Why do the burgers from Tesco, Aldi taste like s**t?

18-06-2021 6:13pm #1

I can't be the only one who thinks this.

It's much nicer to just buy the mince and make your own.

EmmetSpiceland · 18-06-2021 6:22pm

They’ve all gone downhill since they had to replace the horse meat with low grade, reclaimed, meat “slurry”.

Nothing but connective tissue, eyelids and scrotum. You really do get what you pay for when it comes to meat.

18-06-2021 6:27pm

Its down to the ingredents/spices etc added

Its same meat geos into a mackers burger

Source: know a few people working and do be in/out of the dawn burger plant in carrolls cross with work

Fr_Dougal · 18-06-2021 7:13pm

RossGeller wrote: »

I can't be the only one who thinks this.

It's much nicer to just buy the mince and make your own.

That’s such a Rachel thing to say.

odyssey06 · 18-06-2021 7:15pm

RossGeller wrote: »

I can't be the only one who thinks this.

It's much nicer to just buy the mince and make your own.

Check the ingredients list for things like cumin or capsicum. Thats probably the culprit.

Bobblehats · 18-06-2021 7:18pm

odyssey06 wrote: »

Check the ingredients list for things like cumin or capsicum. Thats probably the culprit.

Yah you don’t want none of that none of that cumin in your burggers. Going to taste a bit off alright

dxhound2005 · 18-06-2021 7:23pm

Nothing like that in the ingredients list for Aldi.

https://groceries.aldi.ie/en-GB/ALDIIE/p-irish-5-fat-beef-burgers-280g-butchers-selection/4088600035208

But they are in the Tesco list.

https://www.tesco.ie/groceries/product/details/?id=286680073

Archeron · 18-06-2021 7:26pm

Snot?

Jizique · 18-06-2021 7:28pm

dxhound2005 wrote: »

Nothing like that in the ingredients list for Aldi.

https://groceries.aldi.ie/en-GB/ALDIIE/p-irish-5-fat-beef-burgers-280g-butchers-selection/4088600035208

But they are in the Tesco list.

https://www.tesco.ie/groceries/product/details/?id=286680073

Those Aldi ones are surprisingly good; was very disappointed in ones from Dunnes and wouldn’t touch Tesco with a barge pole

odyssey06 · 18-06-2021 7:31pm

dxhound2005 wrote: »

Nothing like that in the ingredients list for Aldi.

https://groceries.aldi.ie/en-GB/ALDIIE/p-irish-5-fat-beef-burgers-280g-butchers-selection/4088600035208

But they are in the Tesco list.

https://www.tesco.ie/groceries/product/details/?id=286680073

I avoid Tesco and Dunnes burgers as find them always over seasoned with chili pepper or spices.

Might try aldi ones.

M&S ultimate burger and Supervalu homestyle just let the beef do the talking.

iamstop · 18-06-2021 7:34pm

Hands down the best burger you can buy (Canada)
https://www.presidentschoice.ca/product/pc-portobello-swiss-burger/20941351_EA

Hands down the best sausages you can get in Ireland:
https://lindamccartneyfoods.co.uk/our-food/frozen-range/vegetarian-sausages

Ubbquittious · 18-06-2021 9:08pm

I reckon the likes of McDonalds are strong-arming the suppliers to make them this way deliberately, with the threat of switching suppliers if a nice-tasting burger appears in Tesco

whisky_galore · 18-06-2021 9:10pm

iamstop wrote: »

Hands down the best burger you can buy (Canada)
https://www.presidentschoice.ca/product/pc-portobello-swiss-burger/20941351_EA

Hands down the best sausages you can get in Ireland:
https://lindamccartneyfoods.co.uk/our-food/frozen-range/vegetarian-sausages

Pretend meat products.
Great.

Kaybaykwah · 18-06-2021 9:17pm

Archeron wrote: »

Snot?

S'not wut it says on da label...

ablelocks · 18-06-2021 10:48pm

the rib steak burgers in aldi are decent.

SouthWesterly · 18-06-2021 10:52pm

iamstop wrote: »

Hands down the best sausages you can get in Ireland:
https://lindamccartneyfoods.co.uk/our-food/frozen-range/vegetarian-sausages

Hate to state the obvious but that's not a sausage as most of us define a sausage, ie pork based.

andekwarhola · 18-06-2021 10:58pm

Just get them from a decent butcher. It's often not as expensive as you'd assume.

18-06-2021 11:13pm

RossGeller wrote: »

Why do the burgers from Tesco, Aldi taste like s**t?

Archeron wrote: »

Snot?

God no. I think there is only one thing the ** can mean.

Store bought "burgers" taste like one thing and one thing only -

sALt.

