Dominic-Luc Webb wrote:

I bought some of these pricy green tomatoes recently. I was surprised
to see they finally did start to turn orange in my kitchen after some
a couple weeks at room temp. I suspect they were starting to rot. Is
this normal for green tomatoes to turn orange, or did I get stiffed,
or will they do this under specific conditions? If so, how do you know
when they are ripe?

Dominic

The green tomatoes will ripen to their natural ripe colour. For me that
means romas will ripen to a deep orangy red, beefsteaks to a deep red,
brandywines to a piny red with green streaks, and mellow yellow to a
bright yellow. I've never seen green tomatoes for sale around here and
I sure wouldn't pay for them. Our frost date is coming up within a week
and the nights are too cold for the tomatoes to ripen on the vine.
That's why they were picked.