page_title: Beefsteak tomato
hierarchical_section_title: Beefsteak tomato
caption_attribution_description: English: Cuor di bue (It. ‘oxheart’) tomato Deutsch: Cuor di bue (it. »Ochsenherz«) Tomate Français&#160;: Tomate cuor di bue (it. «&#160;Coeur de b&#339;uf&#160;») Photography: Dominik Hundhammer, München, 06. September 2005
context_page_description: A beef tomato or beefsteak tomato is one of the largest varieties of cultivated tomatoes, some weighing 450 grams or more. Most are pink or red with numerous small seed compartments distributed throughout the fruit, sometimes displaying pronounced ribbing similar to ancient pre-Columbian tomato cultivars. While popular among home growers for beef sandwich toppings and other applications requiring a large tomato such as toppings on large steaks, beefsteaks are not grown commercially as often as other types, since they are not considered as suitable for mechanization as smaller slicing tomatoes.
  Common varieties include:
  Beefmaster VFN
  Beefsteak VFN
  Big Beef
  Brandywine
  Bucking Bronco
  Cherokee Purple a dusky red/purple beefsteak, said to have exceptional flavour
  Marmande
  Mortgage Lifter
  Pink Beefsteak
context_section_description: A beef tomato (British English) or beefsteak tomato (American English) is one of the largest varieties of cultivated tomatoes, some weighing 450 grams (1 lb) or more. Most are pink or red with numerous small seed compartments (locules) distributed throughout the fruit, sometimes displaying pronounced ribbing similar to ancient pre-Columbian tomato cultivars. While popular among home growers for beef sandwich toppings and other applications requiring a large tomato such as toppings on large steaks, beefsteaks are not grown commercially as often as other types, since they are not considered as suitable for mechanization as smaller slicing tomatoes.
  Common varieties include:
  Beefmaster VFN (a popular hybrid beefsteak)
  Beefsteak VFN
  Big Beef
  Brandywine (a pink heirloom variety)
  Bucking Bronco
  Cherokee Purple a dusky red/purple beefsteak, said to have exceptional flavour
  Marmande
  Mortgage Lifter (another popular heirloom tomato)
  Pink Beefsteak
caption: Beefsteak tomato top view, bottom view, and a slice.
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