OzB’s favourite canned tomatoes goes on special again. Time to stock up if you missed the last one.
Mutti Finely Chopped Tomatoes 400g $1 @ Woolworths (RRP $1.60)
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foxes28 on 07/12/2020 - 19:16 woolworths.com.au (888 clicks)
Last edited 08/12/2020 - 13:38 by 1 other user
Last edited 08/12/2020 - 13:38 by 1 other user
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I'll possibly ask a dumb question, but is there really any difference between stock standard chopped tomatoes and why? Super genuine question. Perhaps I've been doing it wrong this whole time and my dishes could be more flavoursome.
I was a skeptic and went out and tried it last post and the answer is yes mutti truly is in a league of its own
Ok, cheers, perhaps the Italians do it best. Will buy a few cans for my next dish :)
Sounds good. However, most of the time, brands just add sugar, 2x salt, some additive sh*t, to make more 'tasty'… Wonder if it's not the case here
The Coles/Woolies's one plus some Oregano, Basil, Thyme and Marjoram, Rosemary, Savory, Sage is the basic you need : )
@r3b00t: You will find that customers in the EU have much higher standards than we do, and would not purchase such products.
Compare the ingredients in Australian made Dolmio or Leggos to Barilla sauce.
You won't find corn starch and canola oil in the imported product
Mutti has a vastly better taste - as in it actually tastes of proper tomatoes, not the watery junk we call tomatoes in Australia.
Love the smell of Mutti in the morning.
I think you have your t's and n's mixed up
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I actually heard these are DEADLY and YOU SHOULD NOT BUY especially from my local supermarket. I repeat DO NOT BUY FROM MY LOCAL SUPER MARKET. /s
Your local could be anywhere so should we avoid all locations 👀
Look, it's best to be safe in these matters!
What do I do with the kitchen cupboard full 🤷🏼♂️
@Steptoe: Carefully pack them all and send it to me. I will dispose of them in a safe and tasty manner!
These canned tomatoes are too OP, pls nerf
Oh boy is it hot in here or is it just me
How's this opposed to having whole unpeeled tomatoes? Does the process of using a ricer make them taste better?
Kenji Lopez-Alt (of Serious Eats/Food Lab fame) reckons that for a good brand of canned tomatoes, they tend to use the ripest tomatoes for the canned crushed variety so they actually taste better. I'd say worth taking a stab at for Mutti.
Aight. Mutti it is.
Syd tomatoes are in season and can be had for $1, $1.50, $2.50/kg. That is, very ripe if you want fresh.
These are excellent. The Mutti whole peeled however are on a whole (peeled) other level.
Better would you say? Don't have so will have to resort to using the traditional hand job method for those
hand job
excuse me!?
Thanks. Gonna be a bigger batch of homemade tomato sauce. A few of these never hurt.
Sorry to be parochial but with all the cr@p our producers are facing with other countries imposing trade bans etc. for political reasons based on false dumping claims there is no way I'm buying tinned tomatoes shipped here from Italy as opposed to the Australian product, regardless of discount.
regardless of quality?
💯 - looking forward to some tasty lobster this Christmas, might get a descent price for once (but the poor buggers fishing it will be short this year).
Such a shame we have some of the best produce in the world but most of it is exported, mainly because it fetches higher premiums overseas.
Agree but at the same time there’s nothing wrong with supporting quality products from other countries imo . A world without Italian products is a bleak thought
Quite possible that tinned tomatoes labelled as from Italy are made with Chinese produce.
https://www.afr.com/companies/agriculture/spc-ardmona-runnin…
Thats something to consider. Especially if you like purchasing food from China. Personally myself, I would prefer to purchase Australian tinned tomatoes. They are available in all major supermarkets for $1 a tin all year round.
If what ever sauce you makes only tastes good with imported tomatoes, then I totally understand why some people might prefer the imported products. Personally when I am enjoying my home cooked pasta sauce (compared with friends that may have used Italian tomatoes to make theirs), I can't taste the difference due to country of origin of ONE ingredient….. so I am happy to only buy Australian at the same price year round.
If it makes you feel any better. The importer for Mutti in Australia is Sandhurst Fine Foods, an Australian owned family business.
Doesn't make me feel any better. I don't care who imports them. I care about who grows them, who cans them and exports them and under what circumstances.
Mutti is a huge company that was found by an international investigation to have its tinned tomatoes picked by workers in southern Italy under ‘conditions of absolute exploitation’:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/20/tomatoes-italy…
That leaves a bitter taste in my mouth no matter what the weekly special price is.
https://www.afr.com/companies/agriculture/spc-ardmona-runnin…
"Mr Rifai said it was telling that countries like Switzerland, with Nestle, and New Zealand, with Fonterra, had produced major global food processing companies, while Australia with its vast natural resources had nothing to compare."
Nestle…
What do you expect from people who would step over a dying person to save a dollar?
https://www.woolworths.com.au/shop/productdetails/230392/ard…
I
Accept mutti is
Better
Value and
Extremely higher in tomato contentGo Aussie grown and canned.
I understand but man, Mutti is so much better than these
Extreme is an understatement. The ones you linked are 63% tomatoes vs 99.8% tomatoes in the Mutti.
Have you tasted both to compare? They are not comparable products.
Last time these were on special I bought them in an online order to see what all the hype is about and they substituted them for another brand.
RIP in peace. This is why online ordering sucks.
They now allow you to refuse substitutions.
or when you pick up order just refund it
edit - oh he probably means home deliv
well i guess i know what im making for the rest of the week… Pasta con sugo!! grazie mille ciao xx
Awesome, what time should we be over?
AT HALF PASTA six!
Is this really better than Aldi's $1 organic tomatoes?
We go through a lot of tinned tomatoes and had previously always bought other brands. Tried Mutti a couple of years back and was surprised how the flavour is significantly better. They are nowhere near as bitter as local and more finely cut. Even adding a little sugar to local bought doesn't help, would love to buy local but the flavour is just too different for my liking.
Support Australia and buy Australian goods.
63% crushed tomatoes vs ~99% . No thx
Don't forget thickener 1422!
Australian produce is embarrassing sometimes. So much is picked raw, and stored long term in cool rooms.
Does slave labour in Italy mean anything to you?
https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/latest-news/italy-pr…
If Australian farmers produced tomatoes as good as this I’d happily buy them. But I’m not going to purchase an inferior product.
If only Australian farmers bothered producing decent produce.
If only Italian farmers bothered producing decent produce without allegations of slave labour.
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2017/oct/24/t…
Going to be a good pasta recipe this time
I’m not going to sleep now with all this excitement
Thanks OP. Only need 200g for dinner tomorrow night. Anybody interested in going halves?
Drink them as a chefs treat.
They freeze well.
Tried em based on the last review - I just don't know, I need a sauce off.
Thanks! These are so good I can eat them straight from the can.
what do with this?
Love them, cant eat the coles/woolworths brand ones anymore.