It's been a long time between cans and sardines since sirena was last on special.
Not it's traditional half price however this is a pretty saving. About 33% (hope my maths is right lol)
Variety of 95g on special and other ranges too.
Sirena Tuna 95g Varieties - $1.80 @ Coles
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I'm convinced that so many of these different tuna brands are all just the same factory in thailand but with different packaging.
I'm not convinced. I can definitely taste a difference between the Coles Yellowfin, Woolies Yellowfin and Serena. Serena is always the favourite, but the price hurts. I typically buy it from costco though
Have you ever tried Callipo brand tuna? One of the few that are still made in Italy and with 100% olive oil. IMO, the taste is unbeatable.
@SmiTTy: $7.79 for Callipo 3x80g. 240g ~$32.45 per kg.
$2.70 (non sale price) for 95g Sirena ~$28.95 per kg.
Honestly, considering that the nicer stuff is 12% more expensive when both aren't on sale, I think that's pretty good.
@no not me: That's true. But I almost never buy tuna (ie sirena) if it's not on sale
The only exception to that is callipo. Only because the only place I can find callipo is my local Italian delicatessen and have never seen it on sale (not that I visit regular enough to know if or when it does)
But 100% agree with you. Callipo is the bomb of you're willing to pay more for the quality
Is this a better deal than the usual costco price?
Completely different.
Sirena is 'of mixed country origin' and is pole and line caught.
I'm just talking about the ones that are all "tuna" from thailand and all the same type (eg: skipjack).
Coles doesn't sell yellowfin. It's skipjack, whereas woolies is yellowfin. Different type of tuna so that's what you're tasting.
agree, sirena is the best but $$$$
Really doubt it — they taste nothing alike.
could be sorted by grade?
Well the catch is probably the same, but the processing is completely different.
mix em both for dollar cost of $1.55
How does Sirena compare to John west and homebrands? For the tuna connoisseurs that may come in and yell at me..I dont generally eat tuna at all so I genuinely don't know.
For me personally sirena is hands down the nicest tasting Tuna having tried all the other major brands.
Yep, and they now have a tripple chilli tuna for the spicey bois! 🌶
first thing i saw - ball gag
Have you tried the chunky tomato and basil or the soy and ginger?
Both are godly and are so good you can just eat them on their own.
Sirena compared to John West and other brands are very different in the quality of the fish. Sirena's tuna is like they cut off a chunk of the fish, jam it into the can and then add the sauce/flavour so when you pull it out of the can, the meat is still quite solid/chunky. Most of the other brands tends to feel like they scraped the residual fish off the off cuts, removed the bones, mixed it in the sauce so the tuna meat is all broken/flaked off and then scoop it into the can. You end up with a lot of sauce and while you might get similar weight of fish, the texture is quite different because the meat has disintegrated into the sauce. That's the best way I can describe it.
I've never seen someone articulate this so well. Exact same thoughts from me too
Even the john west 'chunky' variants are simply not as nice
Woolies long tins are where it's at. Slices of tuna.
The ones you're probably describing are "sandwhich tuna"
The way I describe the difference between Sirena and John West is like someone took the sirena tuna, chewed it up and spat it in the John west tin. It is so mushy!
Your description is more palatable!You have to get the chunky variety to compare with Sirena otherwise it’s not a fair comparison
John West is like cat food. All mushy and disgusting.
If I can't get Sirena, I found Aldi tuna to be pretty decent.Afaik they use different kind of tuna. JW uses skipjack whereas Sirena uses yellowfin tuna which I believe is more superior.
No healthy (mercury) so keep avoiding. Too much tuna sandwiches (profanity) even Dexter
JW was my goto, until I tried Sirena. Main gripe against JW is the tuna is all mushy.
sirena and some uncle bens rice, quick and easy work lunch (and cheap)
What a great combo that is
Used to do this for ages. Now I cook my own rice mixed brown and basmati so it's not so hard(brown rice always hard)
I also mix in some mixed veggies, soy sauce and a egg when it's done and leave it to cook a bit and turns out really nice for few days to take to work
Give it a shot in any rice cooker
(brown rice always hard)
I put on a pot of brown rice weeks ago and it's still not done!
