Steggles Family Roast Whole Chicken 1.8kg - 2.5kg
Ingredients - Chicken (88%), Water, Salt, Sugar, Mineral Salts (451, 452, 450), Anti-caking Agent (341), Humectant (422).
EDIT: prices range from $2.80/kg to $3.90kg, depending on the store. Stores selling it for $2.80/kg appear to include most stores in QLD, SA, NT and TAS, as well as some NSW stores.
Thank you for morning laugh
Chicken (88%)
So it's actually $3.18/kg
but Aldi has Frozen turkey breast now. sorry Mr chicken, we're only eating the big birds now…. see you next year
in some places it’s standard meats on the table:
a M00Cow; BleatBleatGoat; OinkOnikPig or PluckPluckChicken
😅😇
Plus the rub or liquid marinade to actually make it taste like something other than bland tasteless chicken meat which has been pumped full of chemicals to make it larger that body builders eat with broccoli, and maybe a little rice too.
I bought a whole duck from Coles for $24 I think it was a week or 2 ago, and applied either Butcher BBQ sweet chipotle rub or Kick Butt Chipotle Honey rub on to it, I slow cooked it on the Kamado Joe and it fooking beautiful 🤤
It has been pumped with brine, not chemicals to make it larger than a body builder (whatever that is).
@OzzyBrak - 🙈… I meant pumped full of chemicals to increase it’s growth and size while it was alive. And the body builder comment was meaning that people who are serious about weight training and building muscle often eat bland food, while the general population generally prefers a bit of flavour.
They are actually selectively breed to grow quickly, it isn't added growth hormones (which have been banned for years). https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2022-11-26/hormones-in-chi…
@OzzyBrak: Thanks for the link, interesting read, I like learning new things… I’ve always just thought when I’ve purchased a 600g single chicken breast from the deli at Woolies or Coles that something seems a bit off 🤷♂️
Do you agree or disagree though that purchasing a chicken like this for cheap is quite bland on it’s own if you don’t add something else for flavour to it? Every time I have bought a chicken from Woolies or Coles like this because it’s cheap (where often I have leftovers for days) and have added nothing to it, to me it tastes like what I assume shit tastes like, and I often don’t want to eat the rest and struggle to do so or just bin it.
And this is coming from someone who ate nothing but a small portion of muesli with a tiny amount of full cream milk or oats cooked in water with a slash of full cream milk in the bowl, and 2 eggs for breakfast, Greek yogurt with fresh passion fruit, banana, fresh raspberries, fresh blueberries, fresh strawberries, and sometimes fresh mango for lunch, and lean meat protein (chicken breast, lean cuts of steak, or salmon), plus asparagus, broccoli, sweet potato, and mushroom, or a cucumber, tomato, lettuce, spinach, red onion, red capsicum, avocado, chilli, snow peas, olives, and feta cheese, with splash of salad dressing salad, and on the odd occasion beetroot as well, for dinner everyday for a little over 2 years between mid 2017 and when Covid began at the start of 2020, while I was heavily into fitness and weight training.
@[Deactivated]: The birds are bred and grown for maximum meat in the shortest possible time window, flavour takes a backseat. If you want chicken that tastes more like actual chicken you could try Coles Slow Hills. I don't know if they still sell this, I can't seem to find it online and it was expensive enough that they may have discontinued it due to poor sales.
You could also try picking up some frozen birds from larger Asian grocers or find a local supplier of chicken near you.
You mean costco
now you're talking
Also $2.80 per 1kg in WA
winner winner chicken dinner
How do they get away with calling a raw, whole chicken a “roast” chicken
I don't know why, no offence, but this comment made me think how society has fallen. Worried for my kids growing up.
well the picture on the packet looks nothing like whats inside … very deceiving if you ask a millennial, basically false advertising if you ask them.
Don’t really understand your comment? I just thought it was funny that it can be advertised that way when it’s not roasted.
I’m not upset about it, I’m amused.
Oh, then you should have wrote that instead.
When I read "Get away", to me that implies doing something illegal or unethical.
Funny and get away is very different.
More to the point, nit picking on something so trivial, again no offence, made me feel my kids will grow up in society where anything they could do or say potentially could be frowned upon.
Apologies, my kids a weak minded and may find it difficult to filter the fluff.
Perhaps its intended purpose is roasting from the extended brining? Not that it is roasted, but it is for roasting?
Let me tell you why the whole chickens in supermarket are called "roast" chiceken.
These roast chickens are horrible to me for many years because I came from China, where not many people would roast a chicken at home. Oven is not a standard part of a kitchen in our mysterious land of East (actually to the west of Australia, but it's not important). We like stir fry and even for other common cooking methods (stew/ braised in soy sauce/grill/steaming) these chicekns are just terrible, as during cooking, these was always too much water coming out of the chickens. I could not understand why until one day I read about injecting salt water into chicken (like 10% of the weight) is like common practise in Australia, which makes chicken juicy and tender.
These chickens are only good for roast in my opionion. Probably because of the extra salty juice inside them, it would not easily get too dry and tough in the oven.
In China, like 20-30 years ago, we talked about people injecting water into chickens/pork/beef(not necessarily salty water, as the only purpose of doing that was to increase the weight and charge more money), we hated those bad guys. And after coming to Australia I realised most chickens are from bad guys only. The good guys don't sell chickens.
Exactly. Hence the product is only 88% chicken, the rest is water with some other crap added.
why only 88% chicken huh
It's the Chinese good luck chicken
"We've taken great care to remove all bones from this product, however some may be present."
Teehee.
Steggles Family Boneless Roast Chicken Whole. 3D boneless chicken!
Is it possible to buy brineless chicken anywhere? Are breast fillets pumped with brine too?
Easiest way to tell if your chicken is brined: SODIUM >100mg/100g = brined. Unprocessed chicken is around 50mg.
These are 404mg/100g - I wouldn't eat it.
Also the Steggles product that isn't brined is called "Steggles Fresh Chicken Wholebird"
So this is why my chicken cakes never turn out right.