sf wrote:
>
> Strained tomatoes, tomato sauce and pureed tomatoes?

Texture - How chopped they are.

> Are strained tomatoes used any differently from pureed?

Depends on how exacting you are in your recipes. A lot of the time I am
a "cook it by how it sounds" cook doing impromptu dishes and I don't use
them differently. A good technical chef would use them differently.