Mushy vacuum packed mince

I honestly can't tell the difference once it's cooked, but I prefer that it has a longer date on it and it takes up less room in the fridge/freezer. I don't find it any harder to break up than the mince in a plastic tub.

As previous poster said it's slurry. Jamie Oliver showed us how it's created using a pressure washer on the cattle bones and some kind of catering concrete mixer. I won't buy it.

Sainsbury's mice is vile.

I complained bitterly in my review and they refused to post it.

I think the vacuum packs are a drop in the ocean when it comes to reducing plastic waste. America, China and India are just a few examples of how much plastic waste there is. Changing a few packs of mince packaging is not going to make a difference. I have more going to landfill now with the new packaging which can’t be recycled

It’s disgusting and no amount of mashing and frying gets the lumps out. Sainsburys is the worst one for sure.

It saves plastic. That’s throws any possible negatives.

Vacuum packed meat slurry.

I hate it with a passion, so have stopped using Sainsbury's and Lidl altogether.

M&S, Waitrose and Asda still do mince in a conventional tray, so I spend my £300 odd a month with them.

It's yet another case of making something worse on the altar of profit and green wash, like those ridiculous attached caps on plastic bottles so they don't go back on properly.

Well, 88% of people are saying it doesn't taste as good, and so many shop elsewhere to get the kind of mince they want. It's hardly win-win if they are driving further do dodge the cruddy mince.

It's better for the environment and it tastes just as good. I call that a win.

Ridiculous.why just the mince? And if the supermarkets bothered to keep the meat counters open then there would be less need for packaging full stop. But yeah blame the people who hate the manky mince ( I've stopped eating it at all now due to this)

We won't pay less though.

Waitrose offer a good compromise packaging solution here - no hard plastic trays, so the packs are smaller than those. The mince is in a plastic bag, but isn't vacuum packed, so no compromise of the texture or flavour.

On the pricier side of the supermarkets, though, of course.

Carbon foot as in packing and transporting
You’d get far more vacuum pack mince in a lorry
so less lorries less journeys and less packaging as in you’ll get more vacuum pack mince in 1 cardboard box

If that was the reason they would do it also for the minced turkey and pork. They don’t. But hey I’m glad you can use that tone and feel better about yourself.

Yes, we have a local Lidl that I stopped using entirely because I would rather get all my food from one shop - and that one shop won't be one that makes their mince smelly, gray and mushy.

I shop in Aldi but refuse to buy their mince so we actually eat far fewer mince based dishes as a result. It used to be a staple ingredient!
When I do want to buy some I have been going to Tesco as it is marginally better.

Oh God, the vacuum packed mince is absolutely rank. Plus it requires an unfeasible amount of breaking down. I don’t buy mince in Sainsburys anymore.

You just need a mince chopper.

One of these

Our closest grocery store tried to start carrying this stuff. We all clearly refused to buy it because they finally relented and brought back real mince despite the corporate edict that they had to switch. (Multiple people in the community talked to management. It’s a small town, people were unhappy, and changing the mince is about as big as news gets around here. Hence knowing how it all played out.)

There are a couple of stores that are convenient to shop at that carry it and I just don’t buy meat there anymore. If that is what they stock for mince, I don’t trust their other meat selection.

the pink mush masquerading as mince is awful. It is passable as food if all you need is something to be browned and hidden in a sauce, but if you try to make a hamburger or a meatloaf, it quickly becomes obvious there is something wrong with it.

Off topic but aged 15 in 1971 I worked in Sainsbury’s on Saturdays and for my first three months I was in the meat packing department. Usually I was heat-sealing and labelling packs of chicken quarters,

One week I had to prep mince. There were huge bins of stewing, or braising steak, big slabs of beef. I had to feed the slabs through a mincing machine into another huge bin, then pack and label weighed portions. After about half of it had been done, the mincing plates were changed to smaller holes for a finer mince. That wax then labelled as “minced steak”, although it was the same meat as the “minced beef”. And finally, a small amount was labelled (and priced higher) as “Scotch beef” again it was from exactly the same bin of meat!

Yes, my DP gets that all the time. Not a weird grey colour either.

Home bargains mince is good - normal pack and not too expensive

I don’t mind it but I use one of those mince masher things and sear it in batches to get it browner

I dont know if its a me thing with any meat, but the taste as changed with it.
I dont really eat any meat now, although i do like th cooked bacon from my local polish shop, thats amazing.

But store meat asda, tescos, morrisons etc etc it just tastes different.

It must be my age creeping in.

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