BAKED (?) CHICKEN

RJ said:

My local supermarket sells a "barbecued chicken"
with a variety of coatings for about $5
It's quick, it's convenient, and, I don't think I can buy
a raw chicken for $5

Then you haven't looked. Most whole chickens sell for anything from .29 to
..39 (cents) per pound. Most roaster/fryer chickens are about 2-3 lbs. You
do the math.

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But...there's the challenge, and so I started to research
"how to oven-bake a chicken"

Most recipes I've found start with; "set oven to 500 degrees"

Which would be incorrect.

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I guess I'd imagined ;
Put chicken parts in a pan, slather with barbecue sauce,
bake a while at 300 degrees.....

Also incorrect unless you want barbeque sauce slathered chicken. That's
entirely up to you.

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Anyone have a process that's about that easy ??

<rj>

Quite simple. Wash the chicken and place it in a roasting pan. Brush it
with butter or oil. If you want, stick a lemon in the cavity. Sprinkle the
chicken with salt & pepper. You may add other herbs or spices to the
seasoning if you wish. (I wouldn't put BBQ sauce on it at this point, it
would burn; if you want to do that save it for the last 15 minutes or so.)
Place it in a 400F degree oven for an hour, basting it occasionally with the
pan drippings. The chicken is done when the juices run clear when poked
behind the drumstick with a fork (and if the drumstick moves easily).
Voila - oven roasted chicken 🙂

Jill

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RJ said:

My local supermarket sells a "barbecued chicken"
with a variety of coatings for about $5
It's quick, it's convenient, and, I don't think I can buy
a raw chicken for $5

But...there's the challenge, and so I started to research
"how to oven-bake a chicken"

Most recipes I've found start with; "set oven to 500 degrees"

I guess I'd imagined ;
Put chicken parts in a pan, slather with barbecue sauce,
bake a while at 300 degrees.....

Anyone have a process that's about that easy ??

What's wrong with your process? Its what I do. Just cook the chicken for
an hour if you're cooking large parts like breasts, poke with a fork and
you know the pieces are done when the juices run clean.

jmcquown said:

RJ said:

My local supermarket sells a "barbecued chicken"
with a variety of coatings for about $5
It's quick, it's convenient, and, I don't think I can buy
a raw chicken for $5

Then you haven't looked. Most whole chickens sell for anything from .29 to
.39 (cents) per pound. Most roaster/fryer chickens are about 2-3 lbs. You
do the math.

Wow, I can't find chickens at that price. I can sometimes find them
for about 59 to 69 cents/pound, but that is when they are on sale. And
that is the lowest I have seen them in decades. Then I can buy a
whole chicken for about $3 or so. The usual price is about $1/pound.
The last time I saw a whole chicken for about 29cents to 39cents per
pound was about 15 years ago. Maybe longer.

If you can find them at that price, you are indeed very lucky. Wish
I could...I do so love a good roast chicken. I snap them up when they
are on sale and usually have a stash in my freezer.

Christine

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Quoted message said:

My local supermarket sells a "barbecued chicken"
with a variety of coatings for about $5
It's quick, it's convenient, and, I don't think I can buy
a raw chicken for $5

Yes you can.

Christine Dabney said:

Wow, I can't find chickens at that price. I can sometimes find them
for about 59 to 69 cents/pound, but that is when they are on sale. And
that is the lowest I have seen them in decades. Then I can buy a
whole chicken for about $3 or so. The usual price is about $1/pound.
The last time I saw a whole chicken for about 29cents to 39cents per
pound was about 15 years ago. Maybe longer.

If you can find them at that price, you are indeed very lucky. Wish
I could...I do so love a good roast chicken. I snap them up when they
are on sale and usually have a stash in my freezer.

Christine

The little fryers are sometimes on sale for lower prices, but roasting
chickens (the bigger birds which are easily double the size of those
bitty whole fryers one often sees in the deli) seem to be more in line
with 89-99 cents or so a pound at least?

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Quoted message said:

My local supermarket sells a "barbecued chicken"
with a variety of coatings for about $5
It's quick, it's convenient, and, I don't think I can buy
a raw chicken for $5

But...there's the challenge, and so I started to research
"how to oven-bake a chicken"

Most recipes I've found start with; "set oven to 500 degrees"

I guess I'd imagined ;
Put chicken parts in a pan, slather with barbecue sauce,
bake a while at 300 degrees.....

