An Italian Reviews Pasta Sauce | Blind Tomato Sauce Taste Test

hey guys so my wife ava thinks that today we're making a video where she's gonna try several varieties of store-bought pasta sauces and rate and review them in a blind taste test and while we are going to do that i have a little trick up my sleeve you see in addition to the four pasta sauces that i went to the store this morning and purchased i also have a little pot of her very own pasta sauce recipe it's a simple tomato sauce if you're curious for the recipe you can check it out here but i'm really curious to see if she's actually going to be able to distinguish that this is a homemade tomato sauce or whether or not she'll even think it's good so without any further ado hi i'm harper dao i'm eva many of you have requested a video um with ava's thoughts on store-bought prepared pasta sauces so we thought today we would have a little blind taste test review the idea is not just to introduce ava to these sauces but to have her as an italian and a a decent cook to rate and review these sauces and ultimately to pick a winner if there is a winner there can only be one there can be only one that can be less words than all the rice yeah exactly maybe you'll find one you really like i'm gonna prepare a little plate of spaghetti with each sauce one at a time and you're not allowed to know which sauce they are anything about them you're just gonna taste them try them let us know what you think and at the end you have to proclaim the victor but i have a question yeah at least did you learn how to make spaghetti yeah i think i'm good on the spaghetti what i don't know is what's the best way to mix it in with the sauce should i heat the sauce in a separate pan and then mix them all in a i'll figure it out well it's time for me to start cooking so you gotta go get out of the room bye bye bye i don't know if i will come back our first sauce today is hunt's traditional pasta sauce let's see we've got tomato puree makes sense water good tomato paste and uh in case you're thinking it might be a little bit bitter it has a high fructose corn syrup corn syrup and sugar carrot fiber [Music] and that just carrot if anyone knows what carrot fiber is please let me know [Music] it has a very very strong smell which kind of concerns me do well we have our very first pasta sauce preparation of the day now we're going to go without parmigiano today because we don't want to ruin it exactly i feel like master chef hopefully i'm not getting eliminated today maybe yes maybe yes so how how does it look how does it smell okay they look watery it's like here there is the tomatoes and here there is the water and i don't know if it's your fault or this uh preparation this sauce will give uh this uh brand the benefit of the doubt and it was probably my fault then the smell i have to say this one has a much stronger smell than i was expecting it smell like herbs more than tomatoes i can judge also how spaghetti are cooked yes please not potato i was expecting much worse really see when okay it's not my favorite tomato sauce but because you can taste all the herbs and tomato sauce should taste as tomatoes more than garlic or onion and all the herbs i'm i'm having trouble with the spaghetti here sorry on a side note i apparently don't know how to eat spaghetti yeah it uh it smells much stronger than it tastes see much more and also as i told before is like you taste more spices but it's not this gas thing as i was expecting from the smell so let's say that in between one and ten and then maximum one is the minimum of this can be like uh i don't know five well way do you try the others it might skew the scale a little bit maybe but this is let's give this a five okay a solid five for a first entry this gives me hope this really gives me hope you might like some of these maybe maybe next up we have newman's own roasted garlic now if you've watched this channel much before you know that ava is not the biggest fan of garlic but i thought we'd give it a shot something maybe a little more flavorful we all know that newman's is great because a hundred percent of the profits go to charity but do they make a good tomato sauce that is the question [Music] whoa garlic lots and lots of garlic our second pasta is ready what do you think ah yo it's garlicky there might be some garlic in there what do you think of the texture it looks a little a little thicker it looks less watery but it's too thick too thick see and then the smell at this time is pretty horrible it's garlic it's a garlic pate do you have a lot of um empire vampires yes maine is known for its vampires what [Laughter] you are no i take it that's a no what does this mean i don't speak italian what finish the bite if you can don't spit it out is it that bad is it that bad i was hoping maybe it'd be like the other one it would have a strong smell and then a nice smile taste oh my goodness and the texture is it seemed like glue it's like um that is extraordinarily garlicky that's all you can taste the just garlic if you take a clove of garlic and you eat a clove of garlic mashed and boiled that is worse i don't know which brand is this but sorry i'm sorry it's horrible so you rated the first one of five out of ten what would you give this one as we say in italy nonpervenuto np i can't give a number because less than one we have zero zero is a number zero give it a zero zero if you know this tomato sauce or a kind of tomato sauce right away speaking of run away run away i gotta cook the third one as we get further along here i thought we would spice things up with a clasico spicy tomato and basil it's a pretty basic tomato sauce but it has bell peppers and crushed red pepper flakes so i'm curious what ava thinks of the heat on this one [Music] that actually smells pretty good granted it's me saying it and uh i don't exactly have the most demanding tastes but that actually smells pretty appetizing to me [Music] third pasta sauce ready for your pleasure how many others we have uh two more okay so now what none of what it is some water got your hopes up too soon some water here we have some water what do you think of the smell it smells like feet like feet that actually smells pretty appetizing to me the number one was acceptable and the number two was disgusting let's see the number three bon appetito it's not like the number two it's not as bad as number two how does it compare to number one i prefer more than number one than this because okay these as when you put the first the person in your mouth you have this always herbs taste and this is something that i don't really get why when they make a tomato sauce it doesn't taste as tomatoes but it tastes like herbs it's a tomato sauce i like this one more than the first one i would say what do you think of the spice it's all spicier i didn't taste at all it was supposed to be spicy i'm not saying anything else i don't taste any spicy