Whats the best cooking tomato?

[womble]

Thanks for that, might be worth a go next year then. I grew purple ukraine last year and I won't grow them again either, funnily enough my PU were the first ones I had to ripen.

[SarzWix]

I keep waiting for the PU to go a deeper brown but they don't seem to - they seem to still have some green in them when they're going soft?! I no likey...

[womble]

I keep waiting for the PU to go a deeper brown but they don't seem to - they seem to still have some green in them when they're going soft?! I no likey...

Ahh yes, you're falling into the same trap I did, try one as soon as they are soft, they taste better before they go too brown.
The reason I wont grow them again is that it's a pain to get them perfectly ripe to taste. When they go the nice colour you see in in seed pictures and (I think) very over ripe, IMO they are then only good for making sauce out of, which I believe is what they are bred and used for in their own country.