Haha yeah it's bs lol the brown cup rice are so nice and soft but when U cook it yourself Jesus haha so hard n whack. I mix the basmati to make it all alot softer
The way to make it softer, if you use a rice cooker, is to boil the brown rice until it gets a bit soft (15-20min) before adding it in with washed white rice. The rice cooker takes care of the rest :)
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what are the ways ppl eat canned tuna?
we usually open a can and eat it from there
how to make it go further besides straight up?
Mix with dog food
@capslock janitor: My go to tuna salad bowl:
* 1 lebanese cucumber (or 1/2 continental cucumber) - big dice
* 8 cherry tomatoes - halved
* 1/4 red onion - sliced
* 8 kalamata olives
* Couple scoops of tinned chickpeas
* 1 can of tuna in oil (undrained)
* salt + pepper + splash of vinegar
hmm… i knew i was doing something wrong.
Staple of the Maltese diet! -
Grab a crispy roll, open it up, get a ripe tomato and smoosh the tomato juice all over the bread and then place squashed tomatoes in the roll (or you can smear on some tomato paste). Add S ome olive oil, Sirena tuna, salt and pepper, olives…. And then some capers and lettuce if you wish.
Delicious.
Sounds nice, but I find that raw tomatoes taste ultra fishy when eaten with tuna, it's like the glutamates ramp up the fishy factor tenfold.
I usually make a quinoa & chickpea salad as a weekly dinner, and use the leftovers with a can of tuna for lunch.
Delicious and nutricious!
Finely chop red onion, parsley, capsicum (as small as you can).
Add to Tuna in bowl, mix well.
flavour with pepper, olive oil, lemon, chilli, garlic, some italian herb of your choice (optional).
eat with bread or sometimes pastaThere's different ways to eat it than draining it, adding salt and pepper, and straight from the tin while you lean against the kitchen sink in <30 seconds?
Its good diet food. For lunch I'll typically have a 300g sachet of cauliflower rice, a tin of tuna and smother it in hot sauce
Jaffles! 1 small can is perfect amount for 2 jaffles. Add a slice of cheese in each or whatever you want. Always goes down well.
Ocean Rise from Aldi is really similar to Sirena but way cheaper.
I agree. Very similar. They all come out of Thailand, the company just picks the grade they want and it gets shipped. I think Aldi is probably just below Sirena.
unit/price?
I think it's $1.79/185g and $1.19/95g. They are very very similar quality to Sirena, would highly recommend.
Definitely agreed with this. Hardly detectable difference, except for the price!
Which flavour do people recommend?
Original oil or chilli, otherwise the putanesca is also nice if you're having it on something plain like a sandwich or crackers.
Garlic is my fav - but now they also have garlic + chilli! =D Sirena FTW!
Better for the environment (less packaging) and cheaper - even at this sale price - to buy the large, 425g tin. Put the leftovers in a plastic container in the fridge/freezer and use as required.
"Tuna fishing" and "better for the environment" could never co-exist
is it unsustainable?
Fishing isn't in general. I would recommend checking out Seaspiracy on Netflix that covers many areas of the industry.
One example (Australia related) if you like reading:
https://scienceillustrated.com.au/blog/features/can-australi…@AncientWisdom: Modern day industrialised fishing is ruining marine ecosystems (Super Trawlers and bycatch).
What is actually happening out on the seas differs greatly to the picture that companies paint for the public.
Certifications for certain things are BS. They are not assessed correctly or checked to see if they are being followed.
At least the Sirena brand uses tuna "caught by hand, one fish at a time" (pole and line) rather than scooping up half the ocean in a net. Substantially less bycatch that way.
versus farming- aint it worse??
