Why Alton Brown Is Warning People About San Marzano Tomatoes
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What brand of tomatoes do you recommend?
Home grown
Cento really isnt that bad. if its fake, then idc because that stuff taste exactly like san Marzano sauce ive had in Italy.
@@ColKorn1965 I'll second this!
@@108wee It's not fake the whole fake thing arose from a lawsuit titled Sibrian v. Cento Fine Foods, Inc. Sibrian LOST because he couldn't prove a single thing.
Grape and cherry
Here’s a thought, if you try a tomato and you like the taste, regardless of brand, enjoy it and NOT it’s label. 🙂
👍👏
If I'm paying for San Marzano, I want San Marzano.
@@cyropyro There was a groundbreaking documentary about this subject produced in 1978: Attack of the Killer Tomatoes. I highly recommend it for its thought-provoking arguments and authenticity. A truly in-depth study. 🎓
@@joannesmith2484 I just finished the book "My past life as a Tomato". It gives eye witness accounts from within the fabled "Order of the Tomato" and how the cult has been behind the last 100 decades of human atrocities.
Sure. But this is about being conned. Fraud.
I grow them myself so no worries. They are worth the extra effort.
I agree. You know what you are getting. Even an apartment garden is good.
just meh as far as tomatoes go,so many better flavored ones out there,a lotta hype w/o substance
Unless you have soil from Italy they ain't the same.....but nice effort.
@@jmontgomery32 no, as long as nutrients and pH are within acceptable parameters, it's just as good. It's no woo, it's science.
Mine are just starting to fruit.
I just picked my first San Marzanos of the season today in my garden. Yay!
Mine have been fraught with blossom rot this year. And they don't get that nice uniform red. I'll try again next year but if they're this troublesome I'll go to Amish Paste. (might grow those anyway)
@@LSFprepper Check out Opalka tomatoes. We've been growing a few years and they are a great paste tomato.
me too!
I grew my own this past summer and they made the best pizza sauce I have ever had. The 4 other people I live with said the same thing. I would recommend growing San Marzano's to anyone looking to grow their own tomatoes.
true but they will never be San Marzano off the vine from Italy which are unbelievable. The soil, the air, the atmosphere
@@rosannapizza6402fuck all that shit. All i want is the taste
Where do you get a volcano though?
I have 3 in my garden right now that I grew from seeds❤ growing tomatoes is fun!
I can go to Kroger right now and buy “San Marzono style” tomatoes....I love that word...”style.”...just like calling something “chocolatey flavor” but contains no actual chocolate. Aren’t marketeers so clever? 🙄
Weasel Words!
At least the knockoff tomatoes are still tomatoes, and not a science experiment posing as food!
The San Marzano "style" maters are two isles over from the " _I can't believe it's not margarine"_ 😄
I'm not sure, but I'd wager those are somehow from China. That's how they sold their counterfeits in the past 'samsung style smart phone' '350 boost style trainer' just becareful buying food that says 'style'
San Marzano style means that the tomatoes you are buying, which aren’t from San marzano, are in the can with a heavy tomato paste sauce like a marinara. FYI.
This problem is much bigger than just tomatoes. Wines, cheeses, oils and vinegars, etc...Some people have figured out that a lot of people with enough disposable income to pay for premium food items don't have the palate to know when they're being played.
It's particularly a problem with olive oil.
Especially tartufo
Disposable income. Yea those rich people became rich by being stupid. Such a class warfare nonsensical disgusting comment.
Don't forget the fake truffle industry.
@@blessedequalsprivileged2664 to be fair, they didn’t say “rich” or “stupid”; they said “people with disposable income” who don’t have a truly discriminating “palate”.
Soil makes a difference too. It's like growing Creole tomato's or a Vidalia onion. It's that rich soil in Louisiana from the Mississippi River.
Agreed. I’ve grown the San Marranos and they do not taste like the ones from Italy.
That's why the best San Marzano can be amazing. They're grown in the volcanic ash soil around Mt. Vesuvius. Btw I love me some Ponchatoula Strawberries!
Tomatoes from the Canary Islands are great for the same reason, volcanic soil and mild climate.
As someone who lives near Vidalia Georgia i can tell you its about the soil preparation also, they prep the soil in October with chicken poop to get the onions ready for planting around February.
You mean the sane Mississippi river that accumulates all the waste filled by the plants around it not to mention all the sh** that comes from upstream down
I guarantee ours really are San Marzano Tomatoes, as we are growing them ourselves, and our plants are loaded with them ;)
Exactly! A Little Azomite in the soil and cal-mag in the water
@@Oldcrow77 I am interested in knowing more.
If you’re growing them they’re not San Marzano
It’s the specific soil in Italy that they grow in that makes them authentic. The San marzano plants you buy at your local garden shop are not the same.
@@justanotherguy7925
Except they are.
Tomatoes aren't even native to Italy can you even call them tomatoes
Interestingly tomatoes originate from Peru not Italy. And you can grow San marzano tomatoes can be grown in america. So if you want to know where your food is grown & what it really is I guess you have to grow it yourself.
Look up everglades tomatoes
Tomatoes grown from Rutgers University seeds have been winning taste contests for decades. My family has grown Rutgers seed Tomatoes in the Breadbasket area of Central/southern NJ , Delaware and eastern PA for a long time. San Marzano seeds produce nothing more than a variety of Plum Tomatoes. While you can get San Marzano Seeds - what does THAT mean (Lots of fakes) and can you duplicate the soil from that region in Italy. Plum tomatoes are grown for Canning because they have more pulp and less seed and liquid. However they are generally not eaten directly - but are for sauces and stews and IN THAT use after long cooking with spices and herbs, it is really hard to tell the difference between the brands used. It is when the tomatoes will be used as a slice on a sandwich or eaten otherwise directly - that the NJ Beefsteak Tomatoes has unrivaled flavor picked ripe from the vine - and even then the ones they sell in stores (even with the vines still attatched) are picked well before ripe and do not compare. Even Tomatoes picked for Canning are picked short of ripe to allow for transport.
Unless you are buying your tomatoes in large quantities FRESH from the vine and directly from the farm, Don't waste time and money otherwise - get what tastes good to you and in the USA that means from Central California or NJ,PA,DE areas.
Grow your own tomatoes... not difficult and way tastier fresh
Well, I‘m growing my own San Marzano tomatoes. 💪
Yes! Ours are in the ground, thriving. Hooray!
Mine look pretty good, even in the Texas heat...I've saved seeds from them for a few years, and now wonder about the difference in taste and production from the OG.
I wish I could, but I can't grow my own. There are too many possums, raccoons, squirrels, etc... in my neighborhood. It would just devolve into a rodent buffet. ☹
@@sluttyankles Do you put a mesh cover over your tomatoes? We’ve had very high heat here in California desert much sooner than normal. Our tomato plants are growing rather slowly. 🙆🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️🙋🏻♀️
I heard the same goes for imported olive oil. It's mixed with some other oils. 60 minutes did a story on this.
And there was this whole thing about us importing fake honey...
This is a major problem in current society "I heard......." Try experience, it really does count for a lot. Grow your own open-pollinated S. M. pomodoras on any part of the planet, even indoors.
Yep! I buy my olive oil from Villa Capelli. It’s in Puglia Italy. Amazing taste. I buy in huge tins. Like $200 for 2 but then it lasts me 2 years.
you can easily taste the difference as long as you have taste buds
Next best thing at 1/4 the price .. Roma Tomatoes .. firm meat, sweet flavor, long slices. Also good for sun drying.
Um no...you aren't Italian are you?
@@wngimageanddesign9546 I only use tomatoes I grow in my yard. 🤷♀️🤷♀️
@@wngimageanddesign9546 tomatoes are so easy to grow. You don't need a yard. Get a big pot and buy a tomato plant or 2. My herbs I grow in small pots on a windowsill.
