Tinned tomatoes 🍅

[smurfette11]

Settle an argument at home.

YANBU it doesn't matter which tinned tomatoes you buy they all taste the same and the trick is to cook them properly and drain off the watery stuff

YABU premium brands are so much better And have more pulp

You get what you pay for with tinned tomatoes
Mutti are lovely.

I agree with the post above - you pretty much get what you pay for.

Premium brands are better-Mutti is also my favourite!

I find cheaper ones taste metallic.

Add a bit of sugar into cheap tomatoes and it improves the taste by taking the bitterness out. If you slow simmer it gives the dish more depth anyway so yes, cheap tomatoes are fine.

Definitely this. The cheap ones are nowhere near as good and usually full of big chunks of skin which is like chewing on plastic.

I've put yanbu, but upon reflection, I've never bought an expensive brand.

I do use tinned toms a fair bit, and I always like my cooking lol.

Maybe I will have to try this Mutti you speak of.

I came on specifically to mention Mutti, regardless of the content of the thread.

I see others already got there before me. As you were.

Mutti!

Cheaper tins are more like to be not quite ripe, have some skin still on and a watery juice, so you end up needing to use more tins.

Mutti or Lidl 'polpi'

I like Cirio - their chopped tomatoes are really thick, nothing to drain off.

I've never bought expensive tinned tomatoes. I mostly get Ocado own brand Italian chopped tomatoes, currently priced at 60p for 400g and rated 4.5 stars out of 5, which is high for that site. I find them absolutely fine, and have never in fact had any issues with Sainsbury's, Tesco or Waitrose equivalents in the past.

I see Mutti are more than double the price of own brand! Wow. They'd have to be out of this world for me to spend that much on them.

branded are better but cheap ones are generally fine. You’re going to add other herbs/spices and bits to the meal anyway and if you’re on a budget it’s not worth the extra you just make the best of your ingredients.

I used to think they were all the same but they definitely aren't, I buy the cheap ones btw

We use Mr Organic and Mutti. The cheap ones are horrible.

They all get chucked into something Bolognese-y or chilli-ish so it doesn't matter. Cheaper the better.

I agree, much better than Mutti.

I used mutti for the first time today, thanks to MN

I'm so unimpressed

What a wierd thread.. to try and advertise this mutti brand...

Definitely Mutti. Also buy plum tomatoes and mash them up rather than buying chopped; an Italian born cook told me the plum tomatoes are the ripest at point of being tinned and so have the best flavour.

I use the 50p Asda own. Seem fine to me. Mind you, I buy Heinz beans.

Cirio are better than Mutti IMO.

Cheap plum tomatoes are better than chopped.

I only ever buy 'basic' tinned tomatoes.
Potentially, if you did blind taste test, I presume there must be a difference but cost is a big factor for most people (if not most MNers).
A quick google suggests they are £1.75 at Tesco against 30p for the basic ones.

I can't begin to believe they are that much better.

Even more so, when I usually cook with them and they are only one ingredient in whatever it is I am cooking.