Just tried another decent Rutger’s. I can see why it was thee sauce tomato back in the mid 1900s. Decent tomato taste while neutral enough to tweak. Meaty yet juicy and good water was not as available everywhere back then to thin a sauce so juice was a good feature. It also tasted better than the tomatoes in my convenient store salad. They have a kitchen and I know they buy their tomatoes from the same grocery store I shop at.
Will try them again, along with the knowledge that they’re indeterminate. I generally eat tomatoes fresh, sliced/chunked with salt but I do want to make sauce someday and half way decent for fresh eating is a plus and not something you get with a Roma or San Marzano paste type.
I have tried San Marzano and 10 Fingers of Naples and Principe Borghese and there were lots of small tomatoes and problems with blossom end rot, at least in my garden.
Heirloom Amish paste from Seed Savers, indeterminate, produced large paste tomatoes which Mrs. Pete said were the best tasting in the garden that year. If I had a lot of room for indeterminate tomatoes they would be a good choice for canning and eating. They were not as productive as other paste varieties which you would expect with a Heirloom variety.
Good Determinate type Picus F1 (Hybrid Roma type paste, Stokes Seed) and Yaqui VFFNA Hybrid Tomato (Blocky large from Tomato Growers supply). Both grow to 36-48 inches and will need support because of the large number of fruit. I would rate the taste at perhaps 7 out of 10. (These are canning varieties) Amish paste would be 9 or 10. Both of these varieties handle heat well. (Note that Yaqui is large and blocky and it was difficult to push it whole into small lidded Ball jars.)
https://www.stokeseeds.com/ca/picus-vf-tswv-hybrid-plum-tomato-329d-group
https://tomatogrowers.com/products/yaqui-vffna-hybrid?_pos=1&_sid=20fa1bac5&_ss=r