Do you ever get the roasted chickens at the grocery store?

The ones at Whole Foods are delicious.

This will end in tears.

$4.99 at Costco and they're always fresh and meaty. $8.99 in my local supermarket and they're always overcooked and dried out.

Rotisserie chickens. The sight of them makes me ill. Dead birds revolving on sticks? No thanks.

[quote] Dead birds revolving on sticks?

Spits!

R4 Maybe a thread about rotisserie chickens doesn't need your involvement?

I like them a lot - very versatile and you can get a few days' meals out of one.

Yum.

Take a chance. You might be surprised.

Op - the life of the shutin

They're okay.

I agree with R7. I get them regularly and can get a couple of meals out of one since I'm the only one eating it. You have to know where to go to get the better quality ones that keep their freshness longer.

Cakes - I always see them lined up in the glass case, all colorful and pretty, looking fancy and delicious, and people are lined up for them. I've never gotten one. Are they really that good?

Kroger's roasted chicken is wonderful.

So juicy and tender, and the seasoning on the outside is delicious.

I'm single and it lasts me between 3 to 5 days.

Wines. Such a range and selection, with the beautiful labels with foreign words sometimes, an air of sophistication. I've never tried them. Are they really that good?

There is no reason to be a twat on a roasted chicken thread. Some of you have zero home training.

I see vegetables in the produce section. Vegetables look so pretty. So does fruit. I see people lined up for them. Are they really good?

[quote] Some of you have zero home training.

Some of them were probably home schooled.

[quote]I'm single

Shocking

No, I don't. But if I did, I would make chicken stock with the bones.

I buy them regularly at Shop-Rite™, I prefer these over the one's ACME™(owned by Albertson's™) makes. They are well-seasoned and not over-roasted to the point of dryness. The price varies from $4.99 on a great sale to the usual price of $7.49. I can get 2 or 3 lunches out of one, and if I'm fortunate enough to find a large one, make a small chicken potpie.

Whole Foods™ chickens are very good, but the price is sky-high, never saw them cheaper than $12.99

Boston Market™(yes, I'm lucky our local one did not close when the last round of "headhunters" came through) chickens are good as well, and smell better than any of the alternatives. When you walk in the place you start drooling from the ultra-savory aromas coming from those "Ferris wheels."

They use chickens that are over the "Best Buy" date. That's how they get to utilize them instead of throwing them out.

I never buy them.

Aren't most of them injected with salt solutions to make them juicier and saltier?

Were you expecting Poulet de Bresse, mon cher. 😵‍💫

r22 Incorrect

r17 Meh, you're trying so hard - how lonely you must be.

R25 My sister works for ShopRite. I know. And it's a common practice with other chains as well.

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So what, though? (If they use chicken that's reaching its "expiration" date.)

That's how stores and restaurants operate. All that stuff that you see in buffets: that's probably stuff that was just about to lose shelf life.

Shredded they make a quick and easy chicken salad.

At Sam's Club, I have had several undercooked ones, which is disgusting.

“Google, what can I do with raw rotisserie chicken?”

I like them from anywhere.

Costco’s are always terrific.

R22 That’s not true. They use the chickens that are about to expire. Say the expiration date is tomorrow and they still haven’t been sold. They can cook them and still make a profit.

I also buy them occasionally from Costco, My issue with them is the lingering taste of saltiness in my mouth, sometimes even the day after.

I tried one once and found it greasy. I roast my own.

What does Costco possess?

[quote] What does Costco possess?

Rotisserie chicken (before you buy it).

I nearly choked to death of a piece of breast once.

Tempted to order one from Whole Foods, but worry that it will be overly salty.

[quote] lasts me between 3 to 5 days.

FIVE days?!? Girl.

Do you ever drink water?

Some are good, others are processed and mediocre. I appreciate the convenience of not having to clean a roasting pan.

[quote]That’s not true. They use the chickens that are about to expire. Say the expiration date is tomorrow and they still haven’t been sold. They can cook them and still make a profit.

Believe me they use chickens that are past their "sell buy" date. AND it is perfectly legal.

You are naive if you think supermarkets don't take advantage of that.