Forget "snot" I think "salt" is the worst insult you can level against any burger

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Py9YW8rIylg&t=20s&ab_channel=FirstWeFeastFirstWeFeastVerified

accensi0n · 18-06-2021 11:18pm

Favourite at the moment are the sirloin steak burgers from supervalu, prepared at the butcher counter.

18-06-2021 11:22pm

Irish Black Angus Ultimate 8oz Beef Burgers are very good imo

CornettoQueen · 18-06-2021 11:24pm

Love a good Turkey burger myself... Supervalu good quality

Bobblehats · 18-06-2021 11:59pm

I like a good chicken bugger. They’re all the rage bow , have ye noticed?

Hint of Sarcasm · 19-06-2021 12:01am

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

They’ve all gone downhill since they had to replace the horse meat with low grade, reclaimed, meat “slurry”.

Nothing but connective tissue, eyelids and scrotum. You really do get what you pay for when it comes to meat.

I heard something like that being said before about burgers. How much of it is true?

Motivator · 19-06-2021 12:04am

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

They’ve all gone downhill since they had to replace the horse meat with low grade, reclaimed, meat “slurry”.

Nothing but connective tissue, eyelids and scrotum. You really do get what you pay for when it comes to meat.

What a lazy and ignorant comment to make. You do realise the incredibly high standards that all retailers had to adopt after what happened back in 2013? All suppliers are audited several times a year and would you believe, the processors even put the ingredients on the label!

retalivity · 19-06-2021 12:12am

Tesco (in Ireland anyway) are renowned for sh1te meat

Had burgers out of Lidl and Super Valu and they were savage, although nothing will ever beat the ones you make yourself.

retro:electro · 19-06-2021 12:14am

glasso wrote: »

Irish Black Angus Ultimate 8oz Beef Burgers are very good imo

Had those in a bbq a few weeks ago and they were delicious. Everyone loved them.
Tesco burgers are absolute scuther however

EmmetSpiceland · 19-06-2021 12:57am

Motivator wrote: »

What a lazy and ignorant comment to make. You do realise the incredibly high standards that all retailers had to adopt after what happened back in 2013? All suppliers are audited several times a year and would you believe, the processors even put the ingredients on the label!

Oh yeah, you really think you’re getting “choice cuts” used in that burger, do you? You’re paying a couple of quid, you’re getting the stuff that’s only called beef by the skin of its teeth.

Next you’ll be telling me the fart smell you get when you open cooked ham packets is a sign of good “quality” meat, not something that was, at one point, all a paste and formed to look like an actual slice of ham.

I’ve no problem with eating cheap meat but, be honest, you’re getting what you pay for with these products. Reclaimed connective tissue and the lowest grade of meat. It’s basically floor sweepings.

If you want good meat, go to a “reputable” butcher and pay for it. You can still have, and enjoy, your Findus Pancake or Fray Bentos steak and kidney dog food. Just don’t dress it up as anything more than it is.

Church on Tuesday · 19-06-2021 1:05am

andekwarhola wrote: »

Just get them from a decent butcher. It's often not as expensive as you'd assume.

This. I get burgers from the butcher at 1€ each and they are top notch.

19-06-2021 1:21pm

retro:electro wrote: »

Had those in a bbq a few weeks ago and they were delicious. Everyone loved them.
Tesco burgers are absolute scuther however

Where do you buy these burgers?

Jizique · 19-06-2021 1:28pm

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Where do you buy these burgers?

Black angus is aldi

themandan6611 · 19-06-2021 1:33pm

Church on Tuesday wrote: »

This. I get burgers from the butcher at 1€ each and they are top notch.

second this, would be surprised if any butcher's burgers were not streets ahead of supermarkets. Mine does an amazing burger made from rib eye - some amount of fat in it but the taste is divine, and for just 2.50e

whisky_galore · 19-06-2021 2:30pm

Motivator wrote: »

What a lazy and ignorant comment to make. You do realise the incredibly high standards that all retailers had to adopt after what happened back in 2013? All suppliers are audited several times a year and would you believe, the processors even put the ingredients on the label!

Chicken nuggets and the beloved chicken "fillet" (lol) are mechanically recovered odds and sods, bulked out with other additives, mixed into a bright pink slurry if you want to call it that and then formed into shapes for cooking and consumption.

Bon appetite.

Bass Reeves · 19-06-2021 2:35pm

iamstop wrote: »

Hands down the best burger you can buy (Canada)
https://www.presidentschoice.ca/product/pc-portobello-swiss-burger/20941351_EA

Hands down the best sausages you can get in Ireland:
https://lindamccartneyfoods.co.uk/our-food/frozen-range/vegetarian-sausages

I tried them both they were tasteless tripe.....the dog wouldn't even eat them and it's a Springer spaniel and they are hungry dogs. It just smelled them and walked 20-30 feet away it then turned around and looked at me with disappointed eyes

dxhound2005 · 19-06-2021 2:57pm

Minced beef from a butcher simply formed into a burger and fried or grilled would be very bland. So the great results being obtained must be down in part to the nature of the additives people are using.

