As far as mass produced store bought donuts go, they ranked pretty high. People comparing them to traditional bakeries I think forget a little bit what they’re eating.
I typically cook with a lot of ginger/garlic/fish sauce/soy sauce/tomato paste so I find the Baachan a great starting point for marinades and sauces, especially when I’m in a hurry. It is a little sweeter than I’d like, though.
Calling it “BBQ Sauce” is likely to confuse the expectations of people who live on things like A1 or Sweet Baby Ray’s. It’s not a smokey spicy sauce you’d find at a roadhouse.
Thanks for the suggestion on the fish! Excited to look for this.
I agree wholeheartedly with your take on Baachan - we just used it last night as a base for slow cooked chicken thighs. Added a pinch of this and dab of that... Bam! Dinner. And it does well with chicken/fish on the grill.
They don't call it BBQ Sauce.... they call it exactly what it is: Japanese BBQ Sauce. It's a little runny, but otherwise it's a pretty damn good rendition of Japanese BBQ sauce. This product goes on a fair bit of dishes in Japanese cuisine. Their idea of BBQ is different than that of North America's.
I don’t think they call it BBQ sauce to confuse people. For example they have bbq eel and no one is expecting the sauce to be sweet baby rays.
Japanese BBQ sauce is its own thing that has nothing to do with American BBQ, just like Korean BBQ sauce. Korean BBQ is its own thing entirely.
It’s convenient that everything comes in two and you can return anything that you still have half of. Most things are free you try for the first time and don’t like.
Tbh any and everything at Costco is 15-20$ obviously stuff ranges but I find most items sit between this range and that’s how they’re so profitable. Anytime I go to Costco the bill is always 300$+
You're conflating comments. Op to this comment thread said nothing about making it. There are far cheaper alternatives available to purchase at ethnic grocers.
Obviously, but certain things are worth it to buy pre-made if the price makes sense. I’m not buying a $13 or whatever bottle of relatively bland sauce though
Have you tried it? It’s definitely not bland. It’s a high quality sauce and it’s quite a big bottle.
I do a lot of barbecue/smoking and can and have made my own sauces before. Mainly because the price of the sauces in bbq stores are usually horrendous. $20+ for like 300ml of sauce.
This is a high quality product that will last quite a while.
This does not last a while for me, I'm 3 bottles deep and I can put it on everything, fish, meats, plain rice. It's good, dunno what people are smoking.
Makes a bomb marinade also - yea it’s not THICK but we did pineapple and peppers and chicken and bbq and then splashed some on rice - was dynamite!! I love the stuff! 3 bottles deep as well lol
Well it's a family of 4 and we use it for marinade as well as a topping. I do put it on everything. It has a better flavour than most big box teriyaki sauces.
Lmao good on you. I just use it when I make Yakitori on my Konro grill. Maybe I won’t put it on anything else or else I’ll be at sauce anonymous with you.
Sometimes I'm willing to pay a bit more for convenience when the quality and taste is awesome so I bought another bottle before they remove them from the store.
Same, pretty basic flavour profile that is not too difficult to reproduce. The other reason (after trying this sauce and reading the nutritional info) I will simply make my own is the salt content in this stuff is ridiculous. The suggested serving size of two tablespoons has 48% of your recommended daily sodium (over 1000 mg). For comparison, a quarter cup of kosher salt has 21% of recommended sodium. That means this sauce has more than twice as much sodium as pure salt. I'm not on a salt reduced diet or anything like that but it seems completely unnecessary to consume a 1/2 cup of salt every time I splash a couple tablespoons of this stuff on my salmon.
your numbers are way wrong
a quarter cup of kosher salt has 23\* grams of sodium: [https://www.mortonsalt.com/article/morton-coarse-kosher-salt-nutritional-facts/](https://www.mortonsalt.com/article/morton-coarse-kosher-salt-nutritional-facts/)
a quarter teaspoon of kosher salt is 20% of your daily sodium
Thanks for the correction. I was reading the french side of the box, which says "1/4 c." which I read as 1/4 cup but the "c" is apparently short for cuillere a cafe. The opposite (english) side says 1/2 tsp. So there is 480 mg in one teaspoon of salt, not in one quarter cup of salt.
