To say that Sainsburys chicken is much worse than Aldi chicken

[Lovesgood]

I bought some Sainsburys chicken tigh fillets and each had a tiny bit of bone in them when I cleaned them! Im glad I noticed, didnt fancy biting on that and hurting my teeth.
A few days later I got Aldi chicken thighs, and....no tiny bones! None! Nada!
So Sainsburys, you can shove your more expensive chicken up your jumper!
By the way this is not the most serious thread, obviously. I just wanted to tell someone

Oh I forgot. Do you have any similar stories? Where a cheaper product turned out to be nicer than a more expensive one?

Iceland do very nice, fresh chicken.

I've never liked sainsbury meat

To be fair, I bought Aldi "boneless" chicken thigh fillets the other day and had to cut a few bones out of them. I guess you were just lucky with the ones you got! 😂

Had some Waitrose organic chicken thigh fillets the other day - £10 for the pack and they were vile. Should have gone to Aldi

yabu for buying cheap meat.

I find Aldi chicken often doesn't last till the use by date. I opened some to cook last week, still in date, and we had to double bag it in the outside bin. Completely gone.

Why are you washing chicjen

We like Sainsbury's corn fed chicken.
It tastes better than the chickens fed on fishmeal etc., and I like to think the birds enjoy it before they are slaughtered.

Sorry posted too soon...

Why are you washing chicken? It just spreads the bacteria around the kitchen.

You clean them?
I just use them for fajitas so cut them up and regularly cut small bits of bone out of them, it’s not really a big deal

The major supermarkets nearly all get their chicken from the same processing business. They sell directly from their factory to the public and its exactly the same chicken, produced in the same way. I got quite a shock when I realised that all the years I had been buying M&S chicken because it was 'better' was in fact just me being duped by marketing!

Hmm, now that I think about it, I don't know if I've ever seen Sainsburys chicken at the factory. Have definitely seen Waitrose, M&S, Tesco and Aldi though. Sainsburys might get theirs from a different supplier.

You shouldn't wash raw chicken. The bacteria can spray everywhere and increase your risk of food poisoning. This applies to both Aldi and Sainsbury's chicken.

Sorry, that was misleading of me. By cleaning I dont mean washing with water, just cutting off fat and grisly bits.

isabellerossignol
That is very interesting

I don't buy thighs but I rate Sainsbury's chicken breasts above the other supermarkets. They are always soft and juicy compared with Tesco ones that taste like they have freezer burn on the odd occasion

We really like Aldi meat. We can always tell the difference, for the better, between it and Tesco's.

I find with chicken from Aldi or Lidl, there is about a 30% chance of a breast fillet being hard and chewy with a peculiar hard texture once cooked. I've never experienced that with any chicken from Sainsburys, Tesco or Asda.

Asda is the best value and the nicest quality, ime. Although in fairness I did once post in here about some oddly fishy smelling chicken thighs from Asda that were well in date - an MN food scientist reassured me that it was edible, and DH ate them but I didn't. He was fine.

Are you buying free range? If not, YABU.

Ah my mistake

A butcher in the family rates aldi meat but not chicken, sainsbury is all good quality, asda is shite!!

Aldis free range whole chicken is lovely, and about £5.50/£6.00 for a medium to large bird.

Have never had bad meat from aldi and I like that they are more ethical to farmers and to livestock than others.

We really like Aldi meat. We can always tell the difference, for the better, between it and Tesco's.

They are both produced by Moy Park.

We really like Aldi meat. We can always tell the difference, for the better, between it and Tesco's.

Please ignore my previous post, you said meat and in my head I read 'chicken'. Apologies!

not chicken but icelands versions of magnums are equally yummy and at 4 for either £1 for the chocolate ones or £1.50 for the luxury ones are way cheaper i can indulge

As above..a friend of mine has worked in chicken factories..It's all the same meat just getting labelled different for where ever it's going.