Porky White's (Surrey) -
Premium Chicken
The kind people at Porky
Whites sent us a range of
their sausages so we could
update our reviews and try a
few new ones. Straighforward
chicken
sausages, or what we tend to
call "other than pork" in
our reviews, wouldn't be top
of our list to buy as a
family if honest, but, we'll
give them a go...
The
Porky Whites packaging has
recently been
updated to a new style which
we understand to be referred
to as "dinner inspiration"
and like their other packs it also carries a novel
QR code on the back which
links to some interesting
recipes etc., on Porky Whites
own web site. This packaging says
that these are made from 84%
chicken (succulent breast
and thigh meat) which is
delicately seasoned. High in
protein, gluten free and
free from genetically
modified ingredients. They
say they're a great
alternative to pork and are
just the thing if you want
to eat a little healthier.
The chicken is
described (just as the pork
is described) as coming from UK and non-UK
sources. Given the
amount of interest of such
by Sausage Review readers,
this sort of statement just
isn't as
specific as we would like to
be honest. Given that we
also read from the
Porky Whites web site that
"Almost all of the meat
sourced for our products
comes from within the UK
with some additional
supplies coming from trusted
EU farms to make up any
shortfall of UK supplies. We
always ensure that animal
welfare is a priority and
over 90% of our suppliers
are either RSPCA or Red
Tractor accredited." (We
believe a
figure of 100% should be the
case really)
We would also have preferred
natural skins on these, but
with many manufacturers nowadays
gradually switching to using casings
that are the collagen type,
we'll go with the flow.
These particular sausages
have beef collagen skins so
cooking these needs to be
done very carefully as difficulty
will be had trying to cook
such by pan frying and
avoiding the skins
splitting. Chicken sausages
are also likely to be very
lean and are unlikely to
leak extra oil in to the pan
through rutured and split
skins, but sausages looking
unsightly on your plate might
not bother some, but it does
bother us, and frankly others we
have spoken to. Let's see
how it goes...
In the raw they looked OK, weighing in around
65g a go and in a fairly
standard size it seems at 105mm x
28mm uncooked. Gluten free
using rice flour and
vegetable fibre etc..
We used the recommended
guidelines on the packet
regarding shallow frying (as we do all our
sampling), however this time
(just like the Farmhouse
Herbs we sampled recently)
we cooked at a very much lower
temperature and slightly longer
than the 15mins the
packaging recommends. We
once again utilised a catering thermometer to
check the internal
temperature and made sure
that we exceeded a
temperature of 74°C for
20 seconds to make sure they
were cooked sufficiently.
Food safety and all that...
They cooked up
OK and we tried to avoid
over cooking as these are
lean sausages but even being very
careful with the temperature the
skins did split and peeled
lengthways unfortunately once
again. (See photo below)
We agree that
this fact isn't dramatic but rubbery bits of skin
flapping about does
nothing for the overall look
when dishing up.
Yes we had splits on every
sausage
but fortunately no burnt
residues to contend with.
Minor
shrinkage was found and a
cooked weight loss of approx
9% was OK to be fair.
The skins were a bit chewy
though and although the
texture was a good smooth side of
medium, the chew was only
just OK. The flavour
unfortunately in our opinion
was a little bland.
We'd probably not buy these
ourselves. They're not for
us, sorry. However as a
perhaps healthier
alternative to pork sausage
if your dietary needs are
such, these may fit the
bill.
There's some
mixed reviews/comments on
the Ocado and trolley.co.uk
web sites about these that
we've read but look, the
above is our
honest opinion and of
course it may differ
completely from your own.
If
you don't agree or have
yourselves a
comment or two about these,
we'd be pleased to hear
about it.
Porky White's (Surrey) -
Premium Chicken
(May
2025)
Here's the
sample details:
105x28mm before cooking, 100x28mm
after.
65g before cooking, 59g after.
That's a shrinkage of approx 4% & weight
loss of approx 9%.
6 sausages in a 380g pack retails
online at
Ocado £3.90
(£10.26/kg approx).

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