Terry I understand why you say that but there is a huge qualitative difference between regular Roma and the specialty tomatoes like San Marzano, Black Krim or Stupice (I like the smokiness of the black tomatoes). Like other foods, differences dwindle over time. Roasting tomato sauce for hours in the oven will almost always yield an incredibly sweet, flavorful sauce.
wNG iMAGE aND dESIGN , if you have a small deck you can grow tomatoes in 5gallon buckets , if you live in the city , many people start community gardens in vacant lots.
I love the subtle dig at Cento's at the end. 😆
Well whatever I'm growing and canning myself, I do so because of its ease of peeling and bright flavor. Whether or not they are real San Marzano doesn't matter, as long as they are small oblong, and easy to peel. Any tomato I grow at home is going to taste better than store bought crap 😖
Weve done some amazing things with tomatoes. Just incredible the variety that's available
I literally tried every brand on many shelves whether SM/DOP or not, because I love to make pizza with hand crushed tomatoes w only a touch of salt. After tasting 20+ brands from everywhere, my fave were the SM brand w the white label - domestically grown in PA/CA.
Only other brand worth anything was tomato filete from Saporito…. However, if you’re ever in Italy, Spain, Europe…..their fresh produce is just amazing!
Which brand do you mean? I'm not sure what to look for. I appreciate you sharing your experience. I mostly use them for pizza too.
Can you post a picture of the label?
@@proudmama2006 I don’t know how to post a pic on YT. They are a white Label with only SMT scrolled on the main area of label. They have a plum looking tomato on the same white label where these initials are. The also has colored (purple, green, red) band at tip top of label stating if “whole peeled, diced, or crushed”. On that same band of color at top, it says those types in Italian as well. Like whole peeled will say ‘polmodori palati’
I think the company goes by “San Merican Tomato Company”
I just know that they tasted the best.
@@officialgimpygardener4343 Youre referring to the Simpson brand tomatoes which are domestically grown in California I believe. They used to call them San Marzano and I would imagine caught some heat for the mislabeling and has since changed them to SM. In my opinion, these are some of the worst tomatoes Ive ever tried and do not come close to comparing to an actual San Marzano variety tomato. These tomatoes also contain calcium chloride in the ingredient list which is a firming agent. You would never find the use of calcium chloride in true DOP San Marzano tomato or any canned italian tomato for that matter. If they work for you then they work for you.
Try bianco dinapoli, they’re incredible.
This is going to be my first year growing them. I've done many varieties. My favorite has been the cherry tomato type. Sweet millions is a great variety! Pretty small fruit but ripe ones constantly. I'm going to do mostly herbs some basil and oregano, Rosemary, cilantro, maybe some spring onions, this year.
They are prolific as hell. Be prepared to pick them constantly and either preserve them, cook with them or give them away. I'm growing them too and I think all of us have eaten our weight in tomatoes out the garden this year, not to mention all the lbs I've given to coworkers. 🍅
I grow and can my own tomatoes every summer😏 ... Give it a try... they are DELICIOUS!
Amen. And not that hard to do. If you can’t can, you can freeze. Grow tomatoes in containers, or old buckets. They don’t care. We grow several varieties for different uses, ie; salad, canning, juice, sauce etc. lots of fun for all.
People who have never had a homegrown vine rip tomato dont know what a tomato tastes like. Whats funny is ive never liked san marzanos. Its just tough thick bland dry flesh until it spends time in a can or jar.
My favorite for cooking is from brad gates and its his large barred boar. Very acidic when raw but perfect balance when its cooked. Its fantastic on pizza
Riht on
Cento brand is pretty good even if it may or may not certified and just because something is not certified does not mean it’s not a good quality product. Certifications cost a lot of money and are very difficult to achieve. I will go for the California San Marzano style tomatoes over anything shipped in from outside of the USA. They’re really good and locally grown.
Growing them!! Can’t wait for some great tomato sauce!!
I just grow my own tomatoes and can them.
Home grown especially heirloom seeds non GMOs are so absolutely much better tasting than ANY STOREBOUGHT CANNED FOOD ALWAYS!
