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I might be missing your point here. :powerlevel:I always have the burner on high until I achieve boiling, only after it's rolling I turn the heat down.
When you bring a tomato sauce to a roiling boil on a high heat it destroys many of the volatile flavor compounds.
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskCulinar...o_know_when_to_cook_on_low_heat_or_high_heat/
This can get you started to give you a general idea. For tomato sauce, at most, you would use a medium-heat to bring it up to temperature and then reduce to a low-heat to simmer. You would also need to be stirring constantly heating it on the highest heat possible to keep things that settle to the bottom from turning into a tough paste/burning on a direct heat like that, rather than shifting your weight back-and-forth awkwardly with the lid on waiting for it to boil.
Also it's up to you how to cook your food but parts of those meatballs were charcoal. Cooking any food on high heat results in the formation of carcinogenic compounds. https://metabolichealing.com/the-dangers-of-high-heat-cooking/
https://lifespa.com/dangers-of-meat-cooked-with-high-heat/ https://lifespa.com/benefits-of-cooking-with-low-heat/
Cooking foods on high heat also breaks down essential nutrients in them, basically Phil is literally making tomato flavored Gatorade.
And yes, IIRC, Phil cooks his meatballs at the bottom of the pot because all the grease from cooking them goes into the Authentic Italiano sauce, and heating that grease up on a high heat also creates carcinogenic compounds.
Here he explains all the grease going into his sauce and his 'technique' for turning the meatballs in a giant pot
He admits the meatballs are burnt, after cooking them on medium-high for 17 minutes lol, and puts the tomatos directly in the hot grease
All of this shit was in the pot when he was heating it up to boiling on the highest possible heat, that was my point. You can see the chunks of paste at the start that would burn and congeal, also the meat is sitting in there on the bottom. . .with a cup of sugar lol
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