Is it worth making your own ketchup?

Making a condiment takes for ever and requires a great deal of salt or sugar. Sometimes the results are delicious; sometimes they smell like deathThe world of processed food falls into three categories: things that are always better when you make them yourself, but are a hassle (such as bread); things that are always better and no hassle (pancakes); and things you can never make as well as the shops make them (tomato ketchup and a particular kind of chocolate cake that we will discuss another da