Tomato Taste Test! Finding the BEST TASTING Tomato || Black Gumbo
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- I've grown several varieties of tomatoes this year in my organic vegetable garden. Which one of them tastes the best? I'll do a blind trial to eliminate any preconceived notions or biases with the help of my son. I'll evaluate 5 different varieties with a sixth cherry tomato thrown in for good measure. The varieties we will evaluate our, Edox F1 hybrid from Johnny Seeds, Grand Marshal F1 hybrid from Johnny Seeds, Big Beef F1 hybrid from Johnny Seeds, Granadero F1 hybrid from Johnny Seeds, Brandywine (Suddath’s strain) heirloom from Tomatofest, and Black Beauty heirloom from Baker Creek. I was surprised at the outcome and hope you will enjoy learning a bit about the tomato varieties that I have grown this spring. The harvest has been enormous, and I am very happy with the outcome, this is the part of gardening I love the most.
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That seemed like like a fun experiment
Beautiful fruit and interesting results. I'm hoping to do a taste test of my harvest this year too.
the son was an excellent game master!
Scott,
I have really appreciated your channel since discovering you last year. I am trying several melon pits this year because of you. Happy gardening and God bless!
Brad Gates owner of Wild Boar farms Recommends picking the black beauty when the bottoms are Scarlet red and then allowing them to continue ripening indoors for a few more days. I did this last year and the flavor was excellent. Growing again this year!
Problem is they are derived from Russian cool weather varieties. I did not get any color on them last year but just today I picked a nice scarlet one off the vine. We'll see. Letting it develop on the kitchen counter for a few days.
Gorgeous tomatoes!
Just tasted them! With my eyes! All look amazing. 😋
My favorite tomato for taste has always been the heirloom Boxcar Willie. It can be hard to find though. A local roadside stand sells it at premium prices when available.
If there was a best looking tomato award, I think the Big Beef would be the winner. It was good to see Big Beef win the taste test here too .
Great video I have about 15 varieties of tomatoes 🍅 growing this year will have to a taste test like yours thanks for sharing
I’ve never had more than 7 varieties in one season but I liked the hybrid tomatoes over all others
It was fun growing them all but experimenting reduced what took up space in my garden
Some of those heirlooms are just gross
I wanted to see Sam slip in a store bought tomato.
That would’ve been epic! 😂
I agree
Great video!!!
Black Krim is the best I've ever grown for taste. Both of you should have took turns doing the taste test just to give 2 different types of taste preference.
This was awesome thank you!
From the garden to the table to the garden visit was awesome, learned alot.
Get some rest, we'll wait for you
Like your Black Beauty, I grew a Black Prince tomato a couple of years ago. Not only was the plant a finicky diva, the taste just resonated with "blah-ness". Never again. :) This was fun, thanks for doing this.
Never met a tomato I didn't like LOL
Right, but there are the ones that are fine, and the ones we REALLY like
Great video Scott. Always a pleasure.
Great video - fun to watch as well as to learn.
Great analysis. I wrote the winners down.
My tomatoes refuse to turn red. Not sure what happened. Left them on the vine so long bugs started boring holes in them so I brought them inside where they still won’t turn green despite being large, etc.
I’ve never seen this happen before and I am 63 years old and been gardening for years.
Guess I’ll plant the summer purple hull peas now.
Love this! Might do this with the family when we start getting tomatoes 🍅❤️👍
This made me so hungry for tomatoes I’m ready to eat these like apples!!
My best full size tomato this year is Goliath Red. Tons of tomatoes, good texture, above average taste, NO pests! Best cherry is Bosque Blue Bumblebee, and Brad's Crazy.
For flavor, I will continue to grow Box Car Willie tomatoes year after year. Haven't found a better tasting tomato yet.
That was fun and edifying!
I am so glad you made a taste test video. I'm all for more reviews to help decide what to grow in future.
Very interesting! I’m still waiting to get ripened fruit from my San marzanos! I’ve got Early girl, celebrity, Juliette , and black cherry tomato plants. The early girls have been delicious. The juliette and black cherry tomatoes are good but not as sweet as the sun gold I have grown before. I’ve been dehydrating some of the tomatoes. Talk about a treat! Tomato candy!
