Justifying the honesuki

[Shavely Manden]

It really is incredible. When I buy "standard" chickens from the major grocery stores they all are like that these days. It's crazy. The breasts are probably as big and heavy as the whole chickens of my youth.

Sorry to resurrect an old thread, but I have to agree -- chickens are just ridiculous. It makes using older recipes calling for whole chickens incredibly annoying, since they all assume a 2-3lb chicken, which is significantly smaller than the smallest "fryers" in the store! It's at the point that if I see a kosher bird under 4lb, I just automatically get it and stick it in the freezer if we're not going to use it soon. Even Grow and Behold, which does nice, free-range meat, has ~3.5lb chickens.

 

[Michi]

Stop cooking chicken. Problem solved