Why one chef's wasteful use of tinned tomatoes made me mad. And an Italian chef explains why you should never wash tinned tomatoes or chuck the juice, and how to make the best of cheap tinned ones.
I can hardly believe this. I use a very good brand of tinned tomato (Mutti) and there is next to no ‘tinned’ taste. Why waste the tomato juice; absolutely ridiculous. I think young cooks now could learn a lot from generations of cooks who use every last scrap of a Sunday joint, make a roast chicken stretch with leftovers used for pies etc and scraps and bones for stock and soup.
As the child of parents brought up during the war, there was zero tolerance of food waste in our house - sometimes to the detriment of our health sadly. However at pastry college as a ‘mature’ student ( in my 40s) I pointed out to a younger student that she was wasting cake mix by not scraping her bowl out, and explained about my mother’s obsessive with not.wasting.a.thing and she screamed with laughter and called it ‘hysterical’. Still an education job to be done I think, similarly to this tale of woeful waste....
That's really interesting. Reading the other comments on the reel and some of the chef's responses , he also seemed to find it amusing that anyone would view this as important. He did say he used the juice in bloody Marys ... not sure why this didn't feature in his reel and tipping down the sink did. But thanks for reading!
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I can hardly believe this. I use a very good brand of tinned tomato (Mutti) and there is next to no ‘tinned’ taste. Why waste the tomato juice; absolutely ridiculous. I think young cooks now could learn a lot from generations of cooks who use every last scrap of a Sunday joint, make a roast chicken stretch with leftovers used for pies etc and scraps and bones for stock and soup.
As the child of parents brought up during the war, there was zero tolerance of food waste in our house - sometimes to the detriment of our health sadly. However at pastry college as a ‘mature’ student ( in my 40s) I pointed out to a younger student that she was wasting cake mix by not scraping her bowl out, and explained about my mother’s obsessive with not.wasting.a.thing and she screamed with laughter and called it ‘hysterical’. Still an education job to be done I think, similarly to this tale of woeful waste....
That's really interesting. Reading the other comments on the reel and some of the chef's responses , he also seemed to find it amusing that anyone would view this as important. He did say he used the juice in bloody Marys ... not sure why this didn't feature in his reel and tipping down the sink did. But thanks for reading!