Woolworths large green king prawns at $18/kg (was $29/kg) for the whole week.
https://www.woolworths.com.au/shop/productdetails/22200/praw…
Similar to this deal from last month below but that was banana prawns and this is king prawns
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/794195
Seems like a pretty good price for large Aussie king prawns.
$11 off is almost 40% off.
Enjoy
i would imagine so if you cooked them
i mean any prawns in a high dose are not good for you.
But if you are cooking them,then any bacteria or parasites should be dead.
Why are prawns in high dose not good? How high a dose? I usually have about 10 or so cooked frozen prawns for lunch almost everyday.
High cholesterol I guess
From the website
https://shorturl.at/hKL78
Shellfish
Shellfish are delicious and nourishing foods.
Some of the most popular types include shrimp, crab, lobster, mussels, oysters, clams, and scallops.
Interestingly, shellfish are low in fat yet high in cholesterol.
I used to eat prawns daily as well. Ankles started to feel numb and was thinking it might be gout. Reduced to once a week / fortnight and my ankles are fine again. I didn't see the doctor so can't be sure but I feel it's directly related.
heavy metals is an issue with crustaceans.
What sorts of concerns would you have for prawns from Vietnam and Thailand specifically???
Quality of the water, chemicals, toxins, and pollutants in the water. If the prawns are farmed, then possibly antibiotics as well.
I've also heard farmed salmon from Tasmania is also not great to eat because the feed they use for the salmon makes the salmon not healthy for us to consume.
the omega 3 in farmed salmon is lower than wild caught, farmed salmon isn’t the greatest as the feed and additives are designed for rapid growth more than nutrient value.
Extremely dangerous. Dont buy them. Let us consume them for you
it’s not the origin that’s the problem , look for wild caught not farmed . the farmed ones they feed pellets to and it’s the pellets that are full of crap …
whatever… just make an ebi prawn sushi .. plus a bit of sake to accompany! cheers!
Can I get a box of frozen if I order 3kg online? Last time was 3kg per box…
You could try asking. I got the 3kg box in store, recently when it was $15/kg. edit: that was banana prawns, sorry.
No worries mate, thank you. I ordered 3kg online yesterday and ended up with a paper-wrapped bag as we ordered from the deli counter, not frozen for sure. (I don't complaint though, decent size and look pretty good)
Last time I did get a frozen 3kg box like you did.
Inane comment.
why? releasing treated radioactive water into the ocean is no big deal? off topic, yes, but "insane" comment?
Please adjust your glasses.
@jackspratt: Think the news sensationalized what Japan's doing releasing their radioactive material. They met WHO guidelines by a large margian, the dilution makes a big difference.
@bestywesty: Can I borrow your drink bottle and add one drop of my pee into it? I guess WHO would say it’s fine. And it doesn’t have radioactive material. And I swear I only add one drop. Please trust me.
@NoBargainNoLife: It’s more like you peed into the river that led to the water treatment plant. It’s parts per trillion (or more). No one drop per drink bottle
You know they still release sewerage into the ocean off Sydney. Yet you eat Australian seafood. Talking of drinking urine.
@dtc: If you only take account dilution Why we need to care about emission then? Atmosphere is way larger than ocean and carbon emission even doesn’t have radioactive material.
If it’s safe, they can just dilute then drink or use it for whatever they want WITHIN Japan not release it ocean. No one wants it even it’s diluted.
@NoBargainNoLife: Ah, yes, the old ‘only if you take into account dilution’ argument
Oh, wait. I’ve never heard that argument before because it’s nonsense. Dilution is completely the key issue. Why we can breathe the air but pure oxygen kills us. Why we can drink tap water but not ocean water
https://www.whoi.edu/oceanus/feature/fukushima-disaster-resp…
(Pointing out, in case you missed it, that the article above is the release from the accident itself, which is many millions of times more than what you have been flailing around about)
@dtc: It's nonsense to point out pure oxygen because that's not naturally available on Earth. The point is, we control air pollution and emissions because they are either toxic or contribute to climate change, which has detrimental consequences even when diluted. Ironically, we thought it was fine 100 years ago during the Industrial Revolution.