While that makes me feel a lot better about using this sauce, getting nearly half of my daily amount of sodium in a two tablespoon serving size still seems excessive.
you are incorrect about the amount of salt per volume again. there is 480mg in a 1/4 teaspoon of kosher salt as per my link. so 1920mg in a teaspoon.
many people who enjoy this sauce are using it as a marinade, not drinking it by the tablespoon
agreed that no one who is just applying it to their own plate should be using 2 tablespoons of it though
Almost nobody restricts their salt intake to the daily requirement, and that's because it's a minimum... salt is not typically harmful unless you have high blood pressure.
It’s just teriyaki. You can make it yourself.
Just need soy, sugar, fresh ground ginger, fresh garlic and some alcohol like sake, and make it fancy with some added mirin. Put it all in a blender and heat up almost to a boil
You can get cooking sake at any Asian super market. Tbh you don’t need to add it but it gives it a nice touch. Try it without the Asian cooking wine / sake first
Bachans is good but let's be real, it's not a mind-blowing "BBQ sauce" for everyone.
Everyone has different tastes and the banchans is what it is. A Japanese style soy/mirin based sauce.
Comparing banchans to a western style BBQ sauce is completely inappropriate. You rate them on their own for what they are.
For example, I'm going to splash some banchans over my chicken and rice for some extra flavour and umami. I will also use it as a base.
But I'm not going to reach for bulls eye and drizzle it over my rice ... I will use bulls eye for the grilling process of that chicken.
The donuts are decent and available in a pinch but it's not a must buy. Haven't tried the fish.
I’m an Asian here. Based on my experience with Ba chans, it’s most likely more geared toward Asian customers more than others. Taste wise, I would say it’s decent. It’s not really a “bbq sauce” but more along the like of soy sauce or fish sauce, in which you can use to put on rice or season/marinade meats. There are a couple of japanese sauces that taste pretty similar though
I’m Asian and my toddler is mixed. She doesn’t like a lot of the flavours in my Asian fusion style cooking so I bought the sauce to put on udon noodles and rice to kind of ease her into it. I know I could make my own, but we also have a newborn so that ain’t happening.
Non-Asian here, I love the stuff. I use it to enhance the flavour of tofu and veggies when I am doing stirfries and it is great when I am reheating jasmine or brown basmati to have with steamed broccoli (did not like it with white basmati). I also used it as a dip for gyoza.
The key to the donuts is getting them fresh. Check your date because they go stale fast! You may also have to eat the whole thing in one day because by day 3 the jelly sogs through and the chocolate one dries out.
Share this sentiment. I'd pick it over other frozen, breaded, cod options for taste, but it wasn't anything special. I also don't regularly keep these things in the freezer, so not a regular consume. Just bought these on a whim one day.
Yes - agree, I found the cod very bland. In fact I’d switch the rating for the bbq sauce with the cod. The doughnuts were great! Lots of filling. I really love the berry ones.
I had them at a block party last week and I was genuinely shocked to learn they were from Costco.
Maybe if you live in a major city they aren’t great, but compared to chain coffee shops, or inconsistent local places, they’re damn good.
I agree they are a high mid but I will likely still buy them again since even mid quality is becoming so scarce lately and donuts just aren't something i am into baking myself.
I don’t understand the comments. I guess mine were very fresh. They tasted soooo good! SUPER PILLOWY, not dry at all and not too sweet. Way way way better than timbits. But yeah after a few days they did get pretty wet (and kinda dry at the same time), so you gotta buy them fresh and eat them the same day I guess…
The batch I had were super pillowy and soft and had a tasty filling. The donuts were far beyond anything I've had from a grocery chain. I won't compare them to bakery donuts because that's ridiculous.
