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Butchers
Choice (Tesco) - Cumberland
Well let's be
honest these wouldn't have been my
first choice to buy however we need
to be to be fair, so conducting a
sample on these was inevitable.
As it happens they're an OK sausage.
OK is about it though. Reading the
ingredients: 72% meat, water, rusk,
wheat semolina, parsley, salt...hang
on wheat semolina! Not seen
that listed specifically before.
Now the packet only indicates
grilling, nothing about frying, so
we sampled the same as ever and
became very amused that the skins
initially went very (and I mean
very) gelatinous in
the oil, and on two of the sausages
the skins split lengthwise and
rolled off. There was some
sniggering at this point and
references made by on-lookers to things that we
wont go in to here. With some more
cooking however the remainder did
cook up OK.
Texture-wise nothing to write home
about, in fact quite smooth, but the
flavour was reasonable with a hint
of parsley.
These sausages let's face it are
some what short of what you would
call a connoisseurs choice. Nothing exceptional,
with a reasonable bite, et
al. So at the retail price
offered for eight, I suppose an OK
sausage.
Only OK though, as I won't be
persuaded otherwise.
In a sausage hotpot or sausage
chilli surprise these would be
ideal.
Butchers
Choice (Tesco) - Cumberland
(Jun
2012)
Here's the
sample details:
100x28mm before cooking, 100x25mm
after.
57g before cooking, 47g after.
That's a shrinkage of approx 11% & weight loss of approx
17%.
8 sausages £1.65
(approx £3.60/kg)
www.tesco.com
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