Topic: Chicken is Cheap?

[tim]

Used to be a luxury. Thought that that had changed.

Just weighed up the useable meat on a £7+ 'free range' bird.

512 grams. That's not cheap?? A good Sirloin would be no more.

[ninnyscrops]

But you wouldn't get all that lovely stock with Sirloin Tim  ;)

[tim]

True!!

And when we buy a few dozen ('free range') wings, the tips go into stock. Great jell.

[silverbirch]

I've never weighed it like that, but I get 2 meals for the three of us from a free range bird about that price - and we don't eat delicate meals - plus a good soup from the carcass.  Still think it's good value, when you consider our Friday night "chuck it in the oven" pizzas aren't much cheaper.

[asbean]

A delicious free-range chick from our farmers' market costing about £7 feeds three of us two meals, plus two generous lots of scraps for the cats, plus at least 5 pints of fantastic stock. Nothing wasted.

[tim]

Our last 2 local 'free range' birds have had severe hock burn, so it's organic now for me.

[euronerd]

Doesn't sound much tim. I only buy legs these days because a whole bird is impractical for one, but I regularly get between 6 and 8 oz of eating (uncooked) per leg. A local free range leg is 50p, or 40p if I buy five. Then there's the stock from the bones of course.

Geoff.

[tim]

Much prefer the Thigh!

Do you devil your legs?

[euronerd]

The thigh is included tim, hence the weight. They're more like quarters. Apart from a couple I keep whole in the freezer, for a quick chicken and chips snack, the rest are boned and frozen in single leg quantities if you know what I mean, for any job that needs chicken meat.

Haven't devilled them for years, thanks for the reminder.

Geoff.

[tim]

Aha!  See my waffle in Mamta's Kitchen!!

The odd 'sales' line is hers, not mine.

[euronerd]

Thanks very much tim. That's tonight sorted out.