What context needs to be ignored? Ketchup is a sauce, which when added to completed food becomes a condiment, just like all sauces. Plenty of dishes are cooked with ketchup in the cooking process. The conclusion from the article you posted:
when it comes to the question of condiment or sauce, the answer is “both”.
According to my extensive 30 seconds of research, the difference is that a sauce is an integral ingredient, but a condiment is added after the dish is served. In which case, ketchup can be either or both, even in the same dish.
Yeah, some people even consider ketchup, mayonnaise, and mustard sauces.
Language wielded irresponsibly can be a mysterious and terrible thing.
My son uses ketchup as if it were a sauce …
Ketchup is a sauce.
What else would it be?
A food wig?
Obviously it’s a sauce. I looked up the definition to try and figure out why they would say it isn’t, and I still don’t see it.
“a liquid or semisolid food mixture used especially as a topping or ingredient for adding to or enhancing the flavor of a dish”
There’s a lot more nuance in the definition in a culinary context: https://www.mashed.com/1338901/difference-between-sauce-condiment-dip/
But ignoring that context, yes, ketchup meets the literal definition of a sauce.
What context needs to be ignored? Ketchup is a sauce, which when added to completed food becomes a condiment, just like all sauces. Plenty of dishes are cooked with ketchup in the cooking process. The conclusion from the article you posted:
Ketchup is called Tomato Sauce in Australia.
It’s a condiment, which is not a sauce.
Its a subsection of sauces. A type of sauce fulfilling a more specific purpose than other sauces.
Careful! You’re heading down a dangerous path!
Good god.
According to my extensive 30 seconds of research, the difference is that a sauce is an integral ingredient, but a condiment is added after the dish is served. In which case, ketchup can be either or both, even in the same dish.
Love different coloured food wigs with my chips