Canned tomatoes are actually nasty. A while back I switched to just using fresh and while the flavor isn't quite as concentrated, it tastes way more fresh and clean. Canned tomatoes are gross and gloopy
great thread, lil bro
>>22275657>Fresh Tomatoes taste more freshGreat Scott!
>>22275660>>22275661Thanks bros
>>22275657It checks out. Nothing to add
I use both together works great best of both worlds like a tranny
wow
>>22275657Canned tomatoes are fine. Maybe the brand you're using is bad. Everyone uses canned tomatoes even the Italians and Michelin star restaurants.
sure, enjoy your "fresh" tomatoes that were picked still green so they can be shipped a billion miles to you.
>>22276746This. I drain the water.out.of.canned tomatoes and then cook them on a grill with meat.
>>22275657Avoid canned tomatoes from California. They are utter trash that taste like metal. Get cento or Nina and you'll change your mind.
>>22276776Cento and Mutti are the brands I see used most often by Italian YouTube chefs.They can be expensive sometimes. A generic can of tomatoes here is about $1 while Mutti is more like $4.Vincenzo did a deep-dive on canned tomatoes:https://youtube.com/watch?v=dO7qeJMDG1oHis advice is to look for whole peeled tomatoes, preferably San Marzano or Italian Plum tomatoes.Crushed tomatoes or blends with herbs and stuff added are usually low quality.
>>22275657Red sauce made from fresh tomatoes sucks. Too much water content in fresh tomatoes. You've gotta use tomato paste at the very least if you wanna have chunks of fresh tomatoes in there. Even then, I'd prefer fresh cut up baby tomatoes as a garnish on top of the pasta as opposed to a component of the sauce
>>22276746Please don't educate the dimwits
>>22276746>>22276748>>22277002And yet those still taste better than shitty gloopy canned tomatoes
>>22275657https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpIF7junyhwMight find this interesting as it explains a bit about why some canned tomatoes taste worse. Doesn't really help as much as you'd hope since it's not like all brands label what temperature they were processed at though.
>>22276746If you're gonna buy canned, then choose onlyItaly's famous protected tomato products.>The protected designation of origin (PDO) or DOP in ItalianDOP San Marzanos must develop their color and sugar profiles naturally on the vine before being hand-picked at peak maturity and rushed straight to the cannery.Instead of helping people, you ridicule them.
