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
Grocery-fresh isn't enough of an improvement over canned for me to give a shit tbh. Garden-fresh is best in all cases, but if that's not an option and they're getting cooked anyway, then I'm fine with saving some prep and cook time with an appropriate canned form.