Every housewife must know after how many days she can take out and eat pickled tomatoes. A properly prepared preparation for the winter can be taken out within a week, but the taste qualities will not be as pronounced as they could be, and even if you are very impatient, it is better to wait until the product is completely saturated with brine.
I spun the tomatoes, but how long before you can eat them?
There are a lot of snacks using this vegetable crop, and they are all unique in their own way. After rolling up the tomatoes for the winter, just 2 days later you want to open the vegetables and try them, but this is not recommended. When to eat tomatoes must be determined depending on the method of twisting, of which there are only three: pickling, canning and salting.
Pickled
The tomatoes are pickled for a week, but even after the process is completed, the product will not be completely ready. To consume tasty and aromatic tomatoes, you should wait at least 2-3 weeks.
Important! To make tomatoes pickle faster, you should use special quick recipes. They provide for the use of small products or cutting them into slices.
Canned
From the moment of preparation, rolled tomatoes should remain in the jar for at least 3 weeks; the best option is to wait 2 months. During this time, all layers will be evenly saturated.
Salty
To pickle tomatoes, you must wait at least 14 days. Experienced housewives advise taking the workpiece out of the cellar only after waiting until the product is completely ready a month after twisting. If you open the jar earlier, you can get lightly salted tomatoes, which also have a pleasant taste and are quite suitable for consumption. In such a case, it will be more convenient to pickle them in a saucepan and leave them to steep for several days.
How do you know when the tomatoes are ready?
You can eat pickled tomatoes the next day, but much depends on the variety of tomatoes, the quality of the main product and the composition of the brine. You can determine whether the product is ready by appearance or taste after opening the jar.
Taste
To understand whether the workpiece is ready, you should try it.The tomatoes should be thoroughly soaked in brine. Their taste will directly depend on the composition of the marinade, so when making preserves you must strictly adhere to the recipe. If they are sweetish and do not have a characteristic sourness, and their taste is more like fresh tomatoes, then, most likely, the product has not been fully pickled and needs further impregnation.
By color and appearance of the vegetable
It is almost impossible to determine whether the preservation is ready by appearance, since the tomatoes do not change it and still have a bright color. The dense texture and durable skin remain even after several months.
Also, the appearance of the fruit depends on the type of product used, so it is impossible to identify specific standards by which the readiness of the snack is determined.
What to do if you open the jar and the tomatoes are not ready?
If, after opening the jar, it turns out that the snack is not yet ready, then you should not think that all the work was in vain, since this situation can be easily corrected. First of all, it is recommended to drain the old brine from the container and bring it to a boil. At this stage, you should think about adding herbs and spices, which are clearly missing after tasting. After this, the hot solution must be poured back into the jar and sealed again, sent for storage, in which the optimal air humidity and room temperature must be taken into account.
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