Best thin chicken breasts?

[Anonymous]

Where do you purchase the best tasting chicken breasts that aren’t tough or unnaturally enormous. I’d prefer boneless and frozen is also ok. I cook for a large family and convenience appeals.

[Anonymous]

Chicken breasts have gotten so gross in the past few years. Even if you pay more for the “better” ones, they’re all tough. Blech. Vegetarianism is looking more and more appealing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Chicken breasts have gotten so gross in the past few years. Even if you pay more for the “better” ones, they’re all tough. Blech. Vegetarianism is looking more and more appealing.

Agree with this!!!! And I have a few chicken dishes I just really love the sauces to (a thyme and mushroom one, butter chicken) so trying to find some good substitutes that work the same.

[Anonymous]

Agree. I rarely do chicken these days. Huge, thick and tough. Gross. I buy from a special chicken purveyor but I’m out of the area, otherwise I would share the name.

[Anonymous]

I slice them thing and pound them out

[Anonymous]

After trying a few markets in my area and throwing them out, I finally tried Whole Foods. Vast improvement. I do pound them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I slice them thing and pound them out

This. Even if you buy "the best", you need to tenderize them. I usually buy from WF but will slice and tenderize before cooking.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I slice them thing and pound them out

This. Even if you buy "the best", you need to tenderize them. I usually buy from WF but will slice and tenderize before cooking.

But it’s still bad chicken

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Chicken breasts have gotten so gross in the past few years. Even if you pay more for the “better” ones, they’re all tough. Blech. Vegetarianism is looking more and more appealing.

+1! They look so gross in the store that I almost never buy them anymore.

[Anonymous]

Buy thighs.

But I buy the really expensive ones from the farmer’s market and just slice them. They don’t need tenderized.

[Anonymous]

in ascending order:

Whole Foods, Balducci's, Organic Butcher of Mclean/Bethesda

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Chicken breasts have gotten so gross in the past few years. Even if you pay more for the “better” ones, they’re all tough. Blech. Vegetarianism is looking more and more appealing.

Agree with this!!!! And I have a few chicken dishes I just really love the sauces to (a thyme and mushroom one, butter chicken) so trying to find some good substitutes that work the same.

+1

Thought it was me. I got some Purdue at Sam's Club and they were rubbery AF. I thought I cooked them wrong.

[Anonymous]

Are you pounding them in saran wrap? or in a bag? Do you wrap the pounder too? How do you keep the mess from flying about?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are you pounding them in saran wrap? or in a bag? Do you wrap the pounder too? How do you keep the mess from flying about?

I now buy mine pounded into nice thin filets from the farmers market or chicken purveyor. I hate hate pounding chicken

[Anonymous]

Pound them in a ziploc bag. Yeah you "waste" a bag but better than chicken juice everywhere.