How To Ripen Tomatoes

Hi, everyone. I am going to talk to you about how to ripen tomatoes today. Sometimes, we have tomatoes that are not as ripe as we need them.

The best thing to do is first of all make sure that they are definitely not in the fridge, and what my top tip would be is to leave them preferably in the sun if you can, somewhere warm in your kitchen otherwise, where they can actually have the sun touching them. If you cannot or you have not got a place or it is winter, then literally you will have to leave them out for a couple days until they ripen naturally, but I would say that really, you should not be putting them in the fridge in the first place because they go cold, so you should actually have them at room temperature whenever you are using them, anyway. So, the trick is actually to buy ripe tomatoes in the first place if you can in the supermarket.

If you are purchasing tomatoes that are still on the vine, then try not to take them off the vine because they will carry on developing when you are at home, and actually, another tip is do not put them in the fridge, we are very keen to put tomatoes straight in the fridge as soon as we buy them, but actually, if you leave them as part of your fruit bowl, they will actually ripen with the other fruit. Of course, the smaller ones will ripen faster than the quicker ones, so really the best place to put them is somewhere warm, somewhere that they can have a little touch of sun possibly, so that they go nice and soft for when you are cooking them. .