Steggles Family Roast Chicken Whole 1.9kg - 3.1kg
Ingredients - Chicken (90%), Water, Salt, Sugar, Mineral Salts (451, 452, 450), Anti-caking Agent (341), Humectant (422).
Steggles Family Roast Chicken Whole $3.50/kg (Was $6.50/kg) @ Woolworths
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WatchNerd on 01/03/2023 - 10:13 woolworths.com.au (1237 clicks)
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Hmmm…..maybe "Likethebirdcheap" would check out even better ;)
isnt that for all them..?
Nah I don't think so, at least going off the ingredients for the other whole chickens on the Colesworth sites. I cook two whole chickens a week and these ones I definitely noticed from the first bite. It's a tasty bite though, I wouldn't avoid these, just you know this is OzBargain so thought I'd mention it.
Yeah it’s like those frozen cooked prawns. I’m sure they soak them in seawater and msg and flavours - makes them really tasty but I know it’s artificial flavouring
This is true, but for context, the brining process is about flavour and shelf life/microbiological control, not about fleecing an extra 10 cents a KG.
Looks like it's 10% of the weight so a bit more than 10c.
35c if my math is correct…
@NigelTufnel: Actually less than that because the brine does cost money to make (ingredients and labour).
Also pumped with calcium phosphate (E341) to make the flesh firmer.
This legit? Are there any brands where it's just chicken?
Calcium phosphate makes you big and strong 💪
They pump these ones with brine. Makes for a tasty chicken but you are to some degree paying for water.
While that is true, these chickens are still quite a bit larger than the other ones Woolies stock, you can easily get 6 meals from one and for ~$8 a pop that's pretty hard to beat.
If you just care about size the Coles standard whole chickens can get pretty massive and have a standard price of $5/KG and no brine. I would still go the Steggles with this special obvs.
I figure 10% water would be less than those Chinese scallops (out of shell) that look wowza huge like 45mm diameter and 20mm thick compared to locally caught
then when you fry them in a pan suddenly the water evaporates off and they shrink to WTF tiny !
Sodium Tripolyphosphate
STPP is a preservative for seafood, meats, poultry, and animal feeds.[3] It is common in food production as E number E451. In foods, STPP is used as an emulsifier and to retain moisture. Many governments regulate the quantities allowed in foods, as it can substantially increase the sale weight of seafood in particular. The United States Food and Drug Administration lists STPP as Generally recognized as safe.[6]
Probably helps preserve them too.
Omg that explains everything, thank you so much! I’ve been giving these to my cats, they don’t want the Aldi and/or Macro freerange unless I put some canned fish on it. So the salt is what’s spoiling them! Gotta rinse these now.
They’re injected and the salt is absorbed by the meat so you can’t rinse off
I still can’t believe this is allowed. I guess they didn’t hide it, so it’s really my problem for not reading the label. They look exactly like normal raw chicken. I was quite angry last night when I found out.
@frugalftw: Brining chickens is a pretty normal thing. If you're cooking chickens in a restaurant you're definitely brining for maximum flavour and tenderness.
@Cheaplikethebird: I don’t have issues with people doing it, what I don’t like is having them shelved side by side with unprocessed fresh raw chicken. There’s no discernible feature on the packaging that indicates to me in buying salted chicken. The name family roast tells me about the size, not the extra ingredients.
Anyways, lesson learned. Always read the labels.
@frugalftw: It does say lightly marinated for tenderness on in cursive below Family Roast Chicken but I agree not very obvious.
i cant gauge weather this is cheap..
If it's been watchnerd approved, its a bargain
"i cant gauge weather" - you need a thermometer for that
"this is cheap" - yes, and that is why the OP posted itprice gauge preferred to price gouge
I'm not grown up enough to have cooked a whole chicken before so I can't help you. I'm still at the bbq roast chicken in the plastic bag stage of life.
Is this quartz or automatic?
No sapphire crystal. No deal.
Cant remember the last time these were this cheep sorry cheap..
bird is the word
I have returned 3 of these in the past few months due to them being off despite being inside the useby date.. Not sure if its my local woolies or they are not staying cold enough somewhere in the supply chain.
They are bloody tasty when you get a good one though.
