I'm trying to find out the rough unit price or $/kg of the hot food already cooked roasted chickens that coles and woolworths sell
Does anyone know
I tried asking grok and it said about 1.2kg and since they cost $12.50 at Coles that makes them about $10/kg which is not bad for food
So does anyone know their rough weights
Why not?
You'll be contaminating the fruit and veg scale, from the chicken which is already in a protective bag, where people put their fruit and veg in a protective bag to weigh on the scales, of which the fruit and veg already has a natural protective barrier which people rinse and clean before eating.
I was being sarcastic….
You'll be contaminating the fruit and veg scale
How?
It's not pices of raw chicken.
It is cooked chicken in a plastic bag….
Besides, some people use them to weigh potatoes which have have cow sh1t in the soil.
@jv: Did anyone NOT read my last sentence?
I was being sarcastic….
ATTENTION TO EVERYONE: I was being sarcastic….
The fact I had to put a disclaimer in my original reply about being sarcastic is concerning…..
It's not pices of raw chicken.
It is cooked chicken in a plastic bag…
Cooking can only attempt to remove food borne pathogens that are there before cooking.
It does nothing for any of the food borne pathogens that the worker who wiped their nose on their hand or sneezed all over the food after it was removed from the cooking source.
Most, but not all, food borne pathogens are killed when consistently exposed to temperatures exceeding 100C for five minutes (outside temperature doesn't equal inside temperature by the way).
Of those that remain or are later introduced, they will continue to grow quite rapidly when stored at temperatures between 4C and 66 C.
(What temperature are those cooked chickens when you purchase them and if in the danger zone, for how long was it there?
Whilst salmonella and ecoli are common in poultry, god only knows what is in the stuffing and what was introduced to it during production.
No way I'd ever buy a cooked chicken anywhere other than a dedicated chicken store, too many opportunities for surprises, otherwise!
Handling and storing cooked produce takes specialised training and commitment.
You would probably be ok with their pre cooked roast beef as all Australian beef is free from intramuscular contaminant - maybe lamb too, if it's Australian sourced, but not pork either, definitely not pork.
@Muppet Detector: So how dedicated is the dedicated chicken store staff?
For example like you had said yourself
god only knows what is in the stuffing and what was introduced to it during production.
Exactly the same with a dedicated chicken store eg from Daily Telegraph 2023
Sydney chicken shop’s shock hygiene breaches revealed
A popular Sydney charcoal chicken restaurant has been fined more than $4000 after food inspectors uncovered hygiene breaches including raw chicken stored against a door.
Besides, some people use them to weigh potatoes which have have cow sh1t in the soil.
And you think putting your cooked chicken on top of that is a good thing?
At least you generally wash or peel other stuff you put in there, but what's your hygiene routine for consuming the cooked chicken?
If there is any risk, it is the raw veggies contaminating the cooked chicken.
I suspect some people have it backwards.
The vegans would be triggered
how else do I weigh out half a roast chicken?
Hold one leg in the air, let your tongue fall to the left side of your mouth (but try not to drool too much), and squint up your right eye a bit.
There's scales in the fish section as well.
Hahaha, I fell for that for a minute….
Until I remembered that you scale a fish when you're gutting it, so by the time it gets to the display counter at the supermarket, there probably aren't very many scales left on ithe fish, even if still whole.
So you're almost a vegan?
i hope its for religous reasons
what about bacon? ham?
They also come from a pig. Unless the pig was subject to some pretty serious amputations, I suppose.
Heh heh heh. Ooh, yeah, right, Lisa. A wonderful, magical animal
Servings per pack,4.0
Serving size,150.0 G
https://www.woolworths.com.au/shop/productdetails/433190/woo…
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small chickens at 600g
Only when you're comparing the cooked and deboned weight vs that of a raw whole chicken.
small chickens at 600g
It was bigger before it was cooked.
Chickens lose about 30% of their weight during the roasting process, mainly through loss of water, but other juicy looking runny stuff as well.
