green tomatoes

red · Post: # 74246Post **red** » Sun Oct 14, 2007 7:08 pm

yes - the banana gives off a gas that encourages ripening I think...

I too have collected lots of green toms - and they are turning red just sitting in bowls on the kitchen table. leaving a few red tomatoes with them helps... the ripe ones give off that same ripening gas thingy...

Annpan · Post: # 74261Post **Annpan** » Sun Oct 14, 2007 8:14 pm

Thurston Garden wrote:I have too many green ones too this year due to the cr@p summer. I stick some in a shoebox with a banana and most of them ripen. Less chutney then!

weird, though I know I have heard that somewhere before, it is going on my top tips notice board (mental notice board... though a physical one isn't a bad idea...hmm...)

hmk · Post: # 74314Post **hmk** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 11:49 am

I've got a recipe somewhere that involves green tomatoes and mayonnaise and baking them to make a pie. I haven't tried it, but when Sophie Grigson says the recipe sounds bizzarre but tastes delicious, she's usually right!
I can find it if you're interested.

Hazel

Cheezy · Post: # 74315Post **Cheezy** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 11:57 am

red wrote:yes - the banana gives off a gas that encourages ripening I think...

I too have collected lots of green toms - and they are turning red just sitting in bowls on the kitchen table. leaving a few red tomatoes with them helps... the ripe ones give off that same ripening gas thingy...

don's chemist hat the gas believe it or not is ethylene. Said same gas that we derive from oil/gas industry and then make polyethylene,PVC.. etc hmmm we could go for a bio alternative and cover the planet in banana's and capture all the ethylene gas

Same gas is produced by all fruit trees as the ripening mechanism, It's what makes fruit drop from the trees.

red · Post: # 74320Post **red** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 1:01 pm

I think you will find I had the correct technical term with 'gas thingy'