Ranking Every Jarred Pasta Sauce _ Ranked With Babish

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enjar pasta sauce a convenience of ever there was one slow roasted flavors available at the click of a cap but there's an entire freaking aisle dedicated to them in the grocery store there's so darn many so we got as many as we could possibly get our hands on and I'm going to try each and every one of them to tell you which one's worth your Saucy dollar I want to thank Squarespace for sponsoring this episode and supporting the BCU from the very beginning I'm excited to announce my new website b a.sh or as I like to call it baby. the ultimate destination for all things BCU there's all the recipes from my videos exclusive new recipes you can search by genre or ingredient you can even toggle between us and metric and scale the serving size we heard your feedback about everything you wanted from the site so that's what we did you can get 10% off your first Squarespace order by visiting squarespace.com babish all right preo about as classic a pasta sauce as ever there was let's see what we're dealing with here it's tastes like the tombstone packet from the Lunchables it it tastes very very very processed it's using all dried spices all extracts and all that stuff as far as Jarred pasta sauce goes this is what it tastes like in my mind and of course it's going to be extreme on its own so let's see what it's like on pasta yeah not helping it it does taste different in the pasta it does but that being said the pasta is not doing any favors it's still very sweet very process tasting I wouldn't say it's offensive but I wouldn't say it's like you know passable either so I think that puts it right at a four okay prgo tomato basil garlic which what this is nuts because this one's called tomato basil garlic right this is just traditional doesn't say anything about garlic yet on the back in the ingredients garlic is mentioned it twice dried garlic and garlic extract this one ner a g even to be found much less an arlic how why why doesn't this have let's try it h it tastes baselier but that's about it it's almost got a fresh basil vibe to it which I actually kind of like and that's crazy cuz it tastes processed on the P like the basil goes back to tasting fake on the pasta very are not getting at any points in my book that's another four prgo flavored with meat not only does it not say it has meat in it it's flavored with meat and it doesn't say which meat it just says meat yeah the ingredients go tomato puree tomatoes and tomato juice sugar beef so there's actual beef in this let's see if it tastes like meat it tastes like meat in a rather an unpleasant way and you know as as though they added beef bul on like it doesn't it doesn't taste like real beef even though apparently there's real beef in here is this a piece of beef are you beef I found the beef there it is folks there's the beef where's the beef it's right here and now I think I have to try it I mean it tastes like tomato sa it doesn't taste like beef it tastes like just tomato sauce H and I don't taste it at all on the bisetti M oh yeah the beef just turns into these little spongy bits that has got to be the lowest grade beef on planet Earth like God knows what these cows have gone through I think it's worse than the other ones actually so I'm going to bump this one down to a three quite offensive dislike down boat Prego which means come on in Italian what does it mean in Italian means you're welcome that's imagine selling a pasta sauce called your welcome your welcome after you don't mention it it means all those things so this has big unafraid chunks of sausage not trying to hide it in there not trying to be like this is meat and there's little shavings of it in there no there's sausage in this sauce and it tastes of Italian sausage it tastes exactly like the other sausage but which with Italian sausage in it which is unquestionably an improvement let's see going to be a lot of that today again it tastes different but I still don't like it so I can't get it a five Can it can it get a five I think I just just by the governing laws of the Universe I have to give it a five fine you caught me I need it this one's called chunky Garden combo they were not fing around when they called it chunky this is chunky there's pieces in here that might be bigger than your pieces of pasta the size of this zucchini and I love that I can see this is plainly a zucchini some some uh celery some C add it I can make fun of Italians all day cuz I I'm part Italian so I can just do accents and and say offensive things I do whatever I want here we go abish after dark Italians I'm going to eat this whole I don't really don't want to you ever just eat a bowl full of room temperature canned vegetables and tomato sauce no the sauce itself tastes exactly like the other Pao sauces of course but it has big mushy chunks of vegetables in it so that's something and yet it somehow tastes healthier which is unfair cuz I don't think it is I really didn't like that zucchini I really hated it so I I kind of want to give it a two it really bum me out oh Kendall's excited that I'm giving it a two so yeah I'm going to give it a two all right next up prgo again roasted garlic parmesan does it have roasted garlic in it dried roasted garlic dried onions concentrated parmesan cheese paste we we told that parmesan to buckle down and concentrate oh wow it tastes like they just dumped another Shaker of of of dried garlic in here that's that's all it tastes like I can't call that an improvement can I can I that was terrible I think it's I think it's a a step down from regular prgo so three three on this guy prgo cream vodka what do we got is there vodka in this the top three ingredients are tomato puree cream and vodka that's kind of dope actually step up I'd say from their normal pasta sauce it's not very good it still tastes like the other sauce but like they added some cream and some cheese to it so yes it's a little better try it on the pastors I'm going try it on the nudes taste the same on the pasta in this case five things are about to get crazy easy we've entered the wild world of alfredo sauce I've never tasted this on on its own just like most people so I'm very curious to see what it tastes like that's so bad okay on second taste it's not as bad this is one of those things that this is why I'm glad we're doing it on pasta cuz second taste wasn't as bad the first one was like what did I just put in my mouth tastes like cheese and cream not like good but like tastes like those things so maybe we should warm these up oh cold Gloppy alfredo sauce can't recommend it world the difference world the difference still not very good it tastes like you know Frozen fetuccini Alfredo you know like the banquet one not even the sters one you know the banquet one I'd rather eat a bowl of that than any of the other tomato sauces you haven't deled into decimals have you I'm not Delvin no delving this is ranking straight street style ranking you know the rules gentlemen no decimals no rules no it's a f I can't I can't in good conscience give it a six cuz that means it's just better than dead average which is it five it's a hard five Ru which means sauce in Italian which is a little lazy you know imagine if this just it's sauce would you buy it no wow hm is Ragu a lower class of sauce than Prego I don't think so Ragu is apparently less expensive than Prego and it kind of shows because in the sauce There is no garlic there is no basil there is no oregano even though this isn't offensive or disgusting I have to give it a three because it is a step down from prgo and it's just so psychotically boring what if it tastes really good on pasta I'm oh yeah duh if I were infirmed or like elderly or dying and I needed to get like food in me okay what death is part of life three hard three solid three bad three Ragu now flavored with meat again ooh and we're in oh never mind keep wanting to catch him with no meat in there I'm going try to find some beef for you I know that's why you tuned in you want to see you want to see the beef is that an onion I can't even tell what did I just put in my mouth what was that object IND discernible what that was I have no idea I mean there's like particles in here that could be beef but I don't see the tomato seeds are bigger I mean I okay there there I see it I see it found it see it do you see the beef it it has this very weird kind of machine learning flavor where's Fork here we go here we go here we here we go I I can taste the difference I can taste the addition of the beef in the sauce Alone um but on the pasta it just gets lost so same score three next up we got Ragu chunky smooth dumb get Chunky it's not that chunky chunky oh wait chunky six cheese I didn't look closely enough this is Ragu chunky six cheese I got I I've clocked six distinct all rather appropriate Italian cheeses unlike most frozen pizzas that throw cheddar and Gudda in there and stuff okay how is this it's not very good but lot more flavor happening there's definitely yeah