This is why you grow your own. You always know what you're getting.
Just need to make sure you get the real product of Italy stamped ones
I was just thinking the same thing….lol….grow my own San Marzanos myself .
I am growing mine right now. Even going so far as to get volcanic rock dust to amend the soil to try reflect the ones that are DOP.
How do you grow tomatoes in an apartment?
@@SiameseCheese got a balcony? Got a window? Grow a couple in pots or a garden tower. Just a suggestion.
After growing dozens of varieties of tomatoes. Doing taste tests both raw and cooked yearly and comparing them to available canned tomatoes..conclusion...CENTO is the closest (of the readily available brands ) to the best cooked tomato from the garden.
I agree. I only use DeCecco pasta, as well
Amen Marjorie. Cento is the only brand I will use. Wal Mart has them at a reasonable price. I think I'll grab some tomorrow and make some sauce.
Agreed, Cento is all I can find on the Eastern Shore. Cento is good but I have had much better. Travel to Italy, you can tell just by opening a can in the states I can smell the difference right away. Second generation Italian here.
I agree. We buy our Cento canned whole tomatoes from Costco.
@@stanleycostello9610 Yes!!! Sadly they are hard to find and Amazon is ridiculously priced.
There’s a documentary about counterfeit Italian tomato’s “Red Gold” China actually ships it tomato’s to Italy for canning or send cans without labels for labeling in Italy!
Good God!
China EVERYWHERE
That's a China thing to do.
Walmart, of course, amirite?
I watched it. Those poor people, and the greed. I won't buy red gold anymore.
If your sauce recipe demands a specific variety of canned tomatoes from a tiny region of Italy, you need to learn how to cook.
Earthlings beware, the authenticity of your snobbery is in grave peril.
Buy locally grown fresh tomatoes in the variety you want or grow them yourself it's really not that hard, just don't buy imported, it's better to keep the money in your own country....Right!!
That's right. Buy or grow local.
Wrong. The parmesan and feta cheese in the US is fake. The authentic PDO that are imported tastes much better. Same with the champagne and olive oils in the US being fake. Only the imported stuff is authentic. The list goes on and on. Read Real Food Fake Food,
Just as the US blames China for copying trademarked items, a huge percent of US food is also faked.
@@katel3962 as an Australian I'll always look for Australian made product's first because it keeps jobs here and the quality is actually pretty good even if it costs a little more than imported, but yes there are things that are just not made here so if you really want it you don't have much choice but to buy imported.
@@mattl9070 Australia has better standards than the US. Australia signed the European agreement respecting Product of Origin products. The US refuses to sign the agreement AND US law allows companies to sell chemical concoctions as the real food.
US feta, parmesan, champagne, olive oil, seafood, Kobe beef are all complete fakes. In the US, it is legal to sell crayfish meat as lobster, and legal to sell ANY beef as Kobe beef.
Tomatoes are as good as the beholder.
A couple of years ago I read that most of the canned tomato’s we buy are from China, they may say they are Italian but they aren’t ant there is a catch in the labeling process that allows this. Red Gold is my pick, no matter where they are grown.
Good news, Red Gold are mostly Indiana and Ohio. I've started using them recently and like them very much!
Most are from the Xinjiang region of China where the Muslim concentration camps are located. US has banned imports from this region, but they are likely getting through via Europe.
from what I know most tomatos are really domestic products here in the states or from mexico outside of the ones from italy it really wouldn't be cost effective to import them from china generally
I grow and can my own. No worries here. It's easy peasy. And at the least, you know what's in them.
I grow my own. They are legit sans all the dead bodies and ash from mt vesuvius
Now i know!!!!! What a relief!!!!!
I have grown tomatoes since I was a kid and still do I also done gave the San Marzano tomatoes a try in living soil Neapolitan pizza here we come
I completely understand why they’re expensive. I grew them last year and they are tiny compared to most paste tomatoes. I didn’t really think there was much of a difference in flavor, but perhaps that could be because my soil is different. Either way, they’re not the tomato for me.
