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To not buy mince in Sainsbury's
Abccde · 09/03/2023 19:03
1st world problems I know 🤣
But yuck - I wouldn't feed it to a dog.
The new vacuum pac might not affect the taste (I won't be finding out for a long time) but it certainly looks absolutely disgusting.
And it wasn't this colour in store - they were all horrible and brown! 🤢🤮
Am I being unreasonable?
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iklboo · 10/03/2023 18:52
I hate supermarket mince. I take my own Tupperware box to the butcher and he fills it up to my requirements. No plastic waste
Unfortunately not many places have a local butcher anymore. Ours closed just before lockdown which is such a shame. Our fishmonger too. We're gutted but people obviously weren't using it enough for it to be viable.
Talkingtomyhouseplants · 10/03/2023 19:20
GoodChat · 09/03/2023 19:12
I'm assuming it's something to do with the packaging process - maybe because it sucks all of the air in so tightly?
Alannahxx · 09/03/2023 19:08
I didn't buy any today as you're right, it all looked a brown colour....is that just because of the new packaging? I though it looked a bit off!
It turns pink when it oxidises. It’s why when you look in the middle of a normal pack of mince it’s sometimes a brownish colour in the middle. It will be because of the vacuum packing, nothing wrong with it at all
CeriB82 · 10/03/2023 19:47
Alphabet1spaghetti2 · 10/03/2023 18:05
@CeriB82 I'm jealous regarding the butcher! Currently annoyed as we’ve lost our cheese and deli shop which closed today. (I was a twice weekly customer, so did use it!). Shame that increasing rents etc have forced than out.
That is a shame. Is there a farm shop nearby?
Alphabet1spaghetti2 · 10/03/2023 19:52
@CeriB82 sadly no, there is one around a half hours drive away. (On a good day with no roadworks or accidents, currently can be as long as an hours drive each way - and we currently have 6 months of scheduled roadworks on that road 😳). Our town and county council appear hell bent on destroying our town shops and centre anyway they can, especially for smaller and independent shops.
brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr · 10/03/2023 19:56
GoodChat · 10/03/2023 19:34
Yeah but it tastes like shit
KarmaStar · 10/03/2023 18:50
Quorn mince!
It hasn't screamed in terror and had its throat slit for you to turn you nose up at.
it’s not been anywhere near shit, unlike actual animal corpse
OhmygodDont · 10/03/2023 19:59
brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr · 10/03/2023 19:56
it’s not been anywhere near shit, unlike actual animal corpse
GoodChat · 10/03/2023 19:34
Yeah but it tastes like shit
KarmaStar · 10/03/2023 18:50
Quorn mince!
It hasn't screamed in terror and had its throat slit for you to turn you nose up at.
Yeah but I want my meat to taste like meat. Not my meats food thanks ☺️
Okunevo · 10/03/2023 20:15
GoodChat · 10/03/2023 20:08
@brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr I don't care what it's been near, I care what it tastes like
Same here! I like my mince to be the animal kind. If I want fungi I'll chop up some mushrooms, not buy ultra processed soil mould grown in a factory.
WhiteFire · 10/03/2023 22:44
neighboursmustliveon · 10/03/2023 18:09
It uses 55% less plastic which will save over 450 tons of plastic a year. Funnily my DH got an email about this just as I was reading this thread.
We bought some week before last, DH and ds said mince was lovely snd DH just said he preferred it and the mince was a better colour as air couldn't get to it.
I've just read the same email and thought back to this thread. Look OP at what you made Sainsbury's do?
I wouldn't be surprised if the marketing team has Google alerts set and they were alerted to this thread - or the OP is in fact the marketing team and this was just some great undercover operation to make us go buy it on our next shop.
Kerfuffler · 10/03/2023 23:11
TheInterceptor · 09/03/2023 21:55
Is this the one that's being investigated as been from South America, but sold as British?
Nah, that's Booth's.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-64913809
Kerfuffler · 10/03/2023 23:14
Blondeshavemorefun · 10/03/2023 23:05
Out of curiosity how much is 450g of steak minced
Arapawa · 09/03/2023 23:23
Go to your butcher and buy some steak. Get fatty edges trimmed off and get him/her to mince it for you. That's the best way to buy mince.
