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?

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 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.

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 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?

The Costco chickens are bigger than Giant chickens.

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

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!

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 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.

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.

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.).

some get two

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.

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?