Aldi chicken con!

flea72

Fortyfoot wrote: »

We bought an Ashfield Farm, roast in the bag stuffed British chicken from Aldi in Elland West Yorkshire and when I was preparing it this morning there wasn't any stuffing in it!

BACK TO MORRISONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Fortyfoot

You dont prepare it. You stick it in the oven in the bag, no prep involved

We had this tonight, loads of stuffing in ours, but the meat was still pink near the bones, after 2.5hrs in the oven, even though the juices ran clear. Seem to be finding this alot lately with chicken, is it the way they breed/treat/slaugter them?

meer53

flea72 wrote: »

You dont prepare it. You stick it in the oven in the bag, no prep involved

We had this tonight, loads of stuffing in ours, but the meat was still pink near the bones, after 2.5hrs in the oven, even though the juices ran clear. Seem to be finding this alot lately with chicken, is it the way they breed/treat/slaugter them?

No, it's your oven. Sounds like it's not working properly.

If i cooked a chicken in mine for 2 and a half hours at 180 degrees, it would be burnt to a crisp :eek:

Mupette

Its recommended (no i don't know who by, i don't care and no i can't be bothered to find a link, just something i heard at some point in the past)
that you don't stuff your chicken as the stuffing is blocking the heat getting right into the cavity to cook though, unless of course you have the thermometer gadget that you can use whilst cooking to keep checking the temp to ensure its fully cooked all over.

Just a mere suggestion use a loaf tin with a liner and cook stuffing separate.

bod1467

I recall seeing similar advice - may even have been Saturday Kitchen or another cookery show.

peachyprice

I can't say I would fancy eating that had been stuffed in a chicken anyway, especially if it had been hanging around in a supermarket chiller for a week. I always put whatever I have to hand inside the chicken and make separate stuffing balls.

kazwookie

adonis wrote: »

Go back to Aldi and say I want stuffing please.:)

This is the best answer

JimmyTheWig

geordie_joe wrote: »

Or 4. Aldi are paying their suppliers so little that the suppliers have taken to cutting corners.

If you mean that they are cutting corners on quality assurance and some are getting missed then I could believe you.

My money is on a supplier cutting corners. leaving the stuffing out of, say, 10% of the products and claiming it was an error.

But if you mean that they are deliberately doing this then I doubt it. It's not worth losing the contract over.
This is different to the horse meat issue where it was clear that the public couldn't tell the difference and so the supplier was unlikely to be found out. Here if a customer buys a stuffed chicken and there's no stuffing they're going to notice and a reasonable minority of them will complain.

JimmyTheWig

flea72 wrote: »

We had this tonight, loads of stuffing in ours

Maybe that's where the OP's stuffing went...

owen_money

Quote - BACK TO MORRISONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Surely if you bought it from Aldi you should take it back to them?????

enfield_freddy

faulty items must be returned within 4 hrs , hang o no return parking at aldi


£100 please