San Marzano tomato
Solanum lycopersicum 'San Marzano' · Fruit vegetable
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The San Marzano is an elongated plum (paste) tomato prized as the benchmark cooking tomato — thin-skinned, meaty and low in seeds, with a flavour balanced toward sweetness and deep savoury richness rather than the bright acidity of a salad tomato. The protected-origin fruit grown in the volcanic soils south of Mount Vesuvius is the classic sauce tomato of Neapolitan cooking and authentic Naples-style pizza.
Picking a good onedrag
UnderripeOverripe
Just ripeBuy itThe one to carry home. Firm enough to slice clean for salads and sandwiches.
ColourPink to light red, even
FleshFirm, yields to firm pressure
StemGreen calyx, clean dry scar
SmellFaint green-leaf note
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What you get from one
91%
Edible part
123 g · core and stem end out
135 g
Weight each
each one
65%
Juice
650 ml a kilo, sieved
Keeping ittap a temperature
Keep it at 10-13 C, never in the fridge. Below 10 C it turns mealy and loses aroma for good.
90-95%
Humidity
Loose, single layer
Airflow