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Are canned tomatoes "more flavorful" than fresh tomatoes
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your chef friend is right and shes not talking about diced tomatoes she probably means the steamed whole ones
they wont send the ripe ones to market because they will take too long in transit so they send the unripe ones because they will ripen during that time of transit and storage and also they get frozen and unfrozen
the canned ones get flash steamed or whatever, have some salt added to preserve them and are ripe right there in the can. they are generally much more flavorful for cooking with
if you know someone growing heirlooms those are the best option for fresh if you can get them off the vine they will blow the socks off any store tomato
Yep.
I'm a fussy arsehole about tomatoes and in general tomatoes at the market are crap cultivars that were picked underripe. Canned typically has more flavour.
Not true for all brands, some canning companies are buying the ones nobody else wanted, some times of year the ones on the shelf are actually good, sometimes your local coop has tomatoes a cool person picked yesterday afternoon.
In general the most popular cultivars of tomatoes are garbage and bland. They are grown for pest tolerance, shelf appearance, and ease of harvesting. Roma is often better at doing the same things in a dish with more flavour.
the diced ones are the ones I hate using and this whole argument, which you are all wrong about btw I don't care, is because the sous chef is like "stop using cherry tomatoes use the canned diced ones" and it's like ughhh it's gonna make some of my dishes taste worse and uglierrrrrr
its okay we can all have our lib moment where we say "everyone thinks im wrong about the thing..... no, it must be all of them who are wrong"