The meat in your purse or wallet How much are you really paying?
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Where possible, we'll keep the panel numbers akin to those on the previous page here. The packs you saw are not repeated on this panel.
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Panel 4 It's about WYSIWYG and WYE prices. Once you start thinking about such comparisons, you can approximate in your head. Here's how to do it. |
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Panel 6 is above. This is Panel 7 Rather more trimmings than WYE meat. We started with 315 g. The weight of the trimmings is 219.3 g. 70% waste. Makes you think, doesn't it? The WYE weight is 95.7 grams. You paid £7.25 per kg - £2.28 for 315 g. £23.85 per kg is far more than the original £7.25. Next for the chop is the lighter and pricier chop itself. With only a small bone and a bit of fat to remove (panel 10b here),even though it is more costly per kg (£12.00) WYSIWYG, we move forward to calculate its WYE price. Panel 8 is below. |
Panel 9 We'll concentrate on the WYE meat. There's much fewer trimmings than with the cutlets. Weights and prices, as was said before, come later. Panel 10 is below. The meat in the pack weighed 230 g. The WYE weight is 185 g. 10% waste. |
Panel 11 And now we can compare the cutlets with the chop. Mentally move the two left cutlets on top of the top chop and so on.
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Panel 12 The cutlets at the top are smaller than in Panel 5 and for reasons stated there. We're ready to move on to the weights and costings. The WYE cutlets weigh 95.7 g and cost £7.25 per kg. 315 g divided by 95.7 g = 3.29. £7.25 times that = £23.85. The WYE chop(s) weigh(s) 185 g and cost £12.00 per kg. 230 g over 185 = 1.24. £12 times that = £14.88. Percentage waste Cutlets - Panel 6 - 70% Chop(s) - Panel 10 note in Panel 9 - 10%. I rest my case. Even if you don't trim the bone from the cutlets, it still goes in the bin after the meal. If you put them under the grill untrimmed entirely, there's far more grease to clear and the inedible constituents remain inedible unless you guzzle fat and gristle. Never mind the different WYE prices. The choice is:
£23.85 minus £14.88. That gives you £8.97. Divide that by the cost of the chop - £2.76. Go and by three more packs of chop and there's a bit of cash left over. There's no supermarket deception in this situation. You pays your money ...etc. No deception, just poor advice re cooking the chop(s). See Panel 13. Why would you roast a small piece of meat like a chop, even if it hasn't been split into two smaller ones? Answer, if you want to ruin it/them. Many chop-label readers would take the 230g chop and look at the 30 mins per 450 g advice. 230 is about half of 450 so in it goes for 15 mins plus 30 mins! I bury my chop. It's best to follow the cutlet advice. "Grill for 6 - 8 minutes each side." - medium heat. However, that may be too long. Put the grill on full heat and the job's done in about ten mins. |
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