I mean there's herbs in here so I got basil I got oreganum it does taste cheesy it does taste Herby all that to be said we've just reached Prego levels of pricness pre prosity pre pre pric I like that pric it's what am I saying it tastes like I I just took a jar of dried basil jar of dried oregano and added it to the last sauce maybe shake or parmesan put it in there it's a four this is a four Ragu chunky Mama's special garden sauce I know that it's in a different font these were meant to be on different planes of Consciousness when you're reading it but all I see is chunky Mama's special garden sauce but chunky mama is this your idea of a chunky mama what's so special about this chunky Mama's Garden sauce oh it's not bad it's less astringent and and and tart and harsh on my mouth uh this has a four times the added sugar four grams versus one gram in a serving there's a reason they call it chunky Mama special guard sauce and it's not because of mama uh just chunky you yes that is why there's more sugar in it so I like it more that's that's basic human nature we figured it out somehow slightly worse on getting I don't know how and what does that say bite your sauce it's worse on Spaghetti the processed flavor comes back it just but the texture is better than normal Ragu the flavor is better than normal Ragu so yeah it gets a four rego's roasted garlic and Parmesan sauce not called Alfredo and it's really not fair to taste it cold I I'll really give my score when it's hot but it's not terrible it does Taste of garlic it's pretty nondescript cold alfredo sauce I mean look at the look at the jigglin here this isn't an appetizing for for any one least of all me hot sauce well sort of it's pretty much the exact same as as the Pao one but with more garlic flavor instead of cheese flavor which Tit for Tat so same score what I give that what do I give the Pao five mhm four not the same score I don't like it as much I don't like it as much four this is beri Vineyard marinara why is it called Vineyard because there's freaking wine in it so doesn't sound terrible let's see what happens I want to put it in my mouth it actually tastes like wine it actually tastes like wine not really wine so much as like you ever been to a Vineyard that smell that's bizarre I'm a fan of putting red wine in marinara sauce this really tastes like I'm crushing grapes not with my feet but with a big coldhearted machine Mass producing what's again got to be the cheapest Mero on the planet I don't much care for it I'm going to give this guy a three not my favorite uh belli 5 cheese is this and it looks to be chunky sauce like Romano parmesan provolone aago ricotta oh5 damn it I thought I caught them being modest yeah here at babage pasta sauces we try not to brag about how many cheeses we we put in there so we say we put in five this's actually 17 it's our all starting to taste the same this tastes the same I know there there's there's five cheeses in there but um it it really just tastes like Shaker parmesan that's the only thing it tastes like so as well just have a jar of that in your fridge and just add that to your sauce save yourself some heartache four it's a four verto makes their sauces chunky and they chunk them good they're not holding back with chunks yeah there's a distinct fake something in there I don't know what it is everything else about it is fun other than the fact that I hate it I mean for that reason alone this is an easy two this is a two it's gross I don't like it something's weird that is distinctly better than the Alfredo offerings it really tastes like cheese specifically romano and parmesan cheese which is right where you want to live this tastes like frozen sters Alfredo it's very garlicky it tastes really like the cheese I'm going to give it a six we're into the luxury options folks Rous famous new yorkian brand that I think long time ago figured out hey let's jar this stuff and sell it uh what are we talking about price wise here difference no don't tell me yet don't tell me yet don't tell me don't tell me don't tell me don't tell me definitely a more real flavor like it tastes a little less processed um all right yeah I mean there's no preservatives in this there's no emulsifiers there's no Capa Carin in even though they got rid of all the junkie stuff like it's still just very very plain I'm going to give it a six way to go Rous what's the price on this 9.99 oh is it worth double the price for a slightly better flavor that feels just less processed that's up to you the consumer sensitive Mariner this has no garlic or onions in it um it does taste like the other one but pler so I'm just going off flavor here not its utility I got to knock it down to a five it's not as good as the other one but if you're sensitive I'm sensitive I take things way too personally I internalize everything bad ever said about me keep that in mind when you comment homemade four cheese which is parmesan pearo Romano Gran Padano which is almost the same as parmesan and Asiago is it cheesy is it four oh I don't care for that at all it's just like the sharpest flavors in Parmesan and Gran and Padano and Asiago these are very sharp cheeses and if you only took the sharpness and just put that in there that's what we're ending up with here yeah no God it's so tart I really truly don't like it so uh I think I have to give it a three I find it I find it offensive to eat I don't think I can eat a whole bowl of it we have Rouse arabiata which means AR it's just their tomato sauce with some some spice in it it's just hot enough it's just spicy enough where I just feel it it's very mildly it's a very mildly spicy version of their main sauce which I don't think it makes it any better it just augments it so another five now we're on to Rouse Bolan a b B sauce real bolog sauce is not primarily tomato based yet the first ingredient is whole peeled Tomatoes This is not what you'd call an authentic bologan sauce I taste the slightest Whisper of meat for even a breath of a minute of a moment of a bad of an eyelash and then it goes away and then all I taste is tomato sauce which makes me mte it actually tastes worse than the marinara so four next up Rouse vodka sauce the reddest vodka sauce you ever did see so gross it doesn't taste like vodka sauce at all it just tastes like a slightly cheesier tomato sauce it's not it's not doing anything for me that's not bad on its own why is it worse on the pasta what's happening how's that possible but that's how you eat pasta sauce I mean if you're just digging in with a spoon no judgment but you know get that checked out something something's wrong something's wrong it's making you drunk that's it Steve nailed it I'm oregano drunk you're VOD good drunk I'm bka drunk would get a six if it was creamy enough but five today all right now we have a little mom and pop setup 365 owned by Whole Foods owned by Amazon you could have told me that was a regano sauce I would believe you it only tastes like dried oregano it's an irresponsible amount of oregano you you know I'll say it deeply opposed to it don't care for that so I'm going to give it a two 365 Italian herb if that last one was an Italian herb then I if that last one was an Italian herb then um Hey look it's Italian herb hey what's up guys it's me Italian herb I'm curious to see what this does on pasta that tastes less like oregano than the normal marinara which is astounding but it's still not good this is going to be a three I want to eat without KN okay never tried to twirl spaghetti with my eyes closed before you have no idea your progress you don't know how much is on there you don't know how much more there is to go that tastes like tomato sauce maybe with cheese is this their four cheese not it can't be four cheese creamy vodka God in what universe is this creamy vodka sauce it's it's chunky as chunky Mama's special garden sauce it tastes nothing like vodka sauce it's not even a different color it's the same butt butt stuff yeah that but jar butts made with real organic cream my ass you could have fooled me that's my new catchphrase that's what I say now it is a barely passible tomato sa the cheese flavor like makes it a little less awful but it's a four you could have fooled me is there vodka organic vodka no less also there's fresh basil in this you could have fooled me it somehow naturally forms the same expression I don't know how you could have fool me why do my lower lip tremble when I do that it's like another little mom and pop startup Amazon Fresh I know it's their brand and all but uh this is not fresh this is Jarred say there is a there a Mis no gnarly there's a preservative taste to it that borders on on like pool chemicals I know I taste this way too often when we're doing these tasting ranking episodes I'm like it's like this bleachy sort of um shouldn't belong in food products kind of flavor and it's also very oregano e just like their their Whole Food's offering boy they those mother love oregano at Amazon one and 1 half servings of vegetables per half cup of sauce I won't even point out that