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Stumbled upon this today

http://youtu.be/IRFcuD-9Cgs

Has anyone ever tried it?

No, interesting but never had anything good from the supermarkets; Waitrose was one of the most disappointing pulled porks


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We tried them and posted the results on here. Interesting that a KCBS judge "apparantly" comments "Its the best I've ever had" and another that he is glad they are not on the circuit.
If that is so, then the UK teams are in for a pushover!!! They don't taste of the meat concerned, they are overly salty & sweet and not particularly tender compared to good comp & backyard food forum members have produced.

Hi,
Think this is a great example of the supermarket story.

They identify something that is catching the public interest and their developmental chefs crack on to make something that mimics it. probably at the test level they came up with something of beauty, probably made on an wsm or one of the top notch resteraunt grade smokers.

This is put in front of the top guns who understandably give it the thumbs up. What then follows is the erosion of the recipe as the challenges of mass production, automated packaging and cost come into the mix.......

"rather than rubbing by hand we can spray it with industrial glucose syrup"
"brisket has too much fat for the general consumer, if we pre trim it and roast it faster then we will deliver a more consistent end product"
"the smoking process takes too long longif we use lquid smokeat the en this will have the same effect"

And what you end up with is the sallow tasteless offering from Asda, they never really had a chance, if we are honest with ourselves (but not the missus she wouldn't understand) bbq is bloody expensive, we kid ourselves we are "taking cheap cuts and making them delicious" and we are by the addition o £s worth of spices and herbs, cooked using expensively sourced quality charcoal and wood and prepared on really expensive kit.

Add to this our time, love care and attention and you can soon see why the efforts of the supermarket would never match up, or if they did it would be at a staggering cost.......

Cheers
Tiny

Well said Tiny, when put like that it just makes my food taste so much better, especially as ive been up twice during the night to tend to my pork shoulder.

Better hide the comments about the expensive equipment, spices, herbs and not so cheap cuts of meat from my wife otherwise i'll be eating Asda pulled pork in future

I wonder if the supermarkets are thinking that if the food is becoming popular they could then start stocking the equipment, Asda is owned by Walmart maybe they could stock some American products like Mavericks, Pitmaster IQ's etc etc, not trying to take business away from Toby but is the demand out there growing for these products or is there just you BBQ jedi's out there at the moment and us trainee's

The problem again would be end profit, most people wouldn't know what to do with an IQ, bbq guru, maverick etc. Just have a look, and smell, around the country to set what a mess a lot of people make of simple grilling
The majority of people aren't interested in the long slow LEARNING process involved. It's not an instant knowledge regardless of how many book and forums people! Yes they may be able to transfer normal hob cooking skills to a grill and produce good UK BBQ but I can't see supermarkets getting on the bandwagon for smoking, sorry.
Oh and Tiny congratulations yet again on your carpentry skills, once again the nail was well and truly hit on the head!!

Well as you put it that way Keith

Me and my ideas

not taking business away i would love to see it as have no interest in being a reseller just seem to have been one out of necessity however the first pitmaster order has been a bloody nightmare and still waiting for it to come in.............

You'll probably find one of those "We tried to deliver...." cards when you've been in the back garden

Put some ASDA pulled pork in a styrofoam dish with some green stuff, and anonymously pass it to the judges at the next comp. It would be interesting to see an impartial judging of it.