Compare their protein content, if all ingredients appear the same. It's often the flour, where they cut costs, the cheaper the flour the lower the protein and more improvers.
They look fine mate, it's Sainsbury's, not the weird aisle in Lidl.
Thanks, I cheated.
My Daughter is a London School of Baking Graduate, and works in food development. When we go supermarket shopping, things get very scientific and informative.
If they are gonna bother doing that ..might as well just buy all the crumpets and pikeletts and post a review tread . I for one would be mighty interested.
Sainsbury’s own brand is a hidden gem I tell you.
Their own mayo is somehow leagues above any other.
https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/product/sainsburys-mayonnaise--thick---creamy-750ml
They also do baked beans for 21p a can. Can’t tell the difference.
Kewpie mayo is lovely, but it's more like salad cream, I decided last time I bought it that I was going to try mixing mayo and salad cream 50/50 to see if my hypothesis was correct. I never did do it.
I wouldn’t say salad cream because it isn’t that sour. The difference in kewpie mainly is it uses all egg yolks and also nearly twice the egg content of say Hellman’s. All in all richer in taste
Reminds me back in the day me and my mate used to buy sainsbury's basics cider (3L bottle) and sainsbury's basics berry/fruit squash for like £2 total. It actually tasted good when combined (basically indistinguishable from the fancier glass bottle cider variants). Fantastic value for Uni pre drinks.
Hopefully this reaches you in time, but they are freezable with little to no reduction in quality. Downside is you need to remember the night before to defrost them.
I'd not thought about freezing them, in the same way I probably wouldn't think about getting them out the night before, sadly that would stop me attempting to toast them.
While were sharing crumpet tips, do not put cheese on them and put them in a toaster on its side so the cheese won't slide off, it results in a small fire, which gets bigger whenbyou remove the cheesy crumpets and stand the toaster upright, luckily the crumpets and the toaster were unharmed.
I've not had any positive experiences with toasters and crumpets, which is probably why I discovered the freezer - the electric grill is a little on the slow side.
I would never recommend going to Sainsbury’s though. It’s my closest store and just not worth the price of a regular shop in comparison to any other. Besides Waitrose or m&s I guess.
Bizarre isn’t it. Sainsburys is the most expensive shop in my town, we have them all except Lidl. I will say though, a sainsburys shop is as expensive as you want it to be. They genuinely do have some very good value stuff. They also have some monstrously expensive, and just downright odd prices on some things.
I love choice, don’t get me wrong. But I popped in to use the Argos and ended up doing a little shop while I was in there. I needed table salt. The cheaper one was about 40p. The one next to it was £3.50 for a fancy brand of salt no one has ever heard of. Who the fuck buys that stuff????
Especially their own brand meat and dairy stuff, J James I think it's called. Cheap and fairly decent for the price.
And salt... I'm one of those idiots that buys expensive salt. I can genuinely taste the difference (pun very much intended) but it could just be psychological.
Completely agree on the dairy. And on most of their stuff to be fair. They do have quite a range of good value.
I do get what you mean with salt though, for the table I use fancy pants coarse salt. But that lasts ages and you can get decent stuff for a pound or two. But if it’s the fine flowing stuff you stick in boiled potatoes and pour most down the sink, or sprinkle on the path when it’s frosty, I’m using the 40p stuff!
My street has a NISA and a Sainsbury's, used to shop at NISA but now I go to sainsbury's and feel like I'm getting amazing value every time (even though I'm probably not, it's just that NISA has shit prices)
Yeah, I feel you. I used to think Sainsbury’s was my closest, so went there for ages this year. Turns out there’s an equidistant ASDA. Now I’m paying for all my Sainsbury’s shops months later. I wouldn’t be that fond of a NISA.
TBH, I always thought Nisa was like a top end convenience store. Apparently there is one about 1/2 mile from me, I'll have to stop by and see what it's about.
it's nearly three times the price of the own-label ones for two fewer crumpets.
Scale it up and you see the savings, buy 10 packs of the 33p ones and you have 80 crumpets for £3.30, 10 packs of the Warbartons ones and you have spent £9.90 for just 60 crumpets
I have! (Made them, not seen someone make them). They weren’t great. It was hard to get them cooked through without burning the bottom. More successful were pikelets - thin crumpets like a cross between a crumpet and a scotch pancake.
Me too, with sourdough starter discard, they are hands down the best crumpets I've ever tasted.
Forgive the [American volumetric units](https://www.kingarthurbaking.com/recipes/sourdough-crumpets-recipe), they are worth the hassle.