"Except for infant formula, there is no federal requirement that food be labeled with a date. Although dating of some foods is required by more than 20 states, there are areas of the country where much of the food supply has some type of open date and other areas where almost no food is dated. If a calendar date is used, it must express both the month and day of the month (and the year, in the case of shelf-stable and frozen products). Immediately adjacent to the date must be a phrase explaining its meaning, such as "sell-by" or "use before."

R45 You do realize the sell by dates are overly conservative to begin with.

I buy one each week and let it cool to put in ht4 fridge. Then make sandwiches and salads to take to work for lunch. Roast chickens are a loss-leader product in most grocery stores. Good value.

Great if you want a quick soup. Orzo, spinach, lemon, carrots, celery, onion, rotisserie chicken and chicken stock. Save the carcass, skin/bones and unused meat for fresh chicken stock. You can squeeze a lot of food/flavor out of one of those things.

R47 you should put it directly into the fridge when you get home.

In most cases, you literally cannot buy a chicken and cook it yourself for cheaper than the grocery store. Not when you factor in power consumption in the oven, stuffing it with some lemons, olive oil, herbs, etc.

It’s called ROTISSERIE chicken, OP. Have you been watching Rachel Ray?

[quote] Have you been watching Rachel Ray?

EVOOoooo.

EVOOoooo.

You know what's odd, most people on low income who use EBT cant buy these either because they are considers hot food. So they have to spend more money to buy a raw one just to cook it.

Nope, roast them myself

Holy Shit! Is R40 Ms. Elizabeth Taylor posting from the grave??!!

Costco rotisserie chickens are good for being $4.99. one thing I do is pull all the skin off and then cut it up and then place it in the instapot with a can of tomatoes ,some Italian seasoning , 1 cup of red wine and some frozen vegetables maybe cut up some onions and peppers. Instant chicken cacciatore! I agree they are kind of salty.

[Quote] Spits!

You just violated my trademark!

R51 Some of them are actually called oven roasted chicken like the one I buy from Smart & Final.

Our local supermarket has fantastic rotisserie chickens. I’ve never had the Costco ones because I don’t live in a Costco zone.

I’m not sure what’s so ghastly about it because it’s sold in a market instead of done at home.

[quote][R47] you should put it directly into the fridge when you get home.

I did not know that r49, I know nothing about how to cook or run a kitchen. What is the reasoning behind that?

The more pressing question is “Do you ever get roasted at the grocery store?”

r60 the reasoning is that the chicken has already cooled in transit from the store to you house. Are you bringing it home yourself? Straight home? Cooked chicken should sit a MAX of two hours at room temperature. The quicker you chill it, the longer you can keep it in the fridge. Sounds like people like to eat these birds over a few days. So put that bird in the cold refrigerator when you get home, to limit any spoilage of room temperature meat.

I find that the ones sold at my expensive super market are overcooked. So, I buy them at a small mom & pop on my street. Pricey but so much better.

Thank you r62, reasonable explanation, I will do so in future.

R35 - that's what they do with all products - once it's about to expire, they cook it or put the produce into pre-made salads/other deli items.

And if they don't sell it cooked, then they can write it off as waste.

[quote]I’m not sure what’s so ghastly about it because it’s sold in a market instead of done at home.

“Essentially, all rotisserie chickens are enhanced with a solution [injected into the bird] to keep the birds moist and tasty,” says Tom Super, senior vice president of communications for the National Chicken Council.

Problem is, the injection solution can include sugar, processed ingredients such as natural flavors, gums, and carrageenan—and especially problematic amounts of sodium. “Natural flavors aren’t necessarily as natural as you might think, and you should generally try to avoid processed ingredients as much as possible,” Keating says. And if you’re thinking chicken isn’t good without salt, just know that some rotisserie chickens have far more than you’d ever add yourself."

[quote]$4.99 at Costco and they're always fresh and meaty

Those poor birds life isn't even worth 5 bucks

That is sad, R67, but I would agree that the rotisserie chicken is Costco's loss leader.

If people are worried about injections, etc., what about just buying bone-in chicken thighs or breasts and roasting those. You won't have to deal with an entire bird.

