Chicken fryers

limey said:

Whatever happened to all those 2-1/2 lb. to 3-lb. tender young chickens?
Did they all go to McDonald's and the like? The only ones I see at the
supermarket (or Costco) are four pounds or over and not really young
chickens.

There is a family run store near me that always has lots of small chickens.
I find them handy in the summer. I split them in half and put them in an 9
x12 baking dish and slop a marinade over them and then do them on the grill.
They are small enough that 1/2 a chicken person is a good portion. They run
about $4.25 each. I never see them in the bigger grocery stores.

limey said:

Whatever happened to all those 2-1/2 lb. to 3-lb. tender young chickens?
Did they all go to McDonald's and the like? The only ones I see at the
supermarket (or Costco) are four pounds or over and not really young
chickens.

Dora
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Broiler/Fryers range anywhere from 2-1/2 lbs. to 5, so you're more
than likely to find them around 3-4lbs.- age is the key and most are
6-8 weeks old regardless of weight if designated as fryers.
If you want smaller birds and can't find them, seek out the Cornish
Rock Hens and select the larger ones... some are around 2 lbs.
OR... you could check your local butchershop... mine purchases
considerably smaller fryers than most grocery stores sale. Kev

"limey" <[email hidden]> wrote

Quoted message said:

Whatever happened to all those 2-1/2 lb. to 3-lb. tender young chickens?
Did they all go to McDonald's and the like? The only ones I see at the
supermarket (or Costco) are four pounds or over and not really young
chickens.

Funny you should mention it, I'd bought a couple of chickens
from Costco myself, they were smallish, a good thing. Turns out
the recipe Ron wanted to make called for a maybe 3 pound chicken?
I said, on what planet? I have not seen a chicken that small long as
I can remember. These were still over 4 pounds.

Not complaining, just saying you're right.

nancy

"limey" <[email hidden]> wrote in news:[email hidden]:

Quoted message said:

Whatever happened to all those 2-1/2 lb. to 3-lb. tender young chickens?
Did they all go to McDonald's and the like? The only ones I see at the
supermarket (or Costco) are four pounds or over and not really young
chickens.

Dora

The thing that bugs me is that buying chicken breasts to fry is really
tough, because they're HUGE. The only way to find smaller ones is to buy
the whole bird, and I'm not good at taking one apart to fry.

SallyW

"Nancy Young" wrote

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"limey" wrote

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Whatever happened to all those 2-1/2 lb. to 3-lb. tender young chickens?
Did they all go to McDonald's and the like? The only ones I see at the
supermarket (or Costco) are four pounds or over and not really young
chickens.

Funny you should mention it, I'd bought a couple of chickens
from Costco myself, they were smallish, a good thing. Turns out
the recipe Ron wanted to make called for a maybe 3 pound chicken?
I said, on what planet? I have not seen a chicken that small long as
I can remember. These were still over 4 pounds.

Not complaining, just saying you're right.

nancy

I find those 4-pounders harder to cut up. It's harder to disjoint them,
plus the cartilage (part of the breast bone?) is hard and inflexible.
They're just more mature.

"limey" <[email hidden]> wrote in news:[email hidden]:

Quoted message said:

Whatever happened to all those 2-1/2 lb. to 3-lb. tender young

chickens?

Quoted message said:

Did they all go to McDonald's and the like? The only ones I see at

the

Quoted message said:

supermarket (or Costco) are four pounds or over and not really young
chickens.

Must be the SUPERSIZE conspiracy. I have noticed that many fruits are
getting larger too. A few times they had these onions at a local market
that made grapefuits seem like an avocado. I complained to the produce
guy. I am single and sizes sometimes are just ridiculous. Many of the
chicken breasts are enormous. We need to start asking at the store for
smaller sizes.

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Charles Quinn

"Choosing the lesser of two evils, is still choosing evil" - Jerry Garcia