Sulphur Dioxide is used as a preservative. It is especially used for things like dried apricot and other fruit. It helps them keep their color as well. Unsulpherated dried apricots are black. Dried fermented grape must is a semi fermented wine. Lambrusco wine is partially fermented grape must.
After watching the pie shop video you did those supermarket ones are just disappointing. As far as I remember the meat and potato one was only around £2.20. Far superior and great value. 👍
Yep Ive tried them and not impressed. Tried Holland hardly no filling. I did like a marks and Spencer steak beer with puff pastry I think it was Dont do them anymore but were really nice. They actually did four pork pies years ago I remember my grandad loved them over 20 years ago now never seen them again. For a good pie it has to be a Decent butchers.
I find them for there price that they just have very little inside them, for what you are paying for them the only way to get the value and get a pie with a good amount of meat etc in it is just do it yourself then you get for the same price most of the time a far far better pie
You have a lot of differently named versions of sugar in there. Barley Malt, Cane Molasses & Sugar Syrup are all just sugar. I think Grape Must is high in sugar too.
Some terrible stuff being added to food recently, i had this chat with my mum otherday telling her to check more of the packaging as she was suffering bad inflamation when eating stuff . I try to eat hardly any highly processed food and try my hardest to stick to minimal ingredients. Then i mess it all up and drink about 10 pints friday and saturday and smoke a few packs of cigarettes lol, but a suppose each to the own. Have a great weekend Gaz !
The ingredients are fine. Potato flakes act as a thickener for the sauce, Emusifiers stop the oil from coming out and separating from the gravy, making it less greasy. The grape must is to add red wine flavour.
The emulsifier, makes the oil, water soluble, mixes it better with the water based gravy. Used in the cosmetic industry to make essential oils sprays, and less harmful to the skin, than applied neat. I use polysorbate 80, to make Eucalyptus and lemon oil cat repellent sprays. Polysorbate is a good to ad to luandry because of it's grease cutting ability. It's known as an emulsifier.
@@nmurphy02 Aye. The palm oil is a really bad oil to consume but it's also causing huge areas of land to be cleared around the world inc. SE Asia such as Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia and Borneo in particular. It's really sad.
Stress is a big killer. If I read the ingredients in food I get stressed. Therefore I do not read the ingredients. If it smells good and tastes good I eat it. Using this principle I have reached the age of 83 without many problems ! Always use the simple philosophy :>)
Great review Gaz and like you said you have to separate the proper pie from shop bought ones because they will never compete with those ones but for a supermarket pie it looked pretty good and not silly priced nice review mate 👏👏👍👍
Great honest review with the ingredients in this pie. You sounded more like a chemical engineer calling out the ingredients. One to avoid for me personally. 👍
Hey Gaz👍you're absolutely 'spot on' those pies from your butchers and pie shop reviews were awesome, this pie was an embarrassment in comparison but price point over quality matters for some, I actually thought it was chunky pickle not steak and kidney when you did the pie autopsy 🤣✌️🍻
Sulphur dioxide is widely used in the food and drinks industries for its properties as a preservative and antioxidant. Whilst harmless to healthy persons when used in recommended concentrations, it can induce asthma when inhaled or ingested by sensitive subjects, even in high dilution.
here’s a tip. 2 minutes in the microwave, heats it through well, pastry will go soft, but, 4 to 6 minutes in airfryer and bosh, bob’s your uncle, perfectly cooked, half the time and cost.
Cracked me up when I saw you doing this pie. About three pie videos ago I mentioned this pie and put a link to it. As I put a link I think the comment got removed. Basically, I was saying as far as supermarket pies go, this is as good as it gets, especially for the price. I think it is a good pie, but nothing special and a 7 is what I would also give it. However, if you can't get a proper pie from a butchers i.e. don't live in Lancashire, this is about as good as you're going to get.
Steak and kidney pudding chips and peas, with a slice or two, and a cup of tea, used to be a favourite winter meal in the 60's. Now everything is chopped up, so a sparrow can eat it.
Can I recommend you read the book called 'Ultra Processed People' by Chris Van Tulleken. It will make you rethink your food choices. Thanks for your very entertaining, no nonsense reviews though, funny and informative.
