The Dark Secret