Today on Epicurious, we’ve asked professional chefs Frank Proto, Dan Richer, and Giorgia Caporuscio to give us their unfiltered, honest reviews of some prominent tomato sauce brands found on supermarket shelves. Which marinara packs the most bang for your buck, and which should you avoid at all costs?
00:00 Intro
00:17 Ragú Old World Style Marinara Sauce
03:29 Classico Marinara Pasta Sauce with Plum Tomatoes and Olive Oil
05:48 Great Value Marinara Pasta Sauce
07:33 Rao’s Homemade Marinara Sauce
09:12 Prego Marinara Sauce
11:13 Carbone Marinara
13:07 Good & Gather Organic Mairnara Pasta Sauce
14:26 365 by Whole Food Market Organic Marinara Sauce
15:41 Bertolli Traditional Marinara Sauce
17:18 Barilla Marinara Sauce
19:05 Newman’s Own Marinara Pasta Sauce
20:35 Trader Joe’s Tomato Basil Marinara Sauce
22:18 Mutti Marinara Pasta Sauce
24:36 Yo Mama’s Original Marinara
25:57 Victoria Marinara Sauce
27:08 Cravings by Chrissy Teigen Spicy Thai Basil Marinara Sauce
29:21 Verdict
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27 Comments
My chest would be ON FIRE after all this tomato 😬😖
"Hunts" premium…. $1.50
Beats em' all😅
Great Value not tripping up the Epicurious streak yet!
I love the Ragu Chunky Garden sauce. I add a pound of browned meat and it’s wonderful.
Can you guys do a Alfredo sauce next??
I’m glad they got a woman who is unintelligible since usually what they say is dumb anyway
Epicurious also did this 2 or 3 years ago. Mutti's came in number 1, then Rao's and Newman's, but it wasn't a blind taste test.
"Italian Chefs Choose the Best & Worst Supermarket Marinara Sauces"
Please taste the alfredo sauces next ! 🙂 <3 🙂
Petition to do this with different brands of vanilla ice cream
If you're not eating Mazzetta, you're not having the best.
I like Victoria and Carbone’s.
Funny I do not agree with them.
My Nonna taught me that you always taste your tomato sauce with a small piece of bread, because the starch of the pasta will massively effect the flavor of the sauce. This test should have been done with each sauce being dressed on pasta. They're basically tasting tomato soup.
Ragu is a no
Dang. I always use Classico Spicy Tomato & Basil for a meat sauce. I guess I'll need to try Cravings and Carbone, at some point
This is so rigged it's not funny. Walmart is getting paid for sure.
Rao’s is owned by Cambells now. Do the math.
You have some bad judges if they are picking the worse and unnatural ones as the best
Walmart psyop series
We do Rao's Marinara with a sautéed onion and spicy sausage. Best sauce ever. I don't know what they're talking about, but for us, it's the best store bought sauce.
Ooooff shoulda called an audible on chef cold sore
Walton family approved!
I don’t know that any of them really know what the heck they like or what they are talking about
Just fyi – the owners of Epicurious are Condé Nast, who have collaborated with Walmart several times. Walmart always seems to do well in these “blind” taste tests while Target fails almost every time. Not saying this is all a sham. But it does make you think.
They like Walmart sauce over Rao’s? Crazy.
Carbones is really great. No matter, I like Classico too.
I'll have to give Ragu a try again.