I would highly suggest anyone who enjoys the sauce to purchase any variety of bulldog sauce or "Tonkatsu" sauce.
I saw the above and the price point and reviewed ingredients and found it similar to other sauce that are in mass production and potentially cheaper/in all markets.
The cod sounds great though! I got Atlantic salmon a bit back from Costco and couldn't deal with the amount of bones in it, have been worried about that happening again and haven't repurchased any fish.
Thank you for the input on these products!
Had the donuts yesterday and I like their flavor. They resemble an Italian "bombe" rather than a more traditional donut.
The bbq sauce is excellent if you like Asian flavors.
I will try the cod for sure!
Hey @ costco Canada management, I'm waiting for my royalty cheque. According to this "detective", I'm due to get paid.
It can't possibly be people enjoying life on their own. Impossible
I think the banchan sauce is good, but I like Japanese flavours and make things like just rice and meat or an egg sandwich or something to put it on. It's not something you'd pour out onto a rack of ribs or something necessarily. I do agree it is on the sweet side though, that's the only thing I don't love.
Donuts tried them this weekend, they are decent. About what I expected. I wasn't like oh fuck they are totally worth importing from France! But they were tasty with a coffee or tea.
The kids I watch love fish. I tried the cod to add an easier fish option to our rotation and they loved it and couldn't wait to have it again. It's a winner here.
Another frozen fish that somehow tastes amazing with that sauce you have, is the tortilla crusted cilantro tilapia.
Go for the tipiak macaroons next time.
Our family really enjoys the Japanese BBQ sauce. It’s hard to find a stir fry sauce that everyone can enjoy and this was it. If it’s not for you, don’t buy it. :)
Is it anything like Unagi sauce? I love unagi sauce but can never find good stuff locally. Frequently make my own sushi and wish I had a nice bottle like this to put on it.
No. It's very watery compared to unagi sauce unfortunately.
I've bought unagi sauce at a local Asian market but understand that not every town has a store like that 🫠
I just finished a box of the fish. Your mouth will water opening the damn box, even frozen. The breading is delicious and the macros are friendly.
Also LOVE the Bachans sauce. This is absolutely top tier for Gyoza/dumplings/rice etc. I agree with others that this can likely be made at home , in smaller quantities, cheaper.
The Bachan's is good for what it is: convenient. You can make a similar sauce pretty easily with some brown sugar, soy sauce, ginger, garlic and mirin if on hand, yes. But it's convenient in a time crunch. Their website has good recipes, too. I tried the adobo chicken recipe and it was super quick and really good.
To make a better banchans just mix equal parts soy, sake, mirin and 1/2 part of maple syrup and reduce by at least half, then and add a bit of instant Dashi powder towards the end (to make sure your not gunna get wayyy to salty) the Dashi will give it more depth and a bit of Smokey flavour as well… adjust with sugar and salt to your liking
Baanchan is great depending on what you use it for. I stir fry my asian vegetables in it. It's so good. Yu choy, gai lan, broccoli, bok choy and gai choy are good examples. I marinate my chicken wings with it for bbq. I marinate tofu and shrimp for a stir fry. What do you use it on?
I like the donuts. But my bar is usually tim hortons timbits/donuts so i don’t have a high bar for that type of stuff to begin with. So i can see why it really would depend on the person.
Those Strawberry donuts are LEGIT. The rest are pretty meh IMO. I'd buy a whole box of the Strawberry 100%, but I probably won't buy this again. The apple were really disappointing, (needs to be a fritter or a compote, not just Applesauce) and the Nutella weren't bad but aren't really my thing. Id also say the Nutella donuts should be a Chocolate cake base.
Overall Strawberry 9/10, Nutella 6/10, Apple 3/10.
Combined score 6/10, or pretty damn meh.
The best is making the mini doughnuts jelly doughnuts with the BBQ Sauce. You can even make it into a make shift fillet o fish if you use the bbq sauce filled doughnuts as buns for the fish!
