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00:00Welcome to the taste test restaurant we've been expecting you this is no
00:09ordinary eatery diners it's time to tuck in yes it's where diners put supermarket
00:16foods to the test service on the pass and try before they buy there's a
00:25different cuisine on the menu each week it looks like you turn the lights out
00:29it'll glow in the dark but Tom Reed Wilson is always in charge oh do come
00:36through helping our diners discover which products pack a flavor punch I want
00:43to lick the plate and which missed the mark that's disgusting as we find out
00:52which supermarket favorites really offer good value for money with that bigger
00:57saving who would go for the bargain oh while in the kitchen chef Mike Reed is
01:04on a mission we need to be focused and we need to make sure our diners are happy
01:09yes chef to discover the tricks of the supermarket trade the supermarkets have
01:14one more secret up their sleeve to help you decide where to spend and where to
01:20save for the sake of saving a few bob I would definitely make the switch this time the taste
01:27test test restaurants serving up fake aways service from halloumi fries to cookie dough dessert
01:35oh my gosh it's beautiful stuffed crust pizza to peri peri sauce oh no quite accurate isn't it but which will deliver on flavor now that is how a popcorn chicken should taste and which will be sent packing and with the inflated crust look at this sponginess kids could jump on at a birthday party
01:55I'm Tom Reed Wilson and welcome to the taste test restaurant today we're looking at what
02:11some people call fake aways those ingenious supermarket foods that give us the taste of
02:18the takeaways we know and love the restaurant is about to fill up with diners all eager to discover
02:26if they can get that takeaway taste without spending a fortune and downstairs in the kitchen
02:33super chef Mike Reed is prepping for service today is all about fake aways we need to make sure we deliver we need
02:43to be fast we need to be accurate and we need to give them some delicious food let's do it come on so
02:50whilst Mike and his team prep the food our taste test diners start to arrive oh boys and first through
02:58the door three takeaway loving darts players and two sisters who work in hospitality you must be twins
03:05you're so alive yeah identical oh I see followed by a couple of time poor doctors and a pair of busy
03:13parents hello Jennifer hi Rob oh you look so chic next a foodie family where dad does the cooking and
03:23finally four shift working police officers with a fondness for fast food oh hello bobbies come in
03:32make yourselves comfortable I know you've been particularly busy the diners will be presented
03:39with five dishes tasting three options from leading supermarkets each time after every course they'll vote
03:47for the one they like the most dear diners welcome we're about to embark on a feast of fabulousness and
03:59we're going to begin with a stupendous starter which is totes verse as I think people say these
04:06days because it's as delicious as an appetizer as it is as an accompaniment it's halloumi fries
04:16in a clash of premium versus mid-range supermarkets our diners will taste three varieties of halloumi fries
04:29all coated in breadcrumbs each offering is labeled either a b or c but neither the diners nor Tom will
04:38know which one is which being sampled tonight in no particular order are Waitrose vegetarian halloumi fries
04:47M&S food halloumi fries and Sainsbury's takeaway halloumi fries service please thank you very much oh wow
04:57oh wow we definitely over ordered there's something particularly unique about halloumi cheese and
05:06before the diners tuck in chef Mike's going to explain what that is so for me halloumi is all about the
05:13squeak and that comes from having dense milk proteins called casein and what that does when you eat it is it
05:20gives you that squeak that feel against the enamel on your teeth and you know that that bite that
05:26texture that is just so synonymous with halloumi so the science of the squeak has been solved but
05:32which plates will be left squeaky clean at the end diners it's time to taste halloumi fry
05:39a I'd like a little bit more halloumi taste but a was good hello Rob hello Jennifer yours is
05:54vanished I'm really heartened by that really hard good that's the second one she's had as well do
06:00you perhaps slightly disagree here because not very much of yours has gotten wrong well I'm saving for
06:05B and C but I have one and a half of A already and I did like it is this something the kids go for
