If you're looking for San Marzano tomatoes, you're choosing quality. You're choosing the highest quality tomatoes, naturally sweet, with little water, a variety considered the best in the world. San Marzano tomatoes are a product protected by an EU certificate.
They are a regional product that can only be produced in a specific region of Italy. However, due to their reputation and undeniable quality, San Marzano tomatoes are expensive, and this is their drawback.
Currently, canned tomatoes cost 30-35 złoty for 2.5 kg. That's well over 11-12 złoty per kilogram of tomato, which is used in huge quantities in restaurants, pizzerias, and restaurants. Tomato spending in an Italian restaurant's foodservice sector is the second or third most important product after flour and mozzarella cheese.
In our restaurant, we tested many different Italian tomatoes. The winner was the Rosso Gargano tomato pulp, meaning crushed, peeled, and crushed tomatoes. We use them, for example, to make pizza sauce available online in our store, as well as tomato cream.
In blind tests, no employee during the panel test indicated that the tomato cream made with Rosso Gargano was worse than the one made with San Marzano. The pulp does not separate, so it has a low water content.
Dishes made with these tomatoes do not need to be sweetened – they are not acidic, they are naturally sweet. Above all, however, the tomatoes have a strong tomato flavor. It might sound like butter, but anyone with a bit of cooking knowledge knows that there's no shortage of weak tomatoes on the market that taste like water.
Rosso Gargano tomatoes have very convenient, economical packaging. It's an aluminum bag that takes up very little space after use. This reduces waste, which is expensive for companies to dispose of. The bag of tomatoes is also packed in cardboard, ensuring the product's safety during transport.
With one package of Rosso Gargano, you don't have the waste of four large cans that San Marzano tomatoes come in.
A kilogram of Rosso Gargano tomatoes is half the price of San Marzano tomatoes. That's 11-12 złoty per kilogram, depending on the San Marzano brand, and 6-8 złoty for the alternative.