5kgs of quality chicken for £20!

[krooton]

http://www.westingourmet.co.uk/2-5k...remail&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=chick125

I bought the same for £29 which I thought was an ace deal, this is amazing!

 

[Liquid_Entity]

How did your KFC-esque chicken turn out?

I might snap up this deal, shame I don't have a big enough freezer to store it all

 

[krooton]

Not as well as I had hoped, I think the pressure fryer they use is just as important as the seasoning. Still yummy though!

 

[blairw]

nice one - myself and some of the guys in the office have picked it up - even after delivery and having to add something to make the price up it still worked out better value than Tesco and I am sure the quality is good

 

[krooton]

Very good, I've had them 'neat', southern fried, and in chicken supreme, great quality every time.

 

[Kimi]

Thats a great deal. Ive just ordered some myself..

Very interested in hearing this KFC recipe too

 

[pitchfork]

I seriously doubt it's any good quality for that price.

 

[tom_e]

I seriously doubt it's any good quality for that price.

You'd be wrong then, it's much better quality than anything you'd pay twice the price for in a supermarket.

 

[pitchfork]

You'd be wrong then, it's much better quality than anything you'd pay twice the price for in a supermarket.

I don't get my chicken from a supermarket, I go to the butchers.

Even the "top range" stuff at the supermarket isn't much cop, it's all injected with water.

 

[tom_e]

Buying from a butchers isn't a guarantee of quality either though I've had some stuff from some butchers that was no better than super market value brand stuff.

 

[Zefan]

I'm pretty certain westin gourmet isn't poor quality...

 

[Mr Jones]

Are they Halal?

Joking aside, I just stocked up on 2kg from Morrison's price cut last week. I'll have to either eat them all this week along with many other produce or get a chest freezer to keep any more.

Will have to wait, hopefully I'll make space to order it next week. Thanks for the share!

 

[pitchfork]

Buying from a butchers isn't a guarantee of quality either though I've had some stuff from some butchers that was no better than super market value brand stuff.

I've known my butcher a long time, I know where the meat comes from, what it's fed on - everything.

 

[krooton]

I seriously doubt it's any good quality for that price.

Don't be a butcher-snob dude, the is very good quality. I begrudge buying even 'tast the difference' chicken as it is a rip off, but this is good, non-water-filled shizzle.

 

[glitch]

If you really care about the welfare of your food and what you're putting into your body, you wouldn't be buying this stuff. Ideally you should be looking at chicken produced to higher welfare standards (Freedom Food, Soil Association Organic, etc) and even looking at buying Organic wherever possible.

Westin Gourmet supply cheap, intensively farmed, mass produced chicken which is about as low-quality as you can get when it comes to poultry. And while they go to great lengths to make it appear their chicken is of a high-quality, the reality is somewhat different:

Reared on farms where animal welfare standards are met

Given these are standards, I'd hope they were met - I'd suggest it would be nigh-on impossible to find a supplier who sold produce from a farm that wasn't adhering to the guidelines.

100% Class A Chicken Breast

This is just a grading on visual appearance and has very little (if anything) to do with quality or even taste.

DEFRA certified

Essentially meaningless when you consider that DEFRA are the farming regulatory body - find me a farm which isn't DEFRA certified in one way or another.

proud to have numerous Red Tractor accredited goodies available to purchase from Westin Gourmet.

The Red Tractor mark is a marketing trick - its 'standards' are some of the lowest when it comes to animal welfare and in most cases barely improve upon the minimum legislative requirements.

 

[Kimi]

but is it halol?

 

[Deleted member 66701]

If you really care about the welfare of your food

I don't.

and what you're putting into your body,

I don't.

Thanks for the heads up OP - ordered some plus the "new customer" variety pack for £39 - looking forward to trying their Hache steaks - the ones I got from musclefood.com were great!

 

[Glaucus]

snip.

Although I mainly agree there's two important bits you missed out, which makes it better than a lot of supermarket stuff.

absolutely no added water, salt or fillers – just 100% Class A Chicken Breast that tastes immense

And the much lesser weighted one, is it's British so at least has to meet those very minimal standards, although a lot of supermarkets have moved to British as well

 

[glitch]

Although I mainly agree there's two important bits you missed out, which makes it better than a lot of supermarket stuff.

I meant to pick up on that but decided against it at the time.

Claiming that their chicken doesn't contain additives is like claiming it doesn't contain beef. It means nothing, yet sounds like it's a beneficial aspect of the product.

And the much lesser weighted one, is it's British so at least has to meet those very minimal standards, although a lot of supermarkets have moved to British as well

The 'British' aspect is the far more important of the two points you raise - it can't be 'lesser weighted' when it means the chicken can't have additives present in the first place.

Reading through the bulk offer again, what's interesting is that there's no specific claim that the chicken is from British farms and you'd think they'd highlight that if it was.

All WG claim is that the chicken is 'DEFRA certified' which could mean anything - even down to it having been imported from overseas by a DEFRA certified company.

 

[Illgresi]

Wont let me check-out because the order is less than £20. Not getting suckered into spending more, so ASDA smart price it is and shall remain.