06:10are they into halloumi fries I think they would until they bit into it and realized that it wasn't
06:14like chicken but no A was good a fairly positive start for A but what will our doctors make of halloumi
06:22fried B the batter is thicker yeah it's less salty than A sorry I was eavesdropping there that's awful but I do want to probe you about halloumi
06:35fried B had a strong bite right it did the only thing I would say is that the cheese perhaps wasn't as free as it
06:43could have been so I usually like a little bit of a slight melt you want your halloumi to run the
06:49gamut don't you I do I do I really do I like those high expectations finally it's on to halloumi fry C
06:57it's not as oily as me it's good C I think it's got the best halloumi taste Julie Jill identical twins
07:09I'm very curious to see whether you have identical palates and identical reactions to halloumi fry C
07:17we seem to on this I thought C look really nice when it came down to it but no it's disappointed that one
07:23has yeah definitely doesn't even taste of halloumi
07:25really no saltiness the coating's crispy it's got texture to it okay so there is some
07:32yeah but I suppose we want the halloumi yes in a halloumi fry we do want the halloumi to be the star
07:40yes blindfold me and I wouldn't know that was halloumi oh gosh with all three fries sampled our
07:47tasters must decide the winner diners it's time to vote for your favorite halloumi fries will it be A
07:56B or C and while they make up their minds in the kitchen chef Mike wants to find out why the diners
08:06found such a huge difference in texture between the three products tasted so just seeing these
08:12coming out the oven now you can see the difference in the color of the M&S versus the Saints with some
08:18waitrose so let's have a closer look starting with the M&S the cheese is a hundred percent halloumi
08:23they haven't used any other cheeses in there which is great you get that squeak instantly you feel it
08:33on your teeth it's exactly what you want it's that perfect halloumi bite so let's have a look at the
08:38Sainsbury's offering now which unlike M&S uses a 50 50 blend of halloumi and a Greek style cheese
08:47it's a slightly different texture the halloumi squeak is there but nowhere near as prominent as
08:52with M&S and you know what I don't mind it it's not wrong it's not a shortcut halloumi can set and go
08:59cold quite quickly and go quite rubbery so maybe they've done that so that you know by the time you get
09:04to your last fries in the pack they're still as good as the first one which is quite smart really
09:08let's have a taste of waitrose which again is a 50 50 mix between halloumi and a Greek style cheese
09:15so they've gone with the same approach as Sainsbury's and it gives you that same sort of
09:19mouthfeel and I think it's a smart way of giving you a really good consistent product the whole way
09:25through the packet it's going to be really interesting to see which way the diners go on
09:28this will it be the 100% halloumi or will it be the 50 50 well we're about to find out as back in
09:37the restaurant Tom has the results diners your votes are in and this is most unusual because we
09:47have a tie between halloumi fry a and halloumi fry B halloumi fry a is from M&S halloumi fried B is
10:02from Sainsbury's tie break winners so in joint first place is the most expensive and the one
10:11product to use only halloumi cheese M&S food halloumi fries which also comes with a sweet chili dip
10:18costing four pounds fifty for a 200 gram pack and Sainsbury's takeaway halloumi fries which uses a
10:26blend of halloumi and Greek style cheese costing three pounds fifty for 204 grams coming in third
10:33is the cheapest which is also a blend Waitrose vegetarian halloumi fries at three pounds for 200
10:40grams now I am going to queer the pitch ever so slightly because there is a marked difference
10:49in price M&S's halloumi fry is a third more expensive than Sainsbury's who voted for a Lloyd you did
10:59would you change fries for the sake of your wallet I've eaten a lot of halloumi fries Tom and buy cheap you
11:07buy twice well it's quite a sage piece of advice diners thank you coming up chef Mike turns up the heat on
11:21supermarket stuffed crust pizzas the crust just it almost doubles triples in size here and will the
11:28diners be spitting feathers over popcorn chicken it was a bit spongy squidgy now that's not an adjective
11:34you want anywhere near chicken is it welcome back to the taste test restaurant three quarters of us are
11:56more conscious of our spending on takeaways and meals out so the supermarkets have stepped into the breach
