One of my go-to websites for cooking is Serious Eats - love the place. I have never had a bad recipe from them.
I was thinking about fall cooking and bringing out the slow cooker and browsed around for some things to try. Two years ago, they did a review of some Campbell's Soup products. These are sauces in a pouch that you pour over your protein in the slow cooker and a couple hours later, dinner. They rated two of them very highly and all the others were an unenthusiastic MEH...
I spent a chunk of time today trying to run down the top-rated product (Mexican Red Chile Taco) at three stores. Zip Zilch Nada. Come home to check Amazon. Nope. Visit the Campbell's website and the top two rated sauces in the review have been discontinued!
From the review:
THE BEST!
These sauces produced results that were not just passably good, but downright tasty.
The two discontinued items of course. And then:
PASSABLY GOOD
Some folks found these tasty, others took a bite and left the table. With some doctoring and great sides, they can make for a decent meal.
The Sweet Korean BBQ looks interesting - I may try that. They also list an Apple Bourbon BBQ pulled pork.
All the rest of the Campbell's offerings fell under this next heading:
SKIP IT
These were pretty universally panned as not worth eating. We'd recommend avoiding them.
Looks like I will be cooking the old fashioned way - assembling the recipes from scratch. The joys of trying to get something good out of Corporate America.
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