you need to add salt to the boiling water, but if you are trying to cut your sodium intake don’t do this. also please make pasta sauce from scratch. don’t buy pre mixed, just buy plain “passata” and add your own stuff. its a million times better.
As someone who frequently makes sauce from scratch, a hunk of ground beef or Italian sausage and a jar of Rao’s will absolutely get the job done on a busy weeknight when I can’t be bothered with chopping up a bunch of veggies. Plain passata and your own stuff is not “a million times better”.
Good quality jarred sauce is basically just the passata, onions, and garlic already prepared. Starting from those individual ingredients isn’t going to somehow be a million times better than just starting with the jar.
The jarred stuff tastes marginally worse, sure. Not enough to justify the extra time of chopping an onion and garlic on a busy week night though. Pre-chopped frozen onions aren’t an option for me, and I don’t particularly care for pre-minced garlic.
I don’t remember the exact numbers (and am not a doctor) but the vast majority of the average person’s daily sodium intake comes from processed foods, not home cooking.
you need to add salt to the boiling water, but if you are trying to cut your sodium intake don’t do this. also please make pasta sauce from scratch. don’t buy pre mixed, just buy plain “passata” and add your own stuff. its a million times better.
As someone who frequently makes sauce from scratch, a hunk of ground beef or Italian sausage and a jar of Rao’s will absolutely get the job done on a busy weeknight when I can’t be bothered with chopping up a bunch of veggies. Plain passata and your own stuff is not “a million times better”.
It’s literally only better if you have skill and, imo, time. You can’t make a good tomato sauce in like 10min from scratch, fight me
Right, it takes most home cooks ten minutes just to mince the garlic and dice an onion, carrot, and celery for mirepoix
what pasta sauce are you making? that’s overkill man.
all you need is
buy pre cut frozen onions and pre minced garlic. this is how we italian-Canadians make pasta sauce from home overseas
Good quality jarred sauce is basically just the passata, onions, and garlic already prepared. Starting from those individual ingredients isn’t going to somehow be a million times better than just starting with the jar.
I find premade sauce like that with the onions and garlic in there do not taste as good as minced garlic and chopped onions.
The jarred stuff tastes marginally worse, sure. Not enough to justify the extra time of chopping an onion and garlic on a busy week night though. Pre-chopped frozen onions aren’t an option for me, and I don’t particularly care for pre-minced garlic.
I don’t remember the exact numbers (and am not a doctor) but the vast majority of the average person’s daily sodium intake comes from processed foods, not home cooking.
Yup. Table salt or spice mixes are usually nothing compared to the frozen food that’s 30% of your daily intake per serving.
huh. yeah I can see the logic. I’ve been trying to cut processed foods as much as possible but not there yet.
So you want the person who can’t even cook pasta to do his own sauce?