12:03with a tantalizing array of foods designed to give us the taste of takeaways at home but which ones are
12:11worthy of our hard-earned money to help us find out a troop of taste testers a blind testing dishes from
12:21leading supermarkets and it's time for their next course dear diners Dean Martin once sang when the moon
12:31hits your eye in the manner of our next dish that's amore it is of course pizza
12:39is it a more a plus plus plus if it comes with a stuffed crust one minute till they're going in the
12:54oven in this round one mid-range and two budget supermarket stuffed crust pepperoni pizzas are going
13:02head-to-head but neither the diners nor Tom will know which is which the main courses they'll be testing
13:10are Lidl's chef select take away stuffed crust pepperoni overload Aldi's Carlos take away stuffed
13:17crust double pepperoni pizza and Morrison's the pizza deal punching pepperoni fully loaded stuffed crust
13:24so he's appealing to this it's so symmetrical circular it's a pizza diners time to taste stuffed crust pizza a
13:44a pepperoni is quite nice and salty I don't like the stuffed cheese
13:59you know what I absolutely love about this table is that this is not an unusual sight this is the norm
14:05for you guys to dime as a family isn't it what do you think about pizza a jasmine the crust is not really
14:13for me on pizza a because of the finny yeah the cheese is very strong for me and it's a bit hard
14:24so what will the diners think about pizza b it's got a nice undercarriage stone baked i believe
14:30b's a cheaper pizza definitely i agree my darts players has pizza b hit the bullseye no it's got
14:41a bit of an artificial aftertaste and it looks like it's been chucked on by a croupier as well
14:45so presentation wise it's not the same as the others yes we don't want that that's unbridled chaos isn't
14:51it pure chaos and with the inflated crust look at this sponginess oh gosh kids could jump on that
14:56on a birthday party pizza b may be falling short of the mark for these darts players today but this doughy
15:04delight has been tickling taste buds for centuries whilst there's evidence the ancient romans of
15:11pompeii ate a former flatbread with various toppings nearly 2 000 years ago it wasn't until tomatoes
15:19started to be used in italian cooking in the late 17th century that a more familiar form of pizza emerged
15:26but it's claimed that we have america to thank for pepperoni pizza as this spicy sausage was created in
15:32the usa in the early 1900s and by the mid 20th century was being used as a pizza topping and finally
15:41in 1995 u.s fast food giants pizza hut were the first big chain to launch the concept of a stuffed crust
15:49pizza with the help of one surprisingly familiar face telling us how to eat it good we eat our pizza
15:56the wrong way crust first back in our taste test restaurant will stuffed crust pizza see trump the
16:08others pepperoni tastes way cheaper on c especially compared to a because a the pepperoni was really
16:16good hello my beloved bobbies i'm quite nervous of coming to you because you have an existing love
16:23affair with stuffed crust pizza don't you i really do tom yeah and is c living up to your expectations
16:30controversy on this table c is the winner for me oh we're all a bit split on this table oh emily
16:37so for me they all have different strengths so i like the pepperoni best on a the dough best and b
16:44and then the stuffed crust best on c so it's a bit of a hybrid oh gosh with all three pizzas sampled a winner
16:53must be chosen diners it's time to vote for your favorite stuffed crust pizza will it be a b or c
17:03whilst our diners decide chef mike takes a closer look at our supermarket offerings which are all sold
17:14with the dough par baked with a stuffed crust pizza it's all about the dough i want a nice even crust
17:21all the way around nicely sealed so you don't lose any of that beautiful cheese in it but mike thinks there
17:28may be some issues with each of the pizzas starting with morrison's which he believes may have been
17:33overcooked in the production process you can see that this is being par baked before and they've
17:39ballooned the pizza in the middle as you then cook that for the second time may dry out a little bit
17:46so i would like to see less of a rise in the middle of the pizza here with audi you can see they baked
17:53it less than with the morrison's one so for me that's a good thing however the crust i've got issues
18:00with it almost doubles triples in size here so you've lost a big portion of your pizza there and