@freefall101: Well sometimes they leak red stuff (quite common in beef btw), which people assume is blood, but it's a protein mixture known as Myoglobin.
Prolly other stuff too, but really unlikely to be any digestive or excrement type juices as these are all expelled at slaughter.
But yes, those run off juices are generally used in other stages of cooking, particularly pan juices for gravy/jus, for example.
Other uses to combine with the egg wash for basting or crumbing.
Incorporated into mornays or other mother sauces. Stocks, broths. Soups. Marinades.
Only really limited by your imagination.
@freefall101: It sounds like you have a classier way of drinking the juice. Care to elaborate?
My technique needs improvement: I take the chicken in bag to the kitchen sink, and drink straight from the bag. My attempts to block the little hole invariably fail, so I also shower in chicken juice. A quick wipe down with the dishcloth, return the chicken to the bench, and continue to serve dinner.
My wife in the next room is totally oblivious to my filthy little secret.
@eddyah: Did you know that chicken pee, poo and eggs all come out of the same hole? And egg shells are porous.
serving size 4
I hope that’s a typo, I can finish a deluxe bachelors handbag meal and still got space in the tank for dessert
Woolworths says that there is 4 serves of 150g each. Likely that is because of how much of it is bone.
It's also only 84% chicken (presumably the rest is the stuffing)
So more around $20kg for the meat. You can also just buy a chicken and roast it yourself, a lot cheaper and not very hard (throw some veggies in while you're at it and you have a full meal).
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Any idea if you can roast it in an air fryer?
Proper roast chicken is more of a slow/spin/rotation type roast, but you could absolutely do one in an air fryer but I'd probably expect it to take a while and/or be a little dry sometimes.
IMO better off doing it in the oven. I like the air fryer for smaller/bitsy things (roast potatoes/sweet potatoes, also good for reheating pizza, chips, etc).
An air fryer is just a small convection oven. You can cook a whole chook in one.
I've even done it in a pressure cooker (not bad!)
But you will not get it tasting as good as a rotisserie chicken.
Step one is to brine the bird.
what pressure cooker specs for a whole chook ?
I usually roast chicken drumsticks in my air fryer instead of buying roast chicken from the supermarket. Less than $4/kg. Marinade with honey, soy sauce and garlic overnight. 25 mins in the airfryer at 180degC. Or you can just use paprika, garlic powder and salt(and/or seasoning of your choice) if you prefer slightly crispy skin chicken.
For the lazy, the Aldi packs of chicken pieces aren't bad
Although I miss when their boneless chickens were really good - not sure what changed but they seem less good these days. Price is still pretty decent though at $10 a kg with no bones (although somehow still only 85% chicken!)
Lay it on top of a bed of vegetables in a pan in the oven, helps air circulate underneath the chook and the fat to render out into the veggies. Take the chicken out, drain off any liquid, crisp up the veggies and you're golden. Takes a good hour though this way.
I've done whole chook in the air fryer several times. The Woolies roast chooks are already cooked though so I assume if you're asking if you can reheat in the airfryer and yes, you could.
what spec of air fryer for whole chook ??
@capslock janitor: Philips one, can't recall the series, obsolete one now but it's an "XL" I usually butterfly the chook to decrease cooking time. Tight fit but it works.
As long as it is in there long enough for the inside temperature to exceed 100 C for at least 5 minutes during the cooking process.
*also assuming that hot sir can reach all surfaces not subject to latent cooking during the cooking process
I would be cautious of cooking a stuffed bird in an air fryer (or even a very tired one).
If worried about drying out, stick some butter between the skin and the breast meat (thigh's should be right), maybe a bit up its bum and baste it a few times during cooking.
Probably not what you're looking for, but I can confirm that you can slow cook a chicken in a microwave.
I call it ash chicken.
Also, as the microwave may began consuming itself once the chicken is fully done, it is probably not safe to use the microwave again.
$7.99 at Costco
Used to be 6.99 and over 1kg.
