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Old 27-10-2015, 12:23
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I love the stuff and have tried quite a lot from the range, but my favourite products have to be their sausages and chicken pieces. It can be a bit pricey at times, so try to buy when on offer but I don't mind paying a bit extra for something tasty. Whats your impression of Quorn?
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Old 27-10-2015, 12:49
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"I was thrilled to find Quorn. But I tried it only twice and become so horribly ill
(as if I’d been posioned) that I never bought it again."


Unfortunately Quorn does not agree with everybody!
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Old 27-10-2015, 13:01
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I like Quorn. I avoid the products with breadcrumbs, batter, pastry and pasta due to diabetes, but like the others I have tried. At the moment I especially like curried fillets - I fry them in coconut oil to stop them drying out then add sauce and veg etc.
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Old 27-10-2015, 15:47
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The chicken style bits are OK but the mince looked like slurry when I made a bolognese with it and that's put me off using it since.
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Old 27-10-2015, 16:06
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I've always like Quorn but their stuff is hit and miss. I haven't had any for ages though due to the cost. Do they still make the cheese or pesto escalopes? I loved them, I might have to treat myself.

I really loved the Quorn burgers in a toasted muffin, that was delicious.
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Old 27-10-2015, 16:09
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YES. As a lazy singleton vegetarian, Quorn is a bit of a Godsend. I pretty much love everything they put out with the exception of some low fat sausages that were terrible and the steak style strips.

I was eating the quorn mince and quorn chicken pieces even before I turned Veggie as I genuinely preferred it.
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Old 27-10-2015, 16:53
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I always buy the 'chicken fillets' when they are on offer, but never cook them as suggested. I usually accompany them with a big helping of steamed vegetables and simply lob a couple of fillets in with them for the last four minutes (this is in one of those red plastic, microwave steamers from Asda). All attempts at oven cooking or grilling have been horrible.

I also like their 'steak and onion' and 'chicken and mushroom' pies, but for some peculiar reason, these are only available in a tiny number of outlets (my local Sainsbury being one of the few). Quorn sausages are awful in all their variations – but there again, probably because Quorn tastes far better when steamed, which you don't normally do with sausages.
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Old 27-10-2015, 21:05
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Is "Quorn" a product or a brand name?
Asked out of ignorance.
If the latter are there competitors?

I'm a carnivore but I bought some Quorn frankfurters a few months back out of curiosity.
If they were served in a hot dog I'd not have known the difference but then frankfurters are a little weird anyway.
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Old 27-10-2015, 21:16
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Is "Quorn" a product or a brand name?
It's both.
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Old 27-10-2015, 21:21
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"I was thrilled to find Quorn. But I tried it only twice and become so horribly ill
(as if I’d been posioned) that I never bought it again."


Unfortunately Quorn does not agree with everybody!
That's me too. I was okay the first time I had it but prefer to forget about the second. And the third that happened because I wanted to be sure it was the Quorn and not a coincidence.

It was the Quorn.
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Old 27-10-2015, 21:35
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I personally really like quorn Swedish meatballs with dolmio sauce , the quorn minces also make a really good veggie spag bol, As far as vegetarian burgers go it has to be Linda McCartney Mozzarella 1/4lb Burgers.
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Old 27-10-2015, 21:49
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How spooky is this? I bought a Cook with Quorn recipe book in a charity shop today.

I buy Quorn when it's on offer and stick it in the freezer. I've used the fillets for curry and the mince for bolognaise and lasagne but have often thought I should do more.

We are meat eaters but I like to have a meat free meal every so often.
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Old 27-10-2015, 21:49
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I've heard Mo Farah is a fan
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Old 27-10-2015, 22:05
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I like the mini scotch eggs, wish they would do full size ones.
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Old 28-10-2015, 11:42
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I like lots of the quorn products
I do like the variety of their products

I have made several big batches of the mince - into a delicious spicy vegetable combo stew and have ended up with about 30 or more handy tasty flat packs in my freezer

I too will try to buy it when it is on offer
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Old 28-10-2015, 14:02
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"I was thrilled to find Quorn. But I tried it only twice and become so horribly ill
(as if I’d been posioned) that I never bought it again."


Unfortunately Quorn does not agree with everybody!
A friend of ours is a vegan, he can't eat it, it gives him the worst case of the trots.

That's me too. I was okay the first time I had it but prefer to forget about the second. And the third that happened because I wanted to be sure it was the Quorn and not a coincidence.

It was the Quorn.
Don't think it agrees with everyone!

How spooky is this? I bought a Cook with Quorn recipe book in a charity shop today.

I buy Quorn when it's on offer and stick it in the freezer. I've used the fillets for curry and the mince for bolognaise and lasagne but have often thought I should do more.

We are meat eaters but I like to have a meat free meal every so often.
Meat eaters here too, but only a couple of times a week, we either eat fish or veggie the other nights, it's brown lentil and baby carrot curry tonight, with salad.
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Old 28-10-2015, 14:03
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I stopped eating it 15 years ago when I became vegan, but they have just brought out a vegan version of the chicken pieces so I have started eating it again and I am loving it, its great for stews and curries.
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Old 28-10-2015, 19:50
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No.
I try to avoid factory processed food.
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Old 28-10-2015, 20:15
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No.
I try to avoid factory processed food.
Aaw good for you.
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Old 28-10-2015, 20:20
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Is "Quorn" a product or a brand name?
Asked out of ignorance.
If the latter are there competitors?
In the 80's the Co-Op used to sell mycoprotein pies. Same as Quorn, but a different brand. They were a bit like a Linda Mac deep country pie, but much better.
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Old 28-10-2015, 21:09
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In the 80's the Co-Op used to sell mycoprotein pies. Same as Quorn, but a different brand. They were a bit like a Linda Mac deep country pie, but much better.
I think I can remember those, but I always assumed they contained tofu. They were absolutely delicious if they are the ones I'm thinking of and better than anything you can get today. At about the same time, Bird's Eye used to produce their own meat-free sausages, which were like the best meat sausages in the world, only better and without meat. I complained when they stopped selling them and they replied that it was due to lack of demand. Hardly surprising when shops at that time seemed to have no idea where to store them. In the Co-Op they used to keep them next to the meat sausages, which was just about the last place most vegetarians would look.
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Old 28-10-2015, 22:49
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never tried the quorn doner kebab, but i'm tempted
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Old 28-10-2015, 23:05
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The Quorn mince is ok, used that several times.
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Old 29-10-2015, 12:57
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I think I can remember those, but I always assumed they contained tofu. They were absolutely delicious if they are the ones I'm thinking of and better than anything you can get today. At about the same time, Bird's Eye used to produce their own meat-free sausages, which were like the best meat sausages in the world, only better and without meat. I complained when they stopped selling them and they replied that it was due to lack of demand. Hardly surprising when shops at that time seemed to have no idea where to store them. In the Co-Op they used to keep them next to the meat sausages, which was just about the last place most vegetarians would look.
The Co-Op pies were definitely mycoprotein as my BIL was working there and used to smuggle them out of the Manchester HQ for us north of the border, then we got them in the shops here, then they disappeared They were not described as "quorn" but as a mycoprotein fungus like mushroom thing...nom nom.

I never saw they Birds Eye Sausages so they must have been well hidden.
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Old 29-10-2015, 15:38
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The Co-Op pies were definitely mycoprotein as my BIL was working there and used to smuggle them out of the Manchester HQ for us north of the border, then we got them in the shops here, then they disappeared They were not described as "quorn" but as a mycoprotein fungus like mushroom thing...nom nom.

I never saw they Birds Eye Sausages so they must have been well hidden.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9evuw-ENXV0

I only ever had the sausages, but they were better than any meat-free sausage that you can buy today.
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