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Unless you're cooking something specific for a lot of people in a time crunch, it doesn't make sense to buy packages of individual chicken parts. Even if you did need, say eight boneless breasts, you could just buy four birds, and freeze whatever you don't use. Anyway, imho, here's why you should be buying whole chickens.

It's much cheaper for starters. Used to see them less than a $1/lb, still under $2/lb now.

You get to work on your knife skills. Its worth knowing how to effortlessly break a bird down into its respective parts. You can even take it a step further and learn how to de-bone the bird without it looking like it went through a wood chipper.

It's all good. The wife likes boneless breast meat. (Also, likes her steaks well-done, so yeah.) Anyway, two boneless breasts coming up. Wings, add them to your ziploc bag with the others you've been saving in the freezer until you have enough for a meal. Thighs and drumsticks, roast or cook them in a skillet on the stove top. Once cooled down, pick off the meat for a recipe or just eat off the bone. Giblets, if you're not eating them, then use them for fishing bait or chum. Carcass, make stock out of it, be sure to add any of the bones, skin, fat, left after picking the meat off the leg quarters.

Also, imho, if you've never eaten a freshly killed, prepped, and cooked chicken, you've been missing out. Put it on your list of things to do.

Unless you're cooking something specific for a lot of people in a time crunch, it doesn't make sense to buy packages of individual chicken parts. Even if you did need, say eight boneless breasts, you could just buy four birds, and freeze whatever you don't use. Anyway, imho, here's why you should be buying whole chickens. It's much cheaper for starters. Used to see them less than a $1/lb, still under $2/lb now. You get to work on your knife skills. Its worth knowing how to effortlessly break a bird down into its respective parts. You can even take it a step further and learn how to de-bone the bird without it looking like it went through a wood chipper. It's all good. The wife likes boneless breast meat. (Also, likes her steaks well-done, so yeah.) Anyway, two boneless breasts coming up. Wings, add them to your ziploc bag with the others you've been saving in the freezer until you have enough for a meal. Thighs and drumsticks, roast or cook them in a skillet on the stove top. Once cooled down, pick off the meat for a recipe or just eat off the bone. Giblets, if you're not eating them, then use them for fishing bait or chum. Carcass, make stock out of it, be sure to add any of the bones, skin, fat, left after picking the meat off the leg quarters. Also, imho, if you've never eaten a freshly killed, prepped, and cooked chicken, you've been missing out. Put it on your list of things to do.

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[–] 2 pts 2y

Carcass, make stock out of it, be sure to add any of the bones, skin, fat, left after picking the meat off the leg quarters.

The value of the bone broth alone is enough reason to do this.

[–] 2 pts 2y

I agree but have one small qualm: the term "bone broth" is a marketing ploy. A stock is made with bones; a broth is made from bones (or stock) and reinforced with meat. Traditional broths will also include a cereal grain (barley for example) to make it into the base for a kind of soup. You add some mirepoix, wilted green, or cabbage, and you have many foundational hearty winter soups that are not stews. Regardless, there is no such thing as "bone broth." For the fun of it, look up some old French cookbooks--Larousse Gastronomique for instance--and discover the many iterations of delicious protein and collagen-laden waters!

[–] 1 pt 2y

I hear you, but it was the introduction of precut chicken that made my mommy start frying chicken for me. She wouldn't cut it up, and you had to in the sixties.

My grandma would, and we also butchered chickens, everyone should witness "running around like a chicken with its head cut off," nothing like it, especially when you're a kid yikes.

[–] 1 pt 2y

My grandma would, and we also butchered chickens, everyone should witness "running around like a chicken with its head cut off," nothing like it, especially when you're a kid yikes.

Every year when I was a kid.

One year, I was about 5 or 6 and there was this mean as hell rooster that tried to attack me constantly all spring and summer. Butcher day came around and you’d see the same thing as always and I’d grab the dead chickens and take them up to be plucked.

But when they finally got to the mean rooster he stared straight at me the full time. He got lopped and when they let him go he took off after me. It was probably a coincidence but people saw it and still laugh but I took off running, zigzagging and turning different directions I ran for over a minute or so before he finally dropped a few feet behind me lmao.

That’s the only chicken I ever saw that ran that far and with precision he was on my ass the full way and wouldn’t stop until he just dropped.

[–] 1 pt 2y

>He got lopped and when they let him go he took off after me.

Oh my lol. Man that stuff will traumatize you.

Something close to that happened to me, rooster attack, scared me to death.

Yes, and we killed him dead and ate him.

[–] 1 pt 2y

lol, yeah some roosters are crazy.

Imagine running and zig zagging and then even trying to back track with a headless rooster squirting blood out of its neck chasing you.

It makes me laugh now but I have no idea how he was following me and lasted so long.

We ate him, no regrets lol.

[–] 0 pt 2y

Buy a bird? Have you not seen all these Canadian geese walking around? Those fuckers are free!

[–] 1 pt 2y

I can only imagine the fine and prison time for that lol.

[–] 0 pt 2y

I know it's illegal, but I'm not sure what the punishment is.

[–] 1 pt 2y

They’ll be the first to go if starvation becomes a thing. Every high school, little league and parks are stuffed with these shit producers.

Did you ever read the story of how they were created by mistake?

Epic article I have to look for it.