Watching it on the big screen👍
Good video ,I am growing pink Brandy wine this year and it's one massive plant looking forward to taste ,Abe Lincoln first time growing also but I am hooked on tommy toe cherry tomatoes and pink boar so the expansion list will continue on baste on flavor as you have done .
So what you’re really saying is: don’t taste test your toms until they’re ripe and you’re cold-free. Got it! 😏
Thanks for doing this Scott! I always love taste test videos. Even tho we all have different palettes it does help confirm things I’m looking for in a variety. Much appreciated!
That Big Beef looks like it would be wonderful on top of cheese toast done in the broiler - one of our favorite summer lunches.
I'm with you on the heirlooms. I love the flavors of Brandywine, Cherokee Purple and several others, but they succumb to disease to easily.
I hope you are feeling better.
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Betty and I just planted Manitobas thus year...planting zone 5A here! Here’s a subscribe to your channel....please return the LOVE!
That’s so cool!!
Loved the taste test. I too have blight difficulties with the Brandywine but continue to grow them as they are so delicious. I have started growing Big Brandy and Big Beef just to compare. Thanks for the wonderful videos…..so helpful.
Yep any black, blue or purple you have to let them really ripen. but when you pick one that's just right the flavor is outstanding I grow OSU blue and the flavor is complex & smokey it's amazing. I did an experiment this year to improve a tomato's flavor. At transplant use a high potassium seaweed feed. NOT fish. then before they get ready to set blooms use a higher phosphorus then when they set their fruit hit again with the seaweed feed. It dramatically improves their flavor. always test your soil beforehand though.
I have been growing Big Beef for several years and this year I am also growing Red Snapper a determinate variety. My fingers are crossed that my garden will survive the recent heavy rainfall we have had to deal with over the last 6 weeks in SE LA and my tomatoes will make it to table. My Bell Peppers and Hot peppers are doing well but my Egg Plants are struggling with the excessively wet conditions and now we are getting 90°+ temps with high humidity to throw more factors into the challenge of gardening this summer.
Unless the tomato or anything being vine ripen I can't say anything fair to judge.
Also I think a judgement on tomato a few days before their peak ripen day ,As in reality we ( I know I still picking a few days early especially if I am picking for a friend to pick up and take to their home.
But good thing to judge side by side test
Thanks Mark as I am raising 11 different tomato just to learn a new favorite.
And chopping my garden in half next season but have a few keepers and very few test veggies.
Thanks for the teaching Sir
I did black beauty last year with seeds from Baker Creek. I thought they were my best-tasting tomato variety that year, but the plants were not vigorous and produced few fruit. I saved seed for this year, and the plants seem a lot more vigorous so here's noping.
Glad you had such great tasting tomatoes. My wife and I love Cherokee Purple, an indeterminate hybrid, and Sweet 100 cherry tomatoes. But we will not have any this year since overnight, something ate all the leaves off of every plant! It appears to be the work of hornworms, but I have not seen any. At first, I thought it was, and blamed groundhogs, but again, I have no proof. Any ideas what it could be? I sprayed Sevin on the entire garden, an act I see as akin to closing the barn door after the horse is gone, and praying the plants reemerge. I cannot replace the varieties as all sources have sold out.
Might be horn works, they are hard to spot. They feed at night mostly. A UV flashlight at night will make them glow so you can pick them off.
Great video. You made all of us in the lower zone numbers want our tomatoes to grow faster. If you like the Big Beef hybrid, you should try the Big Beef heirloom from Totally Tomatoes. They taste even better and are beautiful. I grow over 50 heirloom tomato plants every year and Big Beef heirloom is always in the mix. Other good ones in zone 5a are Gold Medal, Aunt Ruby's German Green, Black Krim, and Black Mountain Pink. I absolutely love your videos and always look forward to new ones!
Fun experiment. Seems like the winner would make a great tomato sandwich 🥪
Love tomatoe taste test vids
Nice test. You had a great helper. I may try a blind taste test this year. We still have awhile.. thanks
I don't think you let the Black Beauty ripen long enough. I don't pick them until I see red on the blossom end and they give to pressure. Even then, I'll let them sit inside a while before we eat. Delicious when fully ripe!
