Tesco are having a laugh! Slow Cooked LAMB HOTPOT Review

how we doing out there I hope you're all spot on thanks for watching the video now I've been shopping been to Tesco come and have a look what I've got I was having a little walk around Tes as you do and I came across this and I noticed it was new slow cooked lamb Hot Pot classic and tender expertly slow cooked for hours for tenderness and flavor oven cook 40 minutes serves one little traffic light system there for the nutrition I noticed it's suitable for freezing there is the lovely serving suggestion this was in the fridge it's not frozen it was £350 so let's take a look at the box so it's 2° out there and it's uh this is the I can see this is the the perfect meal isn't it I mean you can always stick your own make your own stick your own stick them up you can always do your own put it in a slow cooker couldn't you if you've got one yeah definitely anyway always says contains alcohol don't worry I wouldn't worry about that it'll all burn off as they say so let's go around the back so there is some more nutritional information there if you want to pause that and have a look of that by all means go ahead got some spale at the top slow cooked diced lamb shoulder sliced potatoes carrots and onions in a red wine gravy they are the ingredients the allergen is barley so it's lamb 43% you've got red wine in there maltt red wi malt vinegar yeah allergy advice um for Allens including cereals containing gluten SE ingredients in Bowl which we have done haven't we so there's two methods of of cooking here you can do it in the oven and it says for best results oven cook it's up to you or you can do it in the microwave it's a ping meal it's um however you want to do it it's 300 grams that would be nice if it was 400 it's it's getting Less in it the gramage Red Tractor certified lamb I suppose lamb is quite expensive isn't it made using British lamb and with it being British lamb yeah it's probably going to be expensive but it'd still be nice if it was 400 gram anyway I've add me a little gripe let's get this open and see what we have got so do we have a tab system um uh not quite sure really no we' got just got me finger so we'll see if we can get in oh no look at that dear me tab system there is I don't know what that is there I don't know what that's supposed to be doing that was hard work wowzers goodness me oh man that is ridiculous look at that go £350 for that that ain't a lot is that wow so we need scissors to get into that because what it says on the back I did have a quick sneaky peek you've got to transfer the contents of the pouch into an ovenproof dish and layer the sliced potatoes on top of of Hot Pot to ensure crisp texture Place dish center of a preed oven I'm going to do it in the oven I mean yeah you definitely need all the um little you know extras that's for sure oh that is nothing in there right let's let's get it open and see what we really have got is it me or is everything shrinking it's got to be a it let's get this out think I need some new scissors yeah I doers so that goes in there got a long date on it as well it's good good for the 9th of um February yeah right what it says now is is spread the sort of the potatoes out on top so you're going to have to get your hands in if you want to do that so it's a disaster is it it's an absolute disaster it really is from the start look you get a few carrots three and 1/2 quid you get a few carrots there's your potatoes there's your your your lamb all sort of stuck together you can't spread this around it's just all going to fall apart you just going to have to do it like that that's your lamb basically there's there's your lamb just that block there go struth make your own straight away that's I even tasted it there's the onion so I'm not happy with this at all it's not going in the oven I'm not wasting 40 minutes cooking that I'm going to Ping it in the microwave and I've done it wrong for the microwave because you're supposed to past the pouch and put the pouch in a in a microwavable dish so we'll just have to uh stick a bit of cling film over the top we'll go from there so I've about to get the old gray matter working and do a bit of a rethink here so it's going to go in this Pyrex dish like that and I've got I've got a lid for it so the lid's going to go on so I've got a lid but it says to go in the microwave for 7 and 1 half minutes now that seems a long time so I'll put it in for five and we'll have a look at it we've had 5 minutes I'm just going to it does smell good you're paying for the the the lamb aren't you that's what you're paying for but they could have it's like a a joint of lamb I mean they could have bed it out with more vegetables at least you know they could have done that is that just me I don't know so I'm I'm going to pop it in now I'm going to do it and give it another minute I'm just looking on the back and there is a little warning well it's not so much a warning it says important not suitable for cooking from Frozen I'm going to wear the meat content I want to see how much lamb we're getting so put I've put that on there you can see lovely gift these scales sent to me and I'm going to measure how much lamb we've got this might sound weird but and there's gravy on this as well but the gravy ain't going to be a lot what I should have done I should have weighed it when the the lamb was sort of in one chunk um so pretty much that's pretty much the lamb so it's 300 G i' pretty much got most of it out look there's only little bits of Bobs in there so ignore the splatter we get 93 G of lamb 93 94 grams of lamb that's what we're paying for 93 and he advances a 93 yeah maybe 94 with a little bit some Bobs that I left in the in the bottom of there put that to one side give it a give it a Wes what um so yeah that's what you get you've seen the lamb I mean the lamb doesn't look it's I mean yeah it's quite light it's smelling good there's your potatoes now your potatoes are all going to be soggy now they really are they've been Ned in your car I mean you could eat it out of that dish suppose to save on the old washing up um you definitely could do with some greens there as well that's you know to bulk it out but when you when it comes in a block like that it doesn't look a lot of lamb but when you sort of cut it down a bit it's it's not looking as bad there's your lamb yeah that's nice lamb nice lamb I'm going to get in with a bit of potato now and a bit of carrot the the gravy is quite sweet that's not too bad I was looking for some fatty bit of lamb um can't seem to see any I we'll have a look the potatoes soft I mean it's just gone to Mush I've done it in the microwave you know you do it in the oven you can't you couldn't layer that properly though you you have to get your hands in there you get absolutely everything would fall apart needs a bit of um Pepper for me but that's just me I do like me pepper it's well seasoned other than that it's quite sweet the gravy I mean the carrots have just gone gone to to to to Mush soft I did it for six six and a half minutes in the microwave it says 7 and a half so I did it for a minute less but I did it in that Pyrex dish as well so it would have it's it's really got the town on it like but it it will get eaten worry there's another let's have a look see if there's any stringy bits of um fat in the lamb I mean lamb is fatty isn't it I love them no that's not too bad could do with a bit of mint sauce little bit of mint sauce just to just to put in there but you need to need some more vegetables obviously there's not many carrots not many potatoes in there it's £350 and it's 300 G and you get 94 G of lamb please let me know what you think in the comments be very interested to find out max out of 10 probably give it a probably give it a six six out of 10 yeah I'm quite generous we want more we want 400 grams though 400 grams we want there's a minimum base anyway thanks for watching I do appreciate it I've had a little bit of a rant but that's life we're unhuman we're allowed it thanks for watching and subscribing take care spitting spitting out everywhere are you I'm glad there's no one else around me I'll get back to you on the next one