Broad Oak Farms Fresh Whole RSPCA Approved Chicken… $3.49 per kg
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Broad Oak Farms Fresh Whole Chicken $3.49 Per kg @ ALDI
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Sometimes things appear bigger than what they are.
My wife disagrees…
Someone willingly married you?
It is illegal to feed meat chickens hormones in Australia and has been for a long while
What about non-meat chickens?
Emh, do you milk them?
AA or AAA batteries ?
Great chook price.
Chicken is not large at my aldi its between 1.4-1.6 kg. But for the price its still great value.
FYI my cats won’t touch those chicken, or any marked-down meat (even if they are organic free range). Not sure what’s going on with Aldi chicken. They were fine until about 8 months ago.
That’s curious. Can’t possibly changed their recipe 😂 I shop at local butcher now unless colesworth runs rewards campaigns.
Downvoted by a tasteless ozbargainer, who does not agree that not all bad tasted meat can be eatable?
Poor taste is not an illness? Maybe mental? If it is calming you dawn, I'm happy to help.Didn't realise how many mentally affected rubbish food eaters upset that we are not from their club. 🤔 Like social validity test.
Or maybe the typos.
I agree, aldi meet is shit. Was expecting decent German bangers but they tasted like processed garbage. Never went back..
"me fail english that's unpossible!"
They literally come from Steggles lol… even sometimes have packing slips in the boxes.
Plenty of places sell different grades of product to different retailers and there are plenty of things that can affect the quality between the farm and the shelf.
Personally, I've found Aldi chicken to be worse than coles or woolies, but admittedly my sample size is quite small.
Ofcourse. Personally buy from butcher mostly as well. I prefer aldi for "white label" as I find it to be really rubbery and the skin really thick/puffy once cooked. I had to buy from supermarket I go for lilydale.
@dingbated: Hence, why I go butchers everyone is the same in the end. Our half of our bread is Tiptop (as well as for coles).
I have had problems with Aldi chicken for years. Tried several times, but it always smells off even a week before use by date.
I'm going to press doubt on whether a whole chicken is radically different from another in this case
I will only grant you that unlike Coles brands, it seems the same product in Aldi will have inferior cuts e.g. the blade steaks Drover brand in coles is a large slab of meat whereas in Aldi it's a bunch of piecemeal cuts, not a slab and not nearly as nice when grilling.
We are all just sharing our experiences, you don’t have to believe any of it. There’s nothing in it for me to spend more money to feed my cats, if everything is equal. They are professional meat eaters who have better sense of smell and taste than me. I trust them.
Or they're just not hungry enough. ;-D
I remember someone telling me they looked after someone's dog once who "refused to eat canned food and will only eat steak and I have to cut it up." They came to collect their dog a few days later and the guy said "watch this" and put out a bowl of the nastiest canned dog food he could find. The dog woofed it down and the owner is like, "Wth!? What did you do?" "I didn't feed it yesterday."
@[Deactivated]: Completely different story. If I didn’t have to starve them for them to eat the same meat at the start, why do I have to do it now? Nothing has changed on my end.
Also cats are not dogs. Dogs are binge eaters that would literally eat anything including poop… Whatever my cats didn’t touch, I gave it to my then housemate’s dog, and it would be gone in seconds.
@frugalftw: Point being they're not turning their nose up because there's something wrong with it. Just because it smells "different" because if there was anything wrong with it: a) People would be dying, and b) like you said, "professional meat eaters." So if they're not eating some meat, it's because they're not very hungry, it's different, and they know from past experience if they just sit and look up and meow based only on smell and/or a tiny fake lick with the tip of their tongue, their trained employee will change the meal.
$3.49 so the price that they were 6 months ago
These definitely weren't $3.49 per kg six months ago, I would have posted it.
There's a catalogue from 07/21 that shows their standard price back then was $3.49, but no idea myself when it changed.
Link says save 50c.
LOL. Yeah isn't this the normal price?
Most of the whole chickens are now like $5 a kg or more at the other places, they used to be $3.50 a kg as well. (Been buying whole chickens every week for the last few years lol)
Any suggestions on nice easy and tasty ways to cook these?
