educate me about chicken breast fillets please!

sexki11en

If you can get hold of a Makro card (or know anyone with one) the fresh chicken fillets are £3.99 kg at the moment. The cheapest I could find on my supermarket was £6.96 kg for the basics ones.

SK x

notafan

Sharon87 wrote: »

Forgot to add the water content in the Asda Smartprice and Valley foods is very good. They don't seem to be drowned in water. Unlike Tesco Value frozen chicken, bought these once, put them in the George Forman grill and they boiled!!!! the tray was full with water. Tesco value rubbish, Asda smartprice good.

Yer its because they're injected isn't it.

There's some food programme on early hours sometimes someone else might be able to remember the name - its the one were they slated gorden ramsey because he endorsed bookers cash n carry, and how if beef burgers say economy on the box they are allowed to use random bits like the cows face...etc etc anyway chicken was on it.

Before the chicken gets packaged they start with fairly smallish bits of chicken breasts and inject them with a water/saline and something else which thickens the water to stop it running out of the chicken breast.

This means it weighs more and they sell according to weight so your still getting the same amount of chicken but they look huge because they are so inflated. When you cook them the water/saline stuff is cooked off or comes out you are left with the original small bit of chicken!

I think its common in the cheaper types, like the ones that don't see daylight.

Sure it was on this too that said about bernard mathews supplying 90% of Sainsburys branded turkey breasts and a big % of the other major supermarkets branded turkey breasts.

Blobby8_2

Seek out your local halal butcher, and check his prices .I usually pay around £4/kg in Birmingham

Enterprise_1701C

OP isn't after halal, and there are not many things I (and a lot of decent British people) object to in the method of slaughtering animals, but slitting it's throat and letting it bleed to death has to be the cruellest way of killing an animal I can think of and it should be banned, and probably would be if it was not for the religious demands. And to be honest, the thought of an Islamic blessing being said over it does NOT help. For that reason I avoid New Zealand lamb too, and any other halal meat.

No, I'm not a veggie, and yes I have killed chickens myself (taught to when I was about 6/7), to be honest the worst thing about preparing a chicken is the plucking, drawing is not too bad once you get used to the smell, although I hate doing it.

If you are going to use the rest of the chicken then it is easy to take the breast off a chicken and divide up the rest.

I personally use Tesco's value chicken breasts most of the time, especially when I am using a sauce with it. No problem, fair amount of water though, but they do the job.

red_devil

butcher sells meat.

notafan

Jane_Blackford wrote: »

OP isn't after halal, and there are not many things I (and a lot of decent British people) object to in the method of slaughtering animals, but slitting it's throat and letting it bleed to death has to be the cruellest way of killing an animal I can think of and it should be banned, and probably would be if it was not for the religious demands. And to be honest, the thought of an Islamic blessing being said over it does NOT help. For that reason I avoid New Zealand lamb too, and any other halal meat.

No, I'm not a veggie, and yes I have killed chickens myself (taught to when I was about 6/7), to be honest the worst thing about preparing a chicken is the plucking, drawing is not too bad once you get used to the smell, although I hate doing it.

If you are going to use the rest of the chicken then it is easy to take the breast off a chicken and divide up the rest.

I personally use Tesco's value chicken breasts most of the time, especially when I am using a sauce with it. No problem, fair amount of water though, but they do the job.

I'm not a fan of halal either but having said that your tesco value ones wont exactly have lead a cruelty free life either!

Storck

Jane_Blackford wrote: »

OP isn't after halal, and there are not many things I (and a lot of decent British people) object to in the method of slaughtering animals, but slitting it's throat and letting it bleed to death has to be the cruellest way of killing an animal I can think of and it should be banned, and probably would be if it was not for the religious demands. And to be honest, the thought of an Islamic blessing being said over it does NOT help. For that reason I avoid New Zealand lamb too, and any other halal meat.

No, I'm not a veggie, and yes I have killed chickens myself (taught to when I was about 6/7), to be honest the worst thing about preparing a chicken is the plucking, drawing is not too bad once you get used to the smell, although I hate doing it.

If you are going to use the rest of the chicken then it is easy to take the breast off a chicken and divide up the rest.

I personally use Tesco's value chicken breasts most of the time, especially when I am using a sauce with it. No problem, fair amount of water though, but they do the job.

How do you know that the OP doesn't want Halal? They do not say they are but they also do not say they are not. They also do not say they want free range or any other type. They just asked for the cheapest and the best value and tasting.

I always find that Halal chicken tastes better than non Halal chicken, so it would come in the second category.

Blobby8_2

Jane_Blackford wrote: »

OP isn't after halal, and there are not many things I (and a lot of decent British people) object to in the method of slaughtering animals, but slitting it's throat and letting it bleed to death has to be the cruellest way of killing an animal I can think of and it should be banned, and probably would be if it was not for the religious demands. And to be honest, the thought of an Islamic blessing being said over it does NOT help. For that reason I avoid New Zealand lamb too, and any other halal meat.

No, I'm not a veggie, and yes I have killed chickens myself (taught to when I was about 6/7), to be honest the worst thing about preparing a chicken is the plucking, drawing is not too bad once you get used to the smell, although I hate doing it.

If you are going to use the rest of the chicken then it is easy to take the breast off a chicken and divide up the rest.

I personally use Tesco's value chicken breasts most of the time, especially when I am using a sauce with it. No problem, fair amount of water though, but they do the job.

Err, its a chicken, millions killed every day, not sure they care how they die, if I cared enough then I would buy out door, lovingly reared, humanely killed happy hens, I reckon they would cost about £25 each.

Marvel1

In Lidl's it's 1kg for £6 -fresh, I end up freezing them in single bags.

But when I saw the offer in Farmfoods - 3 for £10 I bought 6, just hope they are nice as Lidl.

MoreOn

i buy Halal chicken breasts at £3 a Kg, why bother with the hastle for £1 a kg