I have a few just coming ripe this week. They are small even compared to local grocery store romas. I'm not exactly happy I grew them.
We have a restaurantier that takes his entire staff to Italy once a year and they bring back tons of food each year. The real things are definitely different from the fake.
Try the cheeses, double zero flour and tomatoes. Yummy
Double O like "Zoo"
Not double "0" like 200
*nevermind
@@fredleeland2464 actually Fred the poster is correct. Tipo 00 is called in Italian dopia zero, which translates to double zero flour. It is the finest grade of Italian flour, followed by Tipo 0, Tipo 1 and Tipo 2.
@@eincan1313 well snap...
It's better to support the economy of your own country and buy locally grown....why buy imported if you can get the same...
@@mattl9070 The only issue for many of us is that our local grocery store won't carry the high quality ingredients. I'm sure that you can find US made equivalents to the best ingredients from around the world but doing so isn't going to be easy, and I'm not sure it will end up any cheaper.
I currently have 18 San Morzano tomato plants just starting to produce! Very easy to grow, way cheaper, and way tastier
If can top dress with some Azomite. You will be glad you did.
That and Cal-mag
I grew 4 plants last year. Still have 5 quarts of sauce and two of stewed left and starting to bring this years in.
@@Oldcrow77 thanks for the heads up! I just recently had to put calcium in the ground because a few of my other tomato plants were getting blossom end rot. I appreciate it! First time gardener here
Growing tomatoes in volcanic soil is what gives San marzanos their games flavor
Yes - that’s the point people are missing here. Throwing them in some miracle grow from Home Depot is not the same thing.
@@justanotherguy7925 Chemically....yes it can be exactly the same.
I grow my own paste& regtomatoes in my very small back yard it only takes min. A day to water. I use grow bags in the deck, the bags are reuseable. An hour or 2 to home can in pint jars in a waterbath, sure mine are california grown, nit italian, but tadtey!
I have a few varieties growing in bags in my yard too. I may have to try canning this year.
Dry- farming can turn the most basic tomato variety into something incredible. Growing conditions will influence and change your tomatoes.
I grew San Marzano tomatoes this summer from seeds I bought from a reputable seller.I didn't grow them in Italy though.
Good to know!
Also a close relative to the San Marzano Tomato is the Italian Plum Tomato. I love them, you can use in salads, sliced for sandwiches or cooked in for your pasta sauces. Grow well in your backyard garden or in a patio container. Hope this helps you a little.
Yeah, I'm going to stick with my Red Gold crushed tomatoes that I scored for 89cents/28oz can. I cook A LOT so I scored 6 cases!
I have not had the Red Gold crushed tomatoes but the Red Gold ketchup is the very best
Sorry but we have canned plum tomatoes here in America and they are very good. When they are in season can your own. Make sure you have a pressure canner though. Instapot won’t work for this. Or go to Aldi the most reasonable market I know. I will never shop at the big markets again.
@@mattfoster5934 So are the tomatoes!
All of Red Gold's products are superior.
Red Gold canned tomatoes taste better than the “fresh” tomatoes in most produce bins.
It's a genetic line of tomatoes. Give them the right conditions, they will grow the same anywhere in the world. Tomatoes don't care what their country if origin is. I grow them in Southern California with expected results everytime.
🍅
Soil, fertilizers, watering, pruning, weather all play a big part in final produce. And some plants need several generations to acclimatize and some plants never do.
@@redstone1999 I have a line of San Marzano from San Diego seed co. That are specifically that! 10b climatized 😎
F1
@@bbingtube I got my original San Marzano and Roma seeds from Italy in exchange for my Comfrey B-4 seeds. I made a hybrid of the two tomatoes and spent 10 years turning it into a variety I call ' Redstone 99 '. Short season ( 5 months from seed to harvest) and the best features of both ancestors.
I do sometimes get a weird tomato plant every so often. None yet were keepers.
Volcanic soil is richer than most other soils. The Tomato in question grows in volcanic soil in that area. Duplicating the soil's vitamins and minerals is not easy in the USA.