18:06that's a big shame and finally on to little which like the morrison's mike feels may have been par baked
18:13for too long with little you can see again it's ballooned a lot it's been baked a little bit too far
18:20for me for my preference if it's ballooned already it's gonna overcook by the time you cook your pizza
18:25at home you've got some really big gaps as well and that's a worry because your cheese could leak
18:31out as it cooks which is a shame because if you buy stuff cross it's all about the filling right
18:37some strong views from mike but will our taste testers agree dear diners your votes are in and have
18:47been counted and we have what i can only describe as a runaway winner it is stuffed crust pizza
19:02and this is from aldi
19:08so in first place is aldi's carlos takeaway stuffed crust double pepperoni pizza which is the only pizza
19:16mike feels hasn't been over baked during the production process and at four pounds 15 for 691
19:22grams is also the cheapest tied in second place with just two votes each a lidl's chef select takeaway
19:31stuffed crust pepperoni overload also at four pounds 15 for a smaller 605 grams and the most expensive
19:40morrison's morrison's the pizza deal punching pepperoni stuffed crust at five pounds for 607 grams
19:49well i must tell you that the pizza that you overwhelmingly chose
19:55was the cheapest of the three so dear diners you found a great pizza but crucially in this instance
20:03a great bargain bravo diners so in our tester's opinion you don't have to spend a lot of dough for a good
20:12stuffed crust pizza and with the team back at work in the kitchen it's time to find out what's next on the
20:19menu dear diners our next course is those little nuggets of deliciousness popcorn chicken
20:29yes but will it pop for your palate we shall see
20:41this round is a competition between a leading brand and two mid-range supermarkets
20:48and the diners will taste three options including morrison's takeaway southern fried chicken pops
20:55sainsbury's takeaway southern fried breaded chicken pops and chicken puppets from the brand sfc
21:02which stands for southern fried chicken let's get this out nice and quick please
21:08hello thank you very much thank you that'd be definitely the best looking and we've got an
21:11interesting color scheme going on here
21:13diners it is time to try popcorn chicken
21:27it's like a chicken paste the flavor is actually not too bad it's just the texture
21:31not a great start will our foodie twins like them any better popcorn chicken egg
21:39i don't know what to say oh no it was a bit spongy squidgy oh dear now that's not an adjective
21:46you want anywhere near chicken is it spongy you want a chunk of chicken don't you yes we do it doesn't
21:51look like real chicken oh gosh
21:53some underwhelming feedback on a but will our next offering fare any better
22:00popcorn chicken b here we go
22:07so jen rob tell me about b better than a for sure and what about the casing had more flavor
22:16had more texture crispier just wanted to have another one right after eating it
22:20and finally it's on to option c
22:29now that is how a popcorn chicken should taste c is lovely the crunch is crunching everything
22:35the pop is popping a strong start for c but will it be a positive prognosis from our doctors as well
22:43jenny popcorn chicken c it was a burst of flavor it's got a nice kind of crunchy outer coating
22:50a little bit peppery so the richness of color is born out in flavor it is with all three popcorn
22:57chickens tasted the diners must decide which they like the most diners please vote for your favorite
23:06popcorn chicken a b or c
23:17coming up mike reveals some meaty supermarket secrets so i can see straight away from cutting through this
23:24that this isn't a chicken piece it's formed chicken and which peri peri sauce will feel the heat from our diners
23:32oh it's like sea water you can have aquarium fish in it
23:46welcome back to the taste test restaurant where we're tasting some of the supermarket's best versions
23:53of takeaway foods and our diners are trying one of the nation's favorites but before i reveal the results
24:01chef mike is going to reveal the secrets of popcorn chicken
24:08in the kitchen mike's taking a closer look at the three products our diners have tasted
24:13and these are morrison's takeaway southern fried chicken pops sainsbury's takeaway southern fried
24:20breaded chicken pops and brand sfc chicken poppets our diners expressed strong views on the texture of the
24:29chicken so mike is going to dissect each one before it goes into the oven to find out why that might be
24:35so i can see straight away from cutting through this that this isn't a chicken piece it's not a breast