I love S&K so much I tried eating K on it's own, and it's such a rich aroma I figured out someone in the past wisely decided to mix it with meat to get a good blend of cheap and tasty. Some liver is a bit too sweet so blending bland beef with a bit of rich kidney, heart, liver, makes an actually tasty actually better value meal.
To be honest, I think more people buy these pies due to the low cost rather than anything else. Nice review Mr G. I’m pretty glad I was born in the 50’s and grew up in the 60’s when food was always freshly cooked, back then your pies were made by either mum, or Gran. All fresh meat and handmade pastry.
I had a local butcher's beef and onion pie a few days ago and it blew me away. Such a taste experience one just doesn't get from shop-bought pies. I'm going to get another one next week.
My mum was a terrible cook, we used to joke that she baked for the war effort, ( we meant her baking could be used for ammunition) There was always plenty to eat in our house, guess why. Dried peas soaked over night and made into pea soup with ribs coked in the pressure cooker, she struggled to spoil that. I am starting to sound like Les dawson, it wasn't all that bad thanks to Hienz beans.
Already said this in a reply... In case you miss it...Emulsifier... What's it for? The emulsifier, makes the oil, water soluble, mixes it better with the water based gravy. Used in the cosmetic industry to make essential oils sprays, and less harmful to the skin, than applied neat. I use polysorbate 80, to make Eucalyptus and lemon oil cat repellent sprays. Polysorbate is a good to ad to luandry because of it's grease cutting ability. It's known as an emulsifier.
Only pies that are decent are the real farm baked or Marks & Spencer’s, I def would avoid them kind of pies,you can’t beat freshly baked but for £1.49 it would be ok if you were on a budget, thanks for the review ❤
I do sometimes crave a ready made pie and the ones you had from a local farm shop in a video recently were fabulous, but this thing! What actually is it? Driven by the need to churn out stuff that people can allegedly afford, all supermarkets attempt to palm these inedible chunks of dough (and er..... is that meat inside? ) on us! It looks horrendous! Still you seem to have enjoyed it Gareth, so it must have something going for it. I'll pass though, thanks. I don't have a lovely farm shop with delicious pies nearby but I can order lovely farm shop ones on line, but they cost around £24 for six pies. But I'm waiting till I can afford those. I guess it's better to eat good pies, little not often, than swallow this nasty looking thing!
Gotta trust those ingredients are in safe amounts and way below anything dangerous for consumption. Technically everything can be bad in large amounts anyway, even water
If everyone had the time (luckily I do) to read all the ingredients on super market ready meals I don’t think half of it would sell!😂Just subscribed and enjoying your channel!
Me too…! I lived on Birds Eye chicken and veg pies years ago, I remember one of the pastry ingredient having Lard! the pastry used to crumble in your mouth and always a fair amount of chicken and peas etc. I’ve bought them recently and to be honest had just one and threw rest in bin!
Interesting review and I would probably agree with you having tried similar shop bought pies, decent value for money and worth about 6 or 7 out of 10. Be interesting to get your appraisal of one of my pies which my missus rates as at least 11 out of 10..
I think it would now be an ideal time to research ingredients and their constituant parts rather than presuming them to be "Dodgy". Your videos are very entertaining keep up the hood work
Just makes you want to go back to the local pie shop again. That is an average pie from a supermarket again. Why can't they fill them up like the local pie makers do. We would not mind paying an extra pound for the pie to be full. Good review bud. All the best.
You should come over to America some day and do a comparison between what is on offer here and what is available in the UK. The situation is dire here, and the price difference is astronomical, in Favour of the UK.
Hi Gaz. Enjoyed the vid, pal. Wetherspoon's might end up sueing Lidl as a result of it tho' - you giving away their secret recipe and all that 😂. Used to work at a butcher's where the pies were made from scratch - incredible aroma, beautiful and rich textures. That said, the sausage rolls were basically all the out of date meat (and other things) chucked in a mixer with a load of spices and a lot of black pepper - tasted nice but...well...y'know...at times my stomach was churning in time with the mixer 😂.
