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Originally Posted by Rainger99
It looks good seems to be very time consuming.
My wife usually just opens a jar of Ragú! It is faster!
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Ragu is great if you don't care what it tastes like. And if you're retired, and able-bodied, there's no reason to NOT make sauce from scratch unless you simply don't want to (and that's a perfectly reasonable answer).
Most of the time involved in making my sauce is letting the pot sit on the stove on low heat for a few hours, and giving it a stir every 15 minutes or so. You can watch a movie, do your laundry, do your gardening, clean the house, bake something, catch up on your soaps, exercise to music in your living room, knit something, invite folks over for lunch - lots and lots of things you can do while you wait for the sauce to simmer.
My sauce is old-school sauce. The stuff that Ragu advertises that it was created to taste like. Except they don't use meat, and they don't use fresh garlic, or fresh anything. Theirs is a marinara, mine is what's known as a gravy.
In fact, the word ragù is used in Italian to describe a sauce made with meat. The brand Ragù doesn't use meat in their sauce. So their sauce doesn't even live up to their brand name. False advertising maybe? Regardless, it's just seasoned tomato puree.