Sunday Times Food Awards
Which SA supermarket makes the tastiest steak pie?
In a quest to help you buy the best, our panel of tasters put ready-made steak pies to the test
HOW WE CONDUCTED OUR TASTE TEST
It's free and fair!
We put out a call to Sunday Times readers to be part of the panel of tasters. Forty of them came together on a Saturday morning to taste ready-made steak pies from leading supermarkets.
The chefs at HTA Culinary School in Randburg, Joburg, prepared the food as per the package instructions. The panel of tasters were presented with each of the products "naked" without any branding or packaging. They were asked to judge them according to their appearance, taste and texture and to say whether they would buy them or not.
Morne Kok, an internal auditor at Transaction Capital, was on hand to monitor the objectivity of the blind-tasting process, from removing the packing to numbering the products, overseeing the preparation and adding up the scores.THE RESULTS
FIRST PLACE: Woolworths Beef steak pie
Price: R69.90 for 520g
Judges's comments:..
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