Horrible Tesco Chicken

Ada_Doom

Hi, we have just eaten the dinner i cooked tonight which was tesco chicken thighs (not the value ones, just normal), roasted in the oven in hm bbq sauce and the meat was horrible!

It was tasteless, but also has an odd texture, slightly flabby i think is the best description. It also has deposits of wobbly yellow fat underneath the thighs and alot of water seemed to come out.

I normally buy meat in sainsbugs so am ot sure if this is what tesco chicken is always like? Anybody else find this?

butler_helen

We always buy the standard Tesco chicken but when we were in a couple of nights ago, all the chicken breasts were fatty looking and when we bought one it tasted watery.

Therefore by trying to be helpful and keep me happy my boyfriend bought some posh stuff the next night- for £6.12 (for 2 breasts)!!!!!!:eek: they tasted nicer, but I'd have prefered to miss the chicken out for that price.

valk_scot

Yup, that's basically what poor quality chicken is like. Artificially fattened up to be ready far too early, layer of fat to up the weight, no exercise to develop the muscles and water added to make it "juicy".

Basically it's better to buy less meat but buy better quality. If Sainsbury's is better then stick to that. Me? I'm a fan of M&S Oakham chicken, but only when it's on offer!

thornbridge

We stopped buying supermarket meat about 2 years ago was always plumped up with water and tasteless.

We now go to a traditional butchers the meat is all locally produced and we have never had a bad cut of meat from them. The price is as good as or even better than the supers.

For instance the chicken for tomorrows dinner has on the label who reared it where it's from and says it has been corn fed from birth.

If you want good quality meat ditch the supers because they are taking the !!!!

Teahfc

The only way that the suppliers can reach the retail prices that the Big Stores want to sell at is to cheat a little,the chickens are injected with Water somewhere down the line.

Try the local Butcher I think you will be quite surprised how good quality and price they really are !:beer:

tessie_bear

that chicken sounds grim...we like the m and s oakham...they often have offers and reductions hth

uknovaman

Hi
I get all my beef, chicken and pork from a farmer friend of mine, he does burgers and sausages too,as well as venison, pheasant and goose.
When you have quality, there's no going back.
I would not by anything from a supermarket now unless I was totally out of everything, if that was the case, Morrisons every time.

DCFC79

Teahfc wrote: »

The only way that the suppliers can reach the retail prices that the Big Stores want to sell at is to cheat a little,the chickens are injected with Water somewhere down the line.

Try the local Butcher I think you will be quite surprised how good quality and price they really are !:beer:

On the subject of chicken and water did anyone see that Channel 4 program about food where heston blumenthal (cant spell his name, he did them programs on little chef ) looked into foods eg chicken, pies atc and he injected a liquid into a chicken to fatten it up which would make it more heavier and cost more for the consumer,

jaytin

Maybe this is a recent ploy to make more money out of less meat? I had the Willow Farm chicken thighs from Tesco a couple of months ago, they are not expensive but not the cheapest range either, there was nothing wrong with them at all, they were delicious. No flabby fat, not watery or bad tasting. Did all the other packs look the same as yours OP?
Since then I have been buying more from my local butcher as you can order online and get free delivery, but he didn't have thighs available so I have only had breasts. I thought supermarkets had stopped putting water into chicken after all the bad press they got a while ago.

stormbreaker

We eat Costco meat and find that ok. Its about supermarket prices but better quality.

butler_helen

we bought from our local butcher this morning after reading this thread- I'm looking forward to dinner tonight! Incidentally we got; 1 whole chicken, 6 lamb chops, 500g mince and 8 pork sausage for £9... bargain, even tescos couldn't match it