They are very juicy, but awful 'funny' taste.
They are pumped with a lot of saline to make it juicy but too much makes it mushy.
They weren't chickens, they're old boilers and tough and stringy as all get up as well.
Calling them chicken is like calling mutton, lamb.
…and probably full of growth harmones. They are nearly 1.5x the size of Colesworth chicken.
harmones
Excellent description…
pumped full of salt and saline,
you can read it on their, content part
Use to wonder why they tasted so good, but wasnt great as leftovers
How heavy
They are killed at just 6 weeks old and all their brothers were thrown into a grinder when they were chicks.
Dang that’s heavy
The chicken for dog food has to come from somewhere…
The hierarchy of life. No one’s making dogs into chicken food (that I know of, and if they are, don’t tell me).
incidentally, Can anyone get the same taste/consistency of the Coles/ Woolworths roast chicken?
I find it hard to get it soft like that. I suspect they boil in brine first then roast on a rotary grill or something?
I find there is consistency within a store, but definitely not between different stores…
I find Colesworth too dry, gives me hiccups.
Google AI thinks they weigh between 1.8 and 2.2 kg.
Nope. 1.1+kg.
Google is wrong.
Picture how big a naked 2kg bird is and compare that to a colesworth one.
About 1.2kg raw weight is more likely. That would also probably include the weight of the brine and stuffing in that.
Their instore butchery orders size 10 and size 12 chickens. Not sure which ones they use for roasting though.
I don't know about the weight, but the Cosco roast chickens are way better than Colesworth.
I tried asking grok and it said about 1.2kg and since they cost $12.50 at Coles that makes them about $10/kg
You should take into account the free ones when they run out, which reduces the cost at Coles.
They're out of my range.
Well the one I just bought was 1190g with 394g bones/juice leaving 796g net yumminess (including the stuffing)
Almost 1g of salt for each 150g of chicken. Good luck with your blood pressure.
1g of salt per 150g if chicken seems super low.
Really.
It seems like 50% of your recommended daily salt intake to me.
https://www.healthdirect.gov.au/salt
It is recommended that adults have no more than 2,000mg of sodium each day.
150g of chicken contains 838.0mg of of sodium or 42% of the recommended max sodium intake. Note, that's less than the average piece of KFC chicken.
Of course, any added salt is not required/good for you if you have a balanced diet, I don't think it's excessive.
@JimB: Sure. It's all fine. High sodium intake (over 2000mg per day) is only a massive risk factor for cardiac events and a huge contributor to the global burden of disease (Global cardiovascular diseases burden attributable to high sodium intake from 1990 to 2019 https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10497030/).
But it wont happen to you, I'm sure. Until you're 50 at least. Ages away. Because you're only going to eat just a bit, 10% of the roast chicken per day, right? Otherwise you blow straight through the daily intake. Obviously that'd be the ONLY thing you've eaten with salt for the rest of the day too. But it's ok, you don't think it's excessive. /s
1kg chicken 200 grams antibiotics
How Heavy Are The Roasted Hot Chickens from Coles and Woolworths
Maybe buy one and weigh it at home?
May just take one that's in the keep-warmer, weight it on the scales they provide for weighting vegetables, and put it back.
I'll do that tuesday.
Only if he can pluck up the courage and can find one that's not trying to cross the road.
I haven't bought a roast chook from WW for a while now, but the last few times I picked up one from Coles the weight ranges between 0.9x-1.2kg.
How Heavy Are The Roasted Hot Chickens
He ain't heavy, he's my brother…(from across the road).
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eUWZqbumaZo&list=RDeUWZqbumaZo…
Oooooooooo! Was deliberating on this last night because of my new lunches of bbq chicken sandwiches.
How does it go vs chicken breast? whos done the good analysis??
The raw breast is cheaper per kg of meat, but makes for very boring sandwiches.
You can't beat a rotisserie chicken for value, considering all the work is done for you, and how delicious it is.
Seasoning's your friend.
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They have scales you can use in the fruit/veg section.