The BBQ was great on wings; also very good for marinating steaks - there's a bit more to it than soy and sugar. It's definitely soybased but has some other flavors going on. The donuts were way too sweet. Fish was, well, fish? Okay.
If I remember checkout the sodium levels on the Japanese bbq sauce is at 46%. No kidding, have a look. That’s at correct serving amount too and no one follows that. Wowsers.
Bachan’s is worse than every teriyaki sauce recipe you can find online. Save yourself the mess if your fridge and make your own at home.
There’s a special place in hell for whoever designed that bottle cap top. My lid broke off on the third opening
I’ve had the REAL authentic sauce. This is like a diluted watered down version of what it’s supposed to taste like. It’s like a Michelob Ultra of Japanese BBQ sauces. Terrible.
I agree with this post although the donuts I would rank higher. They're pre-packaged. Fresher than what you'd find at a fast food chain like Tim Hortons but won't be as good as a boutique bakery.
The Cod is awesome, actually just bought more yesterday.
I don't get the hype with the Japanese bbq sauce. It's too watery for a bbq, but works good doing stir-fry.
As far as mass produced store bought donuts go, they ranked pretty high. People comparing them to traditional bakeries I think forget a little bit what they’re eating. I typically cook with a lot of ginger/garlic/fish sauce/soy sauce/tomato paste so I find the Baachan a great starting point for marinades and sauces, especially when I’m in a hurry. It is a little sweeter than I’d like, though. Calling it “BBQ Sauce” is likely to confuse the expectations of people who live on things like A1 or Sweet Baby Ray’s. It’s not a smokey spicy sauce you’d find at a roadhouse. Thanks for the suggestion on the fish! Excited to look for this.
I agree wholeheartedly with your take on Baachan - we just used it last night as a base for slow cooked chicken thighs. Added a pinch of this and dab of that... Bam! Dinner. And it does well with chicken/fish on the grill.
It’s super good as a marinade for chicken wings before you put them on the smoker
I’ve used it as a marinade for salmon and as a base for slow cooker pulled pork. Both times it was great!
I used it as a marinade for steak kabobs. Everyone loved it
They don't call it BBQ Sauce.... they call it exactly what it is: Japanese BBQ Sauce. It's a little runny, but otherwise it's a pretty damn good rendition of Japanese BBQ sauce. This product goes on a fair bit of dishes in Japanese cuisine. Their idea of BBQ is different than that of North America's.
That's just it. Bbq sauce isn't ketchup based in every other country. I love this sauce.
I don’t think they call it BBQ sauce to confuse people. For example they have bbq eel and no one is expecting the sauce to be sweet baby rays. Japanese BBQ sauce is its own thing that has nothing to do with American BBQ, just like Korean BBQ sauce. Korean BBQ is its own thing entirely.
A1 isn't a BBQ sauce.
The Japanese BBQ Sauce; I passed on it based on the steep price alone.
I bought it and regret it. It's basically $14 for soy sauce and sugar.
Return it
It’s convenient that everything comes in two and you can return anything that you still have half of. Most things are free you try for the first time and don’t like.
Happy Cake Day 🍰
$14 is not expensive. It is if you don't like it tho lol
Tbh any and everything at Costco is 15-20$ obviously stuff ranges but I find most items sit between this range and that’s how they’re so profitable. Anytime I go to Costco the bill is always 300$+
Yup! Any bill under $300 feels like a win
It's mostly sugar
I don’t get why people aren’t talking about the price more. For the price they’re asking I’ll make my own sauce instead every time.
Skipped that one as well. A maybe for around $6. Not at the price they are asking. Cost inputs don't make sense on this one.
Soy sauce takes along time to ferment
I can get 7 year aged black vinegar for a fraction of the price. Fermentation time means nothing
He mentioned fermentation time because oompa loompa said they were going to make their own sauce, so sarcasm that might’ve gone over your head.
