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Jon Shemitz wrote:

Suze wrote:

They will taste just fine. It is a persistent myth that tomatoes must
always be left on the vine until dead ripe for the best taste.

No, a tomato picked ripe in the middle of a run of great tomato days
will always taste better than a Farmers' Market tomato, or a green
tomato ripened in your kitchen, just as it will taste better then a
late tomato. Very late tomatoes, yes, kitchen ripened is probably
better than picked from a dying vine after a cold rain. And kitchen
ripened definitely beats lost to the frost.

Kitchen ripened tomatoes do taste "just fine" - what they'll never
taste is transcendent.

Good choice of words. :-)
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