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
If the tomatoes are going to be turned into a sauce and i’m out of season then yeah whole canned tomatoes all the way, other than that fresh tomatoes even out of season for anything using fresh tomatoes or
diced tomatoes. As far as canned whole tomatoes i feel like they’re really isn’t much of a difference between canned whole tomatoes, everything from the yellow can san marzano to great value walmart whole tomatoes are very good. Only time i ever use canned tomatoes is the fire roasted for my chili but that’s it tbh