I have the following problem: you can buy a lot of different brands of canned tomatoes.
Indeed I have been trying a few of them to find one I like.
However, there are a lot: very often I recognise a can, but I don't remember if I liked it or not.
This is worsened by the fact that I shop at a few different stores, each with different cans on sale.
I guess I could snap a picture of each of those, print it and place it on the fridge so that I eventually get to remember them, but this solution is not really scalable.
I can keep the pictures in my phone and go through them when I'm shopping, but I'm unsure I can put a label on the picture and I'm not really sure how I'd be able to find them.
I know it appears like a small petty problem, but it is not when you get a can that is disgusting and you have to throw away the food you cooked; to avoid this I always have to buy several cans of different types and I end up with my house filling up with the ones I don't like.
@hasmis That's nice! I used to make jars when I had a garden and a pressure cooker, now I have to rely on the shops.
Unfortunately I still haven't found a really good can of tomatoes, there are some Italian imported ones which are good, but way too expensive.
@Iwillyeah @rastinza When we can we use ripe tomatoes and mix in other surplus veggies, like zucchini. Then we puree it all with a hand blender.
@Iwillyeah @hasmis I know how to make good tomato puree at home, but I don't really know the industrial processes.
The easiest way to know if they're good is buying them and tasting them. I'm not really sure how I'd go about investigating the production quality of several factories spread across the world.
Identifying which cans are good is easy to me, my problem is remembering.
@rastinza @Iwillyeah I might try buying 'peeled tomatoes' and puree them with a hand blender.
@hasmis @Iwillyeah Indeed, peeled tomatoes ensure a minimum quality amount (tomatoes have to be entire). I still do get very bad tomatoes in there.
@rastinza That's a sad story. We can all our tomatoes and the supply lasts for the year, unless our kids come to visit.