Chicken breast (frozen), good quality that is not watery/mushy and not "enhanced" or "plumped" ?

[bleble]

Hello,

 

Does it exist ? Chicken breast (frozen), good quality that is not watery/mushy and not "enhanced" or "plumped" ?

 

Or all frozen chicken breast is low quality processed food by the agro industry scammers ?

 

I know tat fresh is always better, but sometimes you don't go out and it's handy to have some frozen, but I cannot find good quality at any supermarket in Thailand, why ?

 

Cheers.

[maxpower]

Buy fresh and freeze it - good idea eh

[JamJar]

I buy the frozen chicken breast from Betagro....and feed it to my pets. A fair amount of suspect meat products around.  

If you are one of those who buys their chicken from those open to the air trays at the supermarkets, those are thawed out products anyway. So you might as well buy frozen from Betagro in the first place.

So I only purchase certain pre-packed products.

[manarak]

2 hours ago, maxpower said:

Buy fresh and freeze it - good idea eh

doesn't matter fresh or frozen.

all chicken I bought in Thailand never ever had any own chicken taste.

that's the reason why in chicken recipes they add chicken powder :-/

I guess it's because what these chicken get fed to them

 

 

[realenglish1]

I dont like the open air trays I see Thai sneezing ,wiping their nose and then handling the birds

Not for me behind a glass is better 

[Tidybeard]

Always buy fresh from Tops Supermarket and then freeze it myself ... superb quality. Totally different to Tescos !

[tolsti]

I very rarely buy breast as I find thighs much tastier with the added benefit of the skin. I get mine from Tesco Express in Soi Boukeaw in packs of 2 from the chilled section. They are super... I then just either take them out of the packs and pop them into zip lock bags for freezing or simply put the whole pack in the freezer.

 

Breasts are available also. They seem to sell out a couple of times a week so there is a good turnover.

[hugh2121]

12 hours ago, JamJar said:

I buy the frozen chicken breast from Betagro....and feed it to my pets. A fair amount of suspect meat products around.  

If you are one of those who buys their chicken from those open to the air trays at the supermarkets, those are thawed out products anyway. So you might as well buy frozen from Betagro in the first place.

So I only purchase certain pre-packed products.

I don't think they are actually frozen. They come vacuum packed so only chilling is needed. They don't seem to have water injected like the frozen variety.

[bleble]

17 hours ago, JamJar said:

I buy the frozen chicken breast from Betagro....and feed it to my pets. A fair amount of suspect meat products around.  

If you are one of those who buys their chicken from those open to the air trays at the supermarkets, those are thawed out products anyway. So you might as well buy frozen from Betagro in the first place.

So I only purchase certain pre-packed products.

 

Which ones are good ?

 

 

[bleble]

4 hours ago, hugh2121 said:

I don't think they are actually frozen. They come vacuum packed so only chilling is needed. They don't seem to have water injected like the frozen variety.

 

So you also think that the ones from Betagro are good ? I will try. Thank you.

[bleble]

So the frozen chicken breasts always are injected ? Nowhere they sell healthy frozen ones ?

 

 

[hugh2121]

3 hours ago, bleble said:

 

So you also think that the ones from Betagro are good ? I will try. Thank you.

I was referring to " chicken from those open to the air trays at the supermarkets," which are not thawed out as they were never frozen. 

I've seen them topping up the open trays from the vacuum packs in Big C. Don't know about Betagro whatever that is.

[JamJar]

10 hours ago, hugh2121 said:

I don't think they are actually frozen. They come vacuum packed so only chilling is needed. They don't seem to have water injected like the frozen variety.

They are frozen.  I take them from the freezer. 

Either  way, I don't much like chicken breast. But my dogs do.

I buy fresh pre-packed thighs, purportedly without hormones etc

[JamJar]

3 hours ago, hugh2121 said:

I was referring to " chicken from those open to the air trays at the supermarkets," which are not thawed out as they were never frozen. 

I've seen them topping up the open trays from the vacuum packs in Big C. Don't know about Betagro whatever that is.

