Tough as leather
Like Tesco baking potato, six hours of cooking still left this chewy and unpleasant. Best not to waste money here, go elsewhere where they appreciate your money
Great if you like fatty meat
I spent ages removing all the fat. Ended up with more fat than meat. Disgusting that Tesco think that inferior quality meat is acceptable because it really isn’t. The farm brand that you no longer sell was much better quality and at a lower price too.
I won't be buying this again
This was so disappointing- bought this (Irish) to add to a pack I already had (Boswell red tractor) and I had to cut off 110g of fat and gristle from the Tesco pack. Hopefully I was unlucky but I will be sticking to the Boswell pack in the future.
Perfect for my stew. Loved it.
Perfect for my stew. Loved it.
Tender
Lovely slow cooked for about 8 hours, didn’t have any chewy pieces and melted in the mouth. Will get two packs next time.
fat and gristle
agree with other reviewers far too much fat and gristle look elsewhere
Gristle and not much else
Quality has gone downhill with this; it was full of fat to the point of being inedible. You expect a bit of fat with casserole beef, but this runs through the 'meat' and is gristle. I actually bought this for my dog, but even for him I still had to remove a lot of the gristle. I'm guessing now Tesco are price matching Aldi with this item the quality has suffered.
Poor Value
I bought 2 packs of this beef, 800g and 149g was fat (18.6%). Within the packs there were lumps of fat without any meat attached. More than disappointed. The 'diced' pieces are very small and once cooked don't look very appetising on the plate. I won't be purchasing this product again as its poor value. The meat is more suitable for mincing.
Would change diced beef to scraps of beef and fat
I was hugely disappointed with this beef, not much diced beef it was more scraps of beef and there were thick chunks of fat with virtually no meat on at all, time I sorted out the rubbish I was left with 347g of meat out of the 400g. I did expect a few bits of fat as it gives the meat more flavour but if I had left on all the thick fat it would have been very greasy. I am now cooking the beef scraps in my slow cooker to make hopefully a beef and stilton pie. I usually buy a different brand but as it wasn't available tried this, won't be buying again.