Re: Chicken Soup

On Thu, 6 Feb 2025 17:06:07 +0000, ItsJoanNotJoAnn wrote:

On Thu, 6 Feb 2025 14:28:55 +0000, dsi1 wrote:
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On Thu, 6 Feb 2025 8:05:18 +0000, songbird wrote:
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Dave Smith wrote:
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A lot of people seem to be proud of never buying rotisserie chicken.

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  too often i'm finding them not properly cooked.  pull a thigh
off and it's barely cooked at all sometimes.  i end up putting
a lot of it in the microwave to get it hot enough.  but at least
i don't get sick from them as often as i do from parts that are
not a whole chicken.
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  songbird

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That's normal in Costco rotisserie chicken for the thigh to body joint
to be red. My wife is grossed out by it. I suppose she's got a point. My
feeling is that if you can pull the thigh easily off the bird, it's
cooked. My guess is that if Costco cooked their chicken to get rid of
the red, it would be overdone. I like chicken cooked that way. A lot of
people don't.
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The last time I bought a rotisserie chicken, it was pink
inside at the thigh and a smidge at the breast.  It went
right into the toaster oven a few minutes to finish cooking.
And no, it was not dried out and overdone when I took it out.
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I'm not risking food poisoning just for the sake of convenience
of a rotisserie chicken.

That's the nature of trying to cook a whole chicken. It's tough to cook
parts of the chicken without overcooking other parts. I don't see what
the problem is. Nobody should eat chicken they feel is under-cooked. We
got simple workarounds for that.
The nature/problem of cooking a whole bird is the reason I'll take off
the thigh/legs when roasting a turkey and roast it separately. Problem
solved. As it goes, we should never make life hard on ourselves.