supermarket curries ready meals cheapest way to get chicken soft.

jvjack

I find these ready made curries from the big supermarkets take almost an hour at highest gas mark 9  260 centigrade.
to get the chicken to be softish.  Still bit tough even after that heating and by then dry.
Instructions say oven gas mark 5 for 25 mins. No way
My microwave is 700w and instructions say 6 mins  and even after 10 mins cant get it softened.
They do sell lots so just wondering if there is a way and i'm not seeing something.
The microwave would save loads , any tips?

Krakkkers

260f is only 120C, your oven is barely on.

jvjack

lol just checking that
edit changed it

Olly_J

jvjack said:

I find these ready made curries from the big supermarkets take almost an hour at highest gas mark 9  260f 
to get the chicken to be softish.  Still bit tough even after that heating and by then dry.
Instructions say oven gas mark 5 for 25 mins. No way
My microwave is 700w and instructions say 6 mins  and even after 10 mins cant get it softened.
They do sell lots so just wondering if there is a way and i'm not seeing something.
The microwave would save loads , any tips?

Gas mark 9 is defined as 240c. Are the 1-2 person size meals?
As a microwave at 700w should be able to cook one from frozen in 10-12 mins usually, even less most of the time, so perhaps you're not running it at the full power setting

Krakkkers

If he was cooking it at 240C for an hour it would be a smouldering cinder.

jvjack

Gas mark 9 on cooker ,  Beko cooker handbook says thats 260 degrees centigrade.

Jyana

Have you tried cooking it at the specified time and temp, or just at just the higher temp for twice as long instead?

Krakkkers

Nothing will survive 260C for an hour, something wrong there.

Krakkkers

I cook everything at 170C fan.

Krakkkers

Could be oven thermostat faulty.

brock_the_badger

More likely old laying hens and breeding stock plus mechanically recovered meat from carcasses " pressure  washed " then pressed and chopped !

Tasteless rubbish that I wouldn't feed to a dog . In the time it is taking you to cook it you could have cooked a curry with real chicken from scratch !