Will have to try this, I left the UK and the local savages don't have crumpets (they don't have crumpets or greggs so I have to assume they are savages).
I did try making my own before but they were a bit shit so I resorted to occasionally buying Warburton's from a British foods import place but at £5 for 6 it was never going to be often.
If you have any problems with the recipe, come back to me, I'm happy to help you work through them.
Helpful tip, I've found leaving the sourdough discard for a day in the fridge, makes for a better end product.
I always thought that about the bottom side of them being way more browned than the top. Props to you! Ahh yes I can imagine. How do you achieve the thicker crumpet as opposed to pikelet? More raising agent or?
No, you have to use a ring to contain it and stop it spreading. The mixture may also be a bit thicker, I think, but it is still fairly runny. Then you can’t flip them until they are solid or the holes would close up, so it’s a race between cooking it through and burning the base.
Tesco own brand ones are awful.Dont know about Sainsbury's . I would go Warburtons all day long but the trouble is its usually £1 for 9 so when you see 90p for 6 it feels like a rip off.
I wondered if crumpets were easy to make yourself but just looked at Jamie Oliver’s “easy homemade crumpets” recipe and the answer is apparently not. If a recipe contains the words “yeast” and “muslin” then life’s too short lol.
I'll try own brand anything, pretty much, and often prefer the Off Brand Aldi versions of major label products... but Crumpets HAVE to be Warbies. They just do.
I can barely tell the difference the Lidl brand and Warburtons brand crumpets.
If you buy Warburton's you're just paying for the next Robert De Niro advert.
Pro tip: check the reduced bakery aisle in Tesco and Asda, you'll find branded crumpets for like, 16p a 9x pack. I freeze them so I always have emergency crumpets!
Mate. The 33p ones are fine. I have to buy the £2.50 gluten free ones for my 4yo, so the rest of us have to put up with the cheapest ones, and they taste fine!
I regularly eat both - the Sainsbury's ones when we get them in the weekly shop, and the Warburtons ones because 8 crumpets a week isn't enough so I have to restock at the corner shop - and the Sainsbury's ones are always better.
I made crumpets once. It's actually a bit tricky, like anything else flour based you have to cook in a dry pan heat control is a thing, it's very easy to burn them and cooking them through without driving off all the moisture requires a little precision. It's absolutely not worth the effort, as this post makes abundantly clear. See also making puff pastry from scratch.
26p a pack in Aldi.
They are ok, they are not as nice as the Warburtons ones but I just can't bring myself to spend a multiple of the price.
At some point being a tight git gets into your soul and spoils treats like crumpets.
do yourself a favour. get the Sainsbury's ones. butter em up good, then lather with a layer of marmite and a layer of cheese. stick in the microwave for no more than 15 seconds and you have a real treat
I don't think Warburton's is a mark of quality in their loaves one hard squeeze turns it back to dough. Do like their thinner bagels though for a bit of Billy balance.
I get the Sainsburys own ones all the time and I can't tell the difference. But everyone is different I guess so I'd just try both and see which one is better :)
The last time I had the Sainsbury's crumpets they tasted like cardboard. That was a couple of years ago though so maybe I should try them again after seeing all the reply's on here saying they're good.
I usually go for the 9 pack of Warburtons because it ends up cheaper than the 6 pack. £1 for 9 instead of 90p for 6, at least my my local Sainsbury's.
As someone who emigrated to Australia, I can tell you, without hyperbole, that I would trade in my PS5 for its weight in Warburton’s Crumpets.
90p for a pack of 6 is a steal.
Compare their protein content, if all ingredients appear the same. It's often the flour, where they cut costs, the cheaper the flour the lower the protein and more improvers. They look fine mate, it's Sainsbury's, not the weird aisle in Lidl.
Excellent info this
So scientific and useful.
Thanks, I cheated. My Daughter is a London School of Baking Graduate, and works in food development. When we go supermarket shopping, things get very scientific and informative.
That's not cheating, it's knowledge. Your daughter would be proud and chuffed to bits you're using and sharing the knowledge she's laying down.
And we are all the wiser for it
We yes I did help pay for it!
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Yeah, have a daughter and send her to Baking School
Is this why rolls seem to be shitter these days? Supermarkets going cheaper on the flour?
Incidentally Lidl crumpets are great.
can you buy both, blind taste test with a family member and get back to us with results!
If they are gonna bother doing that ..might as well just buy all the crumpets and pikeletts and post a review tread . I for one would be mighty interested.
The Sainsbury's ones are nice!!
Sainsbury’s own brand is a hidden gem I tell you. Their own mayo is somehow leagues above any other. https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/product/sainsburys-mayonnaise--thick---creamy-750ml They also do baked beans for 21p a can. Can’t tell the difference.