Don't forget that knowledge is evidence-based. This is the first time we're releasing these deadly toxic radioactive materials into the ocean. Who can guarantee no harm will occur? Research and articles from 100 years ago were essentially saying the same thing: 'Don't worry, the atmosphere is huge; a little poisoned smoke from the factories in London is absolutely fine.'
Then, guess what? We've spent more than 100 years still trying to fix what we once believed was 'fine,' or what capitalism made us believe was 'fine.'
I hope you don't deny that radioactive material is bad, and there's no need to downplay the potential harm of radioactive material, and releasing it into the ocean is irresponsible.
Last word, anyone who believes it's fine can feel free to drink it up before releasing it into the ocean. I, for one, would rather not have any, despite it being diluted and classified as 'safe' by anyone.
@bestywesty: There's no such thing as treated radioactive water. No precedent of this at all. Absolute scam.
Who is WHO to decide what should be allowed?
Japanese are taking the easy way out dumpling their mess for everyone to deal with.
@TightAl: Are you in a relevant field of some sort of waste management or is this an opinion?
I agree. I would prefer not for the Japanese to release radioactive waste but if the professionals in the field have said it's fine, then my trust is with them over my clueless opinion who is biased against the word radioactive.
@bestywesty: " if the professionals in the field have said it's fine, then my trust is with them over my clueless opinion"
Read my comment above, our knowledge is limited, I am not saying we should be paranoid but at least be critical, especially these days, we dont know who is behind those those professionals.
@NoBargainNoLife: Yeah that's very true. It's important to be critical but don't forget to be reasonable as well.
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Wait until jv wakes up and sees this deal..
Taiwan number one.
i think the cheap price of prawns might be chinese aren’t importing as much, every time the politicians upset china we get cheap food, as soon as they lift import restrictions price goes up, hope our politicians keep upsetting china, love cheap pawns, lamb and beef.
I doubt they would be freshly frozen, probably woolies getting rid of older product. Be better than anything imported.
Frozen at sea, delivered frozen, defrosted in store
Is Aussie king prawns wild caught or farm?
How about banana prawn? wild caught or farmed Please?
wild caught or farm?
Neither, they're from the supermarket…
Wild caught in SA mostly I believe.
No Aussie prawns anymore… It's just a mirage.
The prawns are either from Thailand, Vietnam or China.
Did you bother to check? it says 'Produce of Australia'
https://www.woolworths.com.au/shop/productdetails/22200/praw…
you need to check with the price tags, varies with weekly specials, often tiger prawns are farmed, at the moment wild caught are cheaper because price of feed for farmed ones has gone up like many other things and wild caught feed themselves.
Blue tails .. fill the freezer.. these are some of the best prawns you'll get for both flavour and texture (I've bought heaps) and this is way cheap in today's market. Garlic prawns . .. Spaghetti cream chilli garlic prawns .. prawn salad .. prawn pizza .. prawn cocktail ..Mmmmmm … 😛 .. !!
https://www.olivemagazine.com/recipes/collection/best-ever-p…
it's a frozen and thawed product.
Is this really safe to refreeze?!
Absolutely, unequivocally, definitely no
No but if you buy in bulk, they might be able to give you a frozen box.
Yes, it is safe, as Woolworths thaw them safely in the fridge, not like we do at home.
It will affect taste/texture. You can ask for a frozen box as JPO said.
Another option is to cook them, and then re-freeze.
That may vary by store - during the sale on banana prawns a couple of weeks ago, the store I was at was defrosting a box of frozen prawns under running water in the sink when the display case ran out
The prawns at woolworths and Coles are always more dark, grey and black compared to the ones at the fish shop. Is it something to do with origin? Or are they not kept well?
You really think prawns are red straight out of the ocean? They’re cooked which causes them to go red.
