/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>6297405
A lot of tomato sauces have always had sugar in them.

My great grandmother from Italy put sugar in her sauce.

That's pretty normal.

As for the rest, corn syrup is way cheaper than sugar.

Welcome to 50 years ago, glad you caught up.

Dude, you're putting your "syrup" into condiments? Fucking gross

>>6297405
bread too, some loaves have a teaspoon of sugar per slice of bread.

sugar is cheap and makes you think you're full because it makes you sick when you eat too much.

>>6297405
Most mayo recipes call for a pinch of sugar anyway

>>6297405
sugar has been in almost everything that tastes god since forever.

>>6297411
Your great grandmother was a piece of shit and I hate her and I'm glad she's dead, the fucking cunt. I'm from Italy. We don't put sugar in tomato sauces. The first time I had a tomato sauce made outside of Italy, I wretched at how sugary, sickeningly sweet it was. You ought to be ashamed of yourself.

>>6297448
This. Sugar in tomato sauce is disgusting, tomatoes are plenty sweet enough already.

>>6297456
they aren't, in general tomatoes are meaty and tart
the way a tomato sauce is SUPPOSED to become sweet is from simmering for an extremely long time which breaks the starches of the tomato down into simple sugars.

>>6297419
>I noticed a typo
>comedy gold!!!!!!

>>6297448
This.

You don't put sugar in fucking sugo you merigone.

>>6297464
That's also wrong.
Use a very, very wide pan (yes: a pan) to make tomato sauces.
Why?

Because greater surface area does two things.

1) allows for faster evaporation due to greater exposure to air.

2) allows for faster caramelisation of the tomatoes themselves due to a larger pan bottom giving a larger portion of the sauce direct access to the heat source.

The combination of faster evaporation and faster caramelisation creates an adequately thick and sweet sauce in far less time than it would were it made in a taller pot. For example, I can wine-caramelise onions in 20 minutes. In a pot, it takes me 45.

lol at all the neckbeards:

"But...but...Sugar has always been in that!"

Not in these fucking levels you diabetic fucks. Do you really believe you need 40g of sugar or corn syrup in your fucking bread? And you wonder why you're morbidly obese and stricken with terminal diabetes.

>>6297405
Not really, because I don't buy stuff like that. It seems to me that it would be the same as when I was growing up, which was the 1980s.

>>6297500
>I don't buy stuff like that.
Me neither. I buy ingredients and use my kitchen to turn them into meals. My food has flavor. What the fuck would I ever need ketchup, miracle whip, barbeque sauce, tartar sauce or whateverthefuck taco sauce is for?

>>6297523
I mostly cook from scratch, but I must admit that I buy ketchup and Q sauce. I have never purchased any of the other examples in OP, though.
Like you, I'm not even sure what taco sauce is supposed to be other than a sauce for tacos rather than a sauce OF tacos, like how tomato sauce is a sauce OF tomatoes but steak sauce is a sauce FOR ruining steak.

There is nothing wrong with high fructose corn syrup. What if we called it corn honey? Would that make you feel better?

>>6297527
What the fuck is Q sauce? Quinky?

>>6297412

>consumption is declining

I suspected this to be the case lately

>>6297479

>>6297534
Add BB before it and all will be clear, Padawan.

>I don't buy stuff like that.
>Me neither. I buy ingredients and use my kitchen to turn them into meals.
Pleb, I buy materials & turn them into a kitchen, then I use home made plastic to form custom bottles which I use to store my self generated condiments.

>>6297566
Cum jugs are fucking disgusting though.

>>6297531
Because it's not honey, you silly cunt. Do bees make it? No, it's a highly processed synthetic product. This is why you're autistic.

>>6297538
>I suspected this to be the case lately
>sensed a disturbance in the high fructose force

>>6297531
high fructose corn syrup is roughly 55% fructose vs 45% glucose

>>6297405
>At some point the flavor they offered is just going to be fucking gone
that seems like a ridiculous conclusion to come to from the inclusion of sugar

>>6297588
Surely he was referencing how honey has nearly the same ratio of those two sugars

>>6297578
You've never even had any!
I don't pasteurize it & its whole, not 2%.

>>6297590

What probably will happen is that cheap processed foods will become made entirely of flavoured sugars, oils and extracted soy products, which emulate natural flavours. it's already heading that way, not just for condiments, either.

>>6297812
you say that as though natural means good

>>6297448

>>6297590
Why? What once had flavor is now syrup & only has one tone, plain sweetness. Any other flavor is completely overwhelmed.

Why use any condiment when they are all equal to cheap pancake syrup. Maybe pancake syrup mixed with some vinegar.

Pic related.
Everyone seems to buy it & love it when it is nearly pure sugar.

As for foods with sugar, we have to add a tone of salt to preserve, but then we have to add a ton of sugar to kill the salty flavor. It makes sense.

However this adding sugar for the sake of adding sugar does not. It is just plain weird.

>>6297812
Well yeah, this is already true. Just don't eat processed food.

>>6297470
It's not a typo. They misinterpreted the "muh" meme which makes them look like a fucking retard.

>>6297531
It's a huge clusterfuck of a molecule that usually gets run through your liver. We're all gonna have FLS when we hit our 50's because of it. Enjoy the bed you've made, corn lobby.

>>6297405
sugars are cheap and conform to the American palate, decent preservative, and most tomato sauces made in the home have some sort of sugar put in to balance the acidity of the tomatoes unless you manage to get in season tomatoes with a good sugar content.

>>6297587

Pretty much, I've just been checking stuff out of curiosity and had been seeing less and less of it

>>6297405
You need sugar to balance acidic sauces...