I grow them myself. They look like the tomatoes pictured. So if the seed catalog says that's what they are, and they actually look like those tomatoes from Italy. But I'm growing them in Newnan Georgia. Is it or isn't it San Marzano tomatoes. Whatever it is, my wife loves them!
Been growing San Marzano in Norfolk UK for years, seeds from Seedsofitaly, only the best for sauces
Great to know
tomatoes started off as a wild plant in South America, and when Italians first saw them they thought them to be poisonous.... XD
I find it annoying af that people think tomatoes are from Italy and weren't introduce to them by the Spanish.
I would like to buy those tomatoes at my local Aldi's grocery store in Manchester, NH, USA.
PS support your local growers and buy tomatoes to can at home.
Canning info is easy to get and is a terrific family project for late summer weekends.
Tomatoes are absolutely the easiest thing to “put up” at home.
Alton is the Canary in the Culinary coal mine
There is always growing your own and saving your self the time and money.
Same goes for EVOO.
I was just saying that above. Luckily, it's much easier to teach someone how to tell the difference between olive oils than it is with some of these other counterfeited products.
Most Americans don't realize their olive oil, champagne, parmesan cheese, and feta cheese are fake.
@@katel3962 can't trust anyone anymore.
@@katel3962 even the “American cheese” in a cheeseburger that costs $10 is imitation. Most restaurants just want to cut costs without cutting the flavor. And like someone said earlier in this thread- people with extra income don’t necessarily have the skill set or perhaps don’t care enough to notice the difference in taste. They’re just after the name or looks of things.
@@zaria5785 American cheese isn't real cheese, its a cheese-like food product. Real cheese is milk, culture/rennet, and salt. But at least American 'cheese' is an American product, unlike most cheese which is fake food where they use real names (Feta, Parmesan) but use chemicals re-create fakes.
My whole life (until a few years ago) I thought I was eating Feta and Parmesan, until I learned they are chemical concoctions that taste nothing real the authentic Feta and Parmesan from Europe. Shocking that American law allows companies to create these fakes and mislead consumers.
San Marzano tomatoes can be grown anywhere. I grow them in my garden in Wisconsin.
I have seeds for next year. I was trying to figure out if the variety or the location is what makes them San Marzanos.
@@rubyoro0 it’s originally from San marzano. It’s also named after the area in Italy but it’s the same variety. By the way, when saving tomato seeds, the easiest way I found is to remove the seeds from the tomato and put them on a paper towel and space them aways apart. Dry and store in a seed packet in the freezer. Next spring, tear off the small piece of paper towel with the seed attached. (It sticks when first put on the towel. Put it in a pot or the ground and water. They germinate, the paper towel temporarily hold extra moisture for the seedling, then breaks down.
The authentic marzanos have a special taste that is attributed to the soil composition and unique/optimum nutrients levels found in that region...sure you can grow them, but will they taste the same? Probably not.
Yours are San Wiscanos
@@joedapro555 now they are! Except for the early blight I got.
Didn't know bout this. Glad this wasn't that they were poison.😁😻
I bought certified San Marzano seeds and am harvesting the first two or three pounds of them today. Will see if these NY state grown ones make as good a sauce as the certified cans from Italy I bought at the store.
Rule of acquisition 239: never be afraid to mislabel a product.
But Gint only set down 173 rules....
@@josephteller9715 Do not blaspheme a profitable Rule of Acquisition!
You'd make quark proud
I’ve been growing my own San Marranos. They are fabulous. Romano’s are ok, but SM’s are much “meatier”. They can great!
I grow my own, I canned a few gallons of San mar tomato sauce last year.
Just grow them yourself. I got a San Marzano plant outside right now. 🤷🏻♂️
Good advice for all plant products. Berries are intolerable from markets in many/most cases.
I have 20 San Marzano plants in my garden now❤️
Are your tomatoes grown in volcanic soil under the shadow of mt vesuvius?
@@ZepG maybe they are, what's it to ya?
@@ZepG no, mine are grown in rich organic soil with plenty of earth worms.😊 what’s you’re point?
