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AIBU to start to believe in the magical Mumsnet chicken?

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HootOwl · 30/01/2022 13:58

Maybe it is actually real?! 🐔😆

I roasted an (admittedly huge) chicken and also this was all only to feed me and two small children so not huge portions but from one chicken we had:

Roast dinner
Chicken fricassee
Chicken risotto
Chicken pasta bake
Paprika chicken
Chicken soup
Crispy chicken skin (snack)

Will make the effort to roast a whole one more often! I swear it only had two breasts, two legs and two wings...

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DSGR · 01/02/2022 10:40

Nah, it’s rubbish. The point of a huge chicken is that you eat loads of it fresh on an amazing roast dinner!

Mammyloveswine · 01/02/2022 11:01

Eh? The chicken gets devoured as soon as i take my chicken out of the oven!

Mammyloveswine · 01/02/2022 11:01

Chicken skin that should say...

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HootOwl · 01/02/2022 11:02

@ComtesseDeSpair I don't think that's a fair reflection of what the majority of posters have said! People were mainly describing meals including a sensible balance of protein, carbs and lots of vegetables.

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HootOwl · 01/02/2022 11:03

@Mammyloveswine fortunately for me my two kids don't really like it! Smile So I eat some with my roast dinner then freeze the rest to have as a very unhealthy snack!

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AlternativePerspective · 01/02/2022 11:14

@ComtesseDeSpair you’re making up your own narrative here.

Nowhere on the thread have people suggested that you fill your plate up with unrefined flour and oil, what a load of rubbish.

People have suggested that you could have a Yorkshire pudding, some potatoes, several different vegetables which will bulk out the amount of food you need.

And whole meal pasta most definitely isn’t junk. But hey if you want to live as a carnivore then crack on.

There is a middle ground you know between those who think no-one should eat any meat ever, and those who eat over half a kilo of it in one sitting and kid themselves that it’s somehow healthier than eating vegetables.

00100001 · 01/02/2022 11:47

@gluenotsoup

Where are you buying these chickens?? The last time I bought a supposedly large chicken, from Tesco, it was absolutely tiny. We managed a roast dinner for 5 plus soup with the leftover meat, totally stripped down and stock made with the carcass. That’s it! I need a giant chicken.
It depends on a few things:
  1. The size of the chicken in the first place - some people buy a small chicken and and can't see how people stretch it out, not realising they're talking about an extra large chicken.
  1. Portion sizes: Some people will happily consume a leg and some breast meat each - others think half a breast is plenty
  1. The meal type: For example if we do a roast, we'll eat more meat than if I do a curry. So For example, I might have a whole breast, DS18 and DH might have a whole leg each on a roast day - and they'll have extras of the breast etc for seconds. But if I make a chicken and spinach curry - I'll use possibly 1-2 breasts for all of us. 'padding out' the meat with veggies etc

So combine these 3 factors and you'll have different experiences and anecdotes.

ComtesseDeSpair · 01/02/2022 11:51

The point was directed at those who were specifically targeting others who said they ate a whole chicken breast for Sunday lunch with responses like “no wonder we have such an obesity crisis, if people are eating an entire chicken breast to themselves”, right after they’ve extolled the virtues of eating the sort of stuff more likely to lead to obesity.

I’m really not particularly invested in what other people eat. I’m slim, money isn’t an issue and I don’t care about being sustainable. I’ll eat the entire chicken in one sitting if I want to. Spreading a chicken across four or five meals if you want to - great! Nothing wrong with that. But what inevitably creeps into these threads is not those perfectly sensible attitudes that it can be done, but the bizarre posts opining that anything else is the cause of the obesity crisis.

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HootOwl · 01/02/2022 12:52

@ComtesseDeSpair ok. Well that wasn't the intention of the thread at all. It was about how to cook economically and not wastefully but (reasonably) healthily for a family with young kids.

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Spinnier · 01/02/2022 14:55

I can't believe this thread is still going. It has gone a bit bonkers.

But I wonder how many other people, like me, have read this thread and now have chicken leftovers in the fridge Smile. It's Hairy Bikers fakeaway chicken korma for us tonight, and it'll be delicious.

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HootOwl · 01/02/2022 15:14

@Spinnier

I can't believe this thread is still going. It has gone a bit bonkers.

