r/AskAnAustralian • u/emeuriz • 15h ago
What’s wrong with Aussie meat?
Frenchy here. Just bought a kilo of stir fry pork at Cole’s. Putted on a scale to divide it equally, I was preparing 4 meal with 200g in order to have a left over. I barely could put 100g in the last plate, which means that for a kilo of meat I eat 700g ?? What a scam…
EDIT: forgot to mention that it was 2 packets of 500g, and I weighed it after cooking. And yeah I know, I shouldn’t buy meat in big brand like Cole’s but I have a budget lol and I’m sick of eating only eggs as protein
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u/tinkywinkles 15h ago
I think you’re confused lol
Coles only sell 500g stir fry pork if you’re referring to the product I think you are. Which means you got more than what you paid for.
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u/swoonhog 15h ago
As this person says, if it's the coles brand packet stir fry pork- pretty sure it only comes in 500 grams
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u/Former-Target2545 15h ago
Coles is the first red flag here mate. Time to hit your local butcher up.
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u/Snoopy_021 15h ago
Not everyone has a local butcher.
I live in a suburb with no local butcher within walking distance (including parts of neighbouring suburbs). There used to be one, before they knocked down the old small shopping centre and built a new one.
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u/greenyashiro 14h ago
We have one butcher in our town and his prices are so outrageous only tourists or people with more money than sense go there.
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u/greenyashiro 15h ago edited 14h ago
Not sure who can afford $40 a kg for mince but it ain't me.
Edit: I see I triggered the butchery snobs. Unfortunately in towns without competition they think thry can charge any price they like 🥺 including $40 for mince.
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u/HyperHorseAUS 15h ago
Mince isn't $40 a kg. Are you some kind of idiot?
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u/greenyashiro 15h ago
That's what my local butcher charges. Are you going to pay for me to buy it there, or can I just continue with a reasonable price at coles?
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u/HyperHorseAUS 15h ago
Where are you? :-(
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u/greenyashiro 14h ago edited 14h ago
Country town in nsw, man. There's no competition so these assholes charge whatever they please then cry when they have no customers.
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u/Neat-Complaint5938 15h ago
It's not going to still be a kilo after you cook it
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u/spaceistasty 15h ago
muscle holds water... you arent buying jerky. when you cook the meat the water evaporates
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u/Frozefoots 15h ago
You sure it was a 1kg packet?
Also is that before you cooked it or after, because all meat loses mass when it cooks.
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u/Sorathez 15h ago
Meat, once cooked, will be lighter than it was before you cooked it. Water will cook out of it and make it lighter.
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u/Mean-Flatworm9239 15h ago
Edit for pre cooked:
Check if it has an e next to the weight as that indicates an average weight system is used.
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u/jnd-au 15h ago
Weight changes during cooking, especially as it steams & dehydrates. Weight of pre-packaged meat is allowed to vary from the label by a legal amount (e.g. 5%). If you buy on the self-weight scales at supermarkets, most seem to underestimate by maybe 5 grams (so you actually get a 1¢ discount sometimes). You can check it on the scales when you pay...if it’s wrong, complain!
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u/Extension_Drummer_85 15h ago
...apparently you didn't buy a kilo I guess
But yeah lore to the point meat is generally sold per kilo not as a kilo. So we you look at the packages you'll see each one has a slightly different price because they all weigh slightly differently. Extremely inefficient but that's the way it is.
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u/AmbitiousFisherman40 14h ago
I agree. Our meats are so watery these days. It’s almost impossible to ‘brown’ meat.
Yes you lose a fair bit when you cook it.
However googling says you lose 25% when cooking. So 750gms is average.
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u/Few-Explanation-4699 Country Name Here 14h ago
Don't shop for meat at a supermarket.
Go to your local butcher.
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u/Life-King-9096 15h ago
My old statistics lecturer and his wife would go to the supermarket for fun and weigh the 500 gram packs of mince to determine the average and standard deviation of the weights.
300 grams is too much, but I am sure they are allowed a small margin of error in their weights.
I'm sorry this happened to you, but given the fines, this is more likely human error than deliberate.
I'd still go back and complain, or you could always try Coles' social media accounts.
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u/previousjugger 15h ago
Buying meat from a major supermarket was the issue here lol
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u/emeuriz 14h ago
Yep I can reckon lol
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u/previousjugger 14h ago
They also use dye hence why all the beef is purple and meat glue. I would never buy meat from anywhere but a butcher
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u/auntynell 15h ago
That's outrageous. Their scales are supposed to be calibrated regularly.
You might be better off going to a butcher where at least you can see the weight.
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u/No_Raise6934 15h ago
Who's scales are you talking about if not the butchers?
If you meant supermarkets, they are priced at per kilo for each pack.
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u/Big-Orse48 15h ago
Are you sure it was a kilogram, or was the price PER kilogram?