Sun drying tomatoes at the foot of Mount Etna in Sicily
Sun drying tomatoes at the foot of Mount Etna in Sicily
I realize this may be a centuries old tradition thing, but holy hell that is unsanitary.
You would be surprised under which conditions many of the basic food items you are eating daily are produced...
This is not that bad, actually.
The tomatoes are prepared with salt, as it seems (you can still see some salt crystals between them) and will dry relatively fast in the sun and hot wind of southern Italy.
Salt and water removal will quickly make the tomatoes a hostile environment for any kind of microbiological life.
Do they try to stop birds shitting on them or just get rid of the ones that do get shat on?
Yeah... You may want to sit down...
Yes.
Extra ash flavor. Yum!
People pay extra for the smokey bbq flavor!
Chat is this AI? What am I looking here?
No, not AI.
Just perspective and a really narrow aperture setting while taking the picture, leading to an image that is sharp throughout.
These are halved tomatoes lying on grates to dry in the sun and hot wind.
I would just be feeding the flies, where are the flies?
As you can see, it's hot, sunny and windy there, food dries out fast. The radiant heat and the wind keeps flies away. In some places, people do this with meat and fish, too.
Honestly I don't get why sun dried tomatoes don't get used more in lieu of the fresh kind, they're way more flavorful on their own.
those thing look huge! swimming pool sized tomatoes, how do they ever slice them?
Just imagine how much bigger they must be before drying
Why is it not rotting or attracting insects?
Hot n dry
Also: salt.
You can see some undissolved salt crystals lying there between the tomatoes.