What is the Best Commercial Pizza Sauce to Buy? Scratch-Made vs. Ready-Made

What is the Best Commercial Pizza Sauce to Buy? Scratch-Made vs. Ready-Made

Menu selections are vital to the success of your pizza business. Consult your distributor to select crust types, pizza dough products, and other ingredients that work well with your recipes. This helps maximize the efficiency of your kitchen.

You can use this strategy when choosing sauces as well. There is no best commercial sauce. However, you may find the best ready-made or completely prepared pizza sauce to suit your unique needs.

Which method is the best for you in terms of time and cost? Compare freshly prepared and fully-prepared sauces.

Scratch-Made Pizza Sauces

Pizza chefs take great pride in creating their pizza sauces. They often use family recipes that have been passed down through generations. They adjust the balance of basil, garlic, and oregano until it is perfect, giving their pizzeria a unique taste.

The cooking process, or lack thereof, is crucial in many sauces made from scratch.

Which is the best type?

Both sides are passionate about this debate.

It all comes down to individual preference.

Cooked sauces of the highest quality are simmered over hours to create robust, deep flavors and the brownish-orange color that customers recognize. Slow, long cooking produces a delicious aroma of herbs and ripe tomatoes that will entice customers and increase sales without you saying a single word.

Some people prefer fresh sauce to cooked sauce.

Fresh sauce, whether uncooked or cooked, has a bright tomato flavor. The “fresh pack” products are made from peak-season tomatoes or garden-picked fresh tomatoes. These “fresh-pack” products are canned using low-heat techniques to produce a bright-red, farm-fresh-tasting tomato sauce.

Can you use canned products to make fresh sauce? Yes!

Fresh-pack products with all-natural ingredients are the key to a fresh taste. Reconstituted or remanufactured tomato sauces, made by diluting tomato paste to the sauce after tomato season is over, can’t produce the same vibrant, fresh results as “fresh-pack” products.

Fans of fresh sauce describe it as authentic and flavorful; however, those who prefer cooked sauce think it is often too watery for pies and bland.

Fully Prepared, Ready-Made Pizza Sauce

Making a homemade pizza sauce takes a lot of time and effort. This can be incredibly challenging for those in rushed kitchens or with fewer resources.

Some pizza shops use pre-made tomato sauces and add spice blends for a unique flavor. This method saves time, but it can be challenging to maintain consistency from batch to batch due to the many variables that may occur in the kitchen.

Does the amount of spice mix used in each batch always remain constant? Does the consistency of the tomato base remain the same every time? Every batch is appropriately mixed to ensure an even distribution of spices. Is it always cooked at the same temperature and time to get the same flavor depth?

Your distributor will likely have a solution to these concerns. Ask about sauces already prepared by manufacturers such as Arthur Avenue Ready-to-Use Sauces Alive & Kickin’.

The fully prepared sauces that we offer are an excellent option. They’re made with authentic Italian recipes and the same high-quality spices you would use.

These sauces are ready to use and offer a delicious flavor with the added convenience of being easy to prepare.

It’s good to know that many manufacturers offer Alfredo and Pizza sauces as ready-to-use options. Alive & Kickin’ will work with you to create custom pasta and pizza sauces based on your favorite recipes.

Pizza and Pasta: Not all sauces are created equal

A thoroughly prepared pizza sauce is the perfect choice for pasta and pizza. It’s important to know that pizza sauce and pasta sauce are very different.

Water Content: Pizza sauce contains less pulp and more water than pasta sauce.

Flavor Pasta Sauces are enhanced more by the flavors of marinara — garlic, onion, herbs — than pizza sauces made from uncooked tomatoes.

Texture The texture of pizza sauce is thicker and pulpier than pasta sauce. Tomato-based sauces are generally thinner, lower in fat, and have a softer mouthfeel.

You don’t have to spend hours making different pasta sauces in the kitchen just because pasta and pizza require different sauces. Many manufacturers offer ready-made, fully prepared pasta sauces.

You’ll find that your distributor carries pre-made sauces with the same quality ingredients, attention, care to detail, and quality assurance that goes into their pizza sauces. The results will rival those of homemade sauces. You can meet your customer’s expectations regarding aroma, flavor, and consistency on pizzas and pasta dishes!

While both scratch-made and ready-made sauces are delicious, only the fully prepared version can make your operation more efficient by streamlining inventory, reducing costs, and saving time, all without compromising on quality or consistency.

Download our Alive and Kickin’ Pizza crust Product Overview Guide to learn more about your options. Form dough balls and crusts to fully-prepared sauces for pasta and pizza, you can find it all in this guide. Click the button below to get your guide!

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