Someone s fucking with you, R58/OP

Once in a great while I will buy one. I like them straight of the rotisserie when they're first put out. It never coincides with when I'm having dinner. I have bought them a couple of times when I want to make my partner chicken and dumplings (which are really noodles). He's an east Texas boy and loves it. I'm Italian , so rolling out some pasta is nothing to me. It was a big deal with his family.

I do. One bird can make a lot of food and cat snacks not to mention chicken broth.

I use them for making chicken salad and chicken soup.

In the northeast I’ve tried the ones from Whole Foods, Market Basket and Stop & Shop. I’ve liked the WF ones best. The MB ones are good but always come only in one version coated to the max in annoying paprika. S&S’s taste wonderful when you open and eat them for the first time—but on a next try once refrigerated, even a few hours later, they get this offputting moldy smell and horrible brine taste. (As repeated upthread, must be from the brine injections, but I think this store’s’ cooked chickens have been injected with more salt than Madonna’s lips…if that’s even possible!?

^this store’s

Doesn’t all of the sodium bloat everyone up? I can’t eat that much salt.

There’s a bougie grocery by me that sells them for 14.99. Ridiculous but the best I’ve ever had. Usually pickup the 8.99 version at Whole Foods.

I always take skin off any store bought roast chicken.

Yes, OP, I buy one of these chickens per week.

I’m busy, too tired to cook much. These chickens keep me alive.

TOO SALTY!

I recently purchased my first store-roasted chicken ever to make a "No Love" fast chicken soup, and it was priced fairly and perfectly fine tasting.

I wanted to test out if a fast homemade chicken soup with shortcuts was as tasty as the one I make that takes hours, and for the most part it was.

I buy organic free-range drumsticks or thighs. It takes 2 minutes to prepare them.

Placed in a cast iron pan. Sprinkled with salt and pepper, doused with olive oil. Then into a hot oven.

Walk away and come back 45 minutes or so later. Done. What's the problem?

Costco's are inexpensive and well done. However, I like my chickens a bit more cooked, so I put them into the oven for a while with some lemon and thyme. I get the crispy skin along with moist meat.

These chickens keep me alive.

They can't say the same.

What R82 said, except I poach bone-in breasts. You can control the salt that way….

[quote] Walk away and come back 45 minutes or so later. Done. What's the problem?

Fine if you have 45 minutes to wait for dinner, but some people work long hours and just want to grab something easy on their way home.

Do you skip bathing to save time too? Laundry? Do you eat McDonalds and go to bed immediately after work?

The ShopRite near me in northern NJ has surprisingly good ones, priced a few $$ less than Whole Foods. Flavorful and moist and makes great leftovers. None of that questionable brine/yuk factor that R74 describes from Stop n Shop.

I sometimes buy a ShopRite whole roast bird when I want to make curried chicken salad and just want to jump to the step of having quality chopped chicken meat.

[quote] Fine if you have 45 minutes to wait for dinner,

R86 like Liz Taylor at the microwave screaming “HURRY UP!”

I once cut up a small portion of rotisserie chicken breast for my cat’s after (my) dinner snack and put it in her dish - she wouldn’t eat it. She usually gets a spoon of canned cat food and viewed the chicken as inferior.

R90 it might have been just "unfamiliar, don't trust it" or might have been the salt content. Rotisserie chicken is often injected with a high sodium solution before they cook it.

R81 "No Love" chicken soup, love the name. Can you give us the recipe? TIA.

R80 not at all

R90 fascinating

my cats eat roast chicken fine, but they eat anything

I bought an air fryer with a rotisserie to do my own. (I use it for lots of other things.) Turns out it is cheaper to buy theirs. I agree, best before dates are pretty conservative so that worries me less than the fact they're probably packed full of salt and other great stuff. I don't know how the food industry is allowed to get away with so much.

I’m kidding, R91. Cats live by routine and want their usual treats.

In Springfield you can get a rotisserie cat, a lot of people are saying.

R3 Those Costco chickens ARE delicious. Ever read about the ingredients?

I partook of a PNP orgy years ago and was oiled up and spit roasted between two swarthy Dominicans…

and it was absolutely DELICIOUS.

You should start a thread for old stewing hens, R100.

You fat Ozempicaks always need to worry about salt, stop being fat and you don't have to worry so much, I bet half the salt fright queens are fat pig cunts.