24:47or a thigh it's formed chicken what they do is basically they take the chicken and they blitz it into
24:53a paste essentially and then they shape it into these balls to make the popcorn chicken by doing it this
25:00way it would give you a very different bite a different mouthfeel it'll be much softer on the
25:05palate once you start to eat it next it's morrison's this chicken like the sfc product has also been
25:13pre-cooked using formed chicken but there's one noticeable difference if i look at the package it says
25:20made with 100 chicken breasts and chicken breast dries out quite easily it's the driest part of the
25:26chicken and this is already cooked a little bit overcooked which is why you can see the breakdown
25:31in the chicken in the middle and those almost wiry texture now by the time you reheat this and
25:37cook it for a second time i'm worried it's going to be quite dry and finally it's sainsbury's which is
25:45the only one of our three products that doesn't pre-cook the chicken during the production process
25:49they've opted for chopped and shaped chicken pieces you can feel that texture straight away
25:57because you've got the raw meat in there and you know you've got the little bits of chicken for me
26:02it's a very smart way of doing it because they're not cooking it twice so you should end up with quite
26:09a succulent popcorn chicken so it's gonna be really interesting to see if the diners choose the one that's
26:14been cooked once or if it's one of the ones that have been cooked twice well we're about to find out
26:22as back in the restaurant our testers have made their decision dear diners your votes are in and we
26:30have a very clear winner with 75 of your vote it's popcorn chicken
26:38c which is from sainsbury's
26:48so in the battle of branded versus supermarket popcorn chicken the runaway winner is our cheapest option
26:55and the only one not to have pre-cooked chicken inside sainsbury's takeaway southern fried breaded
27:01chicken pops costing 98p for 190 grams in second place it's the most expensive morrison's takeaway
27:10southern fried chicken pops priced at three pounds for a much larger 500 gram pack
27:17and trailing in third with no votes at all brand sfc chicken puppets at one pound for 170 grams
27:25well diners once again you have a clear victor and a bargain so a stonking bravo
27:38another win for the cheapest option proving a higher price doesn't always mean better taste
27:45diners i like it when things get a little bit spicy
27:50so i'm going to turn up the temperature in the restaurant now with a condiment
27:56with a kick peri peri sauce
28:03the name peri peri is widely believed to come from the east african word pili pili
28:09which simply means pepper in swahili it's understood to have originated in mozambique
28:15sometime in the 15th or 16th century when portuguese colonists introduced chilies to the country for
28:22the first time locals soon began mixing these chilies with other newly introduced ingredients
28:29such as lemons olive oil and garlic and thus peri peri sauce was born
28:36centuries later its popularity spread into neighboring south africa where a chain of well-known chicken
28:42shops emerged in the late 1980s in 1992 the first nando's restaurant opened its doors in west london
28:50and it's safe to say the uk's love affair with this spicy sauce has been on fire ever since
29:00third course of the day fourth course of the day
29:04in this round it's a heated battle between the crown prince of peri peri and two budget supermarkets
29:13and as ever our diners and tom don't know which products are a b or c in no particular order they'll
29:20be testing the medium heat versions of the following brand leader nando's peri peri sauce
29:28liddles bat's peri peri sauce and aldi's bramwell's peri peri sauce and marinade service please service
29:37yes
29:46i think it's like a soup
29:48diners it's time to taste peri peri sauce a
29:53it's very sour oh a is really salty it's almost like my daily intake of salt in one but on a piece
30:08of grilled chicken it'd be nice that could be good right yeah a tepid start for a but will their
30:15palate's warm to peri peri sauce b
30:23b is the best please the best oh no that's not for me quite accurate isn't it it is it it
30:30it kind of coats your tongue not in the right way peri peri sauce b tell me tell me it's quite
30:38flavoursome yes but it's a little bit vinegary i feel like personally it tastes a bit more like a
30:45marinade than a sauce so um yeah i feel like it is like a little bit of salt just to kind of balance
