My chef friend is arguing with me and IMO she is just straight up fucking wrong. Cooking tomatoes to death during the canning process isn’t going to do any favors for the texture or flavor. Every canned diced tomato i’ve had has been gross (and the dice is always too big and ugly)

I think she’s 100% confusing a comparison between QUALITY canned tomatoes i.e. real san marzano tomatoes versus shitty greenhouse grown tomatoes but she’s insisting that no actually canned tomatoes are just better

I just want to get a consensus but i’m going to continue to disagree with anyone else who is wrong about this

  • farting_weedman [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    11 days ago

    Cooking tomatoes is so technique and process sensitive that it’s probably better to go with whole peeled instead of trusting a coked out line cook to not fuck them up when five burger tickets come in.

    Even at home I’m gonna buy canned for anything that involves cooking them because the weird crap in the produce section is all chosen for looks as opposed to flavor and if I visit the tomato freak at the farmers market or coop or ag extension or pick some out of the garden they’re not making it home anyway and I gotta stop at a dollar general to clean the seats with wet wipes.