Mutti San Marzano peeled tomatoes, 6x 400g

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Another consistency throughout Mutti’s history and still present in Mutti today is the company values that are evident in everything they do: sustainability, quality and respect. Mutti provides farmers the resources to ensure sustainable farming techniques, such as the use of drip irrigation and soil humidity meters. As well, in 2010, Mutti began a partnership with WWF Italy to reduce the water footprint through the supply chain of the tomato, saving 1 billion litres of water in just four years. I was recommended Mutti Pizza Sauce Spices by a Michelin restaurant chef a while ago. He told me that this is a good sauce that tastes very similar to traditional Neapolitan pizza sauce. As a huge fan of Neapolitan pizza sauce, this made me curious. Could Mutti pizza sauce really be as good as the real deal? When I finally tried it, I was honestly surprised! San Marzano and DOP: These terms are sometimes conflated. San Marzano tomatoes, which are prized for their mellow flavor, can be grown anywhere. Certain San Marzano tomatoes are certified DOP, which guarantees that they’ve been grown, processed, and canned in a specific geographical zone in Italy. As our tests show, neither term is necessarily an indicator of flavor or quality. The taste of tomatoes was good, and I could also taste the lovely basil flavor. The saltiness didn’t bother me when the sauce was used on the pizza. It was well-balanced and tasted like it was made from decent ingredients. How Does Mutti Pizza Sauce Compare to Neapolitan Pizza Sauce?

I have great experience with their canned San Marzano tomatoes, that I use for my own pizza sauce. So I’m familiar with Mutti, and their products. I therefore believed this would be a really interesting pizza sauce to try. Mutti Pizza Sauce Ingredients Cirio (400g): 95p “Not bad actually cooked,” observered Dino “but over-pasteurised”. These are sweet, with a rich colour and some acidity. Available in most supermarkets. Score: 3.5/10 In all our tests, we tasted all of the tomatoes twice: once straight out of the can and heated through, and then again made into Marcella Hazan’s Tomato Sauce. In doing so, we’ve encountered a huge range—from tomatoes that were sweet enough to eat straight out of the can to ones that carried a whiff of dead animal. We were also surprised to learn that price didn’t always correspond to quality. Mutti pizza sauce Spices usually come in a 400ml, or 14 oz can, which is enough for 4 portion-sized Italian pizzas. I’ve seen it in other containers and sizes too, but the can is what you’ll find most of the time. How Good Mutti Pizza Sauce?These tomatoes were exactly what our team wanted of San Marzano tomatoes: sweet without that bracing acidity. While canned, these tomatoes were still plump and juicy. Even though the sauce is made from fresh, quality tomatoes, it can’t live up to the standard of San Marzano tomatoes. The can doesn’t state what kind of tomatoes are used, but I suspect it’s a cheaper type of plum tomatoes, despite the price of the sauce being as high, or even higher than, canned San Marzano tomatoes. Tester after tester remarked that these Italian-style tomatoes from Cento tasted like a satisfying San Marzano tomato plus a little something extra. Of course, our Test Kitchen pros were right on the money: These tomatoes are real San Marzanos canned with a touch of salt and basil. I must admit, in my early pizza career I did try a lot of store-bought pizza sauces, and they all tasted pretty bad. Some were too sweet (probably filled with cornstarch and other nasty things you don’t want in your pizza sauce). Others barely tasted like tomatoes at all (I don’t even know what was in those sauces…). I therefore gave completely up on store-bought sauce and promised myself many years ago that I would never buy a supermarket pizza sauce again. But after I heard about Mutti’s pizza sauce, I thought maybe I had to give store-bought pizza sauce one last chance. What is Mutti Pizza Sauce? The basil and oregano also don’t taste fresh. Obviously, you can’t have fresh herbs in a can for months, so I’m not blaming Mutti for using bad herbs. But it’s not quite the same.

Having worked in the food and restaurant industry for a decade, I can tell you that no two brands of canned tomatoes are exactly alike. Some tomatoes are velvety, brilliantly red, and full of flavor, while others are tough, underripe, and insipid. To date, we’ve assessed over 25 different cans of whole peeled tomatoes—some with our colleagues at NYT Cooking—to find the best. Quality ingredients are essential for a good pizza sauce, especially Neapolitan-style sauce. Because it consists of so few ingredients, they all need to be of top quality. Mutti is known for their quality, non-GMO (non-genetically modified) tomatoes, so I was really looking forward to giving it a try.

We compared like with like, an initial tasting of 21 different types of raw tomato, narrowing it down to the top eight, which I cooked down with olive oil, salt, fresh basil and garlic. Finally, we tried each sauce with a forkful of spaghetti. Flavor: How did the tomatoes taste? Did they taste fresh? Did they have that distinctive San Marzano flavor: sweet and not too acidic? Are there any other additional tastes coming through—good or bad?