Tomatoes for sandwiches

[rascal]

As a kid we had tomato sandwiches. I hated the soggy mess when ready to eat. I never had tomatoes for years but my wife got me back on tomatoes on toast. Eaten within minutes not 4 hrs.
we grow our own so we get real sweet ones

Russ

 

[TastyReuben]

Oregon isn’t is the dictionary on this device so autocorrect keeps dropping in Oregano and I keep deleting only the o on the end

No worries - I spell it Chesterfield.

 

[karadekoolaid]

I really quite like tomatoes bleeding into the bread to make it slightly soggy.

In Barcelona they will always serve you pan amb tomat - a thick slice of barely toasted bread, rubbed with a raw tomato.

 

[badjak]

I like pan amb tomat

 

[Justfoodandlife]

Mod.edit: posts moved here to form new topic (MG)

So I found out about the sandwich tomato thing.
It was developed by a Dutch seed company in 2008 and it’s called ‘Intense’ it has a slightly different structure so loses a lot less moisture once cut.

A normal tomato will within and hour of being cut lose 12% of it’s moisture.
An ‘Intense’ tomato loses only 3% even after 12 hours.

I might buy some of those seeds to try. I love a tomato sandwich!

Interesting. I wonder if the long-lasting moisture in the tomato would also make it taste better, or different.

 

[SandwichShortOfAPicnic]

Interesting. I wonder if the long-lasting moisture in the tomato would also make it taste better, or different.

A small sample of people taste tested it along side 'normal' tomatoes and weren't able to discern any real difference.

However the sandwiches were eaten immediately and that isn't really the point of the non leaky tomato, it would be after a few hours the taste and texture of the sandwich would have altered.
After the normal tomato had made everything soggy.

Apart from that I know no more on its flavour.