ALDI & LIDL Food and Drink Worth Trying?

[SpeckledJim]

DRFC1879 said:

I picked up a cast iron griddle pan for £15 in the Aldi aisle of tat yesterday. I'm having a steak on Monday night so it'll get its first run out then.

Feels and looks like a decent bit of kit.

I'd put it through a few heat cycles first before cooking on it.

[944 Man]

Why & how?

[SpeckledJim]

To get any manufacturing residue to burn off before sticking a nice steak on it.

I'd just put it on the hob or BBQ or whatever he's using for heat for a while and put some oil in to 'season' it.

[CharlesdeGaulle]

SpeckledJim said:

I'd put it through a few heat cycles first before cooking on it.

I feel like I'm stalking SJ's posts, but he's quite right. You'll regret just cooking on it from the off for the first use.

[ben5575]

And if using oil etc, brush it onto the steak not put it in the pan... (sucking eggs etc)

[eyebeebe]

CharlesdeGaulle said:

Alcohol is cheap here. You can get a genuinely decent bottle of red, especially Portuguese, for three euros. Fags and fuel are also comparatively cheap, but everything else is obscenely, world-leadingly fking expensive!

So this is a UK graphic, but take the lack of Lux tax and duty off the top and ask yourself how good could your3 euro bottle of Portuguese plonk possibly be...

[CharlesdeGaulle]

eyebeebe said:

So this is a UK graphic, but take the lack of Lux tax and duty off the top and ask yourself how good could your3 euro bottle of Portuguese plonk possibly be...

There are wines here that are cheaper than you can get them in Portugal. Clearly the €3 stuff is table wine but the fact remains that you can get decent wine very cheaply here in general.

[21st Century Man]

The Aldi Primitivo is bloody good stuff then for just 31p.

[majordad]

It’s the Supermarkets taking the hit on what they charge for some wines and their efforts to out do each other. Generally speaking the £20 Wine should have more wine than a £5 one , but only if normally priced.

[SmoothCriminal]

Anyone noticed if their local Aldi has been out of their own brand special washing up liquid the one that's a rip off of fairy platinum, my locals been out of stock for weeks.

[Chocmonster]

SmoothCriminal said:

Anyone noticed if their local Aldi has been out of their own brand special washing up liquid the one that's a rip off of fairy platinum, my locals been out of stock for weeks.

The one in the silver bottle has been missing in my local branch for a few weeks now, I use the cheaper version but my Mum has been complaining about the other one not being available.

[21st Century Man]

I hate the one in the silver bottle, it smells like evo stik, I prefer the boggo green stuff that's more like regular Fairy.

[RammyMP]

Trustmeimadoctor said:

Chicken king kebab it's great so much meat! Nice bit of spice to it too will certainly get it again!

Following your recommendation I got one for lunch. I agree, it was very good and a lot of meat. I got the last peri peri one, might have to try the butter chicken next time if they don’t get any more stock in.

[Dan_1981]

Somewhere in here a while ago was a discussion on which food were actually hot... Slightly outside of Lidl / alid these are from Morrisons.... My arse has been complaining all day after a couple last night.

[RammyMP]

Well the stuffed crust frozen pizzas have got a definite thumbs down in our house. Seemingly the cheese in the crust is like plastic and the sauce is ‘minging’.

I’ll stick with the cheaper non stuffed crust Carlos pizzas in future!

[SpeckledJim]

RammyMP said:

Well the stuffed crust frozen pizzas have got a definite thumbs down in our house. Seemingly the cheese in the crust is like plastic and the sauce is ‘minging’.

I’ll stick with the cheaper non stuffed crust Carlos pizzas in future!

I have grave ground-floor objections to the entire idea of a stuffed crust.

I can't see how you can cook one properly, given the rest of the thing is 10mm thick.

[stevensdrs]

SpeckledJim said:

RammyMP said:

Well the stuffed crust frozen pizzas have got a definite thumbs down in our house. Seemingly the cheese in the crust is like plastic and the sauce is ‘minging’.