30:53out the flavors i mean the chili is there um so there is a bit of a kick
30:57with it so peri peri sauce b also failed to fully fire up our diner's taste buds
31:06what will be the response to bottle c consistency wise it looks right
31:14it's like sea water it is not a ringing endorsement from our darts players
31:22will our foodie twins agree i think it'd be all right there's a marinade and then cooks it
31:28but not not just neat like that now julie jill i'm longing to know what you think of c
31:37not the best one oh really salty very salty saltier than a yeah on a par with it yeah yeah
31:44right i think so it's quite sour gosh
31:52so some strong opinions to match the strong flavors but which sauce will be the winner
32:00diners it's time to vote for your favorite peri peri sauce will it be a b or c
32:08and while they decide chef mike wants to lift the lid on an important but often overlooked element of
32:18these sauces everyone thinks that it's all about the flavor of a peri peri sauce but the texture and
32:25the consistency of the sauce is just as important for a product like this it's essential the ingredients
32:33always maintain a consistent thickness or viscosity as it's known you want a sauce that clings to the
32:40food that you're eating that's what makes a really good sauce what's more the products must stay well
32:46mixed and never separate and it's not as easy as it looks because you've got to think you've got oils
32:52in there water in there all the ingredients it can separate really easily so how do food producers
32:58keep sauces like these thick and well mixed the secret that the brands and the supermarket use
33:07is xanthan gum so xanthan gum is basically a thickener or stabilizer which is made from fermented sugars
33:16when xanthan gum is mixed into a liquid it absorbs water and swells making the liquid thicker and less
33:22likely to separate so to illustrate how it works i've blitzed up some tomato and water just to make
33:30a very basic sauce he then pours the sauce into two separate glasses add xanthan gum to just one of them
33:40and leaves both for 15 minutes the one here without xanthan gum you can see the separation
33:48you've got the liquid on the bottom and then that almost tomato pulp on top whereas the one where
33:54i added the xanthan gum it's slightly lighter in color but it's one continuous sauce there's no
34:00separation at all and that's the supermarket secret back in the taste test restaurant it's time for the
34:09results have peri peri pros nando's powered to victory diners your votes are in and we do have a
34:17clear winner with 10 votes it is peri peri sauce b which is wrong little oh and the plot thickens with
34:37peri peri sauce because in second place is the market leader nando's
34:44so in our clash of the medium heat condiments budget brand little blazes to victory with its
34:52bats peri peri sauce which priced at 1.25 for 260 grams is also the cheapest second is bottle c with
35:02just four votes and the most expensive nando's peri peri sauce costing 2.70 for a 250 gram bottle
35:11and third it's aldi with its bramwell's peri peri sauce and marinade priced at 1.25 for 250 grams
35:19well diners you have again plumped for a very reasonable option so i think our wallets are going
35:27to thank us all and i thank you bravo diners coming up which cookie dough dessert will scoop the top
35:36spot how is it gooey and which will crumble under the pressure i didn't get sugar from it i've got
35:42plaiter oh gosh that's not a comparison i like
35:55diners i really mean it when i say you've been the sweetest of treats for me today
36:01and therefore i would very much like to respond in kind with a sweet treat for you specifically
36:09cookie dough dessert
36:16in this final round of supermarket versions of our favorite takeaway foods it's a clash between two
36:23mid-range supermarkets and a budget and as usual our diners and tom don't know which is which
36:34the cookie dough desserts they're testing are sainsbury's takeaway cookie dough dessert
36:40lidl's chef select takeaway chocolate chip cookie and the bakery at asda cookie dough dessert
36:46all right all right service please
36:55oh my gosh it's beautiful see smells good diners it's time to tuck into cookie dough dessert a
37:05how is it gooey
37:18crunch on the outside soft middle quite sweet and light and you kind of want your cookie dough to pack a
37:25bit of a punch a fairly positive start for a but how will cookie dough dessert b shape up
37:35yeah oh that's nice yeah yeah very good it tastes of nothing boys have you got oodles to say about bee
37:46it was just the same taste all the way through it was just it's really just really sweet and stodgy and
