So saw in costco packages of “hand pulled rotisery chicken” selling for $5.5/lb ($16 per package). I guess chickens that don’t sell they “disaasemble” and package it. Got me curious, Is it worth paying for hand pulled? how much meat is in a full chicken and average cost per lb?
So got one chicken, pulled myself, remove bones, skin and anything not pure meat…took about 5 minutes …and weighted. Total Weight was 2.1 lb … About $5 bucks/chicken… so $2.5/lb. The labor more than doubles the price. Do you want to pay >2x per pound for pre pulled?
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Well, for fucks’ sake, the last thing I pulled my chicken at costco, I got arrested.
It’s not the same if they aren’t paying you for the gig.
If Costco was a thing where I live*, I’d probably never buy pre-pulled roti chicken. Pulling chicken is mostly something I do with the leftovers, to repurpose them; specially the breast**. So buying it already pulled feels pointless, you know?
*at least here in Paraná most people buy roasted chicken from small, street corner markets. They often have a large rotisserie oven, that can be seen from the street; not just by humans, the neighbourhood dogs often stare those ovens, giving them the “TV de cachorro” (dog TV) nickname.
**most of my family beelines for the red parts, so the breast is typically what’s left. The only one who would rather eat the breast is Kika, my cat - but she eats, like, a tablespoon or two worth of chicken. (My other cat Siegfrieda doesn’t even recognise it as food.)
Its usually just the breastmeat for this, its almost always cheaper to get the whole chickens and do it yourself; plus you then have bones to make stock with.
Totally fair price for labor and convenience.
The whole chickens are loss leaders. They’re up cycling them into a higher margin product.
