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Or the supermarkets selling rubbery chicken?!

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elm26 · 22/04/2024 19:21

I've had chicken breasts and a whole chicken in the last 2 weeks that have had this weird rubbery texture when cooked. It's really off putting and ends up being binned. I'm not over cooking it. This has been happening at least once a month with a batch of chicken (a big pack of 8 breast) or a whole chicken etc for a while now. I've tried Sainsbury's, Tescos, Waitrose and Asda and I've had a batch from each of them. Does anyone know what is happening here?!

I might just switch to chicken thigh, I've cooked a large chicken tonight for a mini roast and was going to use the leftover meat in a soup and a pasta dish this week but all of us have had to bin it and that's £9 down the drain 😩

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DrFoxtrot · 22/04/2024 19:47

Look up woody chicken breast, it might be what you've had.

worcesterpear · 22/04/2024 19:35

I hope someone who works in the food industry can tell us what's causing it, you never used to get this from freshly cooked shop-bought chicken. Is it being pumped full of something or is it due to the way it is stored?

Beingacatbed · 22/04/2024 19:35

ive noticed this too, last couple of months the chicken has seemed different texture wise and several lots ended up in the bin because it looked or smelled strange.

MrsAvocet · 22/04/2024 19:33

I don't eat chicken but I bought some for DS last week - Tesco finest corn fed organic chicken breasts so not cheap and I was expecting it to be decent quality. But it was as tough as old boots and most of it ended up in the bin. I was quite annoyed!

dothehokeycokey · 22/04/2024 19:30

Yep had this with Lidl and tescos chicken.

Also had a really stringy not so nice chicken from sainsburys.

Bought one from marks and Spencer's and the difference was immense.

It was £9 however one breast and leg did 4 roast dinners and the other breast and leg did chicken fajitas the next day and the dogs got the rest so well worth it.

We are trying to cut back on the cost of our food shopping as every week it's going up and we are getting less but that one chicken did two meals for us and we all eat adult sized portions.

worcesterpear · 22/04/2024 19:29

I've found this too, though I seem to be more sensitive to the texture of chicken than the rest of my family. It only seems to be in the last month or so that I've noticed it with supermarket bought chicken, like you say it's not every mouthful but it's very off-putting.

Umbongowasyuk · 22/04/2024 19:26

Use the butchers. So much nicer

ClockworkDisaster · 22/04/2024 19:25

We have had a couple of packs of chicken from Lidl’s like that. It almost felt like it was raw - certainly wasn’t raw and it was cooked well all the way through but it was so ‘bouncy’ and the texture was really odd. Not every mouthful, perhaps 1 in 6? Very strange. Not found it from any other supermarket though.