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

  • rhubarb [he/him]
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    2 months ago

    Tomatoes from the store are refrigerated, which turns them pretty bland, and they probably don't do that to canned tomatoes. I can't say I've ever eaten them straight from the can to compare, though.

    • Tom742 [they/them, any]
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      2 months ago

      Stewed tomatoes straight from the can are an occasional craving, they’re very good