Interesting video. 👍🏻
Hi Scott, I'm thinking you were left with more questions than answers, especially after seeing the plants, and your statement that the hybrids were for the most part healthy, and the ones that succumbed to disease were heirlooms. I liked the concept of your video: all of us who grow multiple varieties of tomatoes should try this. Do we really like the tomatoes we grow? The number of factors that go into whether we grow a particular variety are numerous, but boil down to: how succeptiple is the plant to disease, how prolific is it, and do we like the taste? Thanks so much!
One potted Big Beef tomato survived last Summer's hurricanes and I brought it in for the hard freeze. We've had tomatoes since March. They really do taste good.
What a fun comparison! I'm reminded of the roadside fruit stand tomatoes in Central CA. I'd buy a basket and eat one or two on the way home. They smelled and tasted incredible. Don't know the variety but I would call them GOATs. Growing 4 small varieties here in So AZ and they're ok except the yellow pears that are smaller than ones I've grown in the past and very tart. I'm a bit jealous of your slicers but it gets too hot, too fast here, on the surface of the sun for those. Thanks for the taste test 😄
I am in North Texas and have been shying away from larger tomatoes like the Big Beef because I thought they would not do well in our heat. How would you rate overall performance of the plant? Did it stay healthy? Produce well? Also, I wish you would have posted videos of your garden last summer. We all took a hit. This will be our year!
You cannot get a tomato over ripe to me!! I live in Alabama and last year I was surprised that my favorite was Cherokee purple!! I usually dislike pink tomatoes!! I also loved my sun sweet orange tomatoes!! They are great cherry tomatoes!! I dislike Roma’s because they usually get too much water at some time and elongate. Enjoyed your taste test!
Great idea finding out which ones to grow!!!! I'm growing an indigo rose tomato, the packet says it is a sweet tomato... hmmm we'll see. But, anyway I just wanted to grow something different and exotic. Have a nice day👩🏽🌾 🙏🏽💖
You need to try Cherokee Purple. They are wonderful
I've had them, they are a solid tomato.
When speaking about olive oil, that odd flavor is called ‘grassy’. The more grassy the flavor, the more health benefits. Not sure if it’s the same in Tomato-land, but I understand the ‘green’ flavor. It takes some serious getting used to. 😊
Good video Scott, hope your feeling better. An idea of taste is valuable for the future. I have been gardening for three years and I have tried different ones to find the varieties my family likes. First year it was Early Girl because thats what I found in the nursery. It was ok, and very prolific, but the skin was hard. Last year it was Beefsteak, Tommy Toe, and Rutgers. Beefsteak was a winner, and came back this year with Arkansas Traveler, and some free Ace 55 tomato seeds in a seed order. My wife loves cherry tomatoes, perhaps next year I will try edox.
Keep trying different varieties until you get the ones that resonate with you.
Great video and I liked your tasting protocol. However, I'm surprised by one of the results, and I have a guess as to why. Your Black Beauty doesn't look nearly ripe enough. Usually they are a deep red on the inside when they ripen, and the flavor is rich. Maybe you needed to pick them before the birds got to them? I understand if that's the case. Like you said, they take forever to ripen. I'm hooked on Beauties going forward. And like you, I'm on the fence regarding Edox. I love granadero's production, though.
Thanks so much for sharing the results of your tomato growing season, starting from the first purchase of seeds. I learned a ton from watching!
Hirlom tomato are to be handle and check softness ,Test by fill because they don't show ripeness color like reds.
Well explained. For the Roma tomatoes I like the Ukrainian purple.
Some tomatoes, especially plum types, need cooking to release their best flavor. I would also recommend a bit of white bread as a palate cleanser, THEN the water.
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Thanks for the tomato eval. Would you consider posting
your evaluation form? That might be fun for me to do with my family too.
This was super exciting for me Thank You. I did colors this year and I am struggling with the waiting to test. I have tried the Orange Icicle tomato it was good but not impressive but it is a paste tomato. I also tried my very first Mushroom Basket Tomato. the color was great the form was fun and it would have made the best Tomato sandwich I have ever had, if I had not shared it. Great tomato flavor without over whelming acid or sweet (Balanced) it was Great! Look and Flavor it was so far my best tomato. I also have Great White, Black Beauty, Pineapple, Green Zebra, Dr Wyche Yellow, Brandy Wine, White Tomesol. So I am looking at a rainbow season and cant wait to try them. Thank YOu for Sharing :]
I know they're all the rage but im just not a fan of the purple/black tomatoes. Call me old fashioned but i like my tomatoes to taste like a tomato. Not like grapes or a fine wine as often described. I much prefer the pink/red tomatoes.