Watcha Gareth, l you remaking that film: The Life of Pi ? 😅just asking. Any way its so great to see a good old fashioned Steak and Kidney Pie.(I'll take S&K Pudding with suet pastry as well) Yours for the cost,seemed fair,only complaint I would have. That gravy looked like sump oil! I like you now read the ingredients on the packets 😢 As a retired chef, I'm sure "we" are no longer needed 😢More a like a job for a scientist not a cook😮😢😮.A thought for the future 🔮 we have all but forgotten offal.Kidney,Liver,Hearts,Sweetbreads and even tongue Liver'n' onions mashed potatoes, peas a real winter warmer. Check them out mate,they used to be cheap as chips 😊 Have a good Sunday ❤
I’m sick of seeing lovely ingredients on pie/Pasty packaging and then when you cut it open it’s totally different… if I could cook and had the equipment I’d make my own… thanks for reviewing some of these so called food products 👍🏻
I never buy ready made pies for loads of reasons, two of them being pastry too thick and poor pie filling, if you want a decent pie, make your own it’s worth it 👍
Gareth, I notice that your big knife always seems sharp. I love a sharp knife but my kitchen if full of knives that were sharp when i got them....i just can't keep them sharp, nor effectively sharpen them.....how do you keep yours so sharp?
I think that pie is not bad at all for the price. Sure, the pies you've been getting lately from butcher's shops are better, but they are also more expensive. As I am not a fan of kidney, i checked the Aldi website and an almost identical steak pie minus the kidney is available for the same price, £1.49. It does however contain a lot more beef, namely 40% versus 26%. *Edit:* I've just eaten the steak only pie (£1.49) and while the meat was tasty, the pastry was absolutely awful. I discovered a new butcher's shop just outside of my town the other day and it was selling beef and onion pies made on the premises. Totally delicious. The sausage roll, too.
Foods very hit and miss at Aldi... I've found since having COVID back in 2020 I can really taste artificial flavours in foods these days..even with commodities such as ketchup.
Try the Aldi Carlos stonebaked pizza range - it's not bad at all as it comes - but ideal to sex up with a few more bits and pieces - dominos on a budget ...
Who remembers those days when a Pie was just a Pie, not a laboratory rat of concoction. Thankfully there's still old school bakers making pies the old way with all natural ingredients.
Wall’s used to do a steak and kidney pie in a can i think it was in the sixties that was really good but not sure how good the ingredients were 😢 still im still here so can’t have been that bad😊
My granny used to make awesome homemade steak and kidney pies, with an upturned eggcup to hold up the pastry. This one looks at least tolerable, unlike FB, which have deteriorated over the years into a glutinous mass reminiscent of the goop from Invasion of the Bodysnatchers. I may have alluded to this before but it's best to kick 'em while they're down, in case they get up and bring about intense nausea.
The Pies 🥧 you have had recently are a different level to this rubbish Gaz! 😂 I’ve got a homemade pie 🥧 myself tonight, that I got from my local market, I’m looking forward to it! ….. Smithy
For a bit more you can get a fresh beef and kidney pie. Definitely not a fan of kidney, this looks good, although the butcher's is most likely much better. You could also freeze the pies from the butcher and reheat when ready.
You mentioned the butcher made pies, you can not beat them. Preservatives like medicine is debatable as to how we use. I love the close up shot of the pie in the microwave. You make a good point not enough filling they always cut us short. Again stick with the butchers pies if live near a good butchers shop.
From Canada here, but looked half nice for the price, nothing close here so you have to make your own. I did spend about 6 hours and £15 quid the other day to make 12 pies about that size and one 9 inch pie. I did do a pure flakey pastry top, the one you had has a layering, a bit top heavy but the sauce was nice and dark, looked yummy. Grandma joke: Grandma: A pound of steak and kidley please. Butcher: Don't you mean kidney? Grandma: That's what I said, diddle I?
I used to buy frozen pies, but they don’t taste the same so I buy a pukka pie now for £2 when I have a roast dinner with me aunt bestie roast potatoes 👍
That looks like an absolute bargain for £1.50 and those ingredients are just preservatives in tiny harmless amounts. £1.50 bear in mind, less than a coffee.
Yeah people need to get over themselves. These pies are made to a budget and the preservatives are also an essential part of keeping that price down - the longer something is shelf stable the cheaper they can make it, as they can produce more of them.