tomatoes are fruits it it just tastes like the preservative heavy laden stuff it's tart it's astringent it's got that weird preservative flavor and and just because it's not like gag inducing I'm going to give it a two flavored with meat there is a grilled steak on the front of this jar of pasta sauce does it have meat contains less than 1% of salt beef so there's a there's as much beef in here as there is salt it's microscopic can I get it on my finger there it is folks that's what you pay the big bucks for you seeing that meat mhm do you see it no you don't hey Kendall how much does this cost .79 oh my God so this is cheaper than Ragu just so so processed I don't know what else to what other word to use but it's just I again I can't think of any other descriptors but the the packet of tomato sauce that came in Lunchables that you'd squeeze onto the wafer like tomato ice cream and that's what this tastes like precisely it hold on it doesn't have that pool cleaner pool cleaning stuff so I will bump it up to a three I might be wearing a different shirt tomorrow because we're going to take a break but I'll see you guys tomorrow right here right in babish time this babish time right you know where right here stupid okay day two the mind is refreshed the pallet is cleansed the body is willing let's get back into it Newman Zone Paul Newman one of the coolest guys in history now now his company is 100% employee owned and 100% of profits help kids what a legacy this is chalk full of vegetables it's Rife with with color and and texture let's see if the sauce is say good yeah it's very vegetable it tastes like vegetables got to try on pasta what am I doing with keep eating sauce with a spoon nobody's asking me to do it it doesn't taste different on past which is rare it doesn't read as just like Italian tomato sauce to me it read it reads like some kind of tomato oriented sauce it's got a deeper richer flavor than the other sauces it's not as bright and um and raw it's not bad but it's weird five Newman's Own what saroni according to the LA Times the recipe for the socer spaghetti sauce used to have been invented in 18 by Italian bear wrestlers bear wrestlers invented Sakari sauce I knew it Peppers spices and the whole shebang is what it says so it's just tomato sauce and it's got some peppers in it okay socket to me socker show me what you got little mama very red peppery which I like that's pretty good I think if you added some cream to this or some Parmesan or some cheese of some kind it would really bump it up to some Someplace Special that was weird I just caught a flavor of dirt could have left it on the vegetables they might have left some of the dirt on the vegetables this it's just kids making this stuff cut them and break these kids are dying and they're making new sauce and you're complaining 10 no uh sakoni I like it better than the other one but not enough to give it a seven I'm not crazy about it this is another six Lydia with a picture of a a woman presumably this is Lydia itd be weird if it wasn't and this is her marinar sauce I don't this I've never heard of this a famous chef famous chef Italian Italian as you might think you could have fooled me I love the texture of it it looks like high quality canned tomatoes like if you were getting like high quality crushed tomatoes M oh that's good oh I oh I like that what's it like on pasta though it it's watery very watery maybe that was a choice because she's a chef it very well may have been because it tastes undercooked it tastes like raw if you just cooked it a little bit which you need to do anyway if you're finishing the pasta And the sauce it's really great I I love it I do want to know the price 1109 it's the most expensive one God I suck God it's really good I'm sorry but it's really good I don't like that you have to cook it more if 10 is perfect in every way if nine is unbelievable with some forgivable even lovable flaws and this is really really good with a pronounced flaw I guess that gets in an eight love it Lydia dog you dirty dirty son of a okay next up perhaps the most interesting brand definitely one we've all seen but for the life of us we couldn't figure out what this is called we looked it up and it's called San San Amica sanica sanican oh hang on there's something like that's that's coming up from my my nent childhood memories that's in this sauce that's not good that's bad that's it that's it it tastes like Jarred garlic Jarred garlic has a sour note to it I do not know how to describe this but I don't like it for next up another very familiar brand for canned San Marano Tomatoes is this an American brand made in USA even though it's got a picture of an old Italian man tending to his tomato field well that could be an old California man I don't know tutor Roo I definitely use these to make sauce sometimes but only if I can't find the other stuff very oregano heavy dried herbs relatively thin it's got some texture to it actually has some pretty big hunks in it I like the texture on pasta it tastes like the most prototypical tomato sauce I've ever had in my life so that's a five next up hunts pasta sauce traditional it's very very smooth uh not too thin lots of herbs present it's got that really fake really fake flavor even though I don't think this anything fake in there tastes exactly the same on the pasta I think we're looking at a three I assume this is a very inexpensive one as well it's $5 what I know get get them out of here say premium though it says Prem okay never mind I didn't realize the packaging in said premium and I believe packaging implicitly especially when it's chunky Mama's special garden sauce hunts four cheese presumably the same sauce as last time but this time with four cheeses gnarly I mean it tastes like cheese but it tastes like cheese product you know what I mean oh it's worse it's worse so it gets a two hate it $5 off not you Tony the sauce thank you Tony should stay right here he shouldn't anywhere there well Trader Joe's dick in the courtroom and a freak in the kitchen Trader Joe's it is their marinara sauce I don't mind that it's got just enough of the processed flavor to make it feel kind of nostalgic but not enough where it's like bothersome or makes it feel fake or cheap on pasta it is very very plain um I don't mind it it's not great though it's one very tiny step above average so I think that means I have to give it a six $2 okay that's the thing this is $2 this is easily the best bang for your buck as Trader Joe's tends to be the only other $2 entrant we have is Amazon Fresh which was a nightmare in a bottle so this is a huge Improvement and a really good use of two bucks if you ask me oh I like that okay we have Trader Joe's calabrian chili spicy pasta sauce and I tasted it before I said it but that's good I would toss that in wings I would toss that in pasta I would toss that just in my hands I just toss it around that's real good it has just the right amount of heat where like I feel it but I'm not bothered by it I can still be on camera and talk in full sentences why don't I want to like it is it because it's Trader Joe's and I've been told not to like Trader Joe's well too bad cuz this stuff gets an eight okay next up we have Trader Joe's kach Pepe historically I gave my first 10 to uh their Frozen kach Pepe spaghetti so let's see if their Jarred sauce cuts the mustard nope oh I got to try it imp pasta I got to try it warm oh no no no no no nope it tastes old like it tastes like the the oil that they used to make it had turned it's got this almost crayon kind of vibe to it but the Pepper too taste stale Pepper's ground and been sitting around for years now and now we put it in the sauce and it's got the same crappy gloopy texture of all Jarred cream sauces that makes it a two I'd say this is Classico this was my go-to when I was a kid I just looked fancier even though it was the same price I think as prgo how much is this guy 469 wow ando's 43 yeah so this is 20 cents more than than prao that's pretty cool you're getting cooler packaging I don't know if I went over to your house and I saw that we were eating this I'd be like oh at least they sprung for Classico it's not bad it's not great uh I like the the uh consistency of it it's nice and relatively smooth with some big old honk and hun of tomator let's see what it tastes like on zap pasta slightly better than the prago stuff it tastes a little bit less process like there's less crap in it that being said it is quite boring little squeak above average another six on our hands Classico fire roasted tomato and garlic so this one has fire roasted tomatoes and I see little specks of black from the fire roasting process I rather like that almost the same flavor as the traditional Sweet Basil but it's got that if you've ever gotten canned fire roasted tomatoes it's got that quality to it I'd call that better than better than average which is what the first one was was better than average and this is better than that and it is a richer deeper sweeter flavor so it's going to get a seven Cabernet marinara