Speaking of Ozempic, why are we not hearing about it here, everyone must be svelte and hot, and also not going toward a black gangrenous leg removal. Who has lost weight?!!!!?

Gordon’s has them for three bucks from 4-6. My mom makes a great chicken noodle soup with it.

The ingredients in Costco's rotisserie chicken include:

chicken, water, salt, sodium phosphates, hydrolyzed casein, modified corn starch, sugar, dextrose, chicken broth, isolated soy protein, monoglycerides, and diglycerides.

No thanks.

R51, Rachael Ray.

Oh, dear.

r102 Wait until you come down from your crack high before posting next time.

Even so, wouldn’t the sodium bloat be temporary? Salt isn’t calories, so wouldn’t flushing it out just be the remedy if you eat too much of it?

Salt bloat IS temporary, but I don’t like surprises when I step on the scale. Also: high blood pressure.

No.

[quote] Even so, wouldn’t the sodium bloat be temporary?

For me, salty foods do seem to make me put on weight, permanently.

You need a diuretic to get the salt bloat out. Lots of coffee or Diet Coke etc. It’s a pain.

Sorry r106, not crack cannabis, IM STILL NOT HEARING ABOUT THE WEIGHT LOSS ON OZEMPIC, you fat whores fucked that up , didn't you? I knew it. Free black legs for all!!!

If there's one thing I enjoy, it's food.

I'm with you, R82, but I prefer thighs. I usually brown them on the stove then poach them in a little stock or just roast them. It's simple, delicious and you know what you're getting.

Have you ever eaten yogurt?

I buy live chickens at the market

R116: “How can we make it die?”

I may get one at Thanksgiving and make Coq au Vin.

Day 1: Chicken with rice pilaf, salad. Day 2: Chicken tacos or sandwiches with chicken in BBQ sauce. Day 3: Chicken chili with green chiles or tortilla soup. Freeze the bones and when you have three carcasses, make stock. This is for one. If you spatchcock a 5 lb. organic chicken for 18. , you'll have better quality chicken for days and to freeze.

R66 you had answered my question, but tbh I don’t find that ghastly at all.

The problem is that freshly cooked are odoriferous so everyone around knows you have it.

They’re good but full of sodium. If you’re on a low salt diet then beware.

You’ll swell up like Mrs. Puff, so be careful.

I prefer my chicken to be had raw.

I find the Costco chickens to be sometimes undercooked.

This thread inspired me to buy one!

I’d rather have a live chicken-their fun but they eat all the flowers-they eat everything!

And is it tasty R126? Salty?

Not salty as I noticed but the cooking oil repeats on me. Do American roasted chickens have the legs tied together with string?

IIRC it is usually a nasty little rubber band?

grocery store Roasted chickens are not cooked in cooking oil. They are usually rotisserie

So is the moisture in the bag the chicken sweat?

yes and chicken grease.

Rotiserrie birds roast in their own fat - a lot stays in the bird because it is always turning.

r134 Some do, but others sit in "baskets," like a Ferris wheel, so they do not rotate(it's one of the reasons the bottom of the birds are always so anemic-looking, as opposed to the lovely browned and succulent skin on other areas of the chickens.

Vive la rotisserie!

In Australia they refer to a takeaway roast chicken in a plastic bag as a ‘Batchelor’s handbag’.

I'm Oz and never heard this expression.

Ok it's on google but still never heard it in my own experience.

This roaster has the ferris wheel but also the individual rods spin so it's rotisserie in my opinion. I search for an example of the "basket" kind but couldn't find one.

[quote] a lot stays in the bird because it is always turning.

The hen is not for turning!

I could eat roast chicken like this six days a week.

Friend's mother thought Rotisseri Chicken was Rota-serry

Is store-bought rotisserie chicken good for you?

[quote] You’ll swell up like Mrs. Puff, so be careful.

Isn’t that only if you have bad kidneys?

Nope. Salt makes everyone retain water.

I find them ultimately disappointing.

They're overcooked half the time where I shop, so I've stopped buying them. It's not that hard to roast a chicken at home.

Overcooked is better than undercooked

Cheeses. I always see them in the food stores, and people are even lined up for them at the fancier places. I've never gotten one. They seem to come from different countries, and have different shapes, and colors. Are they really that good?