OMG, chicken WITH the bone?

That's really weird!

I basically eat boneless chicken breasts now. I myself have never cooked a whole chicken I always buy breasts and legs. I guess it's an age thing

You're making me feel old! :laugh: I'm only 28. I actually just started making whole chickens like 2 years ago. Yummy!

I eat mainly boneless skinless chicken myself but I've cooked a few whole chickens in my time. The backs make great homemade soup when your done. But for convenience reasons I prefer to have boneless chicken and fish it's easier to cook and it takes less time to prepare. But I have to admit I've never met someone who didn't know how to eat chicken thats on the bone. Have they never had KFC? That is weird.

You know you can actually chew on the bone (eating the bone marrow inside)...and eat the tendons, cartilage, and other connector stuff on the whole chickens. According to my grandma with her "wise" knowledge of traditional Chinese cooking, it's actually really good for your bones and joints to consume these things much better than popping those calcium pills. But I've probably turned you off from eating chicken altogether now. :laugh: I'm guessing it's mostly a cultural thing. It's common in some other parts of the world (mostly the eastern herm) to eat "undesirable" chicken parts like um intestines, organs, etc. But it's definitely an acquired taste. Better than to waste it right? :sick:

Chicken is a funny thing. I've eaten it my whole life (on the bone mostly...) My favorite growing up was bone-in chicken breast. The meat tastes much better when its cooked with the bone, but I've never been able to naw on bones like some people. Bleh! Last year I went to El Salvador to work on a Habitat for Humanity project (super amazing... you should do it) but we had to eat chicken every single day because, well, its all they had there. About mid-way through the trip I couldn't stomach the chicken anymore, but we were working so hard every day that I felt like I was starving to death if I didn't eat the meager protien I was given! That sort of ruined it for me. I couldn't eat chicken for at least a month when I got back, and ever since then bone-in chicken has grossed me out. I'll still eat it but it just grosses me out a bit. Weird!

I guess I am the odd ball...I hate boneless skinless chicken breast--it's so dry and tasteless. I like the thigh/drumstick best I thought it might be partially a generational thing too, since my class mate is in her 20's (I'm >40)--but apparently it's a cultural thing too. I was thinking maybe Americans only ate chicken strips and nuggets--but it does make ya wonder if they never had KFC or Popeye's.

I'm with you there. Cooking chicken with the bone in provides more flavor to the meat. Also, if you roast a whole chicken, you can then take the bones left over, and make chicken soup (double duty, and saves money, and you control what goes into the soup). But I understand there are differences. I grew up in a culture that fought for dark meat. When I was in Kentucky (you know, where they pride themselves on Fried Chicken) I ordered dark meat. The people I was with (mostly from the east coast) looked at me like I was disgusting. Oh well, I'm not going to apologize for the food that I love, or the culture that shaped my tastes. I still believe that dark meat is more juicy, and more flavorful. Also, I recently read an article (published this year) that dark meat may be more healthy than white meat. So you're not alone in this. I don't think it has anything to do with the fact that I'm in my 40s.:laugh:

How I roast a chicken: I scrape out as much of the fat that I can. I chop herbs (like rosemary and parsley and mix with a little fat (some healthy oil) and do a quick stir fry and shove under the skin to roast. Yum. It's a recipe based on a Jacques Pepin standard. I rarely eat the skin (but not because I don't want to). If I can get the skin really crispy while roasting, I might have a little just because most of the fat has melted away. I'll probably also stuff the center with lemons. You get a wonderful brown roast color, and because you do it yourself, you know you took the time to get every bit of chicken fat out of that chicken. Normally, they don't do that at the grocery store with their roasted chickens.

Chicken is a funny thing. I've eaten it my whole life (on the bone mostly...) My favorite growing up was bone-in chicken breast. The meat tastes much better when its cooked with the bone, but I've never been able to naw on bones like some people. Bleh! Last year I went to El Salvador to work on a Habitat for Humanity project (super amazing... you should do it) but we had to eat chicken every single day because, well, its all they had there. About mid-way through the trip I couldn't stomach the chicken anymore, but we were working so hard every day that I felt like I was starving to death if I didn't eat the meager protien I was given! That sort of ruined it for me. I couldn't eat chicken for at least a month when I got back, and ever since then bone-in chicken has grossed me out. I'll still eat it but it just grosses me out a bit. Weird!

Aha, I'm so glad you mentioned the burn-out phenomenon. I lived in guatemala for 2 years, and for 2 years I ate black beans & eggs twice a day, EVERY DAY. Sometimes some grisly meat or chicken alleviated the monotony. To this day I will not let a black bean pass my lips!! :laugh: :laugh: You are not alone.

I've never been in a situation where I get sick of a food because that's all that I can eat. I have gotten sick of food that was bad. For example, my parents are pretty old, and they've lost all sense of taste and smell (or just sense). So they keep everything (I need to go into their refrigerator to clean it out, or they'll get food poisoning). Before I realized this about 10 years ago, I had some butter from their refrigerator. It was rancid. I couldn't eat butter for about three years. Consider that my nick name from childhood was "butter-girl" because I loved butter so much as a toddler, I would go into the fridge and stick my finger in the butter to have a taste. There there was the time when my husband and a friend decided to have a "who can groos the other person out more" during a sushi dinner and I was unfortunately enough to sit between them. I got sick. And although I love, love, love sushi (raw fish part) and although that love still makes me crave it, once I put it into my mouth and chew and swallow, I begin to physically get sick. I've been advised to seek psychiatric help.:laugh: Oh wait, I should be mad at them.

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if you keep ending up with dry chicken breasts, try marinating it then cooking it in foil for about 30 min or so depending on the size of the breast, it keeps the juices in and steams it and stays moist everytime and yet still quick

hope it helps

Pg:flowerforyou:

yes you're right, I rarely remember to use mine though, or get up early enough before work do use it LOL

PG :flowerforyou: