Buying a whole chicken & cutting up vs. chicken parts...which is cheapest?


 
I cook for a family of 5-6 with plenty of leftovers. The family packs of legs, thighs or breasts just make more sense to me if doing pieces. If I buy whole I'll either cook two roasters, or buy three fryers and split them down the middle. This way each gets a leg,wing,thigh,breast. A few of the Latino stores sell the pinwheel packages, usually same price as a whole one but they cut it up for you.
I buy those when on sale.

Tim
 
We had fried chicken for lunch every Sunday. When I was about 10 or 12, my dad taught me how to cut up the whole chicken, and that became my job from then on. We fried the back, heart, gizzard, liver, and anything else that came with it.

The first time I saw cut-up chicken for sale in a grocery store, I shook my head in wonder at what idiot would pay more for it.

Now I know grown people who have no idea how to cut up a chicken.

In 1964, 80% of the chicken sold was whole birds. Today it is about 11%.

http://www.nationalchickencouncil.org/about-the-industry/statistics/how-broilers-are-marketed/
 
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