Been looking at new varieties of tomatoes to grow next year, since I’ve had my first success starting my Tumbling Tom and Tiny Tim’s from seeds. Most of my plants are Bush Champions, and Early Girls, from the nursery. I am hoping to start all of my tomatoes from seeds next year. This was a great clip.
How was tiny tim?
@@misscandicern Tiny Tim grew well from seeds, but we live on the North coast of Ca. Our foggy July allowed the Verticillium Wilt to get them before they produced. I have a friend who is growing one indoors and she is still getting tomatoes off of it, that she says are delicious.
@@josephmckenzie8953 I grew them last year and they were mealy. I was wondering if it was just me or maybe they were not fully ripe or overripe. So many people say they're amazing so I was just curious on your opinion.
This was a great test, made me a little hungry. I'm guessing your helper doesn't eat tomatoes? lol. I'm giving the Brandywine's a try this year along with Cherry tomatoes. We are a zone 3B here, things are just getting started. Great video, thank you to the two of you.
I'm surprised that types with which I'm familiar aren't featured... "Celebrity", "Big Boy", "Better Boy", "Creole".
I've grown all of those but Creole. Those are often the types sold by the plant companies at Home Depot and places.
The tomatoes you don't like you should make fried green tomatoes. Now that's a way to eat lousy tomatoes. 😂
Is funny I have 2 micro dwarfs in my house! I loved the yellow ones... no issue... then my red ones riped...and my yellows make the yellow ones taste sooooooo sour!! But only when back to back! Its crazy to compare them
I don’t have a Tomatoe plant growing this season.
I saw your Brandywine rated high. We tried it this year and liked the Brandywine that we had last year better, but last year it only produced one tomato. Brenda remembers it being called Pink Brandywine. Have you grown both? I hope you will consider growing Pink Brandywine. I would be interested in hearing a taste test on it.
I have grown pink brandywine, Suddath's brandywine (supposedly the original strain) and a golden variety. All of them were excellent. Thing with heirlooms is they do not produce heavily in my experience.
I'd put my money on Brandywine Sudduth before a slice was made.
You should try growing a Rosella Purple determinate tomato.
Growing for 1st time this year, they seems to do OK here in N.FL, a lot of tomatoes and very good tomato flavor.
@@sirbarry22 I just had a strong wind storm come through and damage all my plants. What a pisser offer. So mad.
Nice video, thank you, along the stem you have the string and plastic tie around the stem, where can a buy those plastic tie, thank you, keep up the good work growing tomatoes, from Comox BC
Look up trellis clips on Amazon. Here's how I use them: ruclips.net/video/wOx2BXtT054/видео.html
Have you tried the Rosella Crimson from the Dwarf Tomato Project? "... in some seasons approachign 'Pink Brandywine' in quality". May be a fun option!
I tried a Rosella dwarf last year, don't remember which one. I think the pink.
Those look wonderful.
Scott, in addition to others, I planted San Marzano’s. They produced a lot of tomatoes, but they were hollow inside. Very tiny seeds on the inside walls. Do you know what fertilizer I can use to bring them to fullness inside in the future? Or, what am I doing wrong? I planted them at first using Bone and blood meal. Then, I put Azomite several weeks later. After that, I used Calcium Nitrate as I saw a little blossom end rot. Each of these were administered several weeks apart.
Thanks!
That sounds strange. Perhaps it was a watering issue? Too much or too little rain can do strange things to tomatoes
I'm thinking more determinate tomatoes next year and not as many heirloom. I was blown away about the production on the bella rosa and just a nice slicer. taste was good.
What would be the difference in taste in general between a big beef & any orange tomatoes. I always thought the orange tomatoes have a better taste.
Orange tomatoes that I have tried tend to be a bit more tart and fruity.