we're back in Wine Country um looks like there's smaller no there's still still big old chunks of tomatoes in there let's see what the wine ends up doing for me same deal as the PRI it's this very Vineyard likee flavor that's not doing it for me as much that being said it's better I still think it's better than average um so I think it's still going to get a six Classico spicy red pepper historically I've really appreciated it when there's red pepper in tomato sauce so I'm probably going to like this it tastes pretty raw gone is the dried basil in the dried oregano and in its place are some more tomato and more red pepper forward it's a little spicy it is not spicy I realized halfway through saying that I was wrong this so little spice to that it's almost irreg isable is that a word no and it tastes too raw but it's still pretty good six a gain Classico steady spaghetti Classico Italian sausage with peppers and onions pork spices salt sugar garlic powder that's what's in sausage so I'm curious to see if this will taste like Italian sausage I'm also curious to see how big the crumbles are there's one a the Italian sausage the Italian sausage is very very small crumbles it does indeed taste like Italian sausage so you win this round Classico it's got less of that processed sauce flavor that is in the sort of mid to low tier sauces um I suspect it's the Italian sausage covering that up but also the tomatoes taste fresher and brighter but not in a raw way so I'm actually quite a fan of this and I'm going to bump it up to a seven solid sauce Classico for cheese any number of cheeses in these sauces has been disappointing to me as of yet let's see what happens it's the same bottled parmesan flavor but it's not so inyour face it's not like asserting dominance over me H but it's not good it doesn't taste good it just tastes like I shook a half a jar of C craft Shake parmesan on there and and and that's fine but it's also not very good so it's not fine is it I don't think this deserves any better than a four that's a four what is this mayonnaise roasted garlic Alfredo could have fool me we got a really gloopy Gloppy uh it bounces when I do you see that it bounces zanth and gum and corn starch that's all you need one of those is going to ruin the texture most l two of that is a travesty what does it taste why you use my finger okay let's see what it's like hot all over the shirt zero can I give a zero okay all right just come on I taste garlic but the rest of it is just a thick sauce it is just a thick substance the texture is reprehensible that's a one I hate it I hate hate the way it looks I hate looking at it I hate the way it plops hear that plop get the plop nothing redeemable about it one stick to tomatoes vodka sauce made with made with real ingredients what does that mean God these are real ingredients I've seen these ingredients before oddly tastes very distinctly vodka like I I taste more vodka in this than I do in like homemade vodka sauce like it tastes like vodka a little bit the richness of the cream and the cheese are not coming through and that vodka tastes too much like vodka vodka doesn't taste that much like vodka it's not as bad as some of these sauces have been but it's a three next up we have Carmines New York City's legendary family style Italian restaurant what am I doing why am I doing that drink out of the jar oh oh that's not bad that's pretty good it it tastes like a really typical red sauce that you would get at a good Italian restaurant I really like the texture you know a crushed tomato texture also there is oil floating on top there's fat floating on top as though a little bit of the olive oil is separated but that usually happens with homemade sauce pretty roundly impressed did I eat the spaghet yeah I ate the spaghet did you yeah yeah I I I that yeah yeah yeah no I remember that mouth it's not exploding my mind so I can't give it a 10 but I'm going to give it a nine I really like it oh yeah what's the price damn it I'm sorry I'm sorry I like the expensive thing sometimes is expensive because of the process by which it's made and the ingredients that they're using if they're using real ingredients or imaginary ones is a Jarred pasta sauce it is a nine it is one of the better expressions of Jarred precooked no you know fuss and with it needed tomato sauce buddy which is Italian for something probably Berea known for their smooth and shiny pastas that are available for a little bit more than run Zone that's what they do after that Carmines that it's very very process tasting um the dried oregano they go crazy with the dried oregano in these parts it's oregano sauce the tomatoes taste really bad um just just not as bad as I'm saying it's just not very good it's a three for the first time we are now saddled with the question marinara versus traditional I don't know I don't know what the difference is I don't know what that means and if they don't know what it means on Reddit no one knows that tastes the same hang on can I get it okay it's slightly thicker it would seem let me let me level it out and see if just a visual difference okay it's thicker the traditionalist the tra the Trad sauce is thicker right am right fellas it's a little thinner than the Trad sauce and and it tastes exactly the same so it gets the same score three ladies and gentlemen it is time to Bone down cuz we got the big bone in the house the car bone this is a legendary New York City restaurant where the waiters are mean to you and it's very expensive damn it it's good damn it how much is this $50 13 oh my image let me try it on the SP maybe the spaghetti ruins it damn it I really wanted to not like this yeah it's bright and fresh but it's not too acidic the herbs are there but they're not cloying why not a 10 because you don't want to embarrass yourself on the internet everybody's going to say you're an elitist Coastal intelligencia that's what they'll all say but also prgo must be doing some dirty right preo's got to be lobbying Congress for to like let children pick tomatoes or something they're doing something I don't trust them where's Carise can I get carmise that's better it's a ton it's perfect it's a perfect Italian red tomato sauce it's perfect damn it hate myself bones back with roasted garlic this time ooh okay uh-oh I swear I'm not trying to save face I don't care for that at all the garlic again tastes like fake it tastes like plastic garlic of like you got a you know a plastic decorative clove of head of garlic from TJ Maxx and you put it in a bowl with some fake fruit and then you crushed it and put it in here it's pretending to be garlic it's an impostor impostor I I dislike it I dislike eating it so that I mean their plain sauce is so good and I really just don't like the garlic flavor that they into this bottle it it's not as as gross as I'm like making it out to be but it's not good so four it is a four Carbone Arabia spicy tomato sauce let's see what's happening not very spicy do you heat this up at all okay it's cold oh is off did you really just put pasta and sauce in a pan move it around no no every now and again it says are you still here and it turns off I have a question for you are you currently sleepwalking right now I got to stop feeding my my employees three martinis at lunch this would have never happened if we had just used cocaine okay I forgot entirely like how I feel about this sauce let's start from scratch it's a good thing it's brighter and tinnier than the other sauces tastes tinny it's barely spicy it's a I feel it but just just just just so I think that's a six last one Carbone mushroom and we skipped all the other mushroom ones because I think it's disgusting mushrooms in a sauce it's just been mushrooms been soaking so the these soggy chewy things that you're not even going to taste and so asinine doesn't taste like mushroom and it's a terrible texture why would you want this it tastes very similar to their arabiata without the spice it's tinny but it's still quite good but has these dumb mushrooms in it they're not bringing any flavor to the party they're dumb they're ugly they're stupid and I hate them it's purely my personal preference driving this score but that knocks a 10 down to a five all right folks here's our top three AKA our top four because we have a tie for third place between Lydia's and Trader Joe's spicy collab and this this is a truly like outf field sauce I would just ass soon put this on chicken wings it's really really tasty I don't even know if I like it on pasta but as a food product it tastes good um then we have the three most expensive sauces on planet Earth what we're seeing here is that you tend to get what you pay for when it comes to very very simple foods like this that rely on fresh ingredients fresh herbs not fewer preservatives another thing we learned is stay away from four cheeses something about four cheese when they get together bad things happen I always finish my red sauce whether it's Jarred or homemade with butter always because it lightens the color makes it rich and cramy and it cuts through the acidic notes that's the story of Life add fat feel happy get unhealthy die it's awesome thanks again to Squarespace for sponsoring today's episode from websites to online stores to domains to analytics Squarespace is the all-in-one platform for you to build your online presence all of my websites over the years have been with Squarespace and I'm excited to share the new one Babi Dosh we were able to use squarespace's website builder and custom Integrations to create a 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the site so that's what we did you can get 10% off your first Squarespace order by visiting squarespace.com babish all right preo about as classic a pasta sauce as ever there was let's see what we're dealing with here it's tastes like the tombstone packet from the Lunchables it it tastes very very very processed it's using all dried spices all extracts and all that stuff as far as Jarred pasta sauce goes this is what it tastes like in my mind and of course it's going to be extreme on its own so let's see what it's like on pasta yeah not helping it it does taste different in the pasta it does but that being said the pasta is not doing any favors it's still very sweet very process tasting I wouldn't say it's offensive but I wouldn't say it's like you know passable either so I think that puts it right at a four okay prgo tomato basil garlic which what this is nuts because this one's called tomato basil garlic right this is just traditional doesn't say anything about garlic yet on the back in the ingredients garlic is mentioned it twice dried garlic and garlic extract this one ner a g even to be found much less an arlic how why why doesn't this have let's try it h it tastes baselier but that's about it it's almost got a fresh basil vibe to it which I actually kind of like and that's crazy cuz it tastes processed on the P like the basil goes back to tasting fake on the pasta very are not getting at any points in my book that's another four prgo flavored with meat not only does it not say it has meat in it it's flavored with meat and it doesn't say which meat it just says meat yeah the ingredients go tomato puree tomatoes and tomato juice sugar beef so there's actual beef in this let's see if it tastes like meat it tastes like meat in a rather an unpleasant way and you know as as though they added beef bul on like it doesn't it doesn't taste like real beef even though apparently there's real beef in here is this a piece of beef are you beef I found the beef there it is folks there's the beef where's the beef it's right here and now I think I have to try it I mean it tastes like tomato sa it doesn't taste like beef it tastes like just tomato sauce H and I don't taste it at all on the bisetti M oh yeah the beef just turns into these little spongy bits that has got to be the lowest grade beef on planet Earth like God knows what these cows have gone through I think it's worse than the other ones actually so I'm going to bump this one down to a three quite offensive dislike down boat Prego which means come on in Italian what does it mean in Italian means you're welcome that's imagine selling a pasta sauce called your welcome your welcome after you don't mention it it means all those things so this has big unafraid chunks of sausage not trying to hide it in there not trying to be like this is meat and there's little shavings of it in there no there's sausage in this sauce and it tastes of Italian sausage it tastes exactly like the other sausage but which with Italian sausage in it which is unquestionably an improvement let's see going to be a lot of that today again it tastes different but I still don't like it so I can't get it a five Can it can it get a five I think I just just by the governing laws of the Universe I have to give it a five fine you caught me I need it this one's called chunky Garden combo they were not fing around when they called it chunky this is chunky there's pieces in here that might be bigger than your pieces of pasta the size of this zucchini and I love that I can see this is plainly a zucchini some some uh celery some C add it I can make fun of Italians all day cuz I I'm part Italian so I can just do accents and and say offensive things I do whatever I want here we go abish after dark Italians I'm going to eat this whole I don't really don't want to you ever just eat a bowl full of room temperature canned vegetables and tomato sauce no the sauce itself tastes exactly like the other Pao sauces of course but it has big mushy chunks of vegetables in it so that's something and yet it somehow tastes healthier which is unfair cuz I don't think it is I really didn't like that zucchini I really hated it so I I kind of want to give it a two it really bum me out oh Kendall's excited that I'm giving it a two so yeah I'm going to give it a two all right next up prgo again roasted garlic parmesan does it have roasted garlic in it dried roasted garlic dried onions concentrated parmesan cheese paste we we told that parmesan to buckle down and concentrate oh wow it tastes like they just dumped another Shaker of of of dried garlic in here that's that's all it tastes like I can't call that an improvement can I can I that was terrible I think it's I think it's a a step down from regular prgo so three three on this guy prgo cream vodka what do we got is there vodka in this the top three ingredients are tomato puree cream and vodka that's kind of dope actually step up I'd say from their normal pasta sauce it's not very good it still tastes like the other sauce but like they added some cream and some cheese to it so yes it's a little better try it on the pastors I'm going try it on the nudes taste the same on the pasta in this case five things are about to get crazy easy we've entered the wild world of alfredo sauce I've never tasted this on on its own just like most people so I'm very curious to see what it tastes like that's so bad okay on second taste it's not as bad this is one of those things that this is why I'm glad we're doing it on pasta cuz second taste wasn't as bad the first one was like what did I just put in my mouth tastes like cheese and cream not like good but like tastes like those things so maybe we should warm these up oh cold Gloppy alfredo sauce can't recommend it world the difference world the difference still not very good it tastes like you know Frozen fetuccini Alfredo you know like the banquet one not even the sters one you know the banquet one I'd rather eat a bowl of that than any of the other tomato sauces you haven't deled into decimals have you I'm not Delvin no delving this is ranking straight street style ranking you know the rules gentlemen no decimals no rules no it's a f I can't I can't in good conscience give it a six cuz that means it's just better than dead average which is it five it's a hard five Ru which means sauce in Italian which is a little lazy you know imagine if this just it's sauce would you buy it no wow hm is Ragu a lower class of sauce than Prego I don't think so Ragu is apparently less expensive than Prego and it kind of shows because in the sauce There is no garlic there is no basil there is no oregano even though this isn't offensive or disgusting I have to give it a three because it is a step down from prgo and it's just so psychotically boring what if it tastes really good on pasta I'm oh yeah duh if I were infirmed or like elderly or dying and I needed to get like food in me okay what death is part of life three hard three solid three bad three Ragu now flavored with meat again ooh and we're in oh never mind keep wanting to catch him with no meat in there I'm going try to find some beef for you I know that's why you tuned in you want to see you want to see the beef is that an onion I can't even tell what did I just put in my mouth what was that object IND discernible what that was I have no idea I mean there's like particles in here that could be beef but I don't see the tomato seeds are bigger I mean I okay there there I see it I see it found it see it do you see the beef it it has this very weird kind of machine learning flavor where's Fork here we go here we go here we here we go I I can taste the difference I can taste the addition of the beef in the sauce Alone um but on the pasta it just gets lost so same score three next up we got Ragu chunky smooth dumb get Chunky it's not that chunky chunky oh wait chunky six cheese I didn't look closely enough this is Ragu chunky six cheese I got I I've clocked six distinct all rather appropriate Italian cheeses unlike most frozen pizzas that throw cheddar and Gudda in there and stuff okay how is this it's not very good but lot more flavor happening there's definitely yeah I mean there's herbs in here so I got basil I got oreganum it does taste cheesy it does taste Herby all that to be said we've just reached Prego levels of pricness pre prosity pre pre pric I like that pric it's what am I saying it tastes like I I just took a jar of dried basil jar of dried oregano and added it to the last sauce maybe shake or parmesan put it in there