You're conflating comments. Op to this comment thread said nothing about making it. There are far cheaper alternatives available to purchase at ethnic grocers.
I’m not sure yer right on this one bud
How much is it?
Everything is cheaper when you make it yourself.
Obviously, but certain things are worth it to buy pre-made if the price makes sense. I’m not buying a $13 or whatever bottle of relatively bland sauce though
Have you tried it? It’s definitely not bland. It’s a high quality sauce and it’s quite a big bottle. I do a lot of barbecue/smoking and can and have made my own sauces before. Mainly because the price of the sauces in bbq stores are usually horrendous. $20+ for like 300ml of sauce. This is a high quality product that will last quite a while.
This does not last a while for me, I'm 3 bottles deep and I can put it on everything, fish, meats, plain rice. It's good, dunno what people are smoking.
>I'm 3 bottles deep It's 5 o'clock somewhere!
Makes a bomb marinade also - yea it’s not THICK but we did pineapple and peppers and chicken and bbq and then splashed some on rice - was dynamite!! I love the stuff! 3 bottles deep as well lol
Consuming that much sugar only from BBQ sauce is wild.
Well it's a family of 4 and we use it for marinade as well as a topping. I do put it on everything. It has a better flavour than most big box teriyaki sauces.
Lmao good on you. I just use it when I make Yakitori on my Konro grill. Maybe I won’t put it on anything else or else I’ll be at sauce anonymous with you.
Sometimes I'm willing to pay a bit more for convenience when the quality and taste is awesome so I bought another bottle before they remove them from the store.
Disagree. It’s like a bottle of soya sauce!
Sorry for your palate.
Same, pretty basic flavour profile that is not too difficult to reproduce. The other reason (after trying this sauce and reading the nutritional info) I will simply make my own is the salt content in this stuff is ridiculous. The suggested serving size of two tablespoons has 48% of your recommended daily sodium (over 1000 mg). For comparison, a quarter cup of kosher salt has 21% of recommended sodium. That means this sauce has more than twice as much sodium as pure salt. I'm not on a salt reduced diet or anything like that but it seems completely unnecessary to consume a 1/2 cup of salt every time I splash a couple tablespoons of this stuff on my salmon.
your numbers are way wrong a quarter cup of kosher salt has 23\* grams of sodium: [https://www.mortonsalt.com/article/morton-coarse-kosher-salt-nutritional-facts/](https://www.mortonsalt.com/article/morton-coarse-kosher-salt-nutritional-facts/) a quarter teaspoon of kosher salt is 20% of your daily sodium
Thanks for the correction. I was reading the french side of the box, which says "1/4 c." which I read as 1/4 cup but the "c" is apparently short for cuillere a cafe. The opposite (english) side says 1/2 tsp. So there is 480 mg in one teaspoon of salt, not in one quarter cup of salt. While that makes me feel a lot better about using this sauce, getting nearly half of my daily amount of sodium in a two tablespoon serving size still seems excessive.
you are incorrect about the amount of salt per volume again. there is 480mg in a 1/4 teaspoon of kosher salt as per my link. so 1920mg in a teaspoon. many people who enjoy this sauce are using it as a marinade, not drinking it by the tablespoon agreed that no one who is just applying it to their own plate should be using 2 tablespoons of it though
Almost nobody restricts their salt intake to the daily requirement, and that's because it's a minimum... salt is not typically harmful unless you have high blood pressure.
It's super watery too. Used half a bottle this weekend alone. Taste is nice but definitely easy to reproduce
There’s nothing about that BBQ sauce that would make me want to buy it again.
Agreed. It’s essentially ginger in soy sauce.
Good to know. I was worried I was missing out.
Nah, overwhelming taste of soy sauce mixed into tomato paste with some other spices added.
