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Why do chicken skewers from supermarkets taste weird? And the texture is also weird. Is it the stick?
Never eaten any so can't help. Suspect the marinade, and the use of spare bits of chook leftover from separating out the good bits to be sold separately.
same, I make my own
After a quick squiz at the ingredients I reckon it's the honey powders, soy sauce powders, vegetable powders, and other ingredients like gums and acidity regulators. If you were making honey soy chicken marinade yourself it wouldn't have any of these things. Not everyone has the time though.
Good to know thank you. Thatโs a lot of powder ๐
probably the marinade
also
TIL there is such a thing as powdered spice mixes with powdered honey and soy etc
Hospitalised myself with supermarket chicken skewers once upon a time, so this comment made me freak out for you a bit ๐
I find Aldi chicken to have a slight odd taste. Packaging choices??
I agree. Wish they would sell plain ones, then I can flavour them myself. The time consuming part is the chopping and threading. To sprinkle some spice mix, or mixing some honey soy garlic in a bowl and pouring over is the quick part.
Iโve had the Woolworths and Aldi skewers, theyโre not as great as homemade and the chicken isnโt like a pure cut of breast or anything, but I sometimes buy as a good quick meal in a pinch. What flavour did you have?
I got teriyaki this time but I have tried all the other pre marinaded ones. Thereโs a pervasive flavour in the background on all of them which I can only attribute to the stick. Also the texture is off somehow. Itโs hard to explain.
Its the powder flavourings. Every new chip flavour has that same lingering eww for me.
Agreed! I keep finding new chip flavours and being disappointed. A few were genuinely awful, but most are just not quite right somehow hard to define.