Who are these families with leftover rotisserie chicken??

[Anonymous]

So many online recipes say to use "leftover rotisserie chicken" and call for lots of it - like as much as would be on a single chicken. The recipes are obviously geared toward families (serve 4). What family of four gets a rotisserie chicken and has enough left over to make another recipe?

Also, I had read somewhere that rotisserie chickens aren't that great from a food safety standpoint. Is that not true?

[Anonymous]

We're a family of 3 but if I pick all the meat from a rotisserie (from Costco), I have enough for 3 meals at least.

I usually throw the skinned chicken in some water and boil til the meat starts coming off. Then I let it cool and pull it all off. I will typically do a chicken salad, enchiladas and soup.

I noticed if we eat the rotisserie before I pull the meat off, we end up wasting a lot of it. Whatever is left, dries out if I put in fridge so I end up throwing away anything that was left.

[Anonymous]

some get two

[Anonymous]

We are a family of three, and I absolutely get two meals out of a chicken, especially if one of them is stretching the chicken (a soup, salad, enchilada filling, etc.).

[Anonymous]

We pull all the meat off as soon as it comes home, it’s easier while it’s warm. There are 3 of us. We used some to make chicken noodle soup yesterday and some will be used in quesadillas tomorrow. The dog also gets the yucky bits we won’t eat. That’s a deal for a $4.99 chicken from Costco.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We're a family of 3 but if I pick all the meat from a rotisserie (from Costco), I have enough for 3 meals at least.

I usually throw the skinned chicken in some water and boil til the meat starts coming off.

Boiling off all the taste, such as it is.

[Anonymous]

We (3 adults with healthy appetites) prefer dark meat, so the first meal is the legs/thighs/wings, and the next day I saute the breast meat with jarred curry sauce and serve with rice, quinoa or rice noodles. There is usually enough curry for 2 meals.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We (3 adults with healthy appetites) prefer dark meat, so the first meal is the legs/thighs/wings, and the next day I saute the breast meat with jarred curry sauce and serve with rice, quinoa or rice noodles. There is usually enough curry for 2 meals.

What else are you serving that 2 legs, 2 thighs and 2 wings are enough for 3 people with healthy appetites? Unless you are getting some ridiculously large chickens this makes no sense to me. The wings on those chickens have like 2, maybe 3 bites at most!

[Anonymous]

What family doesn’t buy multiple chickens at a time?? I always buy at least 2.

[Anonymous]

The Costco chickens are bigger than Giant chickens.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We're a family of 3 but if I pick all the meat from a rotisserie (from Costco), I have enough for 3 meals at least.

I usually throw the skinned chicken in some water and boil til the meat starts coming off. Then I let it cool and pull it all off. I will typically do a chicken salad, enchiladas and soup.

I noticed if we eat the rotisserie before I pull the meat off, we end up wasting a lot of it. Whatever is left, dries out if I put in fridge so I end up throwing away anything that was left.

You skin and boil the cooked rotisserie chicken?

[Anonymous]

My DD buys the rotisserie chicken from Costco and usually eats 1/3 and throws away the rest. It is such a hideous taste and so much waste.

The rest of the family cooks chicken at home.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My DD buys the rotisserie chicken from Costco and usually eats 1/3 and throws away the rest. It is such a hideous taste and so much waste.

The rest of the family cooks chicken at home.

You should teach her recipes to not be wasteful.

[Anonymous]

For years the rotisserie chickens at Giant got smaller and smaller until they began to resemble Cornish game hens. I stopped buying them. Giant must have gotten a new supplier. I bought a chicken a couple weeks ago and it was enormous. It cost almost twice as much as the chickens did 3-4 years ago, but I couldn’t believe how much meat there was. If the chicken isn’t your main course on its own, but just an ingredient in a soup, salad, rice or pasta dish, that chicken would definitely have made multiple meals.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We're a family of 3 but if I pick all the meat from a rotisserie (from Costco), I have enough for 3 meals at least.

I usually throw the skinned chicken in some water and boil til the meat starts coming off. Then I let it cool and pull it all off. I will typically do a chicken salad, enchiladas and soup.

I noticed if we eat the rotisserie before I pull the meat off, we end up wasting a lot of it. Whatever is left, dries out if I put in fridge so I end up throwing away anything that was left.

If you're going to boil it, why not just poach your own fresh chicken?