it's a four this is a four Ragu chunky Mama's special garden sauce I know that it's in a different font these were meant to be on different planes of Consciousness when you're reading it but all I see is chunky Mama's special garden sauce but chunky mama is this your idea of a chunky mama what's so special about this chunky Mama's Garden sauce oh it's not bad it's less astringent and and and tart and harsh on my mouth uh this has a four times the added sugar four grams versus one gram in a serving there's a reason they call it chunky Mama special guard sauce and it's not because of mama uh just chunky you yes that is why there's more sugar in it so I like it more that's that's basic human nature we figured it out somehow slightly worse on getting I don't know how and what does that say bite your sauce it's worse on Spaghetti the processed flavor comes back it just but the texture is better than normal Ragu the flavor is better than normal Ragu so yeah it gets a four rego's roasted garlic and Parmesan sauce not called Alfredo and it's really not fair to taste it cold I I'll really give my score when it's hot but it's not terrible it does Taste of garlic it's pretty nondescript cold alfredo sauce I mean look at the look at the jigglin here this isn't an appetizing for for any one least of all me hot sauce well sort of it's pretty much the exact same as as the Pao one but with more garlic flavor instead of cheese flavor which Tit for Tat so same score what I give that what do I give the Pao five mhm four not the same score I don't like it as much I don't like it as much four this is beri Vineyard marinara why is it called Vineyard because there's freaking wine in it so doesn't sound terrible let's see what happens I want to put it in my mouth it actually tastes like wine it actually tastes like wine not really wine so much as like you ever been to a Vineyard that smell that's bizarre I'm a fan of putting red wine in marinara sauce this really tastes like I'm crushing grapes not with my feet but with a big coldhearted machine Mass producing what's again got to be the cheapest Mero on the planet I don't much care for it I'm going to give this guy a three not my favorite uh belli 5 cheese is this and it looks to be chunky sauce like Romano parmesan provolone aago ricotta oh5 damn it I thought I caught them being modest yeah here at babage pasta sauces we try not to brag about how many cheeses we we put in there so we say we put in five this's actually 17 it's our all starting to taste the same this tastes the same I know there there's there's five cheeses in there but um it it really just tastes like Shaker parmesan that's the only thing it tastes like so as well just have a jar of that in your fridge and just add that to your sauce save yourself some heartache four it's a four verto makes their sauces chunky and they chunk them good they're not holding back with chunks yeah there's a distinct fake something in there I don't know what it is everything else about it is fun other than the fact that I hate it I mean for that reason alone this is an easy two this is a two it's gross I don't like it something's weird that is distinctly better than the Alfredo offerings it really tastes like cheese specifically romano and parmesan cheese which is right where you want to live this tastes like frozen sters Alfredo it's very garlicky it tastes really like the cheese I'm going to give it a six we're into the luxury options folks Rous famous new yorkian brand that I think long time ago figured out hey let's jar this stuff and sell it uh what are we talking about price wise here difference no don't tell me yet don't tell me yet don't tell me don't tell me don't tell me don't tell me definitely a more real flavor like it tastes a little less processed um all right yeah I mean there's no preservatives in this there's no emulsifiers there's no Capa Carin in even though they got rid of all the junkie stuff like it's still just very very plain I'm going to give it a six way to go Rous what's the price on this 9.99 oh is it worth double the price for a slightly better flavor that feels just less processed that's up to you the consumer sensitive Mariner this has no garlic or onions in it um it does taste like the other one but pler so I'm just going off flavor here not its utility I got to knock it down to a five it's not as good as the other one but if you're sensitive I'm sensitive I take things way too personally I internalize everything bad ever said about me keep that in mind when you comment homemade four cheese which is parmesan pearo Romano Gran Padano which is almost the same as parmesan and Asiago is it cheesy is it four oh I don't care for that at all it's just like the sharpest flavors in Parmesan and Gran and Padano and Asiago these are very sharp cheeses and if you only took the sharpness and just put that in there that's what we're ending up with here yeah no God it's so tart I really truly don't like it so uh I think I have to give it a three I find it I find it offensive to eat I don't think I can eat a whole bowl of it we have Rouse arabiata which means AR it's just their tomato sauce with some some spice in it it's just hot enough it's just spicy enough where I just feel it it's very mildly it's a very mildly spicy version of their main sauce which I don't think it makes it any better it just augments it so another five now we're on to Rouse Bolan a b B sauce real bolog sauce is not primarily tomato based yet the first ingredient is whole peeled Tomatoes This is not what you'd call an authentic bologan sauce I taste the slightest Whisper of meat for even a breath of a minute of a moment of a bad of an eyelash and then it goes away and then all I taste is tomato sauce which makes me mte it actually tastes worse than the marinara so four next up Rouse vodka sauce the reddest vodka sauce you ever did see so gross it doesn't taste like vodka sauce at all it just tastes like a slightly cheesier tomato sauce it's not it's not doing anything for me that's not bad on its own why is it worse on the pasta what's happening how's that possible but that's how you eat pasta sauce I mean if you're just digging in with a spoon no judgment but you know get that checked out something something's wrong something's wrong it's making you drunk that's it Steve nailed it I'm oregano drunk you're VOD good drunk I'm bka drunk would get a six if it was creamy enough but five today all right now we have a little mom and pop setup 365 owned by Whole Foods owned by Amazon you could have told me that was a regano sauce I would believe you it only tastes like dried oregano it's an irresponsible amount of oregano you you know I'll say it deeply opposed to it don't care for that so I'm going to give it a two 365 Italian herb if that last one was an Italian herb then I if that last one was an Italian herb then um Hey look it's Italian herb hey what's up guys it's me Italian herb I'm curious to see what this does on pasta that tastes less like oregano than the normal marinara which is astounding but it's still not good this is going to be a three I want to eat without KN okay never tried to twirl spaghetti with my eyes closed before you have no idea your progress you don't know how much is on there you don't know how much more there is to go that tastes like tomato sauce maybe with cheese is this their four cheese not it can't be four cheese creamy vodka God in what universe is this creamy vodka sauce it's it's chunky as chunky Mama's special garden sauce it tastes nothing like vodka sauce it's not even a different color it's the same butt butt stuff yeah that but jar butts made with real organic cream my ass you could have fooled me that's my new catchphrase that's what I say now it is a barely passible tomato sa the cheese flavor like makes it a little less awful but it's a four you could have fooled me is there vodka organic vodka no less also there's fresh basil in this you could have fooled me it somehow naturally forms the same expression I don't know how you could have fool me why do my lower lip tremble when I do that it's like another little mom and pop startup Amazon Fresh I know it's their brand and all but uh this is not fresh this is Jarred say there is a there a Mis no gnarly there's a preservative taste to it that borders on on like pool chemicals I know I taste this way too often when we're doing these tasting ranking episodes I'm like it's like this bleachy sort of um shouldn't belong in food products kind of flavor and it's also very oregano e just like their their Whole Food's offering boy they those mother love oregano at Amazon one and 1 half servings of vegetables per half cup of sauce I won't even point out that tomatoes are fruits it it just tastes like the preservative heavy laden stuff it's tart it's astringent it's got that weird preservative flavor and and just because it's not like gag inducing I'm going to give it a two flavored with meat there is a grilled steak on the front of this jar of pasta sauce does it have meat contains less than 1% of salt beef so there's a