🍅 Quick take: Striped Cavern (also grown as Striped Stuffer) is an indeterminate specialty tomato bred specifically for stuffing and baking. Producing blocky, 5 oz (140 g) bell-pepper-shaped fruits striped in red and gold, it features thick exterior walls and a hollow interior cavity. Highly productive when trained to 2-3 leaders, its firm walls hold their shape in the oven without collapsing into mush. Full summary ↓
Growers’ Notes and Photos (USDA Zones 2-4 Experience)
I grew Striped Stuffer (Striped Cavern) this year. Didn’t spot it in our catalog yet.
Really solid variety! For what it’s built to do, it’s actually fantastic. I stuffed them with shredded cheese, seasoned cottage cheese, egg, and fresh herbs, then popped them straight into the microwave to bake. Quick, easy, and super tasty. Definitely worth keeping one plant in the garden every year just for stuffing.
Really solid variety! For what it’s built to do, it’s actually fantastic. I stuffed them with shredded cheese, seasoned cottage cheese, egg, and fresh herbs, then popped them straight into the microwave to bake. Quick, easy, and super tasty. Definitely worth keeping one plant in the garden every year just for stuffing.
Striped Cavern, also circulated as Striped Stuffer.
A variety bred specifically for stuffing, completely hollow on the inside. Just like working with a sweet bell pepper, you can core out the small central seed cluster in seconds and pack the interior with whatever filling you want. The exterior walls hold their structure and don’t collapse into mush during baking.
Very high-yielding variety. The fruits are cuboid and blocky, red with bright yellow stripes, pulling up to 5 oz (140 g). It’s an indeterminate vine; in the greenhouse, training it to 2 or 3 stems delivers the best results.
A variety bred specifically for stuffing, completely hollow on the inside. Just like working with a sweet bell pepper, you can core out the small central seed cluster in seconds and pack the interior with whatever filling you want. The exterior walls hold their structure and don’t collapse into mush during baking.
Very high-yielding variety. The fruits are cuboid and blocky, red with bright yellow stripes, pulling up to 5 oz (140 g). It’s an indeterminate vine; in the greenhouse, training it to 2 or 3 stems delivers the best results.
Quick Facts: Variety Summary
- 🌿 Growth Habit: Vigorous indeterminate vine that performs best under cover when pruned to 2 or 3 leaders. Continues setting heavy trusses along the full length of the stem.
- 🍅 Fruit Profile: Lobed, blocky, 3-to-4-chambered fruits weighing up to 5 oz (140 g). Scarlet-red skin painted with golden-yellow vertical streaks. The interior is mostly air space with seeds concentrated on a small, easily removed central core.
- 🍳 Culinary Performance: Built purely for culinary preparation. Unlike standard juicy slicers, its dry, firm, pepper-like exterior walls remain rigid during roasting, baking, or cold salad stuffing (such as tuna, chicken, or cheese fillings).
- 📈 Yield & Cold Tolerance: Exceptionally heavy producer that ripens reliably even in short-season Siberian climates (Zone 2b/3a). Most home gardeners find that a single plant yields more than enough stuffing fruit for the season.
🍅 Have you grown Striped Cavern? What’s your favorite filling for baked stuffing tomatoes? Let us know in the comments below!
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