Best Market Black Tomato?

[Milan HP]

Originally Posted by TomatoDon

Zipcode has a point about size. People would rather get several smaller tomatoes than one jumbo for the same price. That is one reason I still grow Better Boy. It produces lots of tomatoes in what I might consider the medium or average size for slicing tomatoes.

At $2.00 per pound, it would be hard to sell two 1.5 pound tomatoes for $6.00, while it would seem acceptable to pay the same $6.00 for 10 smaller slicing sandwich tomatoes.

I'll look at it from the buyer's point of view. It's not only about 2 tomatoes or 10 at the same price as a mental process. For a small family it's actually quite impractical to buy the big ones: either you finish them in one go or you have to put the rest (open to oxygen) in the fridge. And a day in the fridge really spoils the taste no matter how well you wrap it in clingfilm. With smaller ones I can use as many as I need at the moment.
Milan HP