Sulphur Dioxide is used as a preservative. It is especially used for things like dried apricot and other fruit. It helps them keep their color as well. Unsulpherated dried apricots are black.
Dried fermented grape must is a semi fermented wine. Lambrusco wine is partially fermented grape must.
Kills Bugs as well
@@BB-br4qh 🤡
Sulphur dioxide is used a lot (and has been for a very long time) in the wine industry too.
@@simonKagree they look like they are rotting and you take the first bite with your eyes...
Delicious
Deep filled with 50% fresh air by the look of things.
The sulphur dioxide is used as a preservative, it is safe to use in food in small doses.
And wine too
And acid rain
After watching the pie shop video you did those supermarket ones are just disappointing. As far as I remember the meat and potato one was only around £2.20. Far superior and great value. 👍
If its going to last weeks in a fridge expect the bad stuff. Expecting a pure product that lasts weeks in fridge is just never going to happen
I used to buy pucker steak pies. Twice they turned out to be gravy pies, never again.
There's nowt "pucker" about 'em, 6453. I bought one ONCE. All bleeding pastry.
30 years ago Pukka pies had more meat than gravy.
Still love Pukka Pies
Pucker have really gone down the drain, they are Dire.
Yep Ive tried them and not impressed. Tried Holland hardly no filling. I did like a marks and Spencer steak beer with puff pastry I think it was Dont do them anymore but were really nice. They actually did four pork pies years ago I remember my grandad loved them over 20 years ago now never seen them again. For a good pie it has to be a Decent butchers.
I’ve found that most boxed pies don’t quite meet my expectations.
Either the filling isn’t up to scratch or they’re not quite enough.
I find that most boxed stuff is not quite enough in general despite the cals being higher than what is enough.
I find them for there price that they just have very little inside them, for what you are paying for them
the only way to get the value and get a pie with a good amount of meat etc in it is just do it yourself then you get for the same price most of the time a far far better pie
Do'nt go near any of 'em in a box, 773. A right swizz !
Nail on head Keegan
You have a lot of differently named versions of sugar in there. Barley Malt, Cane Molasses & Sugar Syrup are all just sugar. I think Grape Must is high in sugar too.
Some terrible stuff being added to food recently, i had this chat with my mum otherday telling her to check more of the packaging as she was suffering bad inflamation when eating stuff . I try to eat hardly any highly processed food and try my hardest to stick to minimal ingredients. Then i mess it all up and drink about 10 pints friday and saturday and smoke a few packs of cigarettes lol, but a suppose each to the own. Have a great weekend Gaz !
The ingredients are fine. Potato flakes act as a thickener for the sauce, Emusifiers stop the oil from coming out and separating from the gravy, making it less greasy. The grape must is to add red wine flavour.
Absolutely fine. Some real knee-jerk merchants in the comments.
@@Coxy-b34 sulfur dioxide yum yum 😍
The emulsifier, makes the oil, water soluble, mixes it better with the water based gravy. Used in the cosmetic industry to make essential oils sprays, and less harmful to the skin, than applied neat. I use polysorbate 80, to make Eucalyptus and lemon oil cat repellent sprays. Polysorbate is a good to ad to luandry because of it's grease cutting ability. It's known as an emulsifier.
@@nmurphy02 Aye. The palm oil is a really bad oil to consume but it's also causing huge areas of land to be cleared around the world inc. SE Asia such as Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia and Borneo in particular. It's really sad.
Stress is a big killer. If I read the ingredients in food I get stressed. Therefore I do not read the ingredients. If it smells good and tastes good I eat it. Using this principle I have reached the age of 83 without many problems ! Always use the simple philosophy :>)
I used to love Greggs chicken and mushroom pies, have that pie with mash potato,gravy and mushy peas xx thank you for the video
You're welcome xx
Great pie review.
Loved it when you opened it up to show the sparse contents laid bare.
Spot On !
Glad you enjoyed it
Should try Morrison's in shop cooked pies, £2.50 for 2, they are rather nice and lots of filling choices.
