Fruits and vegetables must be washed carefully before consumption. This also applies to tomatoes, as the red fruits go through many stages from cultivation to sale where they come into contact with dirt and germs. In addition, tomatoes from conventional farming contain pesticides that must be washed off thoroughly.
How do you wash tomatoes properly?
To wash tomatoes properly, first clean the work surfaces. Hold the tomatoes under running water and rub the skin off with your fingers. Then let it drain or pat dry.
1. Step: Clean the work surface
Tomatoes are usually cut up before consumption. That's why it's important to clean the work surfaces well before washing the fruit. This prevents accumulated bacteria from being transferred to the food and contaminating it again.
Wash tomatoes
- First clean the fruit thoroughly under running water.
- This is easy to do by placing the tomatoes in a large sieve and moistening them with water.
- Then take each individual fruit in your hand and rub the skin with your fingers under the stream of water.
- Then drain or pat dry.
How do you clean tomatoes?
“Clean the tomatoes and cut them into pieces” is the instruction in many recipes. But what kind of tomatoes need to be cleaned?
- First, the base of the stem must be cut out in a wedge shape. Like all green parts of the nightshade plant, it contains solanine, which is poisonous.
- Cut out any pressure marks.
A tomato stalk remover, popularly known as a “tomato shark”, is very practical. With this little helper you can remove the stink in no time.
After cleaning comes gutting:
- Quarte the tomatoes.
- Core the fruit with a knife.
- You can then divide the pulp further if you wish.
Tip
You should definitely throw away moldy tomatoes. There is no noble mold on the fruit, as is the case with cheese, but rather toxic mold whose mycotoxins enter the blood and organs through digestion. Here they can cause permanent damage.
