Posted on 09/05/2024 5:45:17 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
1992 was a wild year. You couldn’t turn on the radio without hearing about Billy Ray Cyrus’ “Achy Breaky Heart”; Wayne’s World was in theaters (though I was more of an Aladdin girlie at the time — I was 8), and restaurateur-actor Frank Pellegrino Sr. had the brilliant idea to package and sell marinara sauce from his family restaurant, Rao’s.
Fast-forward 30 years, and Rao’s Homemade Marinara is the undeniable GOAT of retail pasta sauces. As of 2022, Rao’s sales (which include the pasta sauces as well as other retail products, like frozen pizzas and shelf-stable soups) reached $580 million, and the company projects it will reach $1 billion in the coming years. Personally, as a marinara lover since childhood, I already knew Rao’s was the best (it even earned Hall of Fame status in this year’s The Kitchn Grocery Essentials), but I put the question to a few of my chef friends, and they were more than happy to back me up.
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Ha! That’s the ONLY marinara sauce we use, in this house.
In fact, I just made our keto lasagna with it, tonight.
YUM!!
It used to be. They sold last year and it’s not the same as it was, which is too bad.
You could take all the pasta sauce in the world and shoot it to Mars and I wouldn’t miss it. Especially Maranara sauce.
Italian food is just not my thing and that includes Pizza.
Never! Marinara sauce is just too easy to make myself than to buy any in a jar. My sisters would disown me
And yet here you are on a pasta sauce thread -amazing
Victoria is pretty darned good too.
Just paid $6.88 for 24 Oz. Marinara.
Just paid $6.88 for 24 Oz. Marinara.
We were always spoiled by my husband’s family’s homemade.
The folks are gone now, so we have to figure out how to do it ourselves.
(Everything you can buy in the store is too sweet for us, after so many years of the good stuff.)
I hate the pasta sauces and use manwich sloppy joe sauce instead ,LOL
it is soooo easy to make your own in a slow cooker
I go on all the threads I feel like going on... How about you?
I’ve been buying it at Costco.
Makes good pizza sauce, too.
Rao’s is pretty good, but not as good as other jarred sauces w/ San Marzano tomatoes. Victoria is a lot better imo.
Also, the easiest/cheapest/best thing to do is just buy a can of Cento tomatoes and make your own. Just make sure they’re San Marzano tomatoes.
3 lb of overripe puréed Roma tomatoes, some fresh basil, and a little fresh minced garlic. Bring to a boil and simmer for 30 minutes. Who needs jarred sauce?
I only started noticing Rao’s in the stores maybe a year ago. Will have to give it a try.
I like to start with canned crushed tomatoes and spices, and cook on very low for several hours with frozen meatballs.
Silver plate. When I don’t make my own.
“Everything you can buy in the store is too sweet”
Isn’t that the truth? I hate being able to taste sweetness in pasta sauce. In anything, really.
I married an itlalian girl and with her came her mom who was the best Italian cook you are going to meet. She taught her daughter well.
Making homemade sauce is so easy, and you can freeze it. My wife now makes a big pot and we freeze it to use over the next couple of weeks.
I dont think I’ve had jarred sauce in almost 40 years.
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