White mould on tomatoes

[whiffey]

I bought some Co-op cherry tomatoes and put them in the fridge at work, forgot about them and now a week later there is a fine white fluffy growth over some of them. Does anybody know what this is ?

[bimbo123456]

That would be mould!!

[skyep]

May be they were cold & put their wooly coats on?

[puddicat]

yep certainly mould sling em out!

[Jugglering]

I would advise placing said tomatoes in *rubbish bin*.... you have been infected with Lycopersicon esculentum unfortunately.... you had best scour your fridge now and your table and your cutlery.... it spreads like wildfire in normal kitchens... and will be appearing in a Dr Who episode in the autumn...

[Lakitu]

No no no no no

Whiffey, this white stuff has an official name, it's called "yummy white stuff" and the best thing you can do is pop one in your mouth, roll it around your tongue, making sure you suck off all the yummy white stuff before spitting out the tomato and doing with it what you intended in the first place.

The benefits of the yummy white stuff are two fold:

1. It gives the intestines a chance to have a good clear out
2. You get the day off work

[terambulan]

Its called Botrytus. You can wipe it off the toms and still use them if it hasn't infected too deep. Its due to packing damp toms in badly ventilated containers.

Or, wipe off the mould, remove the seeds....sun dry them and plant them for more tom plants.