This Is A Proper TV DINNER

How we all doing out there? I hope you're all spot on as normal. Now, I've been shopping to Iceland. Come and have a look what I got. I was in Iceland and I noticed this was new, so I thought I'll have to try it. Uh, it's a grilled steak and mash with garden peas and pepperc corn sauce. Uh, it's 400 g. And there's a serving suggestion. So, I got told off in the comments saying I'm spending too much time in Aldi. So, I've done a I've been to a few other supermarkets and got a few new items. So, I thought we'd take a look at this one. So, the price it was um 265. So, let's uh take a closer look at the packaging. We might have a few shadows today. I do apologize. So, I do listen to you in the comments. Um I have gone different supermarkets. Um I thought I'd take a a trip in Iceland. So, we've had a look at the front. Let's go around the back. It's like the front but that way around. Portrait and landscape, I think they call it. That's portrait. And um that's landscape. Anyway, enough of that. I got some spiel. It's 400 gram grilled steak and mash with garden peas and peppercorn sauce. Chopped and formed beef grilled steak with a seasoning in a peppercorn sauce with mashed potato and peas. Got some nutrition there. If you want to have a look at that and pause it, by all means, go ahead. There's the ingredients. We've got a few allergens in there. What we got? Milk, metabisulfite, wheat, soya in there. So, we've got mashed potato 34%. What other percentages have we got? Let's have a look. Uh, pepperc corn sauce 32%. Um, we've got beef grill steak is 21%. I think. And we've got um peas is 13%. So it says, "Warning, although every effort has been made to remove all bones, some may remain. We've covered the allergens. They're in bold. Let's have a look around the box. Best before 24th of January, 27. So good for another couple of years. Uh there's the ways to cook. You can do it in the oven or you can do it in the microwave. For best results, cook from frozen, which this is frozen." So it's up to you. It's it's it can be a ping meal or it can be done in the oven. I'll let you decide. So, there's more spiel there. Might have covered everything. If I do miss anything out, I'll put it all in the description of the video. So, let's get this open. See what we have got. Um, so we got a tab system. Um, no, we haven't. My finger. So, I'll just do that. And it's upside down. It's 50/50, was it? Which way you going to get? I got it wrong. That's what you get. Yeah. There you go. TV dinners. Proper ping meal. That is it. That is a proper ping meal. Certainly is. Yeah, I do I do have quite a lot of people watch me who say, "Can you do more ping meals?" I get a lot of truckers who message me as well saying that they've got a microwave in the cab. Can you do ping meals? So, this is all for you. Yes. Let's um let's have a look at the old cooking instructions. So, yeah. I mean, you could do it in the oven. And if you're sort of doing other stuff in the oven, you could, you know, utilize the whole of of your oven. Um, I haven't. I'm just doing this. I'm going to do it in the microwave. So, you to pierce the film lid several times. So, there is a procedure. I will go through it um when we get through it. So, it's going in for 5 minutes, then we to bring it out, but I'll show you that when we get to it. It's had 5 minutes. So, we need to do a bit of a sealed peel test now cuz we need to turn the beef steak over and we need to mix up the mash. So, let's have a look. We'll do that now. So, I'm going to mix the mash up. Yeah, got that mashy smell. Um, and there's your beef steak. I'm going to sort of I'm going to turn that over. Yeah. Right. We've had no escapees. Can't help it. The old dad jokes. Right. It's going back in the microwave. So, it's had another 5 minutes. I said 10 minutes now. Do I think 12 minutes is a long time like um but yeah, it says 12 minutes. So, you've got to stir it again. Yeah, I reckon. And and apparently it's got to go in for another two minutes, but I'll give it a 30 seconds because I I don't want the peas are getting all shriveled up. Oh, we've got an escapee there. It's gone in there. It's gone in the beef steak bit. It's trying to get away. I'm going to give it another 30 seconds. Um yeah, it's it's looking like it's overdone. So, I'm just going to In fact, I might just leave it like that. It's had 10 minutes. It's had 10 minutes. So, let's let's dish it up. I forgot as well, my my microwave is 900 W, so it will need um less time. They're just guides. That's for I've just noticed that's for um 800 W. So, yeah, needs less time if it's at a higher power. If it's a lower power, it'll need longer. It's um that's how it works. So, I'll show you it. I'll bring you down to my level. We'll have a look. Let's see if I can get a bit of better light for you. I'll take you right over here to the light coming in. If that's any better or not, that's the piece. Oh, put it down there. The plates's up. Believe it or not, right, I'm going to get it over here. I'm going to dish it