For the price of a single Big Mac meal at McDonalds you could buy 2 whole chickens which you could break apart into 4 breasts, 4 tenders, 4 thighs, 4 legs, 8 wings, render the skin for chicken tallow, 2+ litres of stock from the simmered bones, chicken scratching.

With this you can feed an entire family for a week.

I don't know what a big mac costs but last I bought a chicken it was like $30

>>21508030
Do you live on Mars wtf?

>>21508023 (OP)
If we could only teach dumb, poor people to cook for themselves and shop smartly. The fast food corporations wouldn't be out of business but they'd be something much less prevalent in society. Obesity would decline. People who will butcher chickens and cook them are just more active and productive people than big mac meal eaters. That's a fact.

>>21508035
No? I just don't eat fast food. There's a McDonalds a couple of blocks away and the police are always there because there's always problems. McDonalds is a cancer and RFK should be banning it instead of skincare products and sunscreen.

>>21508041
I mean more the price of the chicken. 30usd for a chicken is insane.

>>21508023 (OP)
blah blah blah OP.
Everyone does know that it costs more to dine out than making food from scratch at home....most of the time.

There are items called loss leader items, which used to be the Value Menu, or some specials. In the grocery, it might be the $2 dozen of eggs or $4 gallon of milk, but required you to walk through the entire store to grab this item. Or maybe it's the $5 cooked rotisserie chicken. McDonalds has a $5 meal which is a double cheeseburger, 4pc nuggets, med fries AND a drink. If you are getting anythign else on the menu, you realize already you are someone who isn't trying to be cheap, but getting what you damn well please.

>>21508045
Rotisserie chickens are cheap because they use raw chickens that are old and going to expire and they cook them to prolong their shelf life and self them cheaply to get some profit out of something that otherwise would have gone to waste. Its not a loss leader.
This is also why fresh raw chickens tend to be slightly more expensive than rotisserie chickens.

>>21508042
Oh, I go to one of those butchers where it's not just "chicken" they tell you the breed and the bloodline of the bird and whether it attended Sidwell Friends or Dalton.

I have no idea what chicken costs at save-o-mart because I don't buy gross nasty meat, I'd rather just go vegetarian. I need to be reassured of its pedigree even if they're lying, I just lose my appetite if I think it's CAFO crap.

>>21508023 (OP)
>chicken tallow
we got a real expert here

>>21508064
I don't call it by jew names and chicken grease makes it sound gross

>>21508048
I dont care. $5 for a whole cooked chicken. Shits good, Ill eat that shit in like 2 days, use the bones and leftovers for stock.

>>21508077
I'm not saying its bad I was just explaining its not a loss leader. Its just a good deal.

>>21508048
>Rotisserie chickens are cheap because they use raw chickens that are old
Nope, it's simply a loss leader item to get you in the door of that store, where you will buy other items too. Every time you shop there, you will not be elsewhere, so it's competition.

>>21508069
>I don't call it by jew names
So based anon I love owning the Jews

>>21508084
Thats only a Costco meme. In supermarkets they are not loss leaders, they are repurposed old/small birds.

>>21508098
>>21508080
This. The birds sell cooked for $5 and the raw chickens that are much larger for sale in the meat dept are $7. The store is actually purchasing them wholesale for $3.50 or something. So they may not make a huge profit on a rotisserie chicken, but it's by no means a loss. It's like the Costco hot dogs; people think they're losing money but that's just because they're comparing it to what they expect some restaurant would charge. Costco's food kiosk prices are like a perk, a public service. Those polish sausages only cost about 40 cents each.
Loss leaders are pretty uncommon these days. People will just fucking pay for anything without question.

what if I dont like chicken doe

I usually do a chickenstock and freeze it, then have a chicken breast, then on the second night I bake the marylands and eat the second breast, then two marylands of shredded chicken for the third and fourth night, and the fifth night I use the stock in a risotto or something.
Saturday is pub meal, Sunday is either left overs or some ethnic shop.

But these days, drumsticks are often cheaper for some reason so I just bake a whole tray of them.
Fuck McDonald's

Based I did this, Used one chicken to cut apart into meals and also made stock with the bones. Made a roast chicken dinner with the other chicken, after that I took the roast leftovers and made them into a pie with veloute sauce made from the jus which is in the fridge now waiting to be baked. Took leftover stock and made glace de volaille.

>>21508023 (OP)
I can get bone in skin on chicken thighs for ~$1.25/lb. Whole chickens are at least $2/lb and usually $2.50/lb. Plus the whole chicken thighs are smaller than the ones in the family pack.
You can still make stock and do whatever you want with the skin for almost half price. I guess if you really need white meat it's cheaper than a 4 pack of breast but I prefer dark meat anyway.

>>21508023 (OP)
>you could buy 2 whole chickens which you could break apart into 4 breasts, 4 tenders, 4 thighs, 4 legs, 8 wings, render the skin for chicken tallow, 2+ litres of stock from the simmered bones, chicken scratching.
Everyone is exhausted from working 60+ hours a week, being stuck in traffick for 3 hours a day, and having to carry the burden of arrogant, oblivious fucking assholes who think they know everything.

>>21508545
and what if that chicken happens to suffer from myocarditis who practically turns it into wood?

>>21510542
>from myocarditis who practically turns it into wood?
>who
who?

>>21510513
sounds like a you problem

>>21510513
Less than 40% of people are employed. Numbers are readily available on government statistics sites. While you are working 60 hour weeks most people are planning to kill and eat you.

I hate how the boomer grocery store sells chicken parts in big 8 lb trays minimum
gonna shop at trader joes from now on

>>21508023 (OP)
That's like 2 dinners worth max and not even the complete meal.

>>21511077
>eating an entire large chicken every meal

>>21511123
For an entire family of 4 yeah.

>>21510973
>most people are planning to kill and eat you.
not if I eat me first!

>>21508023 (OP)
>For the price of a single Big Mac meal at McDonalds you could buy 2 whole chickens
Buying whole chickens is a meme. For the same price you can get a 10lb bag of leg quarters. The drumstick and thigh are the best parts of the chicken anyway.

>>21508023 (OP)
I just wanted to come in this thread to say last night I had a dream I went to Costco for the first time and they had 10lb rotisserie chickens. I bought one.

>>21508023 (OP)
>For the price
why even bother with that? A tissie chicken is even cheaper and you don't even need to cook.

>>21508023 (OP)
>With this you can feed an entire family for a week
I can eat a whole chicken in one sitting. Could stretch it out to two meals, tops.

>>21513359
Are the british really this fat?

>>21513360
British people aren't fat.

>>21511791
Goddamn, a 10lbs rotisserie chicken?! Next time buy one for me too.

I bought a whole chicken for the first time /ck/. What should I do with it?
I was thinking of baking it in the oven

>>21513564
Yes roasting is the obvious answer, if you have any motivation you could also butterfly it (split it down the middle and spread it open).
Or, alternatively, you could just chop it into pieces and make chicken casserole, simmered real slow until it’s just right and then BANG.

>>21513564
Yeah enjoy your overcooked breast meat or undercooked dark

>>21513575
I roasted it
>>21513804
Thanks will enjoy

>>21513831
Forgot pic

>>21513835
Plated with some barley groats
It's real good, the barley works well with the unthickened sauce

>>21508041
Then why the fuck are you in a store that compares the price of fast food to save-o-mart chicken? Get the fuck out of here, dumbass.

>>21508023 (OP)
I eat at least 14 chicken breasts a week. No way you're feeding a family for a week with 2 whole chickens