Tomato taste tests

[uno]

I found this website that has a yearly taste test on a bunch of different tomatoes I thought it was pretty neat.

http://www.morningsunherbfarm.com/tomatorating06.html


Just wanted to see if anyone had links to any other taste tests?

Jim

[feldon30]

Very similar topic was posted here:
http://www.tomatoville.com/viewtopic.php?t=4077

[where_with_all]

I am actually very surprised that momotaro's ranked so high. I know tastes are subjective, but I never got many positve remarks from my own taste tests. Probably has to do with my garden. The tomato seemed bland to me. Most other people in my "focus groups" thought the tomato was good but not better than Brandywine and Marianna's Peace. Interestingly, these varieties were ranked much lower.
AMAZING how tastes and harvests vary so much.

I think one on one contests are better indicators than mass tastings. One on one contests force you to make comparisons and contrasts. Mass tastings are an exercise in "search and remember"

Where with all.

[Mantis]

I would not take any notice of a table like that. Yellow Pear above Cherokee Purple

[carolyn137]

While doing taste events are great fun, and I've done quite a few myself, I wouldn't pay much attention to any of them.

The results are dependent on the competition varieties present that day, fruits are often brought in by different folks who have grown them in different ways that might have affected taste, and usually too many are present for anyone to actually distinguish between all the varieties in a meaningful way.

That being said, it's impossible to compare taste tests done in different parts of the country for similar reasons.

Cherokee Green grown in TX by person A may not taste the same as Cherokee Green grown in my own garden, again, b'c of all the variables.

So while they make for interesting reading, I would never choose a variety based just on where it ranked in a public taste test.

Just too many darn variables at work and results dependent on other varieties being tasted at the same time, which is never the same for different taste tests done.