HGP

Most hybrids don't catface, or it's pretty rare. So I think you need to look there, particularly among the medium-sized ones.

"Most hybrids don't catface, or it's pretty rare"

Beefmaster is a hybrid and last year I saw the most catfaced tomato I had ever seen from a Beefmaster plant. I would have to find the pic first before I could upload it but the ripe fruit was easily over a pound. There were plenty of catfaced beefmasters, I picked one while it was still small and green because of how badly catfaced it was.

Catfacing is more common among open pollinated tomatoes, though it can occur under conditions cited in the link. The author mentions a couple of varieties s/he claims are resistant to catfacing. I think it's probably important to those who sell tomatoes to the public, though some people don't mind them at all. I figure they must be good if they're catfaced, though I assume they're OP tomatoes! :-0

Among my hybrids, I've yet to have any catfacing of any consequence w/ Early Girl, Champion, Momotaro (a favorite in Japan) and Lemon Boy for color and acidity to name a few.

Almost all my heirlooms get the 'feline facade' syndrome except for Green Zebra which is on the smaller side.

Good Growin' -

Will and the Furry Ones in the OC

I've never seen a catfaced cherry tomato, OP or hybrid, but that's a cherry and not a slicer. I have noticed catfacing on almost all of my slicing/beefsteak-type OP tomatoes. Only hybrid I've grown is Sungold and that's this year and still waiting for the fruit to ripen. Incredibly productive plant btw.

Catfacing is most commonly seen with beefsteak shaped varieties but I certainly wouldn't avoid growing them for two reasons.

First, catfacing occurs primarily when temps are cool at the time of the first self pollenizations so it's only the first few fruits that are catfaced since later pollenizations when temps warm up give normal fruits.

Second, some of the best tasting varieties are beefsteak shaped.

I've never seen catfaced fruits with heart varieties and I've never seen catfaced fruits with cherry tomatoes.

I can't see why hybrids should be any different than OP's when it comes to catfacing, but I haven't grown enough hybrids to make a blanket statement about that, nor have I grown enough hybrids with beefsteak fruits in the same season that I'm growing OP beef ones in order to make a definitive comparison statement.

Carolyn

Can't say I've had an catfacing issues with cherry, grape, or pear tomatoes.

Also can't say I've had any luck with larger tomatoes as they catface every time. Washington has freak weatheer in the spring & the new greenhouse might be exacerbating it with hot humid days & just-above-freezing nights.

Cat facing is rare among globe shaped tomatoes, heart shaped tomatoes , prevalent with flat shaped fruits.

Hard to avoid catfacing when trying to get an early tomato (planting too soon with cold nites). I recently removed the obvious grape sized catfaced ones which set but that still left me with 3+ nicely formed tomatoes attached to the same cluster (Cherokee Purples).