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

[LondonFox]

I am talking about chicken as main protein in a dish in normal 1 to 2 course eating. Not 8 course meal.

My guess when cooking would be 1/4 chicken per adult so four people.
2 x breast and wing
2 x leg quarters

Person in my family suggests 10 easily:
2 x wings
4 x white
2 x drumsticks
2 x tighs.

AIBU chicken can easily feed 10.
AINBU ten people will be very polite and say nothing but stay hungry. Share among 4.

I started my professional life as a caterer. A big chicken is what, 1.7-2 kilos? Some of it will be bones and inedible bits (although they are good for stock the next day), which leaves about six to eight portions depending on how it is butchered.

It’s better to buy higher welfare and serve smaller portions with plenty of veg. Supermarket chicken is false economy - full of polyphosphates and therefore shrinks on cooking.

We cook for 8 every weekend and an extra Large from Aldi is sufficient but only just

4 people, then a further meal from the stock/scraps, bulked out with other things. If there were lots of sides, including pigs in blankets, then 6. Or if it was a family meal rather than guests, then 6 is adequate, but not generous. Plus the scraps meal afterwards (risotto, soup, fried rice etc. )

However when my children were small and I had no money I could make a small chicken feed 2 adults and 2 children for 3 meals.

4 people and bits of meat left for 2 cats.

One breast =1 portion surely.

I think I may recognize duchess from a former life. In which case I'm saying you have a literal expert on your hands and I'm going with her judgment

1 medium size chicken for 6 people. But that's for a roast dinner so with 4 different sides.

There are two of us and we get six meals out of a large chicken plus a portion of leftovers to freeze.

An average sized chicken serves two of us for lunch, with enough left over for a sandwich for one of us the next day, or if it was an exceptionally fat chicken, there would maybe be enough for a fricassee instead.

a single chicken wing as a meal 😂😂OMG this place is just comedy gold

1 large chicken (largest I can find I the shop) in a roast dinner feeds

3 x adults (2 women, 1 young man)
2 x teens
2 x children (1 eats v little)

This is supplemented with vast quantities of roast potatoes and other veg.

If the young man isn't visiting for the meal, there will be enough meat leftover for a chicken stir fry on the Monday or Tuesday. There are no leftovers if he eats with us!

There's a difference between a supermarket "breast fillet" which is designed as a single portion and the entire breast quadrant of a large chicken which is much bigger.

I'd say you're both BU, and the right answer is 6-8 people depending on how much veg and sides you're serving with it.

I'd say 4 with some leftovers for things like soup or sandwiches. You would probably get 5 servings if you had smaller appetites or young children.

Of course, I'm looking forward to those who can serve 20 and then make 3 days worth of meals from 1 chicken.

A supermarket roast chicken will do three adults in our house with enough leftovers for two lunches the next day (either chicken sandwiches or some in pasta) and the carcass for stock.

Although I did come close to the magical MN chicken. I bought 2 chicken breasts from our local butcher and each one weighed 500g each and were absolutely huge. I was able to portion each breast up into 3 smaller fillets.

So perhaps the magical MN chicken is actually a butchers chicken and in which case you could easily feed 8 with it.

Have we had "we have lost sight of what a normal sized portion is" yet?
One chicken does two adults and two teens in my house anything left over the dog gets.

There is no way a large chicken these days can feed ten
Six at most

One adult and two teens for a roast, leftovers for a sandwich for supper and the scraps for the dog.

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BIG CHICKEN FEED ALL

YOUNG, OLD, FAT, THIN, BLACK, WHITE, ALL!

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4 people in our house with a little leftovers for sarnies the following day. But my MIL will do a fairly small chicken for 6, every scrap of meat is used and the plate is bulked
out with veg. They had to ration for years though and still very frugal in what they spend, we always come away from a lunch feeling peckish.

4 adults for main meal
1 pot of soup with leftovers

My 3YO can manage a whole breast by himself so the idea that a single wing would feed an adult is actually laughable. The smallest portion you can get at Wing Stop is 8 wings!! I’d say a large-ish chicken does a family of 4- 2 adults, 2 kids with some scraps for the cat or dog. If it were 4 adults I’d do 2 chickens.

We buy 'extra large' chickens which are 2kg.

That feeds 5 of us for one meal if we want really decent portions (2 adults, 2 teens who eat adult portions, one 6 year old).

Sometimes there's a bit left which reaches the fridge - but then it generally gets picked at over the next few hours by various fridge-visitors and never survives long enough to make it's way into a sandwich.

Eating an entire chicken breast is a bit much for most people surely? Like the whole thing offa the chicken - which is different to a butchered chicken breast portion.

People do have vastly different appetites so it’s not really possible to settle this but in general most folk have a very skewed idea of how much protein they need to eat and even more skewed idea of how much of that needs to come from animal sources. Meat is far too cheap. A chicken is an entire animal, an entire life, it should cost accordingly. Serve with pulses and legumes as one of the veggie dishes, or even just lots of any veggies / include a cauliflower cheese or similar and that fills people up well without having to eat so much meat. In this house a whole chicken breast feeds 2-3 depending on who it is and what they’ve been up to.

10 people?! Is this some kind of performative daintiness?

Large chicken- 5/6 depending on the heftiness of side dishes with some bits for the dog and enough scraps for a soup/ risotto/ pasta/ lunch salad thing.