How does Tesco sell 2 Scotch Eggs for 2 pounds?

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Crunchie64@reddit

Either automation and economies of mass production, or really really low quality ingredients. Or of course both.

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raccoonsaff@reddit

I mean, when buying and producing on such large scales, they can really reduce their costs?

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reddit_recluse@reddit

They put a label next to the product saying £2 and then customers give them £2 and take the scotch eggs.

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Greatgrowler@reddit

Not quite. They put a label with £7 and a Clubcard price of £2 so you feel you have saved £5.

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wardyms@reddit

Good, then all the nutters who think the government are watching them through their club card end up paying a stupid amount.

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Thread-Hunter@reddit

Most likely they have a good profit margin because its contains cheap ingrendients. If you use real fresh ingredients then it will cost more, Its all relative... You get what you pay for.

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Banes_Addiction@reddit

It's sausagemeat and a whole egg. There aren't a lot of shortcuts to take.

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There is a massive differnce. The tesco scotch eggs only contain 26% pork, its mostly full of shyte ingredients. Compared to what you will get from a butcher, its more like 85% pork that is top quality. Difference is night and day.

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Banes_Addiction@reddit

It's no surprise that a scotch egg contains less pork than a butchers sausage, what with the egg and all.

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Thread-Hunter@reddit

I think you misunderstood. What Im saying is if you buy a good quality scotch egg from a butcher, they dont use cheap fillers like tesco, it will be a higher percentage of pork from top quality cuts. You cant expect to buy champage on a lemonade budget. Hence you get what you pay for.

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Classic_Mammoth_9379@reddit

I think they understood fine TBH. The point is that although the sausage may or may not be better quality elsewhere, the same list of ingredents on Tesco's site that says "26% pork" is preceeded by "37% egg". So your buchers SCOTCH EGG is going to have quite a hard time getting up to 85% pork, it would in fact suggest that they've probably got the ratios quite wrong.

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Thread-Hunter@reddit

I have seen one online that contains 84% pork. It doesnt contain any rubbish ingredients like the tesco one. The quality is second to none.

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Classic_Mammoth_9379@reddit

These ones? [https://gourmetscotchegg.co.uk/shop/scotch-eggs/traditional/](https://gourmetscotchegg.co.uk/shop/scotch-eggs/traditional/)

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Thread-Hunter@reddit

yes. And also this one below. It doesnt list the percentages, it just has the ingredients listed all of which can be counted on one hand, unlike the tesco one which contains loads of crap ingredients. Visually you can just tell this contains a high percentages of pork, look at how much meat you get, its a meal within itself. [https://www.chadwicksbutchers.com/product/scotch-eggs-2-89-each/](https://www.chadwicksbutchers.com/product/scotch-eggs-2-89-each/)

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Classic_Mammoth_9379@reddit

The Gourmet one claims there is 84% pork, it also then say 83% pork, egg is listed twice. Look at another flavour like this one [https://gourmetscotchegg.co.uk/shop/scotch-eggs/caramelised-onion/](https://gourmetscotchegg.co.uk/shop/scotch-eggs/caramelised-onion/) and it becomes "pork, 83% bread rusk" so the ratios have flipped, only one egg in this one tho and no red pepper listed despite it being in the name of the product. It's a mess. The photo looks like a scotch egg with a thick layer of sausage meat around it, no way that there is 5x more meat than egg tho mate.

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Thread-Hunter@reddit

my point is simply that supermarket scotch eggs are not comparable in quality to what you can get from an independent business that will use higher quality ingredients.

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Rootes_Radical@reddit

Is that not because it’s 64% egg and 10% breadcrumbs?

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Thread-Hunter@reddit

egg is 37% ( look up the ingredients on the tesco website).

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FidelityBob@reddit

>There aren't a lot of shortcuts to take I suggest you read Chris van Tulleken's book Ultra Processed People.

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External-Piccolo-626@reddit

You make one at home, it’s like night and day the difference.

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DrHenryWu@reddit

Sausage meat itself is a vague term and could contain anywhere between 20-99% pork really. Could be as cheap as you are willing to go, just add filler

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Flat_Development6659@reddit

The wholesale price of caged eggs is around £0.12 each. You're probably paying more like £0.30 each. Even bigger gap between wholesale meat and supermarket prices.

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Pristine-Account8384@reddit

Boiled eggs are cheap, as is sausage 'meat' ...

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StardustOasis@reddit

Depends how much non-meat filler they contain.

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Informal_Drawing@reddit

They taste like they are made of cardboard. Even the egg tastes weird. I doubt they can easily be classified as food.

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Banes_Addiction@reddit

Everything is cheaper done at scale. They're not buying eggs by the dozen, they're buying pallets of 10k. Then they get boiled in bulk, get peeled in bulk, probably primarily by machine. The sausage will be the same, probably hundreds of kilos of premixed sausage meat. Then probably shaped by molds, coated on a conveyor, eggs inserted and sealed, fried en masse in oil that's constantly hot. No time waiting for it to heat up. They can probably make 1000 eggs with 5 people in the time it takes you to make 2.

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Round_Caregiver2380@reddit

Are they actually deep fried? They don't seem crispy enough or greasy enough.

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Lost-Sausage@reddit

They're two for £1.50 in Waitrose, so the Tesco ones aren't even especially cheap.

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Round_Caregiver2380@reddit

I treat myself to one of the posher ones from Waitrose when I do a shop there. They're really good.

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idontlikemondays321@reddit

I’d imagine it’s the arseholes and earholes in the meat

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Amanensia@reddit

By making really shit Scotch eggs.

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Fresh-Research3450@reddit

It could be that they don't make any profit from them, but they do from the other stuff you buy, so you come in to the shop for the scotch eggs and leave with half a dozen other things.

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Beneficial-Cost-1049@reddit

Here: https://youtu.be/fYsFlYSy7t8

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Ldero97@reddit

Eggs and Sausage Meat aren't particularly expensive ingredients. I imagine the profit margin on a £1 Scotch Egg is pretty decent for Tesco.

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horridbloke@reddit

Plenty of places offered that for around 1 pound not so long ago.

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Dannypan@reddit

Assembly line. They'll hard boil hundreds of eggs, go through a machine that cracks them and washes off any shell with high pressure, then be wrapped in sausage meat, rolled in breadcrumbs and deep fried. This video shows them getting checked by someone before going into the fryer https://youtu.be/fYsFlYSy7t8?si=7YXeMGRXOWVjMNzw

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Acrobatic-War99@reddit

Economies of scale, and machines doing most of the work. There's not a bloke cooking then by hand individually.

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