Tesco Value Ground Black Pepper

I'm not one for having the latest gadgets in my kitchen and I definitely don't own a pepper mill due to the price of the pepper balls. I stick to good old fashioned powdered pepper and that suits me fine (although given the choice I would have a pepper mill because the pepper is much tastier!) A small pot of this pepper will set you back just 18p which is very, very cheap considering it lasts me a whole year! The pepper is very fine and brown in colour. To me it has quite a strong flavour because I think I have quite a bland palette but I know a lot of people onhere aren't overly impressed by it. I tend to find that with every mouthful of food, ...  Read the complete review

I buy a lot of value.economy brands. I used to do a periodic Aldi or Lidl shop to stock on all the cheapo staples, as I think that their products offer overall a slightly better quality for a price comparable and sometimes lower than the value brands of major supermarkets, but now I either shop online or drive to the Tesco store convenient for other activities and thus rarely bother with the deep discounters. Value lines are often similar if not identical to standard own-brand products and to many branded ones too, especially for basis staples. Sometimes they are not, though. Washing powder is a clear example of a product where not only value but even standard ...  Read the complete review

You would imagine, that purchasing Value ground black pepper, wouldn't be much different from purchasing any other black pepper. Other than the price of course. I mean how different can pepper taste? The modestly packaged and value range branded 25g tub costs a mere 18 pence (at time of writing), which is stunningly cheap. At the moment for various reasons (as many others are) I am in money saving mode, I am Scrooge personified, I am practically living out of dustbins well not quite, but I am looking out for bargains, which means out of our shopping basket have gone all the premium brands, and in have come all the own brand, and value ranges. ...  Read the complete review

I always use peppercorns and have done for years, so when a recent recipe called for ground black pepper I flailed around the supermarket shelves for a while before deciding that one ground pepper is very much like another. So at 18p I went for the Tesco Value brand, which turned out to be a big mistake as it's absolutely appalling. As soon as I opened the small tub I realised this was going to be bad as the smell that came out was not the rich pepper aroma I have come to expect, but a bland yet somehow very harsh smell. I measured out the pepper I needed for my recipe and decided it looked sort of alright, no more than that though as the ...  Read the complete review

When cooking I enjoy using a wide variety of spices and herbs, one of my favourites is pepper. Because by simply adding them, you can add spice and more taste to any dish that is dull in the first place. I have always used pepper balls and the only reason for doing so, was because I had received a rather nice and classy automated pepper mill, after using it for several months, the novelty did eventually wear off, although I still use it occasionally to get a "kick" out of it? I was searching for ground black pepper because I wanted to find the differences in taste between the two. Furthermore, I wanted to have a variation of pepper which ...  Read the complete review