Porky White's (Surrey) -
Surrey Premium Pork
We received somewhat
negative comments from one
of our readers about their
experience of Porky White's
sausages, so as it's been a
while since we sampled such,
we thought we would give
them another go.
In 2012 you could buy Porky
White's Surrey Porks,
however these seem to have
now been superseded by these
Surrey Premium Porks. It has
been a while and in sales &
marketing terms, frankly an
age. Times move on.
These premiums are 82% pork,
with a blend of unique
seasoning (so the packaging
says) with a hint of honey
and lemon juice, all filled
in to natural pork casings.
Sounds OK to us? The Surrey
Porks of 2012 did say 82%
pork shoulder, but these
just say "pork", although
from their web site it does
say "only the finest cuts of
pork belly and shoulder goes
into a Porky White pork
sausage". So there you go.
As for the source of the
pork used we note the
following: "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."
So how did we get on with
the sampling?
As you may be aware we pan
fry all our samples
basically to keep consistent
in terms of process and
scoring. The packaging does
make suggestions how to
grill, fry and oven bake...but
nothing about air frying?
I'm sure there will be at
some stage.
In the pan they cooked up
pretty good really. The
natural skins browned well,
yes a few splits and one
burst out of 6 sausages
which was annoying but not
detrimental to the taste as
we've highlighted before.
The previous Surrey Porks,
we noted in our 2012 review,
did suck up any oil we added
to the pan as they cooked,
but with these Premiums,
nothing like that. Roughly
about the same amount of oil
(approx a teaspoon measure)
we used in the pan initially
was still there just about.
They did however loose quite
a bit of weight. 13% is not
great. Shrinkage was minimal
though at less than 1% which
is excellent.
Texture of the sausage meat
was medium to firm. The
seasoning with added thyme
(which you can see in the
slice photo) was very good.
Mind you we didn't get the
honey, lemon or ginger as
included in the ingredients
list though. Nicely
succulent however and the
bite/chew was very much OK.
It would be worth noting,
that these sausages are not
gluten free BTW.
We were expecting, based on
what we'd seen from emailed comments
to SausageReview from Duncan
of Crawley about Porky
White's sausages and let's
say the quality of the
makings and that there may have
been an issue, but nothing we
could note with our sampling
this time.
These Surrey Premium Porks
would make an ideal everyday
sausage as far as we are
concerned. Great in a
sandwich or with mash. Good value too...
Porky White's (Surrey) -
Surrey Premium Pork
(Jan
2024)
Here's the
sample details:
100x30mm before cooking, 93x30mm
after.
66g before cooking, 57g after.
That's an overall shrinkage of less
than 1% &
weight loss of approx 13%.
6 in a 400g pack at £3.50 (£8.75/Kg
approx).
(400g pack at £3 with Sainsbury's
Nectar Card discount)
www.porkywhites.com
Reviews & comments from others:
"Porky Whites. Must be 25%
water and fat. Never again..."
Duncan Bardsley (Jan 2024)