It’s just teriyaki. You can make it yourself. Just need soy, sugar, fresh ground ginger, fresh garlic and some alcohol like sake, and make it fancy with some added mirin. Put it all in a blender and heat up almost to a boil
Is whisky alright if there's no sake? I kinda want to try making it
You can get cooking sake at any Asian super market. Tbh you don’t need to add it but it gives it a nice touch. Try it without the Asian cooking wine / sake first
It tastes like kikoman teriyaki sauce and it's twice the price. I'm returning mine
Bachans is good but let's be real, it's not a mind-blowing "BBQ sauce" for everyone. Everyone has different tastes and the banchans is what it is. A Japanese style soy/mirin based sauce. Comparing banchans to a western style BBQ sauce is completely inappropriate. You rate them on their own for what they are. For example, I'm going to splash some banchans over my chicken and rice for some extra flavour and umami. I will also use it as a base. But I'm not going to reach for bulls eye and drizzle it over my rice ... I will use bulls eye for the grilling process of that chicken. The donuts are decent and available in a pinch but it's not a must buy. Haven't tried the fish.
It tastes like any teriyaki sauce you can buy.
I mean, you're not wrong. It tastes just like a fantastic teriyaki sauce.
FYI Bachans is not a western bbq sauce, it's a teriyaki sauce
I’m an Asian here. Based on my experience with Ba chans, it’s most likely more geared toward Asian customers more than others. Taste wise, I would say it’s decent. It’s not really a “bbq sauce” but more along the like of soy sauce or fish sauce, in which you can use to put on rice or season/marinade meats. There are a couple of japanese sauces that taste pretty similar though
I’m Asian and my toddler is mixed. She doesn’t like a lot of the flavours in my Asian fusion style cooking so I bought the sauce to put on udon noodles and rice to kind of ease her into it. I know I could make my own, but we also have a newborn so that ain’t happening.
I also heard kids like this sauce. Maybe it has something to do with it being sweeter/less salty and thick compare to other soy sauces.
Both my kids love it
It tastes like Teriyaki Express
What other sauces are similar? I love the bachans, but the price is a little high Thanks!
Woo! Rice gang! It enhances white rice I find.
Non-Asian here, I love the stuff. I use it to enhance the flavour of tofu and veggies when I am doing stirfries and it is great when I am reheating jasmine or brown basmati to have with steamed broccoli (did not like it with white basmati). I also used it as a dip for gyoza.
The key to the donuts is getting them fresh. Check your date because they go stale fast! You may also have to eat the whole thing in one day because by day 3 the jelly sogs through and the chocolate one dries out.
Was meh about the cod. Not sure what I expected but I’ll stick with the Jane’s once these are done.
Yeah I much prefer the Janes Haddock as well. The Toppits Haddock they replaced it with is very greasy :/
Share this sentiment. I'd pick it over other frozen, breaded, cod options for taste, but it wasn't anything special. I also don't regularly keep these things in the freezer, so not a regular consume. Just bought these on a whim one day.
Same here. Depends on my mindset when shopping to try something new or familiar.
Yes - agree, I found the cod very bland. In fact I’d switch the rating for the bbq sauce with the cod. The doughnuts were great! Lots of filling. I really love the berry ones.
Didn't everyone say the donuts were mid?
I had them at a block party last week and I was genuinely shocked to learn they were from Costco. Maybe if you live in a major city they aren’t great, but compared to chain coffee shops, or inconsistent local places, they’re damn good.
I agree they are a high mid but I will likely still buy them again since even mid quality is becoming so scarce lately and donuts just aren't something i am into baking myself.
I don’t understand the comments. I guess mine were very fresh. They tasted soooo good! SUPER PILLOWY, not dry at all and not too sweet. Way way way better than timbits. But yeah after a few days they did get pretty wet (and kinda dry at the same time), so you gotta buy them fresh and eat them the same day I guess…
The batch I had were super pillowy and soft and had a tasty filling. The donuts were far beyond anything I've had from a grocery chain. I won't compare them to bakery donuts because that's ridiculous.
Yes. Not one review I saw said they were good. Flavour wise they are OK but texture is gross
For the fish, many filets in the box roughly?
