If you read the miles long ‘Obligatory Intro Post’, you know that I wished that someone had written a blog like this so I could have been spared. But please, don’t cry for me, because I am a strong woman, and I have recovered from the trauma that I experienced over this mustard. Now I just hope to warn others, to save them the pain.
All jokes aside, I wouldn’t consider myself a connoisseur of mustard. I wouldn’t consider myself a connoisseur of anything – I’ve misspelled the word twice now. But I did learn that I like at least one brand’s offering of Dijon mustard, and now I wanna write about it.
The Story
Okay, so I bought some MasterFoods brand Dijon mustard from The Reject Shop earlier this year. I think it was $1, and I really like trying new things when I don’t feel like they’re potentially going to bankrupt me, so I picked it up. I used it on steak, with mushrooms, in a cream sauce, and was obsessed. When I ran out, they were no longer a dollar, so I decided to try the Coles homebrand option.
When I come home from doing groceries, I immediately start putting things away. As I do that, sometimes I taste test things that I’ve bought that are new. I scraped a teensy bit of mustard onto a spoon, just to try, and balked at the taste. It was not good.
The Taste
Somehow, this mustard tastes as if plastic has been cooked into the mustard. I don’t know how mustard is prepared, but I assume there’s some cooking going on. Anyway, it was horrible. It had bite and bitterness, but that’s all it had. The flavour was completely overpowered by whatever created that plastic taste. I immediately threw out the jar, and picked up some more of the MasterFoods version at full price when I next visited the supermarket.
Is it worth the savings?
MasterFoods Dijon Mustard retails at $2.80 for 170g in Coles supermarkets, and $3.00 in Woolworths. At its cheapest, that’s $1.65 for 100g.
Coles Dijon Mustard retails at $2.00 for 200g, matching the Woolworths homebrand option. $1.00 per 100g.
A saving of 80 cents (for the product – 65 cents if you go by volume) for a condiment that tasted inedible to me is 100% not worth it. I know that I haven’t tried the Woolworths version (of which they have two – the regular homebrand and their organic homebrand, which comes out at the same price as the MasterFoods version), and when I finish this next jar, I’m considering shelling out an extra $1.20 to pick up the bougie-looking Maille brand Dijon mustard. Maybe I’m missing out on something truly remarkable.
But for now? For now, I officially declare that the Coles brand Dijon mustard is not worth the savings.
So how good is the homebrand?
Bad. Bad bad bad.
Disclaimer: Please remember that the opinions expressed in this post are just that – opinions. You’re welcome to feel entirely differently to me. Perhaps I’m the outlier and the only one who feels this way. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
How Good is the Homebrand? 