Why does NYT Cooking love boneless chicken thighs?

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Anonymous wrote:I used to love thighs but they’re grossing me out lately. So rubbery and fatty 🤮

+1 And I can’t even find skin-on, bone-in thighs anymore. Everything is for maximum convenience at the expense of texture and flavor.

They are everywhere. You’re just not looking.

I am. But thanks.

I’ve seen them at Whole Foods, Giant, Harris Teeter, Wegmans, Trader Joe’s….

And MOM’s and Roots.

[Anonymous]

More people like thighs than breast. Not all, but more. So NYT cooking is catering to a larger population by posting recipes using thighs. Unfortunately with journalism now, there is so much competition especially with on-line only media, that the old newspaper giants are struggling to keep up their readership and tailoring their articles to larger subsets of readers is one of the techniques to keep more people interested. It's demographics, not taste.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s weird to me people never had thighs growing up. None of you ever had a whole roasted chicken for dinner growing up? Is a whole roasted chicken a budget saving/economizing thing? We had them all the time. Is the no thighs a white people thing?

I don't think whole chicken is a budget thing, I think of it as a more special occasion thing. I do think popular US white people cooking was very heavy on breasts when I was growing up in the 80s/90s (low fat and quick prep?), and now thighs are "back," probably in part because people have learned more from other cuisines.

Yeah, a lot of the preferences are related to diet trends. Back in the 1980s and 1990s fat was THE enemy, so breast was in. As people learned that fat is not necessarily the enemy and embraced more diets that limit carbs more than fat, darker cuts of meat came back in.

I am the weird pp and I grew up during those years and we had more whole chickens and the bones/carcasses weren’t trashed they were used to make broth. I am Black and from the South and we were middle class and I remember being taught how to cut up a whole chicken to fry it.

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Because boneless thighs are the best cuts. I am a thigh woman.