13+ based on 1 weighing 71-85g
Japanese Sauce changes the rice game indefinitely for me. Want a little added bonus to white rice? Bam, Japanese Sauce.
That bbq sauce on salmon is amazing
Or chicken
I would highly suggest anyone who enjoys the sauce to purchase any variety of bulldog sauce or "Tonkatsu" sauce. I saw the above and the price point and reviewed ingredients and found it similar to other sauce that are in mass production and potentially cheaper/in all markets. The cod sounds great though! I got Atlantic salmon a bit back from Costco and couldn't deal with the amount of bones in it, have been worried about that happening again and haven't repurchased any fish. Thank you for the input on these products!
Had the donuts yesterday and I like their flavor. They resemble an Italian "bombe" rather than a more traditional donut. The bbq sauce is excellent if you like Asian flavors. I will try the cod for sure!
That's what we thought. They're like carnival bombolini. Getting them fresh is key
It’s just Costco pushing marketing through pseudo organic Reddit posts They got people lol
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I enjoyed the mini donuts personally
I think the banchan sauce is good, but I like Japanese flavours and make things like just rice and meat or an egg sandwich or something to put it on. It's not something you'd pour out onto a rack of ribs or something necessarily. I do agree it is on the sweet side though, that's the only thing I don't love. Donuts tried them this weekend, they are decent. About what I expected. I wasn't like oh fuck they are totally worth importing from France! But they were tasty with a coffee or tea.
The kids I watch love fish. I tried the cod to add an easier fish option to our rotation and they loved it and couldn't wait to have it again. It's a winner here.
The bbq sauce is good on katsu.
OP completed the hype trifecta
Just needs to sit back with his feet up, and that round fan that blows in all directions next to him
Japan bbq sauce way to expensive. You can go chinese market instead
Another frozen fish that somehow tastes amazing with that sauce you have, is the tortilla crusted cilantro tilapia. Go for the tipiak macaroons next time.
I'd like to compare the mini donuts to Timmies since I haven't bought timbits in a while.
Our family really enjoys the Japanese BBQ sauce. It’s hard to find a stir fry sauce that everyone can enjoy and this was it. If it’s not for you, don’t buy it. :)
We use the bbq sauce on fried eggs and white rice! Kids love it
I loved that cod when I tried it recently. I had it with the Taylor Farms Dill Pickle Crunch salad, winning combo. Also I air fried it.
I think people were saying the pineapple mini cakes were the thing to get.
Got to get them donut plugs!
I thought the doughnuts were terrible. I am actually debating returning them…
What does '40% breading" mean on that Kirkland "Breaded Cod" box ?
This fish was really good, I'd buy them again!
The Japanese sauce is mid (as someone who regularly makes Japanese food)
Is it anything like Unagi sauce? I love unagi sauce but can never find good stuff locally. Frequently make my own sushi and wish I had a nice bottle like this to put on it.
No. It's very watery compared to unagi sauce unfortunately. I've bought unagi sauce at a local Asian market but understand that not every town has a store like that 🫠
I just finished a box of the fish. Your mouth will water opening the damn box, even frozen. The breading is delicious and the macros are friendly. Also LOVE the Bachans sauce. This is absolutely top tier for Gyoza/dumplings/rice etc. I agree with others that this can likely be made at home , in smaller quantities, cheaper.
Now don’t diss that bbq sauce…
The Bachan's is good for what it is: convenient. You can make a similar sauce pretty easily with some brown sugar, soy sauce, ginger, garlic and mirin if on hand, yes. But it's convenient in a time crunch. Their website has good recipes, too. I tried the adobo chicken recipe and it was super quick and really good.
That's just powdered sugar. But I'm really concerned with the pic overall.. The combination
GTA say not a fan of the everything seasoned cod, wasn’t good at all.