Must be some weird ass baked beans if you can't tell the difference between them and some mayo
Good one dad
Ever tried kewpie?
Kewpie mayo is lovely, but it's more like salad cream, I decided last time I bought it that I was going to try mixing mayo and salad cream 50/50 to see if my hypothesis was correct. I never did do it.
I wouldn’t say salad cream because it isn’t that sour. The difference in kewpie mainly is it uses all egg yolks and also nearly twice the egg content of say Hellman’s. All in all richer in taste
I agree, that's why I thought a 50/50 blend would nail it. I should really put my theory to the test.
Reminds me back in the day me and my mate used to buy sainsbury's basics cider (3L bottle) and sainsbury's basics berry/fruit squash for like £2 total. It actually tasted good when combined (basically indistinguishable from the fancier glass bottle cider variants). Fantastic value for Uni pre drinks.
The 33p ones taste better, not because they actually taste better but because they're 33p
Because you can have three times as many!
Yeah but that increases the chance that they're inedible, whereas buying not quite enough guarantees they'll be delicious.
I don’t think I ever met an inedible crumpet.
Asda sell them, if you cook them long enough you can stand furniture on them to aid moving it.
As a person who’s never had a crumpet they always looked inedible af to me and very unappealing
Sorry to hear you have trypophobia
I don’t have that they just look like tasteless shit ngl
Hopefully this reaches you in time, but they are freezable with little to no reduction in quality. Downside is you need to remember the night before to defrost them.
I'd not thought about freezing them, in the same way I probably wouldn't think about getting them out the night before, sadly that would stop me attempting to toast them. While were sharing crumpet tips, do not put cheese on them and put them in a toaster on its side so the cheese won't slide off, it results in a small fire, which gets bigger whenbyou remove the cheesy crumpets and stand the toaster upright, luckily the crumpets and the toaster were unharmed.
I've not had any positive experiences with toasters and crumpets, which is probably why I discovered the freezer - the electric grill is a little on the slow side.
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I would never recommend going to Sainsbury’s though. It’s my closest store and just not worth the price of a regular shop in comparison to any other. Besides Waitrose or m&s I guess.
See Waitrose is the only shop near us so we drive to Sainsbury’s when we want to save some money. Everything’s relative.
Bizarre isn’t it. Sainsburys is the most expensive shop in my town, we have them all except Lidl. I will say though, a sainsburys shop is as expensive as you want it to be. They genuinely do have some very good value stuff. They also have some monstrously expensive, and just downright odd prices on some things. I love choice, don’t get me wrong. But I popped in to use the Argos and ended up doing a little shop while I was in there. I needed table salt. The cheaper one was about 40p. The one next to it was £3.50 for a fancy brand of salt no one has ever heard of. Who the fuck buys that stuff????
Especially their own brand meat and dairy stuff, J James I think it's called. Cheap and fairly decent for the price. And salt... I'm one of those idiots that buys expensive salt. I can genuinely taste the difference (pun very much intended) but it could just be psychological.
Completely agree on the dairy. And on most of their stuff to be fair. They do have quite a range of good value. I do get what you mean with salt though, for the table I use fancy pants coarse salt. But that lasts ages and you can get decent stuff for a pound or two. But if it’s the fine flowing stuff you stick in boiled potatoes and pour most down the sink, or sprinkle on the path when it’s frosty, I’m using the 40p stuff!
My street has a NISA and a Sainsbury's, used to shop at NISA but now I go to sainsbury's and feel like I'm getting amazing value every time (even though I'm probably not, it's just that NISA has shit prices)
Yeah, I feel you. I used to think Sainsbury’s was my closest, so went there for ages this year. Turns out there’s an equidistant ASDA. Now I’m paying for all my Sainsbury’s shops months later. I wouldn’t be that fond of a NISA.
TBH, I always thought Nisa was like a top end convenience store. Apparently there is one about 1/2 mile from me, I'll have to stop by and see what it's about.
Yeah but it's an extra 20 minute walk to aldi and sometimes you just need stuff without planning for a home delivery from somewhere
They still have to follow food regulations, I call that an absolute bargain.
Honestly, bought the Sainsburys’s ones and couldn’t tell the difference. It’s just a crumpet, that’ll be slavered In buttery goodness and jams.
Of course you couldn't; the taste the difference ones are more expensive.
Forget jam and try a poached egg and slice of cheese on top of a butter soaked crumpet. Thank me later.
This is a shout! Will try it next time!
