Do you get more meat from one large chicken or two small chickens?

jm2926

I bought a free range chicken from Lidl today and poached it in the pressure cooker.

Results:

Raw weight 1430g
Cooked stripped chicken 600g

Stock cooling for skimming before making soup. Quite a bit of chicken in there from the scraps as well

Similar results percentage-wise which is interesting. I wasn't sure if the differing bone densities and meat composition from free range would make a difference as I've seen people say a free range bird goes further.

geordie_joe

jm2926 wrote: »

I wasn't sure if the differing bone densities and meat composition from free range would make a difference as I've seen people say a free range bird goes further.

It would when compared to a frozen chicken, of the same weight, that has water added.

It won't when compared to any other fresh chicken that has not had anything added.

gnvqsos

geordie_joe wrote: »

It would when compared to a frozen chicken, of the same weight, that has water added.

It won't when compared to any other fresh chicken that has not had anything added.

Free rangers have less fat,and go further as less is wasted.They also have smaller breasts and stronger legs.They smell less rank as they are usually processed more hijenikly.

gnvqsos

andy111 wrote: »

Some might say that's the best way to choose a wife as well.

Did you get first or last pick?You sound like Foghorn Leghorn,bwoy!

PasturesNew

Doc_N wrote: »

A fair point! Likewise the conveyors at the tills. God - something else to worry about! :cool:

I never put anything down on a wet bit.

gnvqsos

PasturesNew wrote: »

I distinctly remember being in the chicken section at Fine Fare with my parents in the mid-60s and dad was going through every chicken to find one that weighed 2lb 15oz. So I know that's the size we used to have for a Sunday roast for 4-5 of us.

My mum used to a slightly bigger one weighing 2lb 17 oz,but rarely found one that size.I thick the manager had picked out the best 'uns.

John_Pierpoint

good joke !

gnvqsos

John_Pierpoint wrote: »

I would think the turkey sized chicken would be tougher (or better flavoured?) because it has been flapping about longer.

Think I will continue to buy on weight, with the outlook that it might have been filled with water.
[Is that fiddle still legal? - I remember getting a lump of slush out of a thawing chicken that would have made a handy snowball for a school playground]

A more active bird will be more flavoursome with stronger legs and a smaller breast-more Jessica Ennis, less Jordan(KP).

geordie_joe

gnvqsos wrote: »

Free rangers have less fat,and go further as less is wasted.

Most free rangers are kept in shed and never move very far making them no different to any others.

gnvqsos wrote: »

They also have smaller breasts and stronger legs.

No they don't

gnvqsos wrote: »

They smell less rank

Which means they still smell rank!

gnvqsos wrote: »

as they are usually processed more hijenikly.

Oh dear!