Let's settle it once for all: How many adults can big chicken feed?

I would say 6 because when I buy a chicken I do roast for 2 adults and a toddler, then chicken risotto, then chicken pasta bake, plus stock. That's from a 2kg chicken.

At Christmas our one chicken serves five adults and three children a generous enough portion. Not sure what weight chicken that was.

1 chicken - 10 people?

Not sure if they are really skinny and don't eat much but if i went somewhere for dinner and there were 10 adults and one chicken got put on the table; id be hoping that the takeaway was open on the way home. For 10 people coming to dinner id put on at least 3 chickens and a load of veg/potatoes/sides so people could bulk up if they wanted (more likely to do different meats but for arguments sake)

As pointed out previously there are restaurants that will serve a full half chicken for one person, Nandos gives each person half a chicken when ordering a single meal.

@Growlybear83

Depends how I'm serving the steak ... as a main protein with fries, mushroom and tenderstem broccoli 6-8oz approx per person. Served in fajitas, on top of risotto, with peppers in a baguette etc you need half the amount

Chickens come in different sizes! The cook in the bag one (for those of us who dislike cleaning ovens) feeds 4. The larger ones 6 standard adult portions.

One extra large chicken does us once - family of 5, including 2 teenage boys.

Can you imagine being served a roast dinner and being served 1 chicken wing 😆

No way can a chicken feed 10 adults

The last chicken I bought fed our Burmese python. It was cheaper than a rabbit but not for regular feeding.

Normally a large chicken will feed three adults in our house (admittedly one is not a big eater) and then enough to make pasta bake etc the next day. We have however started buying two smaller crowns as they are very good value in our local butcher and we are not a huge fan of leg meat. With those we would have enough leftovers for maybe two sandwiches the next day.

As a main protein, a medium would do 4-5 very comfortably, and a large would easily feed 6-7. 10 is too much of a stretch (as others say, one wing for an adult and nothing more?!).

We did this yesterday with a small chicken, but a large will do 1 roast dinner, a chicken salad or risotto the next day and possibly a bit left for a sandwich (2 adults)
I'd say 4 max for a large chicken.

I have 4 boys on adult portions and a large chicken does not feed us all, a leg doesn’t feed one adult without the thigh. I usually have the wings as I like them and they small

Now we're talking

A 1.8 kg chicken serves 3 adults and two young children here. I can make it stretch to four adults but it means dp and ds have to have less than they’d like (I don’t really like chicken so am quite happy with only a small portion). Sometimes there are enough carcass pickings to make a sandwich or for the meat lovers to add to fried rice/stirfry/veg curry etc but not always

It depends on the type of meal. If it's being served up as a roast chicken dinner then the chicken is somewhat the star and so you need a decent amount.

I cooked a reduced one at the weekend which fell off the bone beautifully avoiding any waste.

I did enchiladas, a Chinese style chicken curry and there's a big chicken and ham pie waiting for us tonight. That did two adults and two children three meals.

But it's stuff packed out with other ingredients. The chicken adds nice texture and flavour but as part of something else.

I wouldn't expect it to stretch that far as sliced chicken in a dinner.

We chop a chicken in half lengthways and have half each. So one chicken feeds 2 people.

It's mumsnet, so you just add a few of loaves and it's enough to feed five thousand. The important thing is whether they're organic, free range birds that lived a happy life of mindfulness and daily yoga exercises.

😆😆 I was wondering that too!

I live on my own and am not a big fan of chicken. If I buy a whole one, I’m eating it for a week.

Yep... 😂My not so dear aunt (NDA) is a bit of a passive agressive bitch.

Which is why NDA was fairly intentionally when allocating the meat. And choosing the poor sod that was stuck with the tail.

We had a 1.8kg chicken last night. Four adults and a 14yo had generous portions of meat alongside potatoes, peas and carrots. I stripped the chicken after and have enough for a chicken pasta bake for the same people tonight. I use 2oz per person when in a pasta/rice dish and lots of vegetables, cheese etc. All are satisfied. Chicken breasts in the supermarket are always weighed and cut up accordingly. I would use 4/5oz for a chicken burger or similar where it's a single lump of meat with other things.

1 chicken pp ideally 🤤

Falling that a chicken can feed loads of people if there's enough of everything else, even 10 people but by that point you need mountains of everything else

I worked at a local / artisanal Swiss butcher when I went to uni (which was admittedly a few years ago) and we would calculate 150g of boneless meat per person for meal prep kits, catering etc. (edit: Which was considered generous due to local recommendations being 125g - 150g, IIRC)

The exception was catering for all male groups when we usually calculated about 225-250g.
That may sound sexist and I was initially a bit as well. But (many) all-male groups somehow tend to become very meat-y / meat fest-y.

My SO recently organised a BBQ (stag do) and used the 250g rule and it still worked perfectly well.
Whereas we had lot of left-overs when we had 250g per person for a regular / "mixed sex" dinner party... (which I did not complain about 😋)

Our local steakhouse´s portions start at 150g as well (except for the Rib Eye, where the smallest portion is 300g...)

As a child growing up one chicken served our family of 6 . As a roast dinner . Depends on the size of the chicken , but I believe portion sizes have changed compared to then .

Ten portions? Utter twaddle OP. If I was offered a meal and I was served one chicken wing as a portion there’d be hell to pay. Especially if someone else had a thigh, a leg or white meat.

That is all there is to say.