@capslock janitor: It's an interesting debate. Yes, farming is a problem if it isn't properly managed to eliminate environmental impact then, yes, it is worse. Also, I believe most farms are really just fattening operations - they are actually stocked from ocean-sourced fish.
Better for the environment (less packaging) and cheaper - even at this sale price - to buy the large, 425g tin.
Sorry but it's not even a rounding error when you're trying to be better for the environment by doing this.
It may make you feel a bit better but it doesn't do jack.
Completely wrong. The 95g can uses approximately 158 square cm steel /100g product whereas the 425g can uses approximately 88 square cm steel / 100g product (calculated using dimensions given on the Coles website). So almost a 50% saving with the larger can. Not to mention the large savings in transport costs - both weight (less steel) and volume (more efficient stacking within the carton) with the larger can.
large savings
Less steel means more cans. You do realise that right? So yes it weighs less, but they aren't moving less product around. so this isn't true.
If you truly believe that you are making a difference to the environment because you're purchasing a larger tin of tuna, then I hate to break it to you.
Less steel means more cans
…what? It means fewer, larger cans that hold more product. This means less energy required to produce a lower amount of steel, and a higher ratio of product to packaging for shipping.
If you truly believe that you are making a difference to the environment
Packaging is a huge source of waste. Iron ore is energy intensive to mine, and steel is energy intensive to manufacture. Every little bit makes a difference when you multiply the same behaviour over a large number of people.
But tell us more about what you're doing. If that's too much, ask yourself why you're so triggered by basic maths.
@coffeeinmyveins: I have no idea what you are getting at…
The saving is you are using less steel (and consequently less cardboard, less fossil fuel, less building materials to build the warehousing etc, etc) by using larger packages per unit product.
If you can't understand this fundamental concept then there's no point in continuing…
@miztadave: And just in case they still need somebody to walk them through the primary school-level maths:
Let's say we want to ship 1000L of water in steel cans. We have two options:
- ship the water in 100 cans, each holding 10L
- ship the water in 1000 cans, each holding 1L
The 1L cans have a radius of 5cm and a height of 12.73cm - about as high as a Coke can, but wider. They have a surface area of 577cm^2. (In case you really failed primary school maths and think that's a really big number, a sheet of A4 paper has an area of about 624cm^2.) We need 1000 of them, so we need steel with a total surface area of 577,000cm^2.
The 10L cans have a radius of 8cm and a height of 49.74cm. (You can frig around with the dimensions if you want, but the answer is about the same.) They have a surface area of 2,902cm^2. That's 5 times as much as the 1L cans…except they hold 10 times as much. We only need 100 of these cans, for a total surface area of 290,200cm^2.
Wow, we've shipped the same volume of water using just (290,200 / 577,000) = 50 per cent of the steel.
But apparently cutting something in f&^%ing half is "not even a rounding error", and cutting the packaging material in half isn't worth the effort.
Best deal out there for microplastics
So you don't eat apples either then?
I just buy the Black & Gold 425g tins of tuna for $3 at IGA ($0.71/100g) and mix with few teaspoons of chilli oil, tastes just as good to me and so much cheaper.
One 95g tin of puttanesca mixed well with 250g of Aldi Cottage Cheese, what a fine Breakfast.
When you are finished, wash the tin and recycle, scrap is always needed for the production of steel.Worth noting that the Sirena 425g cans are slightly cheaper per kilo ($16.47 vs this at $18.95), regular price.
For anyone asking how it compares to other tuna brands, I find it nicer than the cheaper options but it's not make or break - however, it's nice knowing Sirena is all line-caught, not trawled. I've watched too many documentaries to trust anything completely but it's got to be better for the environment than the products competing for lowest price.
Not that that matters for many.
The Coles Yellowfin tuna in Chilli oil is a good everyday staple.
Not 100% the same, but pretty close imo for a much cheaper price.
Coles Pacific Tuna Chilli 185g @ $2.00 or 95g @ $1.30.