I’ll stick with the cheaper non stuffed crust Carlos pizzas in future!

I have grave ground-floor objections to the entire idea of a stuffed crust.

I can't see how you can cook one properly, given the rest of the thing is 10mm thick.

Strangely, stuffed crust pizzas cook perfectly as though the crust is thicker it cooks from the top and bottom at the same time so absorbs just as much heat as the rest of the pizza.
The best ones I have found are in Farmfoods, Chicago Town at 3 for a fiver. Just add a bit extra cheese and meat or mushrooms and they turn out brilliant.

[SpydieNut]

SpeckledJim said:

ambuletz said:

21st Century Man said:

Picked this up at Aldi today and made dinner with it, strange but not unpleasant taste, however fairly bland and zero heat. Not what I was expecting with a name like Gunpowder and a 4/5 chilli rating. A bottle of mineral water is a greater threat to my ring than this.

well that's disappointing.

I mentioned this in another thread but my dad loves his hot currys. he really enjoyed the carolina reaper ready meals/meal boxes the supermarkets sold but they all seemed to discontinue at the same time a month ago. oddly iceland seem to be the only one still doing some 'scarily spicy'/carolina reaper products. they brought back the pizza, I've tried this 2 times...painfully hot for me (and i do love my heat), can't wait for him to give it a go.

it'd be nice if they made an affordable mega hot meal kit. the one online is quite pricey

Another endorsement for the Iceland very hot Indian meals.

On the back of these recommendations I had to try the Iceland Carolina Reaper chicken curry. I do like hot stuff - but wow - they’re not lying on the packer. Sweating buckets, my mouth is on fire, nose streaming and it even made me cry a little bit - involuntary tearing of the eyes. And I’m only half way through it. Don’t think I’ll finish all the sauce - this is right at the upper end of my tolerance / comfort zone. It has quite nice flavour, so it’s not just heat, but there is a lot of heat - be warned

[SpeckledJim]

SpydieNut said:

SpeckledJim said:

ambuletz said:

21st Century Man said:

Picked this up at Aldi today and made dinner with it, strange but not unpleasant taste, however fairly bland and zero heat. Not what I was expecting with a name like Gunpowder and a 4/5 chilli rating. A bottle of mineral water is a greater threat to my ring than this.

well that's disappointing.

I mentioned this in another thread but my dad loves his hot currys. he really enjoyed the carolina reaper ready meals/meal boxes the supermarkets sold but they all seemed to discontinue at the same time a month ago. oddly iceland seem to be the only one still doing some 'scarily spicy'/carolina reaper products. they brought back the pizza, I've tried this 2 times...painfully hot for me (and i do love my heat), can't wait for him to give it a go.

it'd be nice if they made an affordable mega hot meal kit. the one online is quite pricey

Another endorsement for the Iceland very hot Indian meals.

On the back of these recommendations I had to try the Iceland Carolina Reaper chicken curry. I do like hot stuff - but wow - they’re not lying on the packer. Sweating buckets, my mouth is on fire, nose streaming and it even made me cry a little bit - involuntary tearing of the eyes. And I’m only half way through it. Don’t think I’ll finish all the sauce - this is right at the upper end of my tolerance / comfort zone. It has quite nice flavour, so it’s not just heat, but there is a lot of heat - be warned

Yup. I equate spice tolerance directly with masculinity, because I’m an idiotic dinosaur, and I'll happily admit to having a proper fight with an Iceland CR ready meal.

[ambuletz]

I bought my dad the CR curry from iceland around a month or so ago as the supermarkets had stopped doing their super hot ready meal boxes. He likes his heat and he found the iceland CR curry to be miles hotter than the phall/vindaloos that were in the ready meal boxes.

the sacrily spicy pizza is also bloody hot. I've had it 3 times now. each time I've been halfway through eating it and regretted ever buying it, no idea what brought me to go back and by it again after the first time.