Would definitely be some issues with the fridges at your local woolies, the cold chain for deliveries are pretty scrutinised by individual stores and orders are often rejected if they don't meet the criterias
You sure they’re off? Cryovac’d meat often has a funny smell but it’s not off. The difference is one smell is ‘funny’ the other is “god damn that smells like putrid death”
It was absolutely the latter in all 3 instances. The whole building copped it…so did the supermarket when i returned it the 3rd time as I was worried they wouldnt continue to believe me. Hahaha
I find these very tasty and they are my preferred Woolworths buy.
Did not know about the brine but happy to keep buying.
price of a coffee for kilo of protein. ie its cheap.
Good reality check!
To be fair much of that kilo will be bone or fat or brine, given this is whole chicken.
MyFitnessPal suggests 1kg. of whole chicken has 185gr. protein. So based on that it would be ~$20 per kilo of protein from this.
This is by far the cheapest protein source.
Here are some comparisons to other sources per kg of protein:
- Whole Chicken - $20
- Chicken Breast - $34
- Whey Protein - $46
- Pork Mince - $49
- Canned Tuna - $52
- Eggs - $56
- Prawns - $122
- Beef Mince - $125
- Salmon - $137Rolled oats is $14 per kg/protein but comes with carbs as well so not as pure.
Whey protein concentrate provides 800g of protein per KG on average (approx 80% protein per 100g)
I usually pay $30 a KG atm (it was $15 a KG pre covid).
$30 / 800g = 0.0375, times by 100 to get dollar cost, is $3.75 per 100g protein.
You probably won’t get cheaper than this. Input each food item into the equation above to compare on a “pure protein basis”. Make sure you input all meat as raw - as that’s what you’re paying for.
Eg chicken breast is approx 22g per 100g raw, and is more expensive as a daily cost. Once cooked, water weight leaves it, and it becomes 30g per 100g cooked.
I could be wrong, but I pay $12 a KG from a butcher on average for skinless chicken breast, which provides 220g of raw protein per raw KG. I think you’re maths could be wrong but I just worked this out off my phone.
Source: Pro BodyBuilder/Coach circle of friends who constantly compare.
Cheers.
Agree with the whey protein cost. My figure should really be $37 per kg.
The $20/kg I got from the whole chicken was based on the Woolworths nutrition information at the bottom of the page.
Chicken is 19.90g protein per 100g or 0.199kg of protein per kg.
Ingredients say this is 90% chicken so assuming the nutrition only applies to that, cost per kg would be 3.5/(0.199*0.9) or $20 per kg.
Not sure if this includes bones though.
Wouldn’t include bones. If day the whole chicken 30-40% bones
But loving the calculations mate!!! Good stuff.
@Bisah1342: I often wonder if the bones scale out fairly evenly over the size of the chickens in stores or will you get a better meat-to-bone ratio on a bigger chicken 🤔
@Bisah1342: Yeah I thought so too right but then wouldn't there be a max average bone size but then you keep going fattening up the hen.
Is there a cheap (hopefully unflavoured) high protein powder? I’m on syntha 6 edge and dieting but finding it hard to keep protein intake up on some days.
I thought about adding some unflavoured protein (if that’s a thing) to a flavoured protein shake. I’ve been replacing meals with protein shakes and trying to stay under 1600-1800 cal/day
Ok
'Chicken (90%), Water, Salt, Sugar, Mineral Salts (451, 452, 450), Anti-caking Agent (341), Humectant (422)'
90% chicken with second ingredient water - hmm - nearly 10% water ? There's a quick way to increase profit - just add water !
What'a the average cooked chook per kg? Must be pretty close.
good question - I googled 'roast chicken cooked weight compared to raw weight' and saw typical 25-35% weight loss after cooking
in which case, cost-equivalent could be paying 33-54% more for a cooked chicken (subject to bone percentage - wings and legs being more bone) - so say $3.50 x 1.33-1.54 = $4.66-5.39/kg for cooked
which I don't see in stores - AFAIK the bargain hunt is for expiry-time late marked-down packs of roast chicken whole or quarters or wings for bargain basement prices - good luck looking for those.
I usually buy coles brand whole raw chickens, they're $7 / kg normally.
The cooked ones are small though. Steggles family chooks are the Lizzos of the poultry world.
how much are these at the actual steggles outlet shops? quite often half price at WW is better than the outlet price, but i feel the outlet is fresher, being right next door to the processing plant
"We've taken great care to remove all bones from this product"
LOL.
They pump these ones with brine. Makes for a tasty chicken but you are to some degree paying for water.