If you pick a tomato green and sit it on the counter to ripen, which

[raccoon]

way do you turn it? Stem side up or stem side down?

[auntAgonist]

1. up.

[Kali]

2. eh you can get those at the grocery store (picked green and "ripened")

fry that baby up!

[Moondog]

3. If you put it into a brown paper bag and close it loosely, it won't matter.

And if you're in a hurry, add a small slice of ripe apple or banana. All of these things produce, or exude, ethylene gas. Which is what grocers use to ripen green tomatoes and bananas.

Not as good as vine ripened, but at least as good as letting it sit out.

[old mark]

4. The paper bag thing works just fine.....My MIL bought some fancy

kitchen thing that you put fruit in to ripen, and spend lots of money on it. I told her about the papar bag, and she tried it and was sorely vexed.

But she was sorely vexed quite frequently.

mark

[rurallib]

6. We do the apple in a bag thing at the end of the season

to get the last bit of real tomato taste that we can.

[old mark]

7. In the off season, we get those on-the vine tomatos...they are not as

bad as the standard no flavor variety, can even make a decent sandwich with them.
They are ALMOST good.

mark

[Moondog]

8. In these parts (Florida) those off-season, on-the-vine tomatoes are hydroponics,

grown in Canada. And you're right, they're an improvement over the usual road apples sold at that time of year.

[old mark]

9. Ours, too. nt

[pdx_prog]

5. why waste a perfectly good green tomato?

Fry it!