Waitrose - Pork & Herb
Chipolatas
Happened to take advantage
of parking in our local Waitrose
car park this
week, and so picked up a
pack of their Pork & Herb
Chipolata
sausages (and some odd bits
of shopping), so that we got
free parking and a
complimentary coffee!. We
tried these Pork & Herb
Chipolatas last in May 2015,
so yeah, Ok, it was way
overdue that we tried these
again...
The packaging hasn't changed
dramatically and still says
they are aromatic pork and
herb chipolatas seasoned
with rosemary and thyme, made with prime
British pork from pigs born
outdoors and reared in airy,
straw bedded barns.
Yep we'll go with that...
Prime British pork (88%), water,
onion, sea salt, herbs,
dried parsley, black pepper,
preservative (sodium metabisulphite) all
nicely filled
into natural sheep casings.
The skins were quite fine
just as before and they did cook up OK but
they didn't get as snappy as we
like, however a pretty good
chew all the same. There was
this time just a touch of
that pale emulsion ooze that
we see sometimes from
sausages when cooked. This
however disappeared but the
bottom of the pan needed a
bit of work to clean the
residue afterwards.
Interestingly the teaspoon
of oil initially in the pan
disappeared to so apart from
the drop that would have
been covering the 12
chipolatas, the rest must
have been absorbed perhaps?
Nice to see "pan fry" on the
prep instructions.
More often on
packets/sleeves these days
is only the oven cook and
grill instructions. If we
had of grilled I think that
these little chipolatas my
have dried out
significantly!
If honest
we were
expecting a slightly more
dense texture given the 88%
pork, however the taste with
the rosemary and thyme was
pretty fair but the
seasoning was a little
lacking.
Eaten cold later, not bad
but a little
disappointing as any
seasoning they did have, was
gone unfortunately.
Price-wise two 375g packs
for £5 was still the deal,
but the large weight loss
and shrinkage on what are
smallish sausages anyway,
could not be ignored
unfortunately. Good job only
myself and two others were
eating as the recommended
servings for this pack is 6!
Now come on Waitrose,
regardless of the calorie
count, two tiny chipolatas
per serving cannot surely be
enough for an adult!
Thus this fact and shrinkage
was reflected in the scoring
we awarded.
Would we buy again?
Probably not...however
saying that, as a breakfast
sausage these would work
pretty good when alongside
the normal full English
ingredients.
Waitrose - Pork & Herb
Chipolatas (May
2015 / Aug 2017)
Here's the
sample details:
100x20mm before cooking, 90x17mm
after.
31g before cooking, 20g after.
That's a shrinkage of approx 23% &
weight loss of approx 36%.
12 sausages normally £3.29 (£8.78 per kg)
2015
2015