Chefs Silvia Barban, Hillary Sterling, and Glenn Rolnick have a combined 90 years of experience making Italian food at a professional level. Today on Epicurious we’ve asked them to give us their no holds barred, unfiltered reviews of some prominent marinara sauce brands found on supermarket shelves. Which marinara sauce packs the most bang for your budget and which should you avoid at all costs?
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27 Comments
i used to love Prego
No disrespect to these professionals – but irrespective of their assessments, the taste buds like what they like. So I’m the end, you will buy even the lowest rating sauce – because you just like it. Nothing wrong with that. Each to his own.
I usually make my own sauce, but sometimes I'm too hungry. I googled 'best jarred pasta sauce' & everything said Rao's. I thought it was awful. Then just last week, I thought I'd try a brand we have here in Canada: Neal Bros. Organic. AMAZING. I'll still make my own for the most part, but when I need a jarred sauce, that's what I'll buy.
To not include Victorias is a fail. It beats them all
Lovely video. Really enjoyed hearing all their opinions based on the cold and cooked taste
Of course Mutti won, that s the only real Italian brand
Glad Mike Pompeo found a new career.
Fire the editor
Walmart great value the GOAT
this is, as usual, a terrible idea. This should've be done blind where the sauce is served in an unmarked container so there's less bias. Revealed after the smell and taste test.
Would have preferred each chef judge separately, them being grouped together will inevitably influence their commentary. Plus I wanted to see if they had a common consensus. Also blind taste test would've also been more interesting.
this was fun.
I buy King Soopers (or Kroger depending on where you live) brand because it’s cheap. And, uh, it’s wrong.
Get some Passata add some salt, pepper, a glove of garlic and you're done and it will cost you $2.50
Loved the idea of this video, could have done without the dramatic in-between music.
Except for the intrusive music slams every few seconds, a rare delight to watch. I see a lot of "cooking" shows, but I rarely see people who know food and know how to taste food providing honest opinions. This is a very useful video. As for the music, tone it down; this is utube, not Hollywood!
Only thing trying harder than ragu is the person doing the transition music. Just felt off base, great content though. Just distracting overly serious music with the same motif over and over
Mutti wins again.
3 non Italians rate jarred sauces
Missed out on Victoria. Rao's was my standby until I tried Victoria. It's the only thing close to tasting like a non-jarred sauce.
How can they leave Victoria off this list? It is top notch.
this video is more about Italian-American cuisine, which is heavy on tomatoes, rather than Italian. tomato is very present in Southern Italian cuisine, but it's more rare in traditional dishes north of Naples.
It's masterchef but very dramatic
I love music but I would eagerly take an axe and a flamethrower to these subidiotic cues
Raos all day every day.
Rao's is very close in taste to my homemade sauce.
Meh, as a professional chef with over 25 years experience I think these 3 are a bit pretentious.