there's as much beef in here as there is salt it's microscopic can I get it on my finger there it is folks that's what you pay the big bucks for you seeing that meat mhm do you see it no you don't hey Kendall how much does this cost .79 oh my God so this is cheaper than Ragu just so so processed I don't know what else to what other word to use but it's just I again I can't think of any other descriptors but the the packet of tomato sauce that came in Lunchables that you'd squeeze onto the wafer like tomato ice cream and that's what this tastes like precisely it hold on it doesn't have that pool cleaner pool cleaning stuff so I will bump it up to a three I might be wearing a different shirt tomorrow because we're going to take a break but I'll see you guys tomorrow right here right in babish time this babish time right you know where right here stupid okay day two the mind is refreshed the pallet is cleansed the body is willing let's get back into it Newman Zone Paul Newman one of the coolest guys in history now now his company is 100% employee owned and 100% of profits help kids what a legacy this is chalk full of vegetables it's Rife with with color and and texture let's see if the sauce is say good yeah it's very vegetable it tastes like vegetables got to try on pasta what am I doing with keep eating sauce with a spoon nobody's asking me to do it it doesn't taste different on past which is rare it doesn't read as just like Italian tomato sauce to me it read it reads like some kind of tomato oriented sauce it's got a deeper richer flavor than the other sauces it's not as bright and um and raw it's not bad but it's weird five Newman's Own what saroni according to the LA Times the recipe for the socer spaghetti sauce used to have been invented in 18 by Italian bear wrestlers bear wrestlers invented Sakari sauce I knew it Peppers spices and the whole shebang is what it says so it's just tomato sauce and it's got some peppers in it okay socket to me socker show me what you got little mama very red peppery which I like that's pretty good I think if you added some cream to this or some Parmesan or some cheese of some kind it would really bump it up to some Someplace Special that was weird I just caught a flavor of dirt could have left it on the vegetables they might have left some of the dirt on the vegetables this it's just kids making this stuff cut them and break these kids are dying and they're making new sauce and you're complaining 10 no uh sakoni I like it better than the other one but not enough to give it a seven I'm not crazy about it this is another six Lydia with a picture of a a woman presumably this is Lydia itd be weird if it wasn't and this is her marinar sauce I don't this I've never heard of this a famous chef famous chef Italian Italian as you might think you could have fooled me I love the texture of it it looks like high quality canned tomatoes like if you were getting like high quality crushed tomatoes M oh that's good oh I oh I like that what's it like on pasta though it it's watery very watery maybe that was a choice because she's a chef it very well may have been because it tastes undercooked it tastes like raw if you just cooked it a little bit which you need to do anyway if you're finishing the pasta And the sauce it's really great I I love it I do want to know the price 1109 it's the most expensive one God I suck God it's really good I'm sorry but it's really good I don't like that you have to cook it more if 10 is perfect in every way if nine is unbelievable with some forgivable even lovable flaws and this is really really good with a pronounced flaw I guess that gets in an eight love it Lydia dog you dirty dirty son of a okay next up perhaps the most interesting brand definitely one we've all seen but for the life of us we couldn't figure out what this is called we looked it up and it's called San San Amica sanica sanican oh hang on there's something like that's that's coming up from my my nent childhood memories that's in this sauce that's not good that's bad that's it that's it it tastes like Jarred garlic Jarred garlic has a sour note to it I do not know how to describe this but I don't like it for next up another very familiar brand for canned San Marano Tomatoes is this an American brand made in USA even though it's got a picture of an old Italian man tending to his tomato field well that could be an old California man I don't know tutor Roo I definitely use these to make sauce sometimes but only if I can't find the other stuff very oregano heavy dried herbs relatively thin it's got some texture to it actually has some pretty big hunks in it I like the texture on pasta it tastes like the most prototypical tomato sauce I've ever had in my life so that's a five next up hunts pasta sauce traditional it's very very smooth uh not too thin lots of herbs present it's got that really fake really fake flavor even though I don't think this anything fake in there tastes exactly the same on the pasta I think we're looking at a three I assume this is a very inexpensive one as well it's $5 what I know get get them out of here say premium though it says Prem okay never mind I didn't realize the packaging in said premium and I believe packaging implicitly especially when it's chunky Mama's special garden sauce hunts four cheese presumably the same sauce as last time but this time with four cheeses gnarly I mean it tastes like cheese but it tastes like cheese product you know what I mean oh it's worse it's worse so it gets a two hate it $5 off not you Tony the sauce thank you Tony should stay right here he shouldn't anywhere there well Trader Joe's dick in the courtroom and a freak in the kitchen Trader Joe's it is their marinara sauce I don't mind that it's got just enough of the processed flavor to make it feel kind of nostalgic but not enough where it's like bothersome or makes it feel fake or cheap on pasta it is very very plain um I don't mind it it's not great though it's one very tiny step above average so I think that means I have to give it a six $2 okay that's the thing this is $2 this is easily the best bang for your buck as Trader Joe's tends to be the only other $2 entrant we have is Amazon Fresh which was a nightmare in a bottle so this is a huge Improvement and a really good use of two bucks if you ask me oh I like that okay we have Trader Joe's calabrian chili spicy pasta sauce and I tasted it before I said it but that's good I would toss that in wings I would toss that in pasta I would toss that just in my hands I just toss it around that's real good it has just the right amount of heat where like I feel it but I'm not bothered by it I can still be on camera and talk in full sentences why don't I want to like it is it because it's Trader Joe's and I've been told not to like Trader Joe's well too bad cuz this stuff gets an eight okay next up we have Trader Joe's kach Pepe historically I gave my first 10 to uh their Frozen kach Pepe spaghetti so let's see if their Jarred sauce cuts the mustard nope oh I got to try it imp pasta I got to try it warm oh no no no no no nope it tastes old like it tastes like the the oil that they used to make it had turned it's got this almost crayon kind of vibe to it but the Pepper too taste stale Pepper's ground and been sitting around for years now and now we put it in the sauce and it's got the same crappy gloopy texture of all Jarred cream sauces that makes it a two I'd say this is Classico this was my go-to when I was a kid I just looked fancier even though it was the same price I think as prgo how much is this guy 469 wow ando's 43 yeah so this is 20 cents more than than prao that's pretty cool you're getting cooler packaging I don't know if I went over to your house and I saw that we were eating this I'd be like oh at least they sprung for Classico it's not bad it's not great uh I like the the uh consistency of it it's nice and relatively smooth with some big old honk and hun of tomator let's see what it tastes like on zap pasta slightly better than the prago stuff it tastes a little bit less process like there's less crap in it that being said it is quite boring little squeak above average another six on our hands Classico fire roasted tomato and garlic so this one has fire roasted tomatoes and I see little specks of black from the fire roasting process I rather like that almost the same flavor as the traditional Sweet Basil but it's got that if you've ever gotten canned fire roasted tomatoes it's got that quality to it I'd call that better than better than average which is what the first one was was better than average and this is better than that and it is a richer deeper sweeter flavor so it's going to get a seven Cabernet marinara we're back in Wine Country um looks like there's smaller no there's still still big old chunks of tomatoes in there let's see what the wine ends up doing for me same deal as the PRI it's this very Vineyard likee flavor that's not doing it for me as much that being said it's better I still think it's better than average um so I think it's still going to get a six