Good test wish there were some other ones I'm growing have you tried Black Krim I am trying one this year it's black also . Beef steak and Jubilee and sweet 100 trying a few new ones
I tried Black Krim a few years ago but don't remember it being a great one. I did grow jubilee and find it middle of the road, and has a thick skin. I have some in the garden now I think. I think they are jubilee because they volunteered and sort of look like Jubilee.
I wonder if a bit of salt on each of them would have changed the outcome.
Must be nice to live in California. My choice is the supermarket green tomatoes that are not ready yet.
Don't know, I've never lived in California but have visited many times.
@@ScottHead LOL
Today I caught a squirrel running off with one of Brandywine tomatoes! I am still so mad. I even had the tomato covered with tulle!
Pellet rifle time.
When do you start your tomato seeds for fall tomatoes?
I am also in the gulf coast of Texas, corpus, and am interested in your timing.
Thanks.
I don't grow fall tomatoes, but if I did I'd start them in mid August indoors and plant out around Oct 1
@@ScottHead
Thanks for the information.
two of my tomato plants branches got ripped off do to heavy thunderstorms I hope they ripe in on the vine.
If you needed to ripe put it in a brown paper bag you get at your grocery store
Do you treat blight, or pull the plant? If so, what do you use?
I usually pull the plant, by the time they get blight the season is winding down.
Growing Cherokee Purple this year for the first time. I was hoping it was in your taste test. What do you think of them. I’m in Indiana so we would have ripe tomatoes until after July 4th, if I’m lucky!
I always enjoyed Cherokee purple, the more ripe it is, the better.
@@ScottHead thanks Scott! We are excited. Love your channel, I learn so much as a new gardener.
I have a Cherokee Purple but it is kinda of slow growing and hasn't set any tomatoes yet.
I grow Cherokee Purple and Carbon's every year, I can't decide which is better so I keep growing both, If you want a real treat, pick a large Cherokee Purple that is green and just starting to ripe, cut into large slices and grill just enough to char and soften and put on a cheese burger, hit at any cook out.
My garden sucks this year. The potting soil I got this year is not good, high end, wood chips. My weather has gone from 100 to high 40s at night darn
Have you noticed the taste of your tomatoes being affected by the excessive rains? Maybe wait a couple weeks and try again.
Not really since I did not have any real ripe ones before the rain.
Have you tried the celebrity?
A long time ago. It was OK
I would go for the less sweet and the more acidic and savory, ......sometimes I even put citric acid on my tomato sandwich-- 🥪 which is the most tangy (Non sweet) tomato.........(why do most people go for sweetness, I do not understand) comments?
I’ve noticed that the first few aren’t as good as they will be a week or two later. I like a bit of salt on mine...it brings out the sweetness.
I think I’ll try the taste test with all of the 12 varieties we’re growing. That was fun!!! Thanks!
I wonder how the Black Beauty would taste fried?
That might make a difference other than that eew
It's been a while. Ive been having trouble with my tomato s. The babies aren't making it. Any tips?
I’d need a lot more info to give any tips but depending on where you are it may be heat, humidity, blight, or a dozen other problems
No Arkansas traveler tomatoes?
Nope
I saw a raccoon going after some of my tomatoes last night. I swear it's always something. I wonder if the flavor of any of those tomatoes would change with a good sprinkle of salt and pepper...mmm
My biggest pest was black squirrels
The varmints would take items out of everything in my garden
Did you go back and taste the 2 you liked best back to back?
Why did Sam switch shirts?
Not sure. I think he didn't like the first one.
have you ever tried Cherokee Purple
Yes, it’s usually a solid tomato
My tomatoes are so small they’re looking like cherry tomatoes. Fort, needs, calcium, tomato tone all with no luck. Maybe too hot in sw fla?
Could be. Tomatoes stop producing when the temps are consistently in the 90s
I told you those black ones are not proper. I detest cherry tomatoes they are an insult to proper toms. Brandywine I like very fleshy not many seeds. I curry tomatoes as a spread on a steak or with bacon and eggs. For that, I use store-bought rubbish. Got an Italian tree tomato just taking off this year looking forward to the results.
Are u sure u like tomatoes lol
You're looking
At what?
I’ve tried many heirloom tomatoes and found the flavour horrible
The hybrid ones are much more appealing