Great review Gaz and like you said you have to separate the proper pie from shop bought ones because they will never compete with those ones but for a supermarket pie it looked pretty good and not silly priced nice review mate 👏👏👍👍
Cheers Peter
Great honest review with the ingredients in this pie. You sounded more like a chemical engineer calling out the ingredients. One to avoid for me personally. 👍
Only food technologists can make sense of industrial food products! I wonder how many of them actually eat what they help to create?
Hey Gaz👍you're absolutely 'spot on' those pies from your butchers and pie shop reviews were awesome, this pie was an embarrassment in comparison but price point over quality matters for some, I actually thought it was chunky pickle not steak and kidney when you did the pie autopsy 🤣✌️🍻
Thanks 👍
Our local market is still doing decent steak .pepper steak.. pastry's at 2 for a £1.. great pies and large size.
Sulphur dioxide is widely used in the food and drinks industries for its properties as a preservative and antioxidant. Whilst harmless to healthy persons when used in recommended concentrations, it can induce asthma when inhaled or ingested by sensitive subjects, even in high dilution.
I love your diverse trials of various foods. Enjoy your show and appreciate your i depth scrutiny ❤
Glad you enjoy it!
I enjoy all your videos. They are a right laugh you are so honest and direct. I go with your choices.xx
here’s a tip. 2 minutes in the microwave, heats it through well, pastry will go soft, but, 4 to 6 minutes in airfryer and bosh, bob’s your uncle, perfectly cooked, half the time and cost.
Ginsters Cornish pasties done the same way. Works out really really well and also used less energy (cost)
It has a foil tray to stop it collapsing so can't go in microwave
@@alejandrayalanbowman367 this is going to come as a big surprise to you, but you can take it out f the foil tray.
They collapse and turn into dumplings when put in the microwave
If there were more like you with down to earth honest opinions the makers might take notice. Good job.
Cheers pal
Use by date (2nd August) wasn’t long considering the added preservatives!
Just like I commented in your last pie video,more jellied gravy than meat in these processed pies Gareth,another good video
Cracked me up when I saw you doing this pie. About three pie videos ago I mentioned this pie and put a link to it. As I put a link I think the comment got removed. Basically, I was saying as far as supermarket pies go, this is as good as it gets, especially for the price. I think it is a good pie, but nothing special and a 7 is what I would also give it. However, if you can't get a proper pie from a butchers i.e. don't live in Lancashire, this is about as good as you're going to get.
Steak and kidney pudding chips and peas, with a slice or two, and a cup of tea, used to be a favourite winter meal in the 60's. Now everything is chopped up, so a sparrow can eat it.
Yeah you’re absolutely right what a week pie it was all to do with the filling there wasn’t a lot of it 😢
I have given up on supermarket pies, it’s easy enough to make your own, especially with ready-rolled chilled or frozen pastries.
Damn right. Plus you can batch cook 'em to eat at a later date. If I plan ahead, it works out cheaper in the long-run, too
Can I recommend you read the book called 'Ultra Processed People' by Chris Van Tulleken. It will make you rethink your food choices. Thanks for your very entertaining, no nonsense reviews though, funny and informative.
Potato as a thickener doesn't worry me - Palm Stearate maybe does. Wouldn't stop me eating it though, needs must.
I love S&K so much I tried eating K on it's own, and it's such a rich aroma I figured out someone in the past wisely decided to mix it with meat to get a good blend of cheap and tasty. Some liver is a bit too sweet so blending bland beef with a bit of rich kidney, heart, liver, makes an actually tasty actually better value meal.
Thanks for sharing!!
I miss the 1980s, when most places had local family run bakeries and pies were aplenty
Bring it back
Absolutely can't beat a proper Baker and they knew how to use seasoning in a pie none of this bland rubbish from today's retail outlets
You are going to bring us down to your level Gareth,I hope things never get that bad LOL😂😂😂
To be honest, I think more people buy these pies due to the low cost rather than anything else. Nice review Mr G. I’m pretty glad I was born in the 50’s and grew up in the 60’s when food was always freshly cooked, back then your pies were made by either mum, or Gran. All fresh meat and handmade pastry.
Fair point. Cheers Gerry. Ingredients to promote longevity of the pie 🥧
I had a local butcher's beef and onion pie a few days ago and it blew me away. Such a taste experience one just doesn't get from shop-bought pies. I'm going to get another one next week.