Classico spicy red pepper historically I've really appreciated it when there's red pepper in tomato sauce so I'm probably going to like this it tastes pretty raw gone is the dried basil in the dried oregano and in its place are some more tomato and more red pepper forward it's a little spicy it is not spicy I realized halfway through saying that I was wrong this so little spice to that it's almost irreg isable is that a word no and it tastes too raw but it's still pretty good six a gain Classico steady spaghetti Classico Italian sausage with peppers and onions pork spices salt sugar garlic powder that's what's in sausage so I'm curious to see if this will taste like Italian sausage I'm also curious to see how big the crumbles are there's one a the Italian sausage the Italian sausage is very very small crumbles it does indeed taste like Italian sausage so you win this round Classico it's got less of that processed sauce flavor that is in the sort of mid to low tier sauces um I suspect it's the Italian sausage covering that up but also the tomatoes taste fresher and brighter but not in a raw way so I'm actually quite a fan of this and I'm going to bump it up to a seven solid sauce Classico for cheese any number of cheeses in these sauces has been disappointing to me as of yet let's see what happens it's the same bottled parmesan flavor but it's not so inyour face it's not like asserting dominance over me H but it's not good it doesn't taste good it just tastes like I shook a half a jar of C craft Shake parmesan on there and and and that's fine but it's also not very good so it's not fine is it I don't think this deserves any better than a four that's a four what is this mayonnaise roasted garlic Alfredo could have fool me we got a really gloopy Gloppy uh it bounces when I do you see that it bounces zanth and gum and corn starch that's all you need one of those is going to ruin the texture most l two of that is a travesty what does it taste why you use my finger okay let's see what it's like hot all over the shirt zero can I give a zero okay all right just come on I taste garlic but the rest of it is just a thick sauce it is just a thick substance the texture is reprehensible that's a one I hate it I hate hate the way it looks I hate looking at it I hate the way it plops hear that plop get the plop nothing redeemable about it one stick to tomatoes vodka sauce made with made with real ingredients what does that mean God these are real ingredients I've seen these ingredients before oddly tastes very distinctly vodka like I I taste more vodka in this than I do in like homemade vodka sauce like it tastes like vodka a little bit the richness of the cream and the cheese are not coming through and that vodka tastes too much like vodka vodka doesn't taste that much like vodka it's not as bad as some of these sauces have been but it's a three next up we have Carmines New York City's legendary family style Italian restaurant what am I doing why am I doing that drink out of the jar oh oh that's not bad that's pretty good it it tastes like a really typical red sauce that you would get at a good Italian restaurant I really like the texture you know a crushed tomato texture also there is oil floating on top there's fat floating on top as though a little bit of the olive oil is separated but that usually happens with homemade sauce pretty roundly impressed did I eat the spaghet yeah I ate the spaghet did you yeah yeah I I I that yeah yeah yeah no I remember that mouth it's not exploding my mind so I can't give it a 10 but I'm going to give it a nine I really like it oh yeah what's the price damn it I'm sorry I'm sorry I like the expensive thing sometimes is expensive because of the process by which it's made and the ingredients that they're using if they're using real ingredients or imaginary ones is a Jarred pasta sauce it is a nine it is one of the better expressions of Jarred precooked no you know fuss and with it needed tomato sauce buddy which is Italian for something probably Berea known for their smooth and shiny pastas that are available for a little bit more than run Zone that's what they do after that Carmines that it's very very process tasting um the dried oregano they go crazy with the dried oregano in these parts it's oregano sauce the tomatoes taste really bad um just just not as bad as I'm saying it's just not very good it's a three for the first time we are now saddled with the question marinara versus traditional I don't know I don't know what the difference is I don't know what that means and if they don't know what it means on Reddit no one knows that tastes the same hang on can I get it okay it's slightly thicker it would seem let me let me level it out and see if just a visual difference okay it's thicker the traditionalist the tra the Trad sauce is thicker right am right fellas it's a little thinner than the Trad sauce and and it tastes exactly the same so it gets the same score three ladies and gentlemen it is time to Bone down cuz we got the big bone in the house the car bone this is a legendary New York City restaurant where the waiters are mean to you and it's very expensive damn it it's good damn it how much is this $50 13 oh my image let me try it on the SP maybe the spaghetti ruins it damn it I really wanted to not like this yeah it's bright and fresh but it's not too acidic the herbs are there but they're not cloying why not a 10 because you don't want to embarrass yourself on the internet everybody's going to say you're an elitist Coastal intelligencia that's what they'll all say but also prgo must be doing some dirty right preo's got to be lobbying Congress for to like let children pick tomatoes or something they're doing something I don't trust them where's Carise can I get carmise that's better it's a ton it's perfect it's a perfect Italian red tomato sauce it's perfect damn it hate myself bones back with roasted garlic this time ooh okay uh-oh I swear I'm not trying to save face I don't care for that at all the garlic again tastes like fake it tastes like plastic garlic of like you got a you know a plastic decorative clove of head of garlic from TJ Maxx and you put it in a bowl with some fake fruit and then you crushed it and put it in here it's pretending to be garlic it's an impostor impostor I I dislike it I dislike eating it so that I mean their plain sauce is so good and I really just don't like the garlic flavor that they into this bottle it it's not as as gross as I'm like making it out to be but it's not good so four it is a four Carbone Arabia spicy tomato sauce let's see what's happening not very spicy do you heat this up at all okay it's cold oh is off did you really just put pasta and sauce in a pan move it around no no every now and again it says are you still here and it turns off I have a question for you are you currently sleepwalking right now I got to stop feeding my my employees three martinis at lunch this would have never happened if we had just used cocaine okay I forgot entirely like how I feel about this sauce let's start from scratch it's a good thing it's brighter and tinnier than the other sauces tastes tinny it's barely spicy it's a I feel it but just just just just so I think that's a six last one Carbone mushroom and we skipped all the other mushroom ones because I think it's disgusting mushrooms in a sauce it's just been mushrooms been soaking so the these soggy chewy things that you're not even going to taste and so asinine doesn't taste like mushroom and it's a terrible texture why would you want this it tastes very similar to their arabiata without the spice it's tinny but it's still quite good but has these dumb mushrooms in it they're not bringing any flavor to the party they're dumb they're ugly they're stupid and I hate them it's purely my personal preference driving this score but that knocks a 10 down to a five all right folks here's our top three AKA our top four because we have a tie for third place between Lydia's and Trader Joe's spicy collab and this this is a truly like outf field sauce I would just ass soon put this on chicken wings it's really really tasty I don't even know if I like it on pasta but as a food product it tastes good um then we have the three most expensive sauces on planet Earth what we're seeing here is that you tend to get what you pay for when it comes to very very simple foods like this that rely on fresh ingredients fresh herbs not fewer preservatives another thing we learned is stay away from four cheeses something about four cheese when they get together bad things happen I always finish my red sauce whether it's Jarred or homemade with butter always because it lightens the color makes it rich and cramy and it cuts through the acidic notes that's the story of Life add fat feel happy get unhealthy die it's awesome thanks again to Squarespace for sponsoring today's episode from websites to online stores to domains to analytics Squarespace is the all-in-one platform for you to build your online presence all of my websites over 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