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Subject: Re: Chicken Soup
Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2025 17:06:07 +0000
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On Thu, 6 Feb 2025 14:28:55 +0000, dsi1 wrote:

> On Thu, 6 Feb 2025 8:05:18 +0000, songbird wrote:
>
>> Dave Smith wrote:
>> ....
>>> A lot of people seem to be proud of never buying rotisserie chicken.
>>
>>   too often i'm finding them not properly cooked.  pull a thigh
>> off and it's barely cooked at all sometimes.  i end up putting
>> a lot of it in the microwave to get it hot enough.  but at least
>> i don't get sick from them as often as i do from parts that are
>> not a whole chicken.
>>
>>
>>   songbird
>
> That's normal in Costco rotisserie chicken for the thigh to body joint
> to be red. My wife is grossed out by it. I suppose she's got a point. My
> feeling is that if you can pull the thigh easily off the bird, it's
> cooked. My guess is that if Costco cooked their chicken to get rid of
> the red, it would be overdone. I like chicken cooked that way. A lot of
> people don't.
>
>
The last time I bought a rotisserie chicken, it was pink
inside at the thigh and a smidge at the breast.  It went
right into the toaster oven a few minutes to finish cooking.
And no, it was not dried out and overdone when I took it out.

I'm not risking food poisoning just for the sake of convenience
of a rotisserie chicken.