up. I'm going all over the spot here with this, aren't I? Taking it around the kitchen. Let's have a little ride around the kitchen. Yeah. So, I'll get the mash out first. Can always stick a little knob of butter in the mash if you want. Can't you can always uh just to pimp it up a bit. A bit of salt in there maybe. Or maybe it might not. You'd best to taste it first in it really. But I think butter would um Can't beat a bit of butter, can you? Can't beat a bit of butter. So, I'm going to get the peas in now as well. Now, these plates are quite big. For some reason, I always tend to buy plates which are big. Now, we've had these plates a while. These plates here, um I've got one left and it's chipped. So, I need to get some more. So, it might look like it's a very small meal because the plates are huge. It's 265. Peppercorn sauce. I do like peppercorn sauce. I think it's my favorite with steak. Yeah. Right. Let's tidy up and I'll bring you back. So, that's what you get. And now it's it's a chopped and formed um steak, so don't expect a sirloin or a rump on there. There's your peppercorn sauce. We do have a few escape peas here. They've managed to go into here and maybe wanted a swim, have a little swim around in the gravy. There's your peas. And there's your mash. Yeah. Right. Let's try it. So, I'm going to sit down and eat it. Oh, yeah. Let's um now I know what you're thinking. Chopped and you know reformed beef steak. I'm just going to try it as it is, you know, before I make any sort of judgment. So, I'm going to get straight into the beef steak first and we'll have a look at this. And uh if you do like this kind of um video, if this is your kind of thing, um maybe consider subscribing and uh give the video a thumbs up. I can't ask for any more than that. I do thank you for it. So, there's the the beef steak in there. Have a look at that if you can. If it if it'll focus and not on my ball swad. I'll get a bit of peppercorn sauce on it and we'll see what this is like. The pepperc corn sauce is very gloopy. The beef steak has sort of a consistency of a a very cheap sausage. Quite mushy. Quite mushy and quite gelatinous. Peppercorn sauce is pretty salty, but it's not giving a lot of pepper flavor out. So, let's try a bit of mash. I know you I'm just trying it all individually first and then I'll sort of get it all together cuz this you know you put the the pecorn sauce over your mash and that don't you mix it all together m that mash is tasty. It's very salty. I've not added any salt and pepper. You maybe notice I've got it there but it is very salty. I don't mind it. I don't mind it. I can actually taste potato as well. I'm I'm astonished. Normally with these kind of meals, it's just it tastes all very bland and all very the same, but I can actually taste potato. So, I'm going to try the few peas. Nearly had an escapee then. Nearly went. Yeah, they're not hard. They're soft how I like them. The microwaves obviously, you know, I've dried a few out. You can see they've all they've all sort of gone dry. But they're all right. Yeah, I'm I'm going to I'm going to try it now with a bit of a bit of meat. Um, a bit of mashed potato. Um, stick some carrots on there as well. Uh, carrots. Stick some peas on there. And stick a bit more of that peppercorn sauce. Um, I'll show you what I'll do with that peppercorn sauce in a minute. I did take a big mouthful then. It's It's perfectly edible. It really is. But the pepperc corn sauce, it definitely needs It definitely needs a pepper. That's what it needs because it's lacking in it's it's lacking in the old pepper department. So, I've just put plenty of pepper in there. Now, let's try it again. Maybe a bit of bit of butter in the mash. Um, and you get in there somewhere. That's better. It's a little bit beefy. The the beef steak. Not massively beefy. It has does have a sort of a gelatinous sort of a mushy sort of texture. Like I said, bit more pepper over it. Bit more and some butter in the mash. Yeah, you've got a I won't go as far as saying it's tasty, but it's it's okay. We'll leave it at that. It's average and it's okay. It's definitely edible. That's for sure. Yes. So, that's it. What does it score out of 10? I'll give it a five out of 10. It's average. very average. The mashed potatoes a seven out of 10. That's quite nice. Don't know what it would been like if you done it in the oven 40 minutes. Certainly not been my oven on for 40 minutes just for that. That's for sure. But yeah, pimp it up a little bit and uh you're getting somewhere, aren't you? So, thanks for watching. I do appreciate it. Please keep recommendations coming in. I hope you like this little seating area. It's a bit better to sit down. We sit here over nighttime. Uh my wife cooks a lovely meal and I'll help sometimes by standing there and just pointing. Um I do me a bit, don't I? And then me wife will uh will dish it all up. I can't cook for toffee. I can't. I'm not going to lie. You've seen me cooking videos. Um so take care. All the best and uh I'll get back to you on the next one.