0.992 lb, minced or otherwise.
CandleInTheStorm · 10/03/2023 23:17
KarmaStar · 10/03/2023 18:50
Quorn mince!
It hasn't screamed in terror and had its throat slit for you to turn you nose up at.
Quorn mince has to be the most disgusting thing I've ever smelt and tasted in cooking anything requiring mince In my life. It's vile and there's no disguising it.
Piggywaspushed · 11/03/2023 15:49
People buy mince for texture as well as taste.
I am currently making a Sainsburys Bolognese and bought the more expensive mince.
It has the texture of really really cheap value mince and lacks juiciness.
There is no way I can make my own homemade burgers with this in the summer. It's like the mince you get all squished in British cheap beefburgers. I make a looser textured burger.
This mince is not juicy.
Did the focus group testing include the groups cooking it does nay one know?
I am all for reduction of waste but this feels a mistake.
Not all of us by the way have a 'local butcher's, and many of us want to sop all in one trip -which is actually better for the environment, surely? We don't all live in village bliss wandering form shop to local shop with our wicker baskets.
SoupDragon67 · 14/03/2023 19:25
While I applaud the environmental thinking, the new packaging sucks. The last thing anyone wants is vacuum packed mince. It comes out of the shrink wrap in a congealed lump that is almost impossible to break apart. In fact, I would say it's not mince at all, it's lumpy pressed meat. There must be better solutions. And, it's still plastic...
NeverDropYourMooncup · 14/03/2023 20:19
SoupDragon67 · 14/03/2023 19:25
While I applaud the environmental thinking, the new packaging sucks. The last thing anyone wants is vacuum packed mince. It comes out of the shrink wrap in a congealed lump that is almost impossible to break apart. In fact, I would say it's not mince at all, it's lumpy pressed meat. There must be better solutions. And, it's still plastic...
That's what a wooden spoon is for.
SoupDragon67 · 14/03/2023 20:28
NeverDropYourMooncup · 14/03/2023 20:19
That's what a wooden spoon is for.
SoupDragon67 · 14/03/2023 19:25
While I applaud the environmental thinking, the new packaging sucks. The last thing anyone wants is vacuum packed mince. It comes out of the shrink wrap in a congealed lump that is almost impossible to break apart. In fact, I would say it's not mince at all, it's lumpy pressed meat. There must be better solutions. And, it's still plastic...
Yes, I worked that out Einstein. Twenty minutes patiently breaking it apart in the pan with the wooden spoon. It's still lumpy because mince isn't supposed to be pressed together. Have you actually tried it? That's why mince from a butcher is on a tray not compressed under heavy weights. And, where I will be buying my mince in the future instead of Sainsbury's. No plastic either.
NeverDropYourMooncup · 14/03/2023 20:42
SoupDragon67 · 14/03/2023 20:28
Yes, I worked that out Einstein. Twenty minutes patiently breaking it apart in the pan with the wooden spoon. It's still lumpy because mince isn't supposed to be pressed together. Have you actually tried it? That's why mince from a butcher is on a tray not compressed under heavy weights. And, where I will be buying my mince in the future instead of Sainsbury's. No plastic either.
NeverDropYourMooncup · 14/03/2023 20:19
That's what a wooden spoon is for.
SoupDragon67 · 14/03/2023 19:25
While I applaud the environmental thinking, the new packaging sucks. The last thing anyone wants is vacuum packed mince. It comes out of the shrink wrap in a congealed lump that is almost impossible to break apart. In fact, I would say it's not mince at all, it's lumpy pressed meat. There must be better solutions. And, it's still plastic...
Maybe you've got a defective spoon, because we don't seem to have any difficulty with it. Having said that, I have been known to use the things on the ends of my arms to assist with cooking sometimes, so maybe crumbling it into a cool pan with fingers and then breaking it up as it heats up would make it easier if you usually just upend a packet into a hot pan so it's sealing into a block before you've got around to the spoon bit.
Our mince from the butcher's comes in a bag, so it's not far off the same texture once it's made its way home underneath the chicken, lambs' kidneys and stewing steak. Makes it quicker to do burgers as well, as there's no having to knead at it in order to get it to stay together.
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