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Post by daylilydude on May 21, 2017 9:43:58 GMT -5
Is this what you taste when eating a black/purple tomato?
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Post by ladymarmalade on May 21, 2017 9:51:57 GMT -5
I have heard that descriptor before when it comes to the dark tomatoes and I don't think it's a good one. I don't think I've ever tasted a fresh tomato that tasted smokey. I do think that there can be a greater richness with the dark tomatoes- that taste of umami tends to be greater, making the tomato taste more meaty. I don't know if anyone's done any testing or if it's even possible, but I would argue that darker tomatoes (blacks, browns, purples, etc.) have a greater presence of glutamates than other tomatoes. Perhaps to some people, that meaty umami taste seems like a smokey taste.
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Post by Laura_in_FL on May 21, 2017 11:25:55 GMT -5
^ What she said. I have tasted that umami flavor in dark tomatoes, but never anything that I would interpret as "smokey". I have even tried some dark tomatoes just trying to see what the reports of a "smokey" taste were all about.
When it comes to taste perception, YMMV, for sure!
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Post by paulf on May 21, 2017 20:04:45 GMT -5
We humans have so many taste buds and relatively few words in our vocabularies. Wine tasters seem to have the palaver down and when I taste the same wine that some cat says is charcoal, mint, apricot with a bit of licorice and bluebell, I just say,"Right." The first time I tasted a Cherokee Purple fifteen or sixteen years ago my first thought was," Smokey." But since then just plain good. Old age destroys either the taste buds or the imagination.
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Post by september on May 21, 2017 23:37:09 GMT -5
I can't say I have tasted the smokey in dark tomatoes, but in the newer antho/blues I have in some cases tasted a hint of pink bubblegum flavor that I actually don't care for because it tastes artificial! Sgt Pepper is one that comes to mind. Most who grow it think it tastes great.
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Post by Laura_in_FL on May 23, 2017 12:58:06 GMT -5
Eeek, I hope I don't taste that in the Sgt. Peppers I have growing right now! I wouldn't like that at all.
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Post by daylilydude on May 23, 2017 17:27:01 GMT -5
Hmmm... bubblegum flavored tomatoes sounds good to me... LOL!
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Post by tomike on May 27, 2017 14:18:01 GMT -5
Eeek, I hope I don't taste that in the Sgt. Peppers I have growing right now! I wouldn't like that at all. Laura in FL
I grew Sgt. Pepper's last year for the first time and it's going back in the garden this year from seeds that I saved. I would not go to the trouble of growing it again if it did not taste good.....
Tomike
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Post by pattis on May 30, 2017 15:41:09 GMT -5
I have only tasted the "smokey flavor" twice in a dark tomatoes and that was the first year that I grew Black Krim and then one other year the Paul Robeson's had a nice smokey flavor to them also. So while I have grown these varieties more than once, I have only had one season for each of them that I noticed a remarkable smokiness to them.
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Post by tomike on May 30, 2017 18:50:35 GMT -5
I have only tasted the "smokey flavor" twice in a dark tomatoes and that was the first year that I grew Black Krim and then one other year the Paul Robeson's had a nice smokey flavor to them also. So while I have grown these varieties more than once, I have only had one season for each of them that I noticed a remarkable smokiness to them. The "smokey flavor".....a very interesting concept......
It would be of interest if you could expand on the notion .......
Smokiness in tomatoes (concept or reality).....
Do you smoke?
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Post by pepperhead212 on May 30, 2017 22:49:59 GMT -5
I have also heard some say that they tasted smokiness in chocolate peppers. I don't taste any of this, but I'm thinking that maybe if they were eating chocolate ghost peppers, or other superhots, then maybe it was charred flesh they were tasting. This would not explain the smokiness in tomatoes, however.
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Post by indigogirl17 on Jul 10, 2017 11:55:12 GMT -5
I love the dark tomatoes and I haven't noticed a "smoky"flavor but a deep richness as ladymarmalade describes
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Post by paquebot on Jul 12, 2017 20:20:50 GMT -5
I have found at least one dark tomato with an off taste and that was Brown Cherry. I suppose that it could be called "smoky" but I simply called it "brown". Otherwise I've never noticed a smoky taste in any color.
Martin
The truth is more important than the facts.
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