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Odd. Either I have terrible tastebuds or it doesn't matter in this particular application, but last time I made sauce with San Marzano vs generic tomatoes no on

• conistonwater 10y ago
  Not experienced, but (1) unless tomatoes feature prominently in a recipe, the details of their flavour won't have that much impact, (2) for any expensive protected-origin kind of stuff, there's a chance somebody just took the plain stuff and relabelled it.
• xapata 10y ago
  Depending on how you cooked it, the difference might be subtle enough that only someone familiar with it would notice. Try eating the tomato raw, like an apple. A good tomato is wonderful with just a sprinkle of salt. I only started noticing the difference after I grew my own heirloom tomatoes. I was amazed when I ate my first harvest, fresh off the plant. I had never tasted a tomato before in my life! Basic supermarket tomatoes just taste like water.