37:52sugary and yeah i didn't even get sugar from it i got play-doh oh yes oh gosh that's not a comparison i
37:58like at all not one i owed while dessert b isn't a huge hit today cookies themselves have been taking
38:07the biscuit for centuries the word cookie is said to come from the dutch for cake cookie and it's the
38:15dutch who are largely credited for bringing this sweet treat to america in the 17th century where it
38:20quickly became a hit but it wasn't until 1938 that the first chocolate chip cookie is believed to have been
38:27created by american chef ruth graves wakefield who published the recipe in one of her popular
38:33cookbooks it was often known as the toll house cookie named after the inn she owned and during
38:40world war ii u.s housewives began baking them to send to their husbands and sons on the front line
38:46and they've remained a favorite ever since
38:48back in the restaurant will dessert c change the way this cookie contest crumbles
38:59better than beef
39:02unexpectedly good c has got to be the cheapest option i'd like to think so because if i was
39:07spending money on that i wouldn't want to be spending much strongly worded email absolutely
39:11with the cookie dough desserts dividing the crowd it's crunch time dear diners i'm going to invite
39:19you to vote for your favorite cookie dessert will it be a b or c
39:29and while our diners choose chef mike takes a closer look at our three cookie dough desserts which
39:35have all been cooked following the instructions on the packet so looking at the ingredients to these
39:40desserts they're very similar but if you actually look at the cookies they're very different mike
39:46believes the difference comes from the quantities of the ingredients each has used so for example asda
39:53most likely has more raising agents in there maybe a little bit more egg that's why you get the lift in
39:59this dessert versus the little one which is more of a classic cookie so maybe the sugar contents a little
40:07bit higher maybe a bit more butter but not as much raising agent but the varying amount of ingredients
40:13isn't the only reason they don't look alike so the other thing that separates them is the length of
40:19time you cook them with asda is 10 minutes which is why there's not a great amount of color there
40:26and it's probably going to be more of a doughy gooey consistency in the middle whereas with sainsbury's
40:32it's a 15 to 17 minute cook time which is why you can see the caramelization here with the chocolate
40:38and a real golden color to that cookie and with lidl it's a 12 minute cook time but because it's quite
40:45flat and it's not in a container it just gives you that appearance of an old school sort of cookie
40:51so three very different looking offerings but which did our testers prefer well diners we have a winner
41:03by a very healthy margin it is cookie dessert a
41:11which is from little and scooped up a whopping 12 of your votes with an unassailable lead in first
41:25place it's the cheapest of the three lidl's chef select takeaway chocolate chip cookie which costs one
41:31pound 99 for 290 grams second is the most expensive the bakery at asda cookie dough dessert priced at three
41:39pounds 50 for 300 grams and trailing in third with no votes at all is sainsbury's takeaway cookie dough dessert
41:48at two pound 65 for 304 grams diners you have picked another whopping bargain i'm dazzled by you
41:58so please give yourselves a huge hand
42:02it's been a successful day for our budget offerings as the winner in four of the five products tested
42:11has been the cheapest
42:15and as the restaurant closes its doors there's just time for one final thought our diners have shown you
42:21don't have to call for a takeaway and wait for the delivery driver supermarkets can provide takeaway style
42:29treats for less which is jolly lucky because i can't be bothered to cook tonight cheers
42:40next time it's rise and shine for our diners
42:45as the restaurant serves up a breakfast banquet
42:48light room probably it's chicken good boxes leaving some in pastry paradise
42:55and others as flat as a pancake wouldn't feed that to the dog
43:02tuck into another taste test next thursday at seven remember workouts on breakfast telly lizzie
43:07webb and the green goddess well they had a big influence on the 1980s supermarket tomorrow at seven
43:13next inside the tower of london returns for a new series and the beef eaters busy preparing
43:19to mark d-day with striking poignant ceremonies it's soul-stirring stuff and it's here in just a moment
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