/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>17606529
it doesn't taste better and it's cheaper to make my own

>>17606529
Pasta is for women and liberals.

>>17606533
It's not cheaper at all.

>>17606539
It costs about a quarter for exactly 7 million tomato seeds. Yes, it is cheaper to make your own.

>>17606544
XDD GOT EM

>>17606539
its significantly cheaper

>>17606557
You ever fill up the bed of your truck with water and just hang out in it like it's a pool?

>>17606529
I just use a can of chopped tomatoes myself but I don’t mind using the glass stuff every now and then. I get that home-made sauce is better having done it myself before but I’m not unemployed and I have better things to be doing than that

>>17606529
Jar of pasta sauce at wally world is 1.20 usd. I can't even but canned tomato sauce that cheaply, so I buy the sauce as a base and gussy it up with herbs, spices, and meat.

>>17606642
no but i've considered it and the truck is totally broken now so i might follow through since i don't care about the suspension

>>17606756
>buying pasta sauce that's cheaper than a can of tomatoes
sounds vile

>>17606529
I rarely eat pasta. Sometimes I'll cook up a meat sauce or tomato sauce with some San Memzano tomatoes when I get the pasta craving.

>>17606529

I dont even care anymore man. Unless I'm setting out to make an actual nice dinner then there's no point in doing a lot of work for tomatoes and noodles. I just need to eat something before I go to bed.

Also I bought a jar of that $8 Rao once. It didn't taste any better than the store brand I normally buy and it wasn't spicy (it was supposed to be arrabiatta.)

>>17606800
Don't get me wrong, canned san marzanos make the absolute best tomato sauce. They're so good you can just crush them up and it's good enough for pizza. The problem is cost; at more than triple the price they're quite the luxury option to dress spaghetti that costs maybe 10-15c a serving.

>>17606756
buy sauce
buy second jar
split into two jars
add thickener
add salt
sell
profit

/greentext

A can of crushed tomatoes and some fresh basil is significantly cheaper than a jar of pre-made tomato sauce. I always have garlic and olive oil, and it really doesn't take much more effort to make your own sauce than to heat up shit that comes in a jar. The difference in flavor isn't even comparable.

Store bought sauce is generally fine once you doctor it up with store bought spices

>>17606529
It doesn’t taste better in my opinion, it tastes bad. Homemade tomato sauce is far better in every way. Of course this is subjective, maybe you do indeed prefer these sauces, in which case you should use them since you prefer them. I don’t care.

>>17607223
>They're so good you can just crush them up and it's good enough for pizza.
fucking reddit fags need to be killed

>>17606529
Virtually every jar sauce other than Rao's is uncooked tomatoes with water added. They're selling you water for the price of tomatoes. It's a scam, like nougat or "frozen dairy dessert." Rao's is over twice as expensive as making it yourself.

>>17606529
I grow tomatoes and herbs every year and make a dozen jars of marinara that I use for spaghetti and pizza through the year.

>>17606529
I just use ketchup, or sometimes soy sauce.

I like to make my own from whole canned tomatoes that I boil down uncovered in the oven with dried basil, dried oregano, diced garlic and onion (fresh if possible), salt, pepper, msg, fish sauce, a hint of maple syrup, butter, a little balsamic vinegar or other acid, possibly some tomato paste, and some alcohol - moonshine - red or white wine - vodka

bake at 300f stirring every hour then more often as it begins to reduce. You can add some water or chicken broth if it starts to reduce before the garlic and onion finish cooking.

Its done when it thiccens and any separated water is mostly gone. Then I blend it a little bit so it stays chunky.

>>17606529
>Pasta SAUCE
> No Contina SAUCE (Not minced, not paste, SAUCE!)

>>17609346
Yeah I tend to only use whole canned tomatoes. Cherry tomatoes are bomb if you can swing the extra cost but I want some texture to my tomato sauce.

I mean you can still blend it smooth but they use "better" tomatoes for whole products.

>>17606529
All store bought tomato sauces are inferior and taste like vomit. Making my own creates an aroma that stimulates my hunger. Store bought doesn't have that freshness that everyone underestimates until they see differently.
>>17606539
>>17606756
Homemade is cheaper quality-wise. Because that jar that costs 75 cents shouldn't be considered food.

Much like the Dutch belief that Santa Claus is Turkish (yet inexplicably lives in Spain), this is simply not true. Never have I had a storebought pasta sauce that tasted even remotely good.
It's shocking to me that people can eat any of them.

Why would you use anything other than cinnamon, sugar and a spoon full of oil?

>>17606529
>buy $2 packet of cherry tomato seeds
>plant them in Spring
>get shitloads of free tomatoes for months
>throw em in the slow cooker and play video games for 8 hours
>throw it in jars and use it for everything

>>17610970
What's your favorite "tomato simmering wait" Vidya?

Imagine thinking these are bad