NEVER Buy Chicken Breast at Costco Again Without This Secret Butcher Trick

📗 Get My Complete Kitchen Guides Here: https://margretmillerkitchen.com/ You're standing at the chicken case looking at a tray of boneless skinless breasts marked $12.99, and it feels like that's simply what chicken costs now. Eighteen inches away sits a stack of whole chickens at $1.99 a pound, and tonight I show you why that stack gives you more usable breast meat than the tray ever did. I count down 57 things I know for certain about chicken, from what air chilled really means to why the no hormones added label tells you nothing at all. Then I walk you through the whole breakdown at your own counter in about ten minutes with a sharp knife, legs first, then wings, then the breasts off the backbone. A five pound bird gives you around a pound and a quarter of breast meat, another pound and a half of thigh and drumstick, the wings, two quarts of real broth from the carcass, and a jar of schmaltz for frying your potatoes. I also cover brining so breast meat never dries out, pulling it at 160 degrees, and why rinsing raw chicken in the sink does more harm than good. If chicken prices are eating your grocery budget, this is the old habit I'd want you to take back into your kitchen. CHAPTERS: 00:00 – Why Chicken Breast Costs More 01:16 – What Tonight Covers 02:32 – Whole Bird Beats Parts 03:47 – Labels On The Package 05:05 – The No Hormones Myth 06:21 – How A Chicken Breaks Down 07:50 – A Chicken In Every Pot 09:09 – Wartime Chicken And Giblets 10:38 – Eleanor's First Whole Chicken 12:07 – Eleanor Keeps Going 13:23 – Starting With The Legs 14:44 – Boneless Skinless At Home 15:59 – What One Bird Yields 17:10 – Portion And Freeze It 18:20 – Brining The Breast 19:33 – Reverse Sear And Poaching 20:51 – Never Wash Raw Chicken 22:18 – Safe Handling And Thawing 23:39 – Dark Meat Versus White 25:03 – Rendering Skin Into Schmaltz 26:14 – Gribenes, Nothing Wasted 27:31 – Simmering The Carcass Broth 28:53 – Storing And Freezing Broth 30:19 – Chicken Feet For Body 31:38 – Buying And Batch Breaking 32:55 – The Full Math Compared 34:11 – The Whole Method Recapped 35:35 – My Grandmother's Counter 36:49 – Final Word #WholeChicken #ChickenBreast #ButcherTips #BreakDownAChicken #ChickenBroth #Schmaltz #SaveMoney #GroceryTips #OldFashionedCooking #MeatBuying