Nobody said they were red. Said they were darker.
The prawns get the dark gunk when they have been defrosted from frozen and I think woolies only deals in frozen prawns whereas the fishmongers have the access to prawns caught daily which have not been frozen so they keep better/longer chilled.
Yes The ones from the fish shop seem to me more clear to green, depending on the type. So the dark is fine i guess
fishmonger prawns are frozen …. they freeze them on the boat as would be cost prohibitive to go out for a day and bring back alive in water , only place i have seen live prawns is at the chinese restaurant lobster tank and they are very expensive, probably because many die when i looked at the bottom of the tank.
Don’t make the same mistake as me. If a recipe calls for 500g prawn you probably need to buy 1 to 1.5kg of whole prawns.
Same rule as making cocktails….when it says one shot it means half a bottle. 😉
1, not 1.5. You get a good 50% meat. Not many animals have that.
Same as a whole chook (gutted, no stuffing) or gutted fish.
Do they lose much flavor if you refreeze them or is that no ideal?
The general rule is don't refreeze thawed prawns.
don’t refreeze …. once thawed bacteria growth starts again, and if you refresh now you freeze with more bacteria than before and then when you thaw ….it’s why supermarkets don’t refreeze …
What size are these? 10/15 hopefully or larger and not 16/20's?
She said 6 is enough
Does anyone know what size box it comes in?
my woolies has 3 kg, they wouldn’t sell a box to me because they said they said deli can’t sell frozen food, need to thaw so that i don’t pay for water, i said the box weight is prawns not water and the argument went nowhere …
They used to sell them in boxes. I bought a box a year or so ago. Maybe it's new policy or store specific.
I have also asked the deli staff if they can give me some that still have the frost on them. I am happy to refreeze them but accept that they should not be kept long.
I have no issue getting the box. Its already weighted.
i was going to buy online with a note to do not thaw.
If its thawed then i wont accept it on click n collect
I bought a 3kg box of frozen in the last sale. No problems.
I believe you can cook and then refreeze.
Can confirm, so long as the cooked product is cooled within 2 hours of cooking
Some Vietnamese wholesale Merchants go to the shipping fleet and those who harvest, then they buy. They then inject seafood with glutinous gel obtained from China of dubious chemical composition. Cancer anytime? It adds weight to the product which they resell again for a much higher price per kilo. I'm not making it up I saw a documentary on it. So there's a risk, a small one. I don't think they have safeguards in Vietnam to stop this practise. Consider, the average wage is just $40AU a week. Each to their own I personally will not buy from Vietnamese origin food. It was a hell of a documentary.
As long as they are not radioactive near fukushima I'm all in. Love prawns.
thanks OP. Those prawns are gigantic. Got me some 😊👍
This looks like a nice and simple recipe: https://www.sbs.com.au/food/recipe/grilled-prawns-with-orega…. You can see Matt Moran make it on The Great Australian Cookbook (episode 3) on Binge.
Here's a question - why buy thawed green prawns instead of frozen? I've been loving having some in the freezer to cook with from time to time.
Just went to my local woolies, got 2 kg, they gave me the 40% discount on the sale price of $18, got it for $10.80 ! Kg!!
Hmm I used click and collect for this since usually by the time I get off work, the prawns are all gone. The label on the paper wrapping said it was apparently packed at 2:30pm for a collection window at 6-7pm. When I collected them, the paper wrapping was soaked. I assume they were out at room temperature since 2:30pm. Should I still consume these? They don't look fresh..🤔
Bondi Junction this afternoon - a bit confusing with 3 types of prawns - banana $17/kg, king $22/kg, XL tiger $29/kg - https://photos.app.goo.gl/DFAcbAzt5dS5rnw38
Anyone notice how these are now 22$/kg regular price?
Feels like some false advertising.
On a side note, are the frozen prawns in the freezer from Vietnam and Thailand safe to eat?
I've been buying these recently since they've been on sale, but am scared the origin of these prawns might not be the greatest for consumption.