Sir Kensington's Scooping Ketchup is a thick hand-crafted ketchup that I've become quite smitten with these days. At first look, I thought: what a gimmick! I've gotten a little tired of people renaming common household products to make them sound a bit more sophisticated than they really are. What would make Sir Kensington's Scooping Ketchup so terribly different than a typical ketchup, after all? It turns out quite a bit.
Mark Ramadan and Scott Norton, founders of Sir Kensington's (which is named after one of their cats) have successfully redone that classic product that we all use. But they've gone the all-natural route. You won't find any corn syrup or processed sugars in their version. You won't find tomato concentrate, dried herbs or preservatives. Instead, you'll find a very spoonable ketchup made with pear tomatoes, agave, honey, real onions, and a few other good ingredients. It comes in Spiced and Classic — and the Spiced is awfully good with french fries! I've used it on sandwiches, hamburgers, bean dip and chilli in the past two weeks alone.
It's one of those products that makes me think I've thought of ketchup all wrong for so long: it should remind me of a ripe tomato, no? It shouldn't be overly sweet. It should sit atop my french fry without flopping off. If that's what you think of ketchup, too, then give Sir Kensington's a try.
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Agave is not good for you: http://www.foodrenegade.com/agave-nectar-good-or-bad/
Worse than HFCS. Someone at TheKitchn should write a piece on that!
This will come off as insane, no doubt, but I think of these things so here goes. What is the deal with something like this and pesticides? I know not to buy conventional tomatoes because they are at the top of the list for chemicals, but would it be the same for non-organic ketchup? Are you ingesting a bunch of gross pesticides when you eat a product like this? Better off with a plain old organic ketchup?
I'm sure this is good for a lot of things, but when I am having fries/tots/potato wedges/etc., I am reaching for Heinz. Anything else just tastes wrong.
I used to go to this cafe for brunch sometimes (at an instigating friend's request), and they made their own condiments in-house. They were fine, I guess, but they didn't keep normal condiments around, even just for when asked for it? Which I always thought was ridiculous. Eventually we just found a better breakfast spot that was willing to allow their customers to put Heinz on their hashbrowns.
I'm sure this is good for a lot of things, but when I am having fries/tots/potato wedges/etc., I am reaching for Heinz. Anything else just tastes wrong.
I used to go to this cafe for brunch sometimes (at an instigating friend's request), and they made their own condiments in-house. They were fine, I guess, but they didn't keep normal condiments around, even just for when asked for it? Which I always thought was ridiculous. Eventually we just found a better breakfast spot that was willing to allow their customers to put Heinz on their hashbrowns.
I'd love to try this--I've seen it profiled practically everywhere by now. You can also make fantastically delicious homemade ketchup and can it, if you're into that sort of thing. Below is a great recipe for Tomato Jam which I use just like ketchup.
http://www.foodinjars.com/2010/09/tomato-jam/
I've eaten this ketchup... ordered it on FreshDirect.. if you are looking to get it.. its absolutely delicious!