UNBELIEVABLE
Good
My wife grows 3 varieties of tomatoes yearly along with green and hot peppers and cucumbers. Canned tomatoes are only used in winter after our fresh ones run out. All out of a 3' x 10' garden. My daughter grows little tomatoes on her apartment balcony so that's another option.
Cento. The taste of Jersey pizza joints.
Excellent stuff.
Love tomatoes. It is interesting that for a long time people thought tomatoes were poison because the plant itself is poisonous (nightshade).
Actually the reason they thought tomatoes were poisonous was because they were literally being poisoned... by their plates. Acidic food leaches out the lead in pewter plates so eating tomatoes on them caused major lead poisoning.
I grow my own because I heard Alton say they are the best.
I figured this out myself about 25 years ago
There's a bit of a double side here. San Marzano is a variety of Tomato. A cultivar, like Bibb vs Icerberg lettuce. However San Marzano tomatoes from the San Marzano region will have certification seal on the package to denote they are grown that region.
The belief that some San Marzano tomatoes are 'fake' stems from not being grown in San Marzano region, neglecting to recognize the Variety of the San Marzano Tomato plant and attributing the name to the place or origin only.
Omg my life is over! lol. Seriously, if you like it, eat it! Next month someone will claim the opposite of this.
True, I only eat food if it’s GMO,it’s not genetically modified,personally I feel like it’s not up to human standards.😉
Thanks again Alton, American treasure.
Buy a can of each, make your different recipes, see what you think. I used DOP. I prefer the di napoli from california. Tastes much fresher and is cheaper to boot.
I have been using dop as well . I have heard nothing but good things about di Napoli . I will try them if I can find them here in Vermont New Hampshire or Massachusetts .
Growing San Marzano tomatoes yourself is another great way to guarantee you know what you're getting is the real deal.
DOP sounds great, but everything has effects: in this case, significantly higher prices.
@Brian Cleveland That’s another analogy; mine is more that DOPs create mini-monopolies.
@@mencken8 not really there can't just not call it . Like Feta chess must be from Greek but you can buy feta "like" chess made in other country's call salad chees
They have thicker flesh and are pretty sweet. Best for sauces. Don’t just put them in absolutely everything. Use your taste buds and decide what tomatos you want in what you are making
I grow San Marzano tomatoes in my back yard in South Carolina. I can them whole in Mason jars as well as making marinara sauce and canning that as well. Are the seed packets lying to me and therefore i'm not growing the real thing?
Honestly, if they taste good - just enjoy. I love tomatoes from New Jersey. Keep it close and easy. 😀
@@sunrae7680 yup we have the BEST tomatoes. i grow San Marzanos- i get the seeds from Italy- they are amazing. it is our soil that makes the best maters next to Italy.
@@greatdanerescuemom1 I have high clay-loam with a lot of chicken & goat manure and their bedding composted mixed in. My tomatoes are super delicious and sweet.
@@redstone1999 yes chicken poop is the best for maters
I made the same comment. It’s a type of tomato, like better boy.
It's not just the tomato that you use. The spices, vegetables or meat can make an average sauce better.
Are these Plum Tomatoes grown in San Marzano or are they a variety of their own? Thanks.
I plant my own, and Can as much as I am able. I get the species, at least.
I grow San Marzanos in my garden because I can my own sauces and tomatoes.
It goes deeper then just this. Some question the actual seeds authenticity. Many believe the variety was lost sometime back and what is now called San Marzano is not San Marzano. Look in seed catalogs and you will find several with that name.
As a horticulturist,there is no equal to San Marzanoes for sauce or homemade paste.Ypu can buy authentic seed to grow your own online from reputable seed suppliers,they grow well in a 5 gallon bucket with holes drilled in the bottom,with good rich potting soil...Try some "Sweet 100's'' or "Sweet Millions" for small bite sized delicious salad tomatoes! I grow "Homestead" because they are fat and round- perfect for fried green tomatoes!