Anyone have a process that's about that easy ??

How is 300 degrees easier than 500 degrees?

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Quoted message said:

My local supermarket sells a "barbecued chicken"
with a variety of coatings for about $5
It's quick, it's convenient, and, I don't think I can buy
a raw chicken for $5

But...there's the challenge, and so I started to research
"how to oven-bake a chicken"

Most recipes I've found start with; "set oven to 500 degrees"

I guess I'd imagined ;
Put chicken parts in a pan, slather with barbecue sauce,
bake a while at 300 degrees.....

Anyone have a process that's about that easy ??

How is 300 degrees easier than 500 degrees?

Higher temps mean more fat spattering on the inside of the oven, which can
result in a short list of annoyances external to the oven.

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jmcquown said:

RJ said:

My local supermarket sells a "barbecued chicken"
with a variety of coatings for about $5
It's quick, it's convenient, and, I don't think I can buy
a raw chicken for $5

Then you haven't looked. Most whole chickens sell for anything from .29
to
.39 (cents) per pound. Most roaster/fryer chickens are about 2-3 lbs.
You
do the math.

Wow, I can't find chickens at that price. I can sometimes find them
for about 59 to 69 cents/pound, but that is when they are on sale.

Um, Christine? Have you forgotten that Jill is full of [censored]?

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jmcquown said:

<RJ> wrote:
> My local supermarket sells a "barbecued chicken"
> with a variety of coatings for about $5
> It's quick, it's convenient, and, I don't think I can buy
> a raw chicken for $5
>
Then you haven't looked. Most whole chickens sell for anything from .29
to
.39 (cents) per pound. Most roaster/fryer chickens are about 2-3 lbs.
You
do the math.

Wow, I can't find chickens at that price. I can sometimes find them
for about 59 to 69 cents/pound, but that is when they are on sale.

Um, Christine? Have you forgotten that Jill is full of [censored]?

How do you know she can't buy chickens at the prices she quoted? Tell us
where Jill shops, please.

JoeSpareBedroom said:

How do you know she can't buy chickens at the prices she quoted? Tell us
where Jill shops, please.

Yes, she might be able to find them somewhere at that price. I am not
discounting that. I just haven't been able to for many years now. I
wish I could...

Christine

jmcquown said:

Most whole chickens sell for anything from .29 to
.39 (cents) per pound.

You must have bumped your head again.

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Most roaster/fryer chickens are about 2-3 lbs. You
do the math.

I wish I s=could buy a whole chicken, every day, for $.90.
On sale they're $.59/lb. I don't care where you live - they're
not $.29/lb.

-sw

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jmcquown said:

Most whole chickens sell for anything from .29 to
.39 (cents) per pound.

You must have bumped your head again.

Quoted message said:

Most roaster/fryer chickens are about 2-3 lbs. You
do the math.

I wish I s=could buy a whole chicken, every day, for $.90.
On sale they're $.59/lb. I don't care where you live - they're
not $.29/lb.

-sw

Rochester NY, at any of 3 meat specialty stores, all day long. Nice ones,
too. The regular supermarkets are more like .69 per lb, or .99 for big
roasters, for obvious reasons.

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JoeSpareBedroom said:

How do you know she can't buy chickens at the prices she quoted? Tell us
where Jill shops, please.

Yes, she might be able to find them somewhere at that price. I am not
discounting that. I just haven't been able to for many years now. I
wish I could...

Christine

Do you live in the same city as Jill?

JoeSpareBedroom said:

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JoeSpareBedroom said:

How do you know she can't buy chickens at the prices she quoted? Tell us
where Jill shops, please.

Yes, she might be able to find them somewhere at that price. I am not
discounting that. I just haven't been able to for many years now. I
wish I could...

Christine

Do you live in the same city as Jill?

No, but I have lived in numerous cities in the past 35 or so years.
The last time I saw chickens that price was in the DC suburbs, and
that was in the mid 70s. They had just taken a big jump up from a
regular price of 33cents/pound and they only came down to that low
price when they were on sale.