My mum was a terrible cook, we used to joke that she baked for the war effort, ( we meant her baking could be used for ammunition)
There was always plenty to eat in our house, guess why. Dried peas soaked over night and made into pea soup with ribs coked in the pressure cooker, she struggled to spoil that. I am starting to sound like Les dawson, it wasn't all that bad thanks to Hienz beans.
"The one finger and belly routine"....priceless Gaz...love it!
Glad you enjoyed it
Ii think you are being very generous I would give that pie a score of 5 out of 10 good video very informative
Yes I'm generous 😌
Already said this in a reply... In case you miss it...Emulsifier... What's it for?
The emulsifier, makes the oil, water soluble, mixes it better with the water based gravy. Used in the cosmetic industry to make essential oils sprays, and less harmful to the skin, than applied neat. I use polysorbate 80, to make Eucalyptus and lemon oil cat repellent sprays. Polysorbate is a good to ad to luandry because of it's grease cutting ability. It's known as an emulsifier.
Yes lots of dodgy Ingredients.
Only pies that are decent are the real farm baked or Marks & Spencer’s, I def would avoid them kind of pies,you can’t beat freshly baked but for £1.49 it would be ok if you were on a budget, thanks for the review ❤
You're welcome 😊
I find cooking them in foil keeps the top from getting too crispy.
What do you want for one and half quid?🤷🏼♂️
And if the times not available to make your own then the farm shop made pies are an excellent option
Cheers David
I do sometimes crave a ready made pie and the ones you had from a local farm shop in a video recently were fabulous, but this thing! What actually is it? Driven by the need to churn out stuff that people can allegedly afford, all supermarkets attempt to palm these inedible chunks of dough (and er..... is that meat inside? ) on us! It looks horrendous! Still you seem to have enjoyed it Gareth, so it must have something going for it. I'll pass though, thanks. I don't have a lovely farm shop with delicious pies nearby but I can order lovely farm shop ones on line, but they cost around £24 for six pies. But I'm waiting till I can afford those. I guess it's better to eat good pies, little not often, than swallow this nasty looking thing!
Gotta trust those ingredients are in safe amounts and way below anything dangerous for consumption. Technically everything can be bad in large amounts anyway, even water
If everyone had the time (luckily I do) to read all the ingredients on super market ready meals I don’t think half of it would sell!😂Just subscribed and enjoying your channel!
So true! Lol cheers
Have you ever done a supermarket chicken pie comparison? I used to love the little Birds Eye ones but the chicken in them got less and less.
Not yet!
Me too…! I lived on Birds Eye chicken and veg pies years ago, I remember one of the pastry ingredient having Lard! the pastry used to crumble in your mouth and always a fair amount of chicken and peas etc. I’ve bought them recently and to be honest had just one and threw rest in bin!
Interesting review and I would probably agree with you having tried similar shop bought pies, decent value for money and worth about 6 or 7 out of 10. Be interesting to get your appraisal of one of my pies which my missus rates as at least 11 out of 10..
I think it would now be an ideal time to research ingredients and their constituant parts rather than presuming them to be "Dodgy". Your videos are very entertaining keep up the hood work
looks ok £1.49 reasonable not sure about some of ingredients we'll see what Gareth makes of it.i always stick a Oxo cube on sorts out all sins 😂🙌
Love steak and kidney bought 2 from Morrisons for £2.50 from there bakery worth a review a little bit dry but lots of filling!
Yes they are good Pies
Just makes you want to go back to the local pie shop again. That is an average pie from a supermarket again. Why can't they fill them up like the local pie makers do. We would not mind paying an extra pound for the pie to be full. Good review bud. All the best.
Yes you're right Adz. Been spoilt. Never recover from this lol
You should come over to America some day and do a comparison between what is on offer here and what is available in the UK.
The situation is dire here, and the price difference is astronomical, in Favour of the UK.
I'd love to.
Hi Gaz. Enjoyed the vid, pal. Wetherspoon's might end up sueing Lidl as a result of it tho' - you giving away their secret recipe and all that 😂.