But they sell San Marzano seed packets and you can grow your own. I did last year and I don't know if I liked the taste of them so much but also what if the seed packet is lying as well?? 😢
I lived in Naples and the real thing is delicious
You should just grow them or get good quality tomatoes from the farmers market and make your own sauce. Local is always best. In Italy, they use what's local and in season. This is why it tastes so great.
I will say this, as a person who has eaten for sure real San Marzano tomatoes, there is a distinct taste and the centos taste like them and thats what I buy. Thats all that matters to me
i buy Cento here in NJ but we can get many imports as well. And I've had italian tomatoes off the vine in southern italy in the summer and san marzano's. nothing compares. but when i am trying to make a good sauce, i use cento or mutti or Nina.
I've always found Muir Glen organic whole peeled tomatoes to be a more than acceptable substitute for San Marzano tomatoes - they consistently get high ratings for taste, texture and quality
They make a great sauce for sure!
So when I buy San Marzano pomodoro seed, it's just rotm pomodoros?
I grew them last year, i made sauce and they were very sour. Maybe I'll grow a few but only fo tomato salad.
Are Kirkland brand tomatoes sauces DOP?! I didn't know they had DOP tomatoes
Just grow them! Then you know for sure.
@Randall Johnson Roma and Paste Tomatoes aIso have a similar shape but don't taste the same if your a Tomato Connoisseur.
Go ahead any buy a can of San Marzano tomatoes with the DOP label. And then buy a can of regular tomatoes for a third the price and have a friend help you do a blind taste-test so you can actually see if you can taste any difference (and, if you can, whether you actually prefer the San Marzanoes). You could save a great deal of money in the long run that way.
Maybe I have a discerning palate or maybe its cause I'm Sicilian, but I can taste the difference. If I go to an Italian restaurant and try their sauce, I will know if they're using San Marzano, for sure...
It's not about taste it's about consistency. You need meaty tomatos with little water to make proper paste.
you can taste the difference. bitter, tinny, no flavor, needs to be super spiced/salted. if you buy true Italian DOP tomatoes you don't have those issues.
@@rosannapizza6402 naw, I grow these in my garden. If you graft san marzano on a vigorous rootstock you'll have a prolific harvest of exceptional tomatoes, as long as it's a good season of course.
You called out Cento, but I see no fine print on the label of whole peeled?.. it says all over, even with a map, that’s it’s from Italy, etc.
Thank God Alton Brown will save us from buying fake tomatoes.
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but what if it is the same variety and grown close to you? wont the flavor be similar? is the carboon footprint worth eating the real thing allegesdly
Woo! You used "myriad" correctly. Thanks.
San Marzano is an actual tomato variety too...as well as Roma. I guess some people think it should mean it's from that region?
Actually within Europe San Marazon are a protected designated of origin. If you want the good stuff you have to import it.
I actually swtiched from centos i found their flavor to be inconsistent and bitter sometimes, the basil leaf is a nice touch though, been purchasing "smt brand" tomatoes from staters they come in a plain looking white can with an illustrated tomato printed on the label, i don't see any european certification on the can but they don't taste overly cooked or like metal like the way a can of hunts, or del monti tend to. tomatoes are in season right now if you are of the means buy 4 or 5 different varieties of tomatoes roast or bbq them and just make your own sauce ;)
SMT Tomatoes are Rutgers seed Tomatoes Grown in the Central to Southern NJ, Delaware, Southeast PA Breadbasket for the best tasting tomatoes in the world. SMT are the initials of the original three farmers that grew them. America's Test kitchen chose them in their last taste test. (I am one of the producers)
ALL tomatoes for Canning or direct sale are picked short of ripe to allow for handling and transportation before being processed. THere is NOTHING better than one of MY tomatoes grown ripe on the vine for direct eating - but the ONLY way to get THEM is to buy them directly from the farmer picked ripe off the vine. But if you are not doing that - you simply are not getting the best product - period. While I would like to think Tomatoes canned from MY fields are the best there is, the fact is everyone's taste is different.
i grow my own and can them makes great sauce