Suckler · 19-06-2021 3:18pm

iamstop wrote: »

Hands down the best burger you can buy (Canada)
https://www.presidentschoice.ca/product/pc-portobello-swiss-burger/20941351_EA

Hands down the best sausages you can get in Ireland:
https://lindamccartneyfoods.co.uk/our-food/frozen-range/vegetarian-sausages

Hands down....shoehorning an agenda in.

B.A._Baracus · 19-06-2021 3:21pm

Aldis frozen burgers are not the worst but the chilled burgers aren't nice. Some sort of pepper they add to them.

Darc19 · 19-06-2021 3:36pm

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

Next you’ll be telling me the fart smell you get when you open cooked ham packets is a sign of good “quality” meat, not something that was, at one point, all a paste and formed to look like an actual slice of ham. .

You should educate yourself on this before making a stupid comment.

The odor coming from vacuum packed meats is a type of harmless bacteria that you normally would never smell if it was mixed with oxygen.

As the vacuum process which gives it a longer shelf life takes the oxygen out, the odor of that bacteria is more pronounced for a few seconds after opening a packet.

Doesn't matter if it's cheap picnic ham or free range breast of chicken.

Sleeper12 · 19-06-2021 3:39pm

Deleted User wrote:

Its same meat geos into a mackers burger

I don't think so Tim

xhomelezz · 19-06-2021 3:41pm

RossGeller wrote: »

I can't be the only one who thinks this.

It's much nicer to just buy the mince and make your own.

Or make your own mince. And the burgers.

Sleeper12 · 19-06-2021 3:42pm

iamstop wrote:

Hands down the best sausages you can get in Ireland:

Respectfully there is no such thing as a vegetarian sausage despite what they claim on the box

MissShihTzu · 19-06-2021 3:42pm

You know the meat from Tesco's is sh1te when even the cat and dog refuse to touch it!

B.A._Baracus · 19-06-2021 3:44pm

You haven't lived until you've had a soylent green burger. But the taste varies from person to person.

I'll get my coat

ClosedAccountFuzzy · 19-06-2021 3:46pm

Do you remember the ones they had in the 1990s that looked like some kind of heat proof coasters or maybe an abrasive pad to be fitted to a drill?

Beechwoodspark · 19-06-2021 3:51pm

ablelocks wrote: »

the rib steak burgers in aldi are decent.

+1

Very nice indeed

ongarite · 19-06-2021 4:38pm

The Aldi Rib Steak Smoked Oak & 3 Chilli burgers are really good.

EmmetSpiceland · 19-06-2021 4:42pm

Darc19 wrote: »

You should educate yourself on this before making a stupid comment.

The odor coming from vacuum packed meats is a type of harmless bacteria that you normally would never smell if it was mixed with oxygen.

As the vacuum process which gives it a longer shelf life takes the oxygen out, the odor of that bacteria is more pronounced for a few seconds after opening a packet.

Doesn't matter if it's cheap picnic ham or free range breast of chicken.

Nothing stupid about what I said there, chief. I’m well aware of what the smell is and how it’s produced and, as you’ve clearly pointed out yourself, it’s not an indicator of “quality”.

The “meat slurry” lobby is out in force, it would seem. Praising all the quality, choice, cuts in all their emulsified glory.

19-06-2021 4:59pm

The secret to tasty burgers is loads of fat, salt, and msg.

fussyonion · 19-06-2021 10:08pm

The Homestyle Quarter Pounders from Lidl are quite tasty and the Angus ones in the black box in Aldi are nice too.
Too many burger snobs around. Nobody was snobby about frozen burgers years ago.

whisky_galore · 19-06-2021 10:32pm

fussyonion wrote: »

Too many burger snobs around. Nobody was snobby about frozen burgers years ago.

Because we ate any old shyte.
Grey frozen burgers
Frozen pizza with rubber toppings
Rubbery Calvita cheese

Now we eat shyte if theres enough flavourings, fat or sugar to mask the shiittyness

pioneerpro · 19-06-2021 10:38pm

fussyonion wrote: »

Nobody was snobby about frozen burgers years ago.

Yeah, and I remember what constituted a 'curry' or 'pizza' in the 90s as well.

Never again in my lifetime.

Ninap · 19-06-2021 10:43pm

Lot of posters saying ‘make your own’ with no reference to the type of minced beef to use. Cheap mince is crap. Whereas freshly minced rib steak is great. And how you cook it has a huge influence too. A charcoal grill will impart a lot of flavour.

Why do the burgers from Tesco, Aldi taste like s**t?

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