Red Rooster Whole Chicken weight 1 kg, including stuffing

voteoften on 04/06/2012 - 20:59

I am sick as a dog, but, having been recently bit by late charges at Blockbuster, decided to drag my lame ass there and return a couple of two-nighters. Red Rooster is next door and I figured I would grab a whole chook in case my daughter was going to be at home for dinner. If not, I could use it to make her a wrap or something for lunch tomorrow. A cooked chook can always be of use.

I get home and start to chuck it in the fridge. I thought, mmmm. spatchcock??? I weighed the chook. It was 1000gr. I was pretty surpised. I then pulled out the stuffing that was easily removable. That was 100 grams. There was more stuffing sticking to the rib cage etc so the stuffing in that 1kg chook is more than 100gram.

So <900 grams for a whole cooked chook. I am shocked. The pieces were tiny. Nothing like you would get in a quarter size serve, I think.

Before I went much further, I decided to look at nutritional information.

For the whole chook, the serving size is close enough to 250 grams,depending on whether it is wing or leg. For a stand alone quarter chook, the serve size is 347-428grams depending on whether it is wing or leg portion. They list the chips, so I assume the weight includes those as well.

The standard size chook in the shops is 1.8kg with no stuffing. While some weight is lost in cooking, I am shocked at a final weight of less than 900 grams.

Does anyone have any insight? I won't be buying from Red Rooster again.

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  • arcticmonkey on 04/06/2012 - 22:22
    -4

    Less chicken = less fat = less chance of cardiovascular disease. This is a good thing, is it not?

    • A Banana4scale on 04/06/2012 - 22:49
      +1

      no chicken = no fat = no chance of cardiovascular disease, This is a veggie good thing, is it not?

    • voteoften on 04/06/2012 - 23:19
      +3

      Good point. However, assuming you will eat the same amount regardless of size, size does matter.

      Of a chook that is 1.8 kg, my daughter and I get about 8 serves. A cooked cook of this size is about $10 at WW or coles. You lose some weight from being cooked off, but the cooked end result seems about 2X what I could get out of this one.

      If I cook a chook, here is what might typically becomes of it:

      Daughter 1 meal - hot with veggies
      (mum drinks dinner)

      Daughter - 1 more meal reheated with veggies and a starch
      (mum drinks dinner)

      Daughter 2 wraps or sandwiches (at school)
      unless mum goes to a lunch where alcohol is served or allowed, mum doesn't drink.

      Mum makes about 4 serves of green or red curry for dinner. Eats one. Freezes or allows to age (then discarding) the remainder. Daughter turns nose up at "too spicy".

      With the chook in question, daughter returned fed tonight. I have been craving a caesar salad, therefore cooked some bacon and toasted some croutons. The act of doing that sort of made me not hungry, so I will eat my salad tomorrow. But I will make her a wrap with shredded chook and a hint of very finely diced bacon, a reasonable amount of carrot and some shredded cheese for lunch tomorrow. If I make the dressing tonight, she'll get a bit of that in the wrap, otherwise, there is enough moisture in the carrot and I may smear the wrap with hummus. Tomorrow night , she'll get chicken and veg. At some stage tomorrow, I will get my salad. That'll be 3 serves. Another wrap the following day will be four. I don't see this chook giving too much more than that. It is very small. Five is the max, whereas most give us 8.

      So, I have gone to my freezer and grabbed a frozen packet of voteoften-made cassoulet and we will have that Wed and Thursday nights.

      The fact that there is less chicken just means less portions, not less fat. We would never eat a whole chook just beacuse it was there. A similar way of looking at it would be if I bought a packet of soda and there were 6 cans instead of the expected 12. It just means it won't last as long. Some people eat differently and two people would eat the whole chook regardless of size. Or some people might be wanting to give 3 kids and 2 adults some hot chook and veg for dinner. Those folks might be caught out. I was truly surprised with the size of this spatchcock.

      • voteoften on 04/06/2012 - 23:27

        With the typical 8 serve chook, I sometimes make a batch of weak ass butter chicken and my daughter eats that gladly. This end up turning the normal 4 serves from the half chook into about 5 or 6 and some still gets thrown out. While the quantity of food consumed remains our choice, the fact is that what I was expecting was significantly more than I received from Red Rooster. I am thinking that other people may have a similar experience.

      • Noblejoker on 05/06/2012 - 09:49
        +2

        Upvoted just for the "mum drinks dinner"

        • [Deactivated] on 05/06/2012 - 11:44
          +6

          I had no idea what I was reading there. It's like I entered another world. Thought it was slowely going from uses for a whole cooked chicken, to a shocking twist about his current or ex wifes Alcoholism.

          Brilliance!

        • A Banana4scale on 05/06/2012 - 12:39

          I still have no idea…translation? I don't get it at all.

  • Doey21 on 05/06/2012 - 00:07

    Its a bit on the small side but I think thats not too far off. It depends if you're buying a family sized chicken at woolies or the regular one! When I buy raw chicken, I think they weigh about 1.2kg, setting me back about 5-6bucks. I think woolies would be better value for money (especially if you wait closer to closing time!)

    • voteoften on 05/06/2012 - 00:14

      I am just going on expeience and instinct. I will be checking this at some stage. Normally I cook my pwn chooks, so I will be buying a coles and/or woolies chook in the next couple of weeks to check.

      Next time I roast a chook and it is convenient to weigh, I will check that too.

  • Geewhizz on 05/06/2012 - 06:18

    There's no way in China a Woolies chicken starts out at 1.8kg - at least not in these parts. There's a fair bit of fat comes off a chicken when its cooking, so your 1kg chicken probably did start out as 1.2

    IGA here sells those tiny chickens too - weight for weight there seems to be more bone to meat ratio than the larger ones.

  • mariarm on 05/06/2012 - 16:54
    +1

    I wondered what happened to the pigeons in my backyard now i know

  • pianissimo on 05/06/2012 - 20:41

    You forgot tightarse tip #17 - boil up the bones for stock! Add veggies and noodles = another meal.

  • voteoften on 12/06/2012 - 23:18

    I bought a chook from woolies this evening. It is 1.3 kg. 30% larger than the red rooster one and $3 less.

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