Used to work at a butcher's where the pies were made from scratch - incredible aroma, beautiful and rich textures. That said, the sausage rolls were basically all the out of date meat (and other things) chucked in a mixer with a load of spices and a lot of black pepper - tasted nice but...well...y'know...at times my stomach was churning in time with the mixer 😂.
Watcha Gareth, l you remaking that film: The Life of Pi ? 😅just asking. Any way its so great to see a good old fashioned Steak and Kidney Pie.(I'll take S&K Pudding with suet pastry as well) Yours for the cost,seemed fair,only complaint I would have. That gravy looked like sump oil! I like you now read the ingredients on the packets 😢 As a retired chef, I'm sure "we" are no longer needed 😢More a like a job for a scientist not a cook😮😢😮.A thought for the future 🔮 we have all but forgotten offal.Kidney,Liver,Hearts,Sweetbreads and even tongue Liver'n' onions mashed potatoes, peas a real winter warmer. Check them out mate,they used to be cheap as chips 😊 Have a good Sunday ❤
I’m sick of seeing lovely ingredients on pie/Pasty packaging and then when you cut it open it’s totally different… if I could cook and had the equipment I’d make my own… thanks for reviewing some of these so called food products 👍🏻
Just wonder what Diglycerides of Fatty Acids are in the list of ingredients.
I usually order direct from Yorkshire or wigan can't beat there pies not cheap either but you know it's proper beef cuts.
ingredients sound like a witches brew in hamlet
I never buy ready made pies for loads of reasons, two of them being pastry too thick and poor pie filling, if you want a decent pie, make your own it’s worth it 👍
hi is it me or do pies seam smaller today than i remember as a young boy i am sure they were larger then what do you think ?
Not a patch on the pie shop pies but they look like they'll make up part of a tasty meal anyway 👍
That's true!
Why did you change your fork to your right hand?
I wonder what the very best shop bought fish filets are.? 🤔
Aldi Gastro range of pies are always pretty good. Cheers Gareth.
Gareth, I notice that your big knife always seems sharp. I love a sharp knife but my kitchen if full of knives that were sharp when i got them....i just can't keep them sharp, nor effectively sharpen them.....how do you keep yours so sharp?
Haha yes well I sharpen it with a knife sharpener that was sent to me as a gift
must is the bits left over from squeezing the grapes skin seeds and stalks
Not bad for the price!
I think that pie is not bad at all for the price. Sure, the pies you've been getting lately from butcher's shops are better, but they are also more expensive. As I am not a fan of kidney, i checked the Aldi website and an almost identical steak pie minus the kidney is available for the same price, £1.49. It does however contain a lot more beef, namely 40% versus 26%.
*Edit:* I've just eaten the steak only pie (£1.49) and while the meat was tasty, the pastry was absolutely awful. I discovered a new butcher's shop just outside of my town the other day and it was selling beef and onion pies made on the premises. Totally delicious. The sausage roll, too.
Cheers pal
Foods very hit and miss at Aldi... I've found since having COVID back in 2020 I can really taste artificial flavours in foods these days..even with commodities such as ketchup.
Try the Aldi Carlos stonebaked pizza range - it's not bad at all as it comes - but ideal to sex up with a few more bits and pieces - dominos on a budget ...
I've reviewed all them ones.
Great vlog i will try one
Hope you enjoy
I must admit I love Lidl’s Mini Chicken & Gravy Pie which I believe used to be only 99p at one point!
They're now £1.59 😮 although I did manage to get a yellow sticker one the other morning for 63p, 60% of as its use by date was that day.
@@davebirch1976a 60% increase in less-than 2 years 😔. One of these with a 20p tin of garden peas made a cracking quick dinner for only… £1.19!
Thanks for another honest review 💜💜💜
Who remembers those days when a Pie was just a Pie, not a laboratory rat of concoction.
Thankfully there's still old school bakers making pies the old way with all natural ingredients.
Cheers John, yes full of dodgy Ingredients arnt they.
But sadly people moan how much. No cheap labour no energy help but take a pound off
Wall’s used to do a steak and kidney pie in a can i think it was in the sixties that was really good but not sure how good the ingredients were 😢 still im still here so can’t have been that bad😊
don't warm it up, it says once opened store below 5 degrees.
