.

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I usually buy more tomatoes than I use the same day. After a few days
they will start getting very soft/ripe. Are they still edible or have
they started to rot and should be discarded?

If they are edible, what sort of food could I use them in? They quickly
get too soft to cut nicely and use in a salad.

Why don't you refrigerate them before they become so overripe?

If you chill them they loose all/most of the flavor. Thats why a lot of
the tomatoes you buy are so tasteless.

Actually, that's NOT why the ones you buy are tasteless. As far as the ones
you refrigerate at home, take them out of the fridge 1/2 hour ahead of time.
It's a concept! 🙂

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I usually buy more tomatoes than I use the same day. After a few days
they will start getting very soft/ripe. Are they still edible or have
they started to rot and should be discarded?

If they are edible, what sort of food could I use them in? They quickly
get too soft to cut nicely and use in a salad.

Why don't you refrigerate them before they become so overripe?

That's not going to stop them.... 😉
Only slow them down.

Om

Obviously! But, the way the OP's doing things now, I get the sense that
things are progressing too fast. Of course, it said "I usually buy more than
I need", so....duh. Buy less?

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I usually buy more tomatoes than I use the same day. After a few days
they will start getting very soft/ripe. Are they still edible or have
they started to rot and should be discarded?

If they are edible, what sort of food could I use them in? They quickly
get too soft to cut nicely and use in a salad.

Why don't you refrigerate them before they become so overripe?

If you chill them they loose all/most of the flavor. Thats why a lot of
the tomatoes you buy are so tasteless.

That's the most rediculous thing I've ever heard!
There is nothing wrong with refrigerating tomatoes to slow down
over-ripening.

The reason many store tomatoes are tasteless is because they are picked
green and not vine-ripened.

Try growing your own. I let them ripen on the vine then will refrigerate
to preserve. The flavor is explosive. ;-d

I eat them sun-warmed right off the vine as much as I can, but one can
only eat so much at one time. <G>

Om

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I usually buy more tomatoes than I use the same day. After a few days
they will start getting very soft/ripe. Are they still edible or have
they started to rot and should be discarded?

If they are edible, what sort of food could I use them in? They quickly
get too soft to cut nicely and use in a salad.

Why don't you refrigerate them before they become so overripe?

Refrigeration murders the flavor... never refrigerate fresh tomatoes.

Sheldon

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I usually buy more tomatoes than I use the same day. After a few days
they will start getting very soft/ripe. Are they still edible or have
they started to rot and should be discarded?

If they are edible, what sort of food could I use them in? They quickly
get too soft to cut nicely and use in a salad.

Tomato sauce.

Salad tomatoes are lousy for sauce, too juicy.

Sheldon

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If you chill them they loose all/most of the flavor. Thats why a lot of
the tomatoes you buy are so tasteless.

Actually, that's NOT why the ones you buy are tasteless.

Why are they tasteless?

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>I usually buy more tomatoes than I use the same day. After a few days
>they will start getting very soft/ripe. Are they still edible or have
>they started to rot and should be discarded?
>
>If they are edible, what sort of food could I use them in? They quickly
>get too soft to cut nicely and use in a salad.

Why don't you refrigerate them before they become so overripe?

If you chill them they loose all/most of the flavor. Thats why a lot of
the tomatoes you buy are so tasteless.

Actually, that's NOT why the ones you buy are tasteless. As far as the ones
you refrigerate at home, take them out of the fridge 1/2 hour ahead of time.
It's a concept! 🙂

Too late... fruit of the nightshade family lose flavor from cold,
permanently.

Sheldon

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If you chill them they loose all/most of the flavor. Thats why a lot of
the tomatoes you buy are so tasteless.

Actually, that's NOT why the ones you buy are tasteless.

Why are they tasteless?

Some are varieties which are primarily bred to have tougher skin, because
bruise less and ship ship better. Notice in seeds catalogs that specialty
tomatoes may say "Bred to store longer in the autumn", or "earliest variety
ever known to man", but they often make no claims for taste. Finally, some
of the tomatoes you get in the store are ripened less than others before
being packed. I know they can ripen on the counter, but they don't taste
quite the same as one that's gone further on the plant.

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>>I usually buy more tomatoes than I use the same day. After a few days
>>they will start getting very soft/ripe. Are they still edible or have
>>they started to rot and should be discarded?
>>
>>If they are edible, what sort of food could I use them in? They
>>quickly
>>get too soft to cut nicely and use in a salad.
>
> Why don't you refrigerate them before they become so overripe?

If you chill them they loose all/most of the flavor. Thats why a lot
of
the tomatoes you buy are so tasteless.

Actually, that's NOT why the ones you buy are tasteless. As far as the
ones
you refrigerate at home, take them out of the fridge 1/2 hour ahead of
time.
It's a concept! 🙂

Too late... fruit of the nightshade family lose flavor from cold,
permanently.

Sheldon

That doesn't explain the fact that locally grown greenhouse tomatoes taste
just fine after refrigeration. And, I'm comparing them to what I've grown
over the years.

Never mind, though. If the OP's tomatoes are ripening too fast and too much,
the options are limited. Toss them, refrigerate them, or make sauce.

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I usually buy more tomatoes than I use the same day. After a few days
they will start getting very soft/ripe. Are they still edible or have
they started to rot and should be discarded?

If they are edible, what sort of food could I use them in? They quickly
get too soft to cut nicely and use in a salad.

Why don't you refrigerate them before they become so overripe?

Refrigeration murders the flavor... never refrigerate fresh tomatoes.

Sheldon

It's not that the refrigeration ruins the tomatoes. The issue is that they
simply taste different because they're cold. Take them out of the
refrigerator a while before using them.

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> I usually buy more tomatoes than I use the same day. After a few days
> they will start getting very soft/ripe. Are they still edible or have
> they started to rot and should be discarded?
>
> If they are edible, what sort of food could I use them in? They quickly
> get too soft to cut nicely and use in a salad.
>

Why don't you refrigerate them before they become so overripe?

If you chill them they loose all/most of the flavor. Thats why a lot
of the tomatoes you buy are so tasteless.

That's the most rediculous thing I've ever heard!
There is nothing wrong with refrigerating tomatoes to slow down
over-ripening.

Actual fact, I remember reading that a few years ago where the "tomato
growers board" paid to investigate why tomatoes were tasteless. This was
the quality tomatoes that weren't picked green. They found that
something (precise technical term) was permanently stopped when the
tomatoes were brought below a certain temperature. The quality tomatoes
I get at the local market even have "do not refrigerate" labels.

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The reason many store tomatoes are tasteless is because they are picked
green and not vine-ripened.

Try growing your own. I let them ripen on the vine then will refrigerate
to preserve. The flavor is explosive. ;-d

I eat them sun-warmed right off the vine as much as I can, but one can
only eat so much at one time. <G>

Om

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I know they can ripen on the counter, but they don't taste
quite the same as one that's gone further on the plant.

I used to believe that too. One season we were threatened by a very early
freeze and I had some plants that were started late in the fall with
about 400 tomatoes that were very green on the vine. I decided to pick
them rather than let them freeze. They ripened perfectly over a
fairly long period of time and tasted as good as ones I have picked ripe
on the vine. It didn't even freeze. <sigh>