But I wonder how many other people, like me, have read this thread and now have chicken leftovers in the fridge Smile. It's Hairy Bikers fakeaway chicken korma for us tonight, and it'll be delicious.

Glad it gas been a positive thread for some! That sounds delicious. Off to google!! 💃🏻💃🏻💃🏻
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whenthedoveslie · 01/02/2022 15:56

I love roast chicken. But it ends there.

I find next day cooked chicken revolting.

I commend those who eek out 'meals' from one roast chicken.

My children won't touch it either. Lucky cats!

But the stock is always worth it.

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HootOwl · 01/02/2022 15:58

@whenthedoveslie

I love roast chicken. But it ends there.

I find next day cooked chicken revolting.

I commend those who eek out 'meals' from one roast chicken.

My children won't touch it either. Lucky cats!

But the stock is always worth it.

How strange. It tastes the same to me the following day. What makes it revolting to you all?
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londonmummy1966 · 01/02/2022 16:21

There's a huge difference between a cheap supermarket chicken that is probably pumped full of water and which shrivels up when roasted and a free range organic one from a decent butcher. It also costs a lot more which is why you want to make sure that you pick the carcass clean and make stock from it. If we have roast chicken on a Sunday then it will probably be the only meat we buy that week and when it is over we'll have veggie meals (maybe fish on Friday).

Shitsandgiggles2021 · 01/02/2022 16:23

For those struggling with the idea that 700g of meat in one sitting might be seen as obscene by some and conflated with extreme porn by others, I give you the Mumsnet Chicken-Porn Scale (which is not porn involving chickens, and not a weighing device):

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HootOwl · 01/02/2022 16:45

[quote Shitsandgiggles2021]For those struggling with the idea that 700g of meat in one sitting might be seen as obscene by some and conflated with extreme porn by others, I give you the Mumsnet Chicken-Porn Scale (which is not porn involving chickens, and not a weighing device):

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HootOwl · 01/02/2022 16:45

@Shitsandgiggles2021 you are a genius.

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Original poster
HootOwl · 01/02/2022 16:48

I give you the Mumsnet Chicken-Porn Scale (which is not porn involving chickens, and not a weighing device)

Love the disclaimer especially.

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whenthedoveslie · 01/02/2022 16:53

How strange. It tastes the same to me the following day. What makes it revolting to you all?

Honestly, I wish I knew - as I am aware the economics surrounding my whole chicken purchase could be more favourable.

At best I can eat it in a fresh curry sauce next day, but salads, wraps or (queazy here) pasta, I cannot. I don't feel the same with beef and I can eat vegetarian left overs for days. It is just chicken.

Otherpeoplesteens · 01/02/2022 16:58

whenthedoveslie I find that the texture of leftover chicken is very different from one straight out of the oven, although the taste is largely the same. It's partly because it has dried out somewhat, but I suspect because the muscle fibres have stiffened.

Shitsandgiggles You need help.

TibetanTerrah · 01/02/2022 17:22

@whenthedoveslie I kind of agree with you. I can't stand handling the carcass for leftovers. Fresh out of the oven to carve is fine, once it's cooled it's bleugh. I suppose I just become aware it's dead bird or something Confused

That said, I slow roasted a small pork shoulder the other day and am still eating it, it's just poultry I won't roast and have to dismantle Grin

00100001 · 01/02/2022 22:05

@whenthedoveslie

I love roast chicken. But it ends there.

I find next day cooked chicken revolting.

I commend those who eek out 'meals' from one roast chicken.

My children won't touch it either. Lucky cats!

But the stock is always worth it.

... Why what are you doing to the chicken between dinner times that makes it revolting? Leaving it on a radiator?
Postdatedpandemic · 01/02/2022 22:12

@Shitsandgiggles2021 you don't need help Grin
Thank you

Porcupineintherough · 02/02/2022 19:58

@00100001 I cant explain it but it does change its taste. I then eat it spiced or curried to disguise that, also stock, but I couldn't just warm it up and eat it either.

00100001 · 03/02/2022 10:57

[quote Porcupineintherough]@00100001 I cant explain it but it does change its taste. I then eat it spiced or curried to disguise that, also stock, but I couldn't just warm it up and eat it either.[/quote]
Is it the same for things like chicken sandwiches from the supermarket etc, or does the mayo etc disguise the taste?