I put a lot of effort into making sauces. We had a sauce contest a while back and I spent a lot of money buying supplies and spent lots of time reading sauce recipes.
No Joke, I sorted thru well over 500 pages of recipes, narrowed it down to 10 pages after a couple of weeks. started cooking when I narrowed it down to 5.
I made batch after batch and they all tasted like kicked up spagetti sauce to me. I decided that it aint worth the effort for me. Now I just work with store bought.