Organic chicken - dear but worth it.

Xbigman · 24 September 2005 at 3:44PM

I recieved my first organic meat delivery from well hung meat yesterday. Lamb box plus a chicken. I am roasting the chicken now and I just took off the tin foil. When I did a chicken a few weeks ago the foil was dripping wet and half the skin was stuck to it. The organic chicken's foil is bone dry and the roasting dish has virtually no fat in it. I haven't eaten any yet but I already know £7.99 a kilo was worth it.
Regards

X

competitionscafe · 24 September 2005 at 4:02PM

Sounds tasty. If you take any plastic wrapping off a chicken when you get it and then rub a bit of salt on the skin before wrapping it loosely in greaseproof paper and putting it back in the fridge - this helps the skin go nice and crispy. Also if you rub the outside of the chicken all over with olive oil or soft butter before roasting this will help give crispy skin too. If you use butter you can add chopped herbs (thyme/ tarragon) and/or crushed garlic, although olive oil gives a crispier skin.

windym_2 · 24 September 2005 at 5:07PM

Where do you get yours from?

sooz · 24 September 2005 at 5:43PM

not organic, but the m and s chickens currently on offer - the oakham ones, 1/2 price per kilo - are wonderful. we are on our second chicken this week for dinner.

Penny-Pincher!! · 24 September 2005 at 5:55PM

Hey

Sounds delish!!

I do buy organic/free range if reduced (alot), but can not ATM justify paying £7.99 kg :eek: when I only spend £35 a week on our total groceries for the week. Do agree it tastes better but season our poultry well and think this make a difference. I have got to know which cheaper chickens to avoid and stick with the same ones normally now.

We are buying 3 chickens to lay in the next 2 months-so at least we will be getting free range eggs

Use every last bit of the chicken though-stock to make soup, wings to spice up, left over darker meat-in a curry or pie etc etc.

PP
xx

skylight · 24 September 2005 at 5:59PM

Its not dear, its chicken..........................

competitionscafe · 24 September 2005 at 6:00PM

windym wrote:

Where do you get yours from?

http://www.labelanglais.co.uk/

http://www.swaddles.co.uk

http://www.theorganicfarmersmarket.co.uk

By the way, I tried the Jamie Oliver 'hot lemon method' last Sunday and it works really well - chicken really moist, skin really crisp.

recipe
http://www.jamiesdinners.com/popups/recipe.php?m=3&r=7

step by step with pictures!:
http://www.jamiesdinners.com/unleash/cook/pdfs/menu_3_method.pdf

Penny-Pincher!! · 24 September 2005 at 6:11PM

LOL Charlotte :rotfl:

Curry_Queen · 24 September 2005 at 6:13PM

My reasons for buying organic/free range meat & poultry are as much for ethical reasons as they are for eating a healthier and MUCH tastier product!

I refuse to support an industry that can raise animals in substandard and inhumane conditions just to put a piece of meat on my plate (the same with eggs!) and I'd rather go without and eat veggie meals if I can't afford the meat

£7.99 a kilo for a chicken is at the higher end of the scale of what I've seen available, but no doubt worth every penny when you come to taste it! I usually pay around £10 for 1.8/2.0kg sized chicken and I'm perfectly happy to buy additive free/free range birds which are that bit cheaper than organic but are still raised to the same standards. It just means that the farm raising them hasn't yet got their licence from the Soil Association, but other than that there's no difference!

Edit: forgot to add that much of what you're paying for when buying cheap supermarket chicken is WATER so the real weight of meat is much less than you think. Water is injected into the flesh and can be as much as 30% of the total weight!!! :eek:

You won't find a drop of water in an organic chicken

Oh, and another thing

... from a 2.0kg organic chicken I can make 5 meals, plus soup and stock for me and DS, so that works out at less than £1 a head per meal

tattooed_lady · 24 September 2005 at 6:57PM

It is really scary what happens to your supermarket chicken before you buy it. I remember reading somewhere that the hock marks on chicken legs and wings are where they have been sat in their own urine for a while. How gross is that?!! I too get organic fruit and veg deliveries and they have all kinds of meat and fish available that is quite expensive. Might try it out though, more for ethical reasons than anything else. So expensive though, and I'm trying to live OS!

Curry_Queen · 24 September 2005 at 7:15PM

ruyareece wrote:

So expensive though, and I'm trying to live OS!

Living truly Old Style, as people did years ago, means eating meat less often, and with smaller portion sizes, and padding out meals with cheaper veggies, carbs etc

The problem is that over the years meat production has become so intensive, as well as extremely cruel to the animals, just so they can put cheaper meat on the shelves, which is what consumers demanded, but at what cost?

It means people have got used to eating much more meat in their diets, which is far from healthy, and the animals are suffering horrendously for us to do that!

I've already mentioned that I can get 5 meals plus soup and stock from a 2kg organic chicken, which costs less than £1 a head/per meal. You pay more than that for a bag of chips at the chippy! I know which I'd rather have

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