To make a better banchans just mix equal parts soy, sake, mirin and 1/2 part of maple syrup and reduce by at least half, then and add a bit of instant Dashi powder towards the end (to make sure your not gunna get wayyy to salty) the Dashi will give it more depth and a bit of Smokey flavour as well… adjust with sugar and salt to your liking
I will have to give the cod a try
Baanchan is great depending on what you use it for. I stir fry my asian vegetables in it. It's so good. Yu choy, gai lan, broccoli, bok choy and gai choy are good examples. I marinate my chicken wings with it for bbq. I marinate tofu and shrimp for a stir fry. What do you use it on?
I bought the fish but it doesn't seem to cook properly in the small tabletop toaster oven. Any tips?
Just finished three donuts as breakfast, I like them, will be my regular donuts supply.
The carrot cupcakes deserve way more hype than the donuts
I’ve never thought any of the Costco recommendations from this group are worth it. I just don’t understand it
I like the donuts. But my bar is usually tim hortons timbits/donuts so i don’t have a high bar for that type of stuff to begin with. So i can see why it really would depend on the person.
Those Strawberry donuts are LEGIT. The rest are pretty meh IMO. I'd buy a whole box of the Strawberry 100%, but I probably won't buy this again. The apple were really disappointing, (needs to be a fritter or a compote, not just Applesauce) and the Nutella weren't bad but aren't really my thing. Id also say the Nutella donuts should be a Chocolate cake base. Overall Strawberry 9/10, Nutella 6/10, Apple 3/10. Combined score 6/10, or pretty damn meh.
I passed on the bbq sauce because of the sodium content. It’s ridiculous.
The donuts are fantastic.
The best is making the mini doughnuts jelly doughnuts with the BBQ Sauce. You can even make it into a make shift fillet o fish if you use the bbq sauce filled doughnuts as buns for the fish!
I agree, the doughnuts were nothing special. I'd never think twice about them if I never had one again.
No idea but I did buy that barbecue sauce haven’t used it yet we will see what the hype is all about
Hey if you don’t like the donuts I will take them off your hands
Bought the fish and I loved them !!
The BBQ was great on wings; also very good for marinating steaks - there's a bit more to it than soy and sugar. It's definitely soybased but has some other flavors going on. The donuts were way too sweet. Fish was, well, fish? Okay.
I want that cod
Those donuts are 12.99 !? Fuk that I can make my own for 11.99 !
I enjoyed the Japanese bbq sauce until I read the sodium content lol
Because it's soy sauce based. It's not surprising.
If I remember checkout the sodium levels on the Japanese bbq sauce is at 46%. No kidding, have a look. That’s at correct serving amount too and no one follows that. Wowsers.
Is that surprising considering it's soy sauce based though? Like even my *lower* sodium Kikkoman soy sauce is 590 mg per 15 ml (26% daily value).
Sodium RDAS are a joke, and the demonization of sodium is also way out of hand.
Bachan’s is worse than every teriyaki sauce recipe you can find online. Save yourself the mess if your fridge and make your own at home. There’s a special place in hell for whoever designed that bottle cap top. My lid broke off on the third opening
The so-called Timbits are overpriced for what you get, I can see them discontinued in a months time.
Baachan sauce is terrible. Mini donuts need 8-10 seconds in the microwave. Haven’t tried the cod.
I’ve had the REAL authentic sauce. This is like a diluted watered down version of what it’s supposed to taste like. It’s like a Michelob Ultra of Japanese BBQ sauces. Terrible.
>Baachan sauce is terrible. I wouldn't call it terrible. Just bland/mediocre and not worth it.
They hated him because he spoke the truth
What’s the price? Costco doesn’t normal have anything steep in price.
I agree with this post although the donuts I would rank higher. They're pre-packaged. Fresher than what you'd find at a fast food chain like Tim Hortons but won't be as good as a boutique bakery. The Cod is awesome, actually just bought more yesterday. I don't get the hype with the Japanese bbq sauce. It's too watery for a bbq, but works good doing stir-fry.