Love or Hate them how do you cook them (FB pies)

[chesterfield hooligan]

Love or Hate them how do you cook them (FB pies)
I have just been experimenting with a few but cannot get the pastry to cook through come on JJ spill the bean's

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[davanne]

I fear @JJ may not divulge his special way of cooking them or they may fly off the shelves leaving him with limited supplies

 

[Deleted member 29692]

The best way to cook one is to throw it in the bin, go and buy some real food and then cook that

 

[Taran_Las]

Cook the pastry/pie until it has the consistency of human flesh. Eat and enjoy

 

[jockaneezer]

If you don't have an oven in your van, a useful al fresco way to cook them is to find a big flat stone, tie them to that with a piece of wire, douse it liberally in petrol and set it alight. Once the flames have subsided, cut away the wire with a pair of pliers, toss the pie away and eat the stone.

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[JJ]

The best way to cook one is to throw it in the bin, go and buy some real food and then cook that

Foodist nonsense...

JJ

 

[JJ]

There are none so blind as they who will not see...


JJ

 

[The Dotties]

I had four in the van for quite a while. Couldn't give them away. Binned.
( couldn't post to JJ as considered toxic by Royal Mail)

 

[JJ]

I reckon Fray Bentos Pie haters are the same, delusional folk who think leaving the EU is a good idea...

...someone told them there would be £350 million pounds a week spare to give the NHS if they left and they believed it.

JJ

 

[Viennese]

I should have thought that now you are a man of peas, lettuce and tomatoes that you would have given FBs up as containing too much meat (even though there's hardly any meat in them)

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[Barclaybasher]

 

[SuperMike]

Had a Pukka Pie once. Can't say I was impressed. Back to the FB Pies.

 

[Two on Tour]

I've not tasted the delights of a FB pie in probably 50 years and I know I'm in a minority but I do have childhood memories of the being a rather tasty treat along with the Vesta chicken curry, Bird's Angel Delight and Arctic Roll.

 

[Theonlysue]

There might not be a lot of meat but they taste lovely. Great with mash and greens.
You need a hot preheated oven to cook.

 

[SuperMike]

Had a Pukka Pie once. Can't say I was impressed. Back to the FB Pies.

Then again, I'm partial to a Tesco's Finest Steak Pie as well. So there's a contradiction.

As @Theonlysue says, with a FB Pie, wind the oven up to the maximum, at least 220c in a fan oven, more if not. That will burn / crisp it up.

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[Gaston aires]

I found one and cooked it as per the instructions only on Monday. My wife was away and I could not be bothered to cook for one. I should have been bothered because it contained everything except meat and it tasted of disgusting goo and I chucked it away immediately.
The aunt Bessies roasties and frozen peas were nice though.
Phil meplatewithrealfood.

 

[Khizzie]

I had four in the van for quite a while. Couldn't give them away. Binned.
( couldn't post to JJ as considered toxic by Royal Mail)

How sad , they are great value pies with no pretensions

 

[laneside]

If they just put the pastry on the top without the gooey stuff underneath and put proper meat in and more importantly proper gravy they may just become edlble

 

[Camping Gaza]

The goo is what makes a great FB pie. I am in france and would walk over broken glass to wrap my laughing gear around one right now!

 

[Dartagnan]

I like to remove the pastry and place on the side of the plate. Then place the rest of the contents on top of some lovely cooked chips and serve with HP sauce and bread and butter. Divine.
My wife doesn't like them so I get a whole one to myself. I reckon she doesn't like them because of a traumatic experience when she first cooked one over 30 years ago. Being a Londoner she had never had one so placed the unopened tin in the hot oven. The resulting explosion and mess inside the oven is implanted in her mind

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[hilldweller]

>> Love or Hate them how do you cook them


You're supposed to cook them ? Oops.

 

[Wildbill]

We remove the pastry put the gravy with more Vegas And meet
Cook the pastry on the cadack with the lid on
It's dose work but have moved to just making a nice stew in our thermal cooker
And cooking pre made sum puff pastry in the cadack so much nicer than a tined pie
And not to hard to do

Bill

 

[Teuchter]

When away in the MoHo we Never, NEVER, NEVER - go more than a week without the delights of a well fired FB pie!!

 

[golly]

These are the best "bought" pies I have had, trouble is finding a stockist.

 

[The Wino]

I think they are one of the things I remember from childhood that if you go back are nowhere near as nice as you remember a bit like Skegness!!

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[jockaneezer]

I'm not sure if it works with FB pies, but I have a friend who insists that a pie experience is better if you turn it upside down on your plate and enter through the soggy bottom ! Only works with proper fully pastry encased jobbies though.

 

[SuperMike]

My wife doesn't like them so I get a whole one to myself.

Is there any other way ? Hardly enough for one, but I doooooooooo love them.

 

[DBK]

One of these gives a nice crisp top to the pastry.

 

[hilldweller]

One of these gives a nice crisp top to the pastry.

Hell of a reverse gear.

 

[Lenny HB]

You need a hot preheated oven to cook.

No chance in a TecTower then.

If they just put the pastry on the top without the gooey stuff underneath and put proper meat in and more importantly proper gravy they may just become edlble

You live in hope, nothing, absolutely nothing, could make them edible.

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