Powters's Newmarket Sausage

Powter’s have a very good reputation in the world of sausages, and The Sausage King rates them very highly, check out his views here: SAUSAGE-KING


While you’re browsing, have a look at their own website, which is pretty informative: POWTERS


So these sausages come highly recommended – but would they stand the test of being boxed for the supermarket? Let’s find out:

Meat Content:
Meat here, for sure. Where it came from or which parts of the pig, no idea. There’s obviously more meat than Walls, and equally obviously less than Fruitpig. But, Powter’s Newmarkets are definitely porky. A good show for a pre-packed banger, claiming 70% on the box, and I think that’s about right.

Flavour:
The first taste confirmed it – “it’s a supermarket sausage”. As off the shelf sausages go they were quite good. The avoidance of a specific flavour as a selling point is good – what filling there is here doesn’t hide behind or become masked by “Guatamalan Mango Sap & Channel Island Cream Cheese”. Do you think supermarkets over-egg their sausage flavours to disguise the fact that they are not, actually, very good? These are somewhat over-seasoned, and don’t distance themselves from the greasy spoon varieties enough in my opinion.

Texture:
The skins were good, with a certain snappiness about them. I was wary of pulling one apart, fearing a mush-fest. But cutting one in half, then half again lengthways proved a triumph. There was no porridgey slop, just firm, albeit small-ish pieces of pork. Quite fine when chewed, which isn’t ideal for my own taste buds, but probably bang on message with their market research.

Shrinkage:
Average weight uncooked - 66g
Average weight cooked - 51g

Shrinkage - 23%


Value For Money:
£2.99 for six sausages, weighing 398g - this works out as a price of £7.51 per kg, or 50p per snorker.

One of the most expensive sausages we’ve found. In my opinion, definitely not worth the money. If you see them on special offer try them, otherwise give them a miss.