educate me about chicken breast fillets please!

Marvel1

PasturesNew wrote: »

Somewhere on MSE in the past week (possibly the takeaway secret thread, from memory), somebody said that they'd accidentally bought the Asda frozen Smart Price chicken breasts once - and found they were the best they'd ever tasted, so now those are the ones they always buy.

mysupermarket puts these at 39.9/100g. http://www.mysupermarket.co.uk/asda-compare-prices/Frozen_Poultry/ASDA_Smartprice_Chicken_Breast_Fillets_1Kg.html - link gives you the details that say these are 82% chicken + water, salt, dextrose, di phosphates and tri phosphates.

Will try these, pity Asda is about 10 miles away.

Blobby8_2

MoreOn wrote: »

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

Give us a clue, so we can besiege them.

Sublime_2

HappyMJ wrote: »

Cheapest way is to buy a whole chicken at £2/kg and butcher it yourself. You'll get the chicken breast for the same price per kg but the rest of the chicken, the legs, the thigh meat, the wings all of that will effectively be free.

I got a decent quality one from Budgens for £3 today, which is probably the price you'd pay for two. You could just cut the breast, and legs off, and use the rest for nice pie filling/curry/soup/stock.

I must admit, I can never be bothered. I always cook whole birds in my slow cooker, then use any remaining meat for a curry/soup/stock.

geordie_joe

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.

In New Zealand they stun the animals before slitting their throats, the animals don't feel a thing. It's no different to any other method where they stun the animal then kill it. The animal doesn't know what is happening and doesn't feel anything.

Those New Zealanders were smart, they read the rules and discovered that for Halal meat the animal doesn't have to be concious when it is killed.

So they stun it, cut it's throat and can legally sell it all to both sides. The animal is not caused any stress or pain, so that satisfies western law, and it is killed by cutting it's throat, and that satisfies Halal law.

I think you have just read/watched videos of the worst examples of Halal and thought ALL Halal is that way.

geordie_joe

Blobby8 wrote: »

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.

Well said, you spoke for the vast majority of people in the UK, and probably the world.

MoreOn

Blobby8 wrote: »

Give us a clue, so we can besiege them.

Asia Continental in Preston Lancashire... Their minced lamb, legs of lamb etc are dead cheap, since shopping their i've cut my shopping bill from 150 a week down to 80 and we eat so much better...

kevcampbell

i myself bought some frozen tesco value chicken breast fillets today, £3.49 for a kg i think is decent, 5 large breasts which I imagine will shrink but as the breasts are massive i still expect the breast to be of a decent size

i also today bought what i usually sometimes buy which is frozen aldi chicken breast fillets with no added water, slightly more expensive and only 800g, i guess i will know sooner than later which one i will be continuing to buy

quintwins

kevcampbell wrote: »

i myself bought some frozen tesco value chicken breast fillets today, £3.49 for a kg i think is decent, 5 large breasts which I imagine will shrink but as the breasts are massive i still expect the breast to be of a decent size

i also today bought what i usually sometimes buy which is frozen aldi chicken breast fillets with no added water, slightly more expensive and only 800g, i guess i will know sooner than later which one i will be continuing to buy

oh let me know how you get on with the tesco ones we only have a tesco lidl and iceland here so i was thinking of trying these

Mobility151990

order mine from online butchers, no water injected crap, really tasty, fresh and biggest things ive ever seen. £5.19/kg

gunsandbanjos

Mobility151990 wrote: »

order mine from online butchers, no water injected crap, really tasty, fresh and biggest things ive ever seen. £5.19/kg

Which online butcher please:D