pepper right it's just this herbs that it's a mix in between i think onion and garlic and parsley from 10 to one the first one was five the second one was zero this can be like three the pasta is still okay no no the pasta is always al dente he learned finally how to cook pasta properly i'm proud because i was his teacher so it helps that i'm using the good pasta that i stole from your pantry that's why i'm recording this before she tries any of these but if i know ava probably about this time she's getting sick of garlic so i got this uh prego sensitive recipe no onions or garlic uh it seemed kind of interesting it's just a really simple tomato sauce just tomato puree diced tomatoes sugar canola oil okay that's a little weird and salt spices and citric acids so maybe she'll appreciate the milder flavors of the sensitive recipe [Music] uh i don't really know how to describe the smell of this one it smells completely unlike the others it smells very sweet though i don't know but it smells i don't want to say bad but but weird also there are just only so many ways that i can one-handedly record myself uh making the same plate of spaghetti over and over again so if it's cool with you guys i'm just gonna skip to the finished pasta cool cool number four i must say i'm getting a little tired of cooking spaghetti i am a little bit tired to eat this check the water pretty watery a little bit but they put inside some lemon lemon that's what it is i couldn't figure out what i was smelling you're right it's very citrusy that's what i was smelling do you think it smells bad though i love the smell of lemon by itself in a tomato sauce come on it's sweet it's sweet it smells sweet and it tastes like lemon in a good way or a bad way if you want the tomato sauce and just like lemon there is something wrong whoa it's very sweet this seems to eat like tomato jam it does remind me of tomato jam yeah you could eat that on like a piece of toast so on the same in between the same number 10 to 1 this is like one plus just for the effort to the plus are you ready for the last one your final sacrifice i'm gonna stop and then that's it and then freedom just one more and then you're free to go although you do have to go now because you have to leave the room duh and it's finally time for now we have come to ava's very own recipe i might be in trouble i don't think this is gonna fool her [Music] the fifth the final pasta sauce of the day so this is the last one this is the last one and i think this is the brand that our viewers are most curious to know what you think of no water it smells like tomatoes smells like tomatoes and it smells like tomatoes it does smell pretty good but as we've learned you can't always judge these based on smell yes you're right because the first one is smells very bad but was the best in the other day there is basil there is basil there is basil peridot that's pretty good that's really good mamma mia where did you buy it oh you might be scared to find out where this came from what do you like about it it tastes as tomatoes it doesn't taste sweet it doesn't taste as all the other herbs it doesn't taste as garlic so good it's good it's good it's really good do you know why it's good no i don't know why it's good but it's good it's your recipe i made it this morning now i can understand now i can understand why i'm keeping i made it exactly the way you make it now i can understand it was too strange that this came out from a prepared jar i have this experience every time we do one of these like blind taste tests or something where we try a bunch of things i sort of gradually forget what the real thing tastes like and then when you go back to it it's like oh oh this is the taste of a tomato sauce yeah so do you want to know what you ate today i'm curious number four that was the lemony one was prego sensitive recipe i thought i would try it because it has no onions or garlic and i thought that that would be uh probably a welcome innovation i discovered that a tomato sauce can taste like lemon number three the one that out of uh all except your own i think i liked the most but you were not so hot on and you thought smelled like feet was uh this clasico spicy tomato and basil and they pointed them the molise melissa is a region in italy and come on friends from molisa i'm pretty sure that this is nothing that belongs to you so don't worry you are forgiven number two the one that you gave a big fat zero to was newman's own roasted garlic he makes this sauce yes it's like a it's a charity paul my friend i'm willing to make you a donation because it's a good cause that's okay but come on stay away from tomato sauce they also do frozen pizzas and lastly the first sauce we had the one that you liked the most you gave a resounding 5 to was also the one that i thought would be the worst than the one that you would hate the most it's a can of hunt's traditional pasta sauce come on they did a good job so for anyone who's maybe short on time or they're tired they don't want to go through the hassle of reducing their own tomato sauce at home would you recommend hunt's pasta sauce no i don't recommend any of this and also that because i can show you how to make a very good pasta and tomatoes but is it quick it's very quick is it cheap it's very cheap and is it yummy it's delicious that you can't believe it okay i'm in [Music] do [Music] okay definitely the best smells of the day i'm really excited for this one what is this called okay this is a name and the name is fasta los carpariello but actually it's pasta and cherry tomatoes it is so creamy i don't know if you can see that and it's it's like i don't really believe that that's all that's in it but i saw you make the whole thing just some cherry tomatoes some olive oil no drinks that is so good that is so unbelievably good that's like magic like there's nothing in this there's nothing in this pasta there are cherry tomatoes basil olive oil garlic you don't need nothing else to have a good pasta dish this is one of those dishes like the real fettuccine alfredo like a simple carbonara that just exemplifies italian cuisine so well because it is so simple but the product is just so much greater than the sum of its parts less is more it took less time than it did to cook the pasta to make this [Music] forgive the indulgence guys um today is actually our wedding anniversary so there's nothing like celebrating your marriage by uh trying to deviously trick your way for the blind taste test happy anniversary happy anniversary okay let's eat them well thanks for watching guys if you give this recipe a shot please let us know tag us on a picture on instagram pasta grammar if you haven't already please subscribe to the channel and hit the like button on the video we'll see you next time ciao

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Id: lOS8XSpC98c

Length: 23min 5sec (1385 seconds)

Published: Sun Sep 27 2020