Barretts (Birmingham) - Chilli & Garlic

We were at the Essex coast for the day visiting friends and whilst out for a walk, dropped into the Sunday market at St Osyth...hmm a mobile meat shop...sausages perhaps? 

Now my wife calls it obsessive behaviour, but I don't when it comes to hunting out new varieties of sausage.  We're on a mission after all, "So what have you got today for sale my good man?"

We picked up some interesting Pork, Chilli & Garlic, and some Pork & Apple (about which we'll do separately) for a very good sale price, and in to the carrier bag they went. 

The plan was to use these for a BBQ as I wanted to get the troops and others feedback on them. They cooked up well and were pretty good in a roll with "summer slaw" dressing, washed down with a glass of Doom Bar.  Blimey though, hot little "what-sits". 

The labelling indicated 52% pork, 10% pork fat, pork rind, chilli powder & garlic powder, some soya flour and soya protein plus plenty of E's, yes OK perhaps not the makings of a premium sausage agreed, but at "today's sale price" of £5.00 for a 14 sausage 859g pack, what do you expect! 

The texture was a tad on the smooth / soft side, quite moist, not a bad chew with a good tingle of chilli, although the garlic was a bit lost.

The natural skins did brown nicely, a few minor splits but none of that annoying creamy stuff leaking out which does make a change.  Minimal shrinkage and weight loss...

Eaten cold later, the chilli tingle was still there...

The feedback from the troops was "they'll do"...hmm positive then. 
Mind you granddad said they were a bit too much for him...


Barretts (Birmingham) - Chilli & Garlic
(May 2015)

Here's the sample details:
90x30mm before cooking, 87x30mm after.
59g before cooking, 55g after.
That's a shrinkage of approx 3% & weight loss of approx 7%.
14 sausages in a 859g pack £5.00   (approx £5.83/kg)






Barretts
35 Station Road
Martson Green
Birmingham
B37 7AB

0121 783 7995


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