Since then, I have lived in New Mexico, the San Francisco bay area,
Louisville, KY. I have traveled all over and had occasion to spend
months working as a traveling nurse in various places including
Beaumont, TX, Lubbock, TX, Anchorage, AK, Neptune, NJ, Fort
Lauderdale, FL, Las Cruces, NM, and Phoenix, AZ. Probably a few other
places as well. Sometimes I could find good deals but I don't
remember low prices like that.

I have to say I may not have shopped as diligently as I do now. I
tend to read all sales flyers now, and visit various meat markets
around town, etc. Before the last decade or so, I didn't read all the
flyers and probably didn't find the lowest prices. But that was then,
and this is what I find now, when I am at home and when I travel. I
could still miss a lot though. Wish I could find those bargains.. 😉

Christine

Christine Dabney said:

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No, but I have lived in numerous cities in the past 35 or so years.
The last time I saw chickens that price was in the DC suburbs, and
that was in the mid 70s. They had just taken a big jump up from a
regular price of 33cents/pound and they only came down to that low
price when they were on sale.

Since then, I have lived in New Mexico, the San Francisco bay area,
Louisville, KY. I have traveled all over and had occasion to spend
months working as a traveling nurse in various places including
Beaumont, TX, Lubbock, TX, Anchorage, AK, Neptune, NJ, Fort
Lauderdale, FL, Las Cruces, NM, and Phoenix, AZ. Probably a few other
places as well. Sometimes I could find good deals but I don't
remember low prices like that.

I have seen chicken at $.29 a lb, and this would be leg quarters, five times
in the past ten years in Raleigh, NC. Best we have done in some time is
$.69 a pound these days.

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On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 03:06:12 GMT, "JoeSpareBedroom"
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>
>How do you know she can't buy chickens at the prices she quoted? Tell us
>where Jill shops, please.
>

Yes, she might be able to find them somewhere at that price. I am not
discounting that. I just haven't been able to for many years now. I
wish I could...

Christine

Do you live in the same city as Jill?

No, but I have lived in numerous cities in the past 35 or so years.
The last time I saw chickens that price was in the DC suburbs, and
that was in the mid 70s. They had just taken a big jump up from a
regular price of 33cents/pound and they only came down to that low
price when they were on sale.

Since then, I have lived in New Mexico, the San Francisco bay area,
Louisville, KY. I have traveled all over and had occasion to spend
months working as a traveling nurse in various places including
Beaumont, TX, Lubbock, TX, Anchorage, AK, Neptune, NJ, Fort
Lauderdale, FL, Las Cruces, NM, and Phoenix, AZ. Probably a few other
places as well. Sometimes I could find good deals but I don't
remember low prices like that.

I have to say I may not have shopped as diligently as I do now. I
tend to read all sales flyers now, and visit various meat markets
around town, etc. Before the last decade or so, I didn't read all the
flyers and probably didn't find the lowest prices. But that was then,
and this is what I find now, when I am at home and when I travel. I
could still miss a lot though. Wish I could find those bargains.. 😉

Christine

This is starting to sound like Omaload's insistence that everywhere on
earth, oranges are sold only per each and never by the pound.

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JoeSpareBedroom said:

How do you know she can't buy chickens at the prices she quoted? Tell us
where Jill shops, please.

Yes, she might be able to find them somewhere at that price. I am not
discounting that. I just haven't been able to for many years now. I
wish I could...

You could in Wisconsin in 1960 ...

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I wish I s=could buy a whole chicken, every day, for $.90.
On sale they're $.59/lb. I don't care where you live - they're
not $.29/lb.

Rochester NY, at any of 3 meat specialty stores, all day long. Nice ones,
too. The regular supermarkets are more like .69 per lb, or .99 for big
roasters, for obvious reasons.

Care to name these places? I'd like to verify this myself.

-sw

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JoeSpareBedroom said:

"Sqwertz" <[email hidden]> wrote in message

Quoted message said:

I wish I s=could buy a whole chicken, every day, for $.90.
On sale they're $.59/lb. I don't care where you live - they're
not $.29/lb.

Rochester NY, at any of 3 meat specialty stores, all day long. Nice ones,
too. The regular supermarkets are more like .69 per lb, or .99 for big
roasters, for obvious reasons.

Care to name these places? I'd like to verify this myself.

-sw

Try Skip's.