 

I don't believe that they never were frozen. Those packs were formerly frozen. I know because I buy them.

Have you ever been to Betagro? They have exactly the same packaging. They have packs in the shop with their branding and they have packs in the freezer at the back in the see through packs that you see being emptied in the likes of the supermarkets with the open trays. This includes the likes of Friendship. 

 

[JamJar]

6 hours ago, bleble said:

 

So you also think that the ones from Betagro are good ? I will try. Thank you.

 

They have differing qualities for sale.

 

Likely the restaurants and supermarkets utilise and sell the stuff that comes from the bags sold frozen in Betagro and the like.

 

Not that is bad, but is has almost certainly been frozen. Freezer pic at the bottom of the post.

 

 

 

http://www.betagro.com/food/en/product/2032/114

 

On the other hand, Betagro also sell chilled products via the supermarkets.

 

 

 

 

you can go for their S-Pure brand

 

http://www.betagro.com/food/en/product/brand/110

Edited September 14, 2017 by JamJar

[JamJar]

So if you buy chicken from those open trays in certain supermarkets, save yourself some money and buy from Betagro and defrost them at leisure. 

They may also have some defrosted or chilled packs in the chillers in the Betagro shop.

[hugh2121]

12 hours ago, JamJar said:

 

They have differing qualities for sale.

 

Likely the restaurants and supermarkets utilise and sell the stuff that comes from the bags sold frozen in Betagro and the like.

 

Not that is bad, but is has almost certainly been frozen. Freezer pic at the bottom of the post.

 

 

 

http://www.betagro.com/food/en/product/2032/114

 

On the other hand, Betagro also sell chilled products via the supermarkets.

 

 

 

 

you can go for their S-Pure brand

 

http://www.betagro.com/food/en/product/brand/110

Completely different product to the large vac packed ones used for the open trays. They contain maybe 10 kilos of chicken legs.

[JamJar]

36 minutes ago, hugh2121 said:

Completely different product to the large vac packed ones used for the open trays. They contain maybe 10 kilos of chicken legs.

 

 

You need to read properly. I wrote earlier that the branded ones are in the shop. They have unbranded plain wrapping in the back.

From whence do you think they obtain their chicken? From suppliers other than CP and Betagro?

 

https://shoponline.tescolotus.com/groceries/en-GB/products/6070849374

https://shoponline.tescolotus.com/groceries/en-GB/products/6070849307

https://shoponline.tescolotus.com/groceries/en-GB/products/6070849366

 

As I stated earlier. Get it cheaper directly from the Betagro shop...

 

 

[grollies]

2 hours ago, hugh2121 said:

Completely different product to the large vac packed ones used for the open trays. They contain maybe 10 kilos of chicken legs.

The OP could always try this...looks rather succulent...

 

 

 

[hugh2121]

4 hours ago, JamJar said:

 

 

You need to read properly. I wrote earlier that the branded ones are in the shop. They have unbranded plain wrapping in the back.

From whence do you think they obtain their chicken? From suppliers other than CP and Betagro?

 

https://shoponline.tescolotus.com/groceries/en-GB/products/6070849374

https://shoponline.tescolotus.com/groceries/en-GB/products/6070849307

https://shoponline.tescolotus.com/groceries/en-GB/products/6070849366

 

As I stated earlier. Get it cheaper directly from the Betagro shop...

 

 

Who gives a monkey's about Tesco/Lotus? Or Betagro for that matter.

Edited September 15, 2017 by hugh2121

[JamJar]

37 minutes ago, hugh2121 said:

Who gives a monkey's about Tesco/Lotus? Or Betagro for that matter.

 

Everyone on the thread, including yourself. You shouldn't be posting as if you know something, if you do not.

All of the raw chicken product in the supermarkets(that includes BIG C, Tesco, Friendship etc) come from two suppliers in the main; CPF and Betagro.

 

If you think that the product in the tray are your finest fresh chilled products, I hope you don't run a restaurant in Pattaya.