Hainanese.chicken?
Looking it up now
Exactly what I was thinking… cheers!
No worries. I take it up a notch by taking salt out of the rub recipe, then salting the chicken about 8 hours before and throwing it uncovered in the fridge which dries out the skin (crispier skin) and dry brines the meat which helps it stay moist during the cook.
Wipe the skin down when you pull it out of the fridge, hit it with the spice rub, throw it in the oven, then about halfway through once the skin is glistening I throw a liiiittle bit of salt on. Best roast chook ever.
Username definitely checks out.
Agreed. Butterflying the chicken makes it cook much more evenly.
Also, you can get much better curries using bone in chicken cut into pieces than using fillets.
I did not get that deal, but thanks for sharing for those who did
The chickens from Coleworths suffocated in paprika burn in my throat/chest, so I have to peel the skin off, and I really hate doing that because I like eating the skin. So I give raw ones a light spray of oil and sprinkle with salt, white pepper (black pepper burns in my chest too), and whatever herbs I have on hand from the song (parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme), getting them in the fold behind the legs and wings too. Then I put it upside down onto a wire rack in a halogen oven on 180. Depending on the size, 60 to 70 minutes later I turn it upright, sprinkle some more of the same coatings on top (they get "washed" off from fat running down) and cook for the rest of the time. Doing it upside down first isn't necessary due to air circulating around the wire rack, but it does cook the underside skin better than coming out looking like a white rubber glove. I use about twice as much sage as the others. Cooking time changes according to the weight on the label.
This is the one item I stopped buying from Aldi. Coles whole chicken is the best among the big3.
reason?
I believe Coles raise their own chickens, not just rebranded steggles or inghams chickens. Not sure if that's the case for their whole supply chain, though.
Do ozbargainers buy whole whole chicken to save or boneless thigh or breast?
Might as well buy a whole chicken when chicken frames are now $2/kg for soups.
The quality of Aldi's meat, fruits, and vegetables has noticeably declined, possibly due to cost-cutting measures. My kids used to love their orange juice, but something changed a few months ago, and now they won't touch it. I've stopped purchasing any perishable items from Aldi.
I wish they were cost-cutting. Aldi prices are the same in most cases, and in only a few cases slightly more or less. I squeezed my own oranges for a couple of months, 1.5 oranges into a large Voss bottle of tap water (800ml), with some sugar or stevia. But I don't have a juicer and it was hurting my hands squeezing it every day. So I bought some orange juice instead. But it was yuck, bitter, from everywhere… Coles, Woolworths, Aldi… it's all awful, bitter/sour. And although they all say, "Pulp/No Pulp" you can SEE the sludge in the bottom that I'm not seeing when I squeeze my own, and all their juices tastes like they've blended the pith of the skin into the juice too. I saw on youtube the other day they remove the oxygen from orange juice because it goes off fast with it in there, so they "have to replace it with other ingredients to improve the taste" was their words, so I'm obviously not imagining it. The "multi-juice" they all sell is much better. Try that with the kids, though they do say juices are worse than soft drink (which is why I squeeze such a small amount into 800ml of water). They're also not supposed to brush their teeth for a while after having it because it softens the enamel!? Something like that anyway.
Are these pumped with hormones?
Buy a whole chicken for between $7-$10, break it down into 2 wings, 2 breasts, 2 tenderloins, 1 litre of chicken stock and either 2 thighs, 2 drumsticks or 2 marylands
I have been buying the free ranger chicken from Woolworths and it’s surprisingly good quality compared to the others. It’s expensive but not crazy expensive. I am used to buying chicken directly from poultry in my past life so this brand is close enough.
Shallot, ginger, five spice powder, soy sauce (light and dark) in a ziploc bag to let it marinate overnight.
Place the shallot and ginger in the cavity of the chicken and then roast it in the oven like this:
https://i.imgur.com/4iF6xob.jpg
Serve with ginger shallot oil and rice. Boom!
Looks huge…
Growth hormones maybe?