Choose
Pick the right tomato for salads, sandwiches, sauces, roasting and batch cooking.
From vine to table
Better tomatoes. Better cooking.
Tomato King is a practical, flavour-first guide to choosing, cooking, growing and using tomatoes properly.
01Choose for the job
02Cook for flavour
03Waste less
Start here
What are you doing with tomatoes?
The site is organised by use, not by vague food-blog categories.
Cook
Make better sauces, ketchup, roasted tomatoes and simple tomato-led meals.
Grow
Straightforward UK growing notes for pots, grow bags, greenhouses and small gardens.
Sauces
Understand ketchup, passata, pizza sauce, chutney and pasta sauce properly.
Farm shops
Know what to look for in fresh tomatoes, chutneys, ketchup and seasonal products.
Food service
Practical tomato choices for cafes, caterers and working kitchens.
Tomato King rule
Never waste a good soft tomato.
Soft tomatoes are often past their best for slicing, but they are exactly where roasting, soup, sauce and ketchup begin. The trick is knowing when to stop treating them as salad and start treating them as flavour.
Best rescue uses
Roasted tomato sauce, soup base, slow pasta sauce, tomato chutney, ketchup-style sauce, pizza sauce and blended batch sauce.
Popular guides
Useful tomato reading
Focused pages that answer real tomato questions without padding.
Best tomatoes for sauce
A good sauce needs body, ripeness and patience. The tomato choice matters.
How to store tomatoes
Keep flavour, control ripeness and know when the fridge helps.
Fresh, passata or tinned?
Use the right format for salads, pizza, soup, batch cooking and slow sauce.
Growing tomatoes in pots
For patios, balconies, small gardens and anyone starting with one or two plants.