Tumbled chicken in supermarkets

geordie_joe

parsonswife8 wrote: »

parsonswife8 wrote: »

What made me feel sick was this picture of all the chicken lined up.

But you said the thought of it (water in chicken) made you feel sick.

parsonswife8 wrote: »

It just looks all too clinical and laboratory like.

What is wrong with it? You would have something to complain about if it was all prepared in a dirty old barn, but that looks like a perfectly acceptable food preparation environment.

parsonswife8 wrote: »

There was no need to be rude, even for a geordie joe.

I wasn't being rude, just stating a fact.

The simple thing is people are so removed from where their food comes from that they feel sick when they get a look at it.

I'm just glad you didn't live in the 60's when being sent out to get a chicken for Sunday lunch meant going up the allotment and breaking the neck of the slowest bird in the pen, then preparing it before taking it home.

parsonswife8

geordie_joe wrote: »

But you said the thought of it (water in chicken) made you feel sick.



What is wrong with it? You would have something to complain about if it was all prepared in a dirty old barn, but that looks like a perfectly acceptable food preparation environment.



I wasn't being rude, just stating a fact.

The simple thing is people are so removed from where their food comes from that they feel sick when they get a look at it.

I'm just glad you didn't live in the 60's when being sent out to get a chicken for Sunday lunch meant going up the allotment and breaking the neck of the slowest bird in the pen, then preparing it before taking it home.

I said I felt sick at the sort of IT, meaning the whole process, not just the water being added, which incidentally people are paying for, instead of paying for the chicken meat that they think they are paying for. It's all the other additives as well.


The food preparation environment looks clean, that's fine. It's the fact that it shouldn't be being done in the first place.


I did live in the 60's and we had chickens in the back garden. Give me one that has been killed from there any day, not the processed rubbish that we get today in supermarkets.

geordie_joe

parsonswife8 wrote: »

Read this and you'll really feel sick!


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2521119/Chemical-sludge-Meat-glue-Pig-skin-If-water-ALL-pumped-chicken.html

I read it and didn't fell sick at all.

If you really want to fell sick try googling "butcher fined" and read some of the 913,000 results.

Cat lovers might like this one

http://www.24dash.com/news/health/2007-07-19-Butcher-fined-after-cat-uses-meat-as-litter-tray

Nothing like a bit of cat faeces in a box of chicken to get the juices flowing.

~Chameleon~

geordie_joe wrote: »

I read it and didn't fell sick at all.

If you really want to fell sick try googling "butcher fined" and read some of the 913,000 results.

Cat lovers might like this one

http://www.24dash.com/news/health/2007-07-19-Butcher-fined-after-cat-uses-meat-as-litter-tray

Nothing like a bit of cat faeces in a box of chicken to get the juices flowing.

How about googling other food stores, fast food outlets, restaurants etc for similar health & hygiene issues? Not restricted to butchers you know

parsonswife8

geordie_joe wrote: »

I read it and didn't fell sick at all.

If you really want to fell sick try googling "butcher fined" and read some of the 913,000 results.

Cat lovers might like this one

http://www.24dash.com/news/health/2007-07-19-Butcher-fined-after-cat-uses-meat-as-litter-tray

Nothing like a bit of cat faeces in a box of chicken to get the juices flowing.

If you didn't feel sick at all, your stomach is made of sterner stuff then mine.


I'm not even going to click on the link. LOL


You're just trying to spoil my lunch. I don't buy from the butcher either. I buy direct from the farm.


Anyway let's just leave it at that, as this is getting silly now.

stephen77

~Chameleon~ wrote: »

Ingredients of frozen supermarket chicken: Chicken, water, salt. Acidity regulator (E640). Flavour enhancer (E621). Citric acid (E330). Min. meat content: 60%

where did you get that ingredient dec from as the supermarkets having using QUID dec for about 8 years now?

tessie_bear

hi is this tumbling business just chicken breast ? or is it thighs/drumstix as well ? is it other frozen meat such as chops ?

so hard to get nice foods at a sensible price for your family imo

~Chameleon~

stephen77 wrote: »

where did you get that ingredient dec from as the supermarkets having using QUID dec for about 8 years now?

From a Dutch poultry producer which supplies frozen chicken breasts to UK supermarkets.

stephen77

parsonswife8 wrote: »

Read this and you'll really feel sick!


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2521119/Chemical-sludge-Meat-glue-Pig-skin-If-water-ALL-pumped-chicken.html

Not sick at all.


I would like a vacuum tumbler for my home.
Shock horror its not good for food. The scheming food industry.
Oh wait a second, on the previous series of master chef professional edition. A chef used a vacuum tumbler for his Lobster. They used some lar de dar chef language and not told you its a small version of what factory have been using for years.
They can be used to enhance food.


They can infuse red wine / ale into beef. rosemary into lamb, or saffron into lobster, black truffle oil into chicken etc.
They can alter textures, but if we blinded tested people, they might realise they prefer the vacuumed tumbled made products.
You just have to open your mind and not have a pre-conceived idea as most people just bring up the cheap value end of the vacuum tumbling abilities.

stephen77

tessie_bear wrote: »

hi is this tumbling business just chicken breast ? or is it thighs/drumstix as well ? is it other frozen meat such as chops ?

so hard to get nice foods at a sensible price for your family imo

it can be used on any meat.