My granny used to make awesome homemade steak and kidney pies, with an upturned eggcup to hold up the pastry. This one looks at least tolerable, unlike FB, which have deteriorated over the years into a glutinous mass reminiscent of the goop from Invasion of the Bodysnatchers. I may have alluded to this before but it's best to kick 'em while they're down, in case they get up and bring about intense nausea.
Wetherspoons used to do a Steak and Kidney Pud with Chips and Mushy Peas, OOh it was the best thing ever😋
Love these reviews
The M&S Best streak pie is delicious
Glad you like them!
And only 3 times the price
Chemical compound in a pie does not sound to good Gareth 😂😂😂another belter,keep safe and well as always matey.
Was always told never eat anything with more than 3 ingredients, finding that hard to do nowadays
You will be fine if you just stick to ready salted crisps
Pastry has 4 ingredients by itself!
BFG yep I need to get to Carrs bakery in stalybridge the steak pie is the Don!! They also do gorgeous chicken balti well worth the trip!
Cheers good to know
Must have been better than the Steak pie version, was pants! Only a 4.5 for me, looked good but failed to deliver.
The meat and potato pie from the other day was only 71 pence more than this one.
That's pretty much 50% more if you look at it another way. And not everyone can drive to a farm shop just for a pie
Amazing video yet again enjoyed this a lot! ❤️
You gave that a fair crack mate ... No one would spot 26% beef though when your shopping - good heads up 👍👍
Thanks 👍
Whoever said the camera never lies has never bought a supermarket pie.
Quite right to mention it Gareth. To many odd and unnecessary ingredients. Personaly I'd leave it in the supermarket.
The Pies 🥧 you have had recently are a different level to this rubbish Gaz! 😂 I’ve got a homemade pie 🥧 myself tonight, that I got from my local market, I’m looking forward to it! ….. Smithy
Absolutely I've been spoilt.
For a bit more you can get a fresh beef and kidney pie.
Definitely not a fan of kidney, this looks good, although the butcher's is most likely much better. You could also freeze the pies from the butcher and reheat when ready.
Can't beat a proper pie but on a budget these aren't to bad pastry ok on them odd piece of meat a bit chewy but overall a decent pie
You mentioned the butcher made pies, you can not beat them. Preservatives like medicine is debatable as to how we use. I love the close up shot of the pie in the microwave. You make a good point not enough filling they always cut us short. Again stick with the butchers pies if live near a good butchers shop.
From Canada here, but looked half nice for the price, nothing close here so you have to make your own. I did spend about 6 hours and £15 quid the other day to make 12 pies about that size and one 9 inch pie. I did do a pure flakey pastry top, the one you had has a layering, a bit top heavy but the sauce was nice and dark, looked yummy.
Grandma joke:
Grandma: A pound of steak and kidley please.
Butcher: Don't you mean kidney?
Grandma: That's what I said, diddle I?
Haha cheers pal
Hi I get them in Asda when they get yellow sticker on at knock down price
there is one pie in aldie it is pork and beef it cost £3,99 really nice
I used to buy frozen pies, but they don’t taste the same so I buy a pukka pie now for £2 when I have a roast dinner with me aunt bestie roast potatoes 👍
I do like a pukka pie now and again… but I normally go to my Local Bakery for a really good pie and there Freshly baked mmmmmmmm
Is it part of the tesco price con I mean match ?
You enjoyed it , but too many reds for me.
That looks like an absolute bargain for £1.50 and those ingredients are just preservatives in tiny harmless amounts. £1.50 bear in mind, less than a coffee.
Yeah people need to get over themselves. These pies are made to a budget and the preservatives are also an essential part of keeping that price down - the longer something is shelf stable the cheaper they can make it, as they can produce more of them.
@@PotatoPirate123 yup and sulphur dioxide is also an antioxidant and anti-bacterial which is its main use in wine making.
Don't think i would trust what meat supermarkets put in their pies etc...remember the tesco and horsemeat story. Great vid
Cheers pal
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They got the pastry and flavour right pal
Cheers Glenda
Steak and Kidney Pie Baked and Boxed for Aldi at the BP Oil Refinery Grangemouth Scotland😬