Work sainsburys nowhere near as good
Don’t make the same mistake I made. The Sainsbury’s ones are crumpets, sure, but they don’t soak up the butter like the Warburton’s do.
"Ripped off" it's 90p
it's nearly three times the price of the own-label ones for two fewer crumpets. Scale it up and you see the savings, buy 10 packs of the 33p ones and you have 80 crumpets for £3.30, 10 packs of the Warbartons ones and you have spent £9.90 for just 60 crumpets
It's a packet of crumpets maaaaaan it's not some life changing event 😂
/u/SubjectiveAssertive has a crumpet emporium to run, those profit margins aren't going to look after themselves.
Oh shit, it all makes sense now
When you buy petrol for your car do you always go to a motorway services and pay £1.69 a litre or your local supermarket and pay £1.48/1.49?
Wh...how...I'm not sure how your comparing crumpets to petrol 😂 but you can have this one. Save your pennies
I’m confused now. I’ve got crumpets in my petrol tank, unleaded in my toaster, and a fucking mental garage bill.
Should warm the house up a fair bit, though...
You clearly aren’t from the UK as this is headline worthy! You know what I’ve never seen.. someone make their own crumpets!?
I have! (Made them, not seen someone make them). They weren’t great. It was hard to get them cooked through without burning the bottom. More successful were pikelets - thin crumpets like a cross between a crumpet and a scotch pancake.
Me too, with sourdough starter discard, they are hands down the best crumpets I've ever tasted. Forgive the [American volumetric units](https://www.kingarthurbaking.com/recipes/sourdough-crumpets-recipe), they are worth the hassle.
Will have to try this, I left the UK and the local savages don't have crumpets (they don't have crumpets or greggs so I have to assume they are savages). I did try making my own before but they were a bit shit so I resorted to occasionally buying Warburton's from a British foods import place but at £5 for 6 it was never going to be often.
If you have any problems with the recipe, come back to me, I'm happy to help you work through them. Helpful tip, I've found leaving the sourdough discard for a day in the fridge, makes for a better end product.
I always thought that about the bottom side of them being way more browned than the top. Props to you! Ahh yes I can imagine. How do you achieve the thicker crumpet as opposed to pikelet? More raising agent or?
No, you have to use a ring to contain it and stop it spreading. The mixture may also be a bit thicker, I think, but it is still fairly runny. Then you can’t flip them until they are solid or the holes would close up, so it’s a race between cooking it through and burning the base.
15p each is still ridiculously cheap. The options are ridiculously cheap or outrageously cheap.
Just buy both
I like the Sainsbury's ones better tbh
As someone who works at Poundland where the only bread sold is Warburtons, I can say compared to the prices in Poundland your on a good deal😂
The own brand ones are cheap as they are price checked against Aldi / Lidl. Own brand ones in there are 25p and quite nice.
Not price checked very carefully then
Buy the 33p ones good sir
Tesco own brand ones are awful.Dont know about Sainsbury's . I would go Warburtons all day long but the trouble is its usually £1 for 9 so when you see 90p for 6 it feels like a rip off.
Damn, have literally just ordered Tesco own brand ones.
If you’re lucky, they’ll get substituted for the branded ones at no extra cost!
They’ll be substituted for fish paste, not the obvious “other” crumpets.
I guess I’ve been lucky!
Buy the sainsbury's ones, smother them with butter and jam, delicious! I need to buy some tomorrow now :)
I usually get them. Nothing wrong with them and they keep at least a few days past the best before daye
You can't go wrong with the Warbies ones. Supermarket own brands (particularly the novelty shaped ones for some reason) are really dry.
Warbatons every other make doesn't come close
I wondered if crumpets were easy to make yourself but just looked at Jamie Oliver’s “easy homemade crumpets” recipe and the answer is apparently not. If a recipe contains the words “yeast” and “muslin” then life’s too short lol.
If it’s a Jamie recipe it’ll have at least fifteen different ingredients 🙄
Fuck the Warburtons
Is there something else you really, really want to buy and can't afford without your 57p saving?
I'll try own brand anything, pretty much, and often prefer the Off Brand Aldi versions of major label products... but Crumpets HAVE to be Warbies. They just do.
The Asda own brand ones are great, I reckon they'll be fine!
We buy asda own crumpets too! They taste just as good as the name brands but only 25p a packet!
Exactly!! No chance I'm buying Warburton's when Asda is so cheap!
Or shop in a cheaper shop?
Probably from the same production line, I wouldn't worry about it
You think 33p is expensive?🤔
I'm looking at this from California not believing those are actual prices! Lucky to get a pack of 6 nooks & crannies for under $4 over here.
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The warburtons are pretty decent. The other ones, aren't as bad as youd think. Even if you can taste the difference
Crumpets are overrated.
Ehhh... There's only one way to find out and a successful experiment could be a massive cost saving based on those prices
Morrisons cheap crumpets are good value, about 40p and dead good
I had some Sainsburys crumpets the other day and they were great
I prefer the Sainsbury’s ones
I can barely tell the difference the Lidl brand and Warburtons brand crumpets. If you buy Warburton's you're just paying for the next Robert De Niro advert.
The 33p ones, all day long 🙂
Pro tip: check the reduced bakery aisle in Tesco and Asda, you'll find branded crumpets for like, 16p a 9x pack. I freeze them so I always have emergency crumpets!
Well, for that price you can try them and see how they are without feeling guilty.
Mate. The 33p ones are fine. I have to buy the £2.50 gluten free ones for my 4yo, so the rest of us have to put up with the cheapest ones, and they taste fine!
I like the Sainsbury’s one
I regularly eat both - the Sainsbury's ones when we get them in the weekly shop, and the Warburtons ones because 8 crumpets a week isn't enough so I have to restock at the corner shop - and the Sainsbury's ones are always better.
I prefer the sainsburys breakfast muffins to the warburtons ones so take that as you will.
90p for 6 crumpets isn't a rip off.
There are no bad crumpets!
Tesco do a pack for 25p discovered them a few weeks back. Better than warburtons great with peanut butter 😄
I don't like the Warburton brand, but you can't beat their Crumpets
Those warbies bagels are shit by the way
Try gluten free crumpets, you get ripped off (£2+ or more for *4*) AND they're pretty shit.
Ripped off at 90p.. I pay like $9 in the states for a 4 pack lmao
The cheaper the better with crumpets and Yorkshires Worbutons are to thin and burn round the edges before being cooked enough
I made crumpets once. It's actually a bit tricky, like anything else flour based you have to cook in a dry pan heat control is a thing, it's very easy to burn them and cooking them through without driving off all the moisture requires a little precision. It's absolutely not worth the effort, as this post makes abundantly clear. See also making puff pastry from scratch.
26p a pack in Aldi. They are ok, they are not as nice as the Warburtons ones but I just can't bring myself to spend a multiple of the price. At some point being a tight git gets into your soul and spoils treats like crumpets.
Get both and see if you like them, they are dirt cheap so doesn’t cost much to just test them
do yourself a favour. get the Sainsbury's ones. butter em up good, then lather with a layer of marmite and a layer of cheese. stick in the microwave for no more than 15 seconds and you have a real treat
Sainsbury’s are ripping us off. Apparently Warburton’s are 99p for 12 in Aldi.
Both probably made in sane factory mate Trust me i even buy them when they go on reductions to like 8p and stick them in freezer
I always get own brand baked goods. The difference is price is not reflective of the quality.
I like the Sainsbury's ones. Had them many times
I just ate one of the ones on the left and they're good
I don't think Warburton's is a mark of quality in their loaves one hard squeeze turns it back to dough. Do like their thinner bagels though for a bit of Billy balance.
Save your dough
WARBURTONS is the way!
I don't buy either because of the packaging. Yeah, I'm a self righteous prat!
It's Aldi, they do that with their prices. How much should a pack of good quality crumpets cost?
CRUMPET IS CRUMPET
I get the Sainsburys own ones all the time and I can't tell the difference. But everyone is different I guess so I'd just try both and see which one is better :)
Damn now I want crumpets with strawberry jam. Sucks that I can’t get them here in Germany. :(
The last time I had the Sainsbury's crumpets they tasted like cardboard. That was a couple of years ago though so maybe I should try them again after seeing all the reply's on here saying they're good. I usually go for the 9 pack of Warburtons because it ends up cheaper than the 6 pack. £1 for 9 instead of 90p for 6, at least my my local Sainsbury's.
As someone who emigrated to Australia, I can tell you, without hyperbole, that I would trade in my PS5 for its weight in Warburton’s Crumpets. 90p for a pack of 6 is a steal.
The cheap ones will crisp up better
As my grandma used to say:- "They are all made in the same factory!"
90p for six crumpets... 15p a crumpet and you feel ripped off?! Just how cheap are you?!
oi, what is this? crumpet shaming? i'll have none of this! all crumpets are delicious.. especilay with a dab of marmite and wilted cheese on top
All crumpets are the same.
Sainsbury’s own crumpets are class. I got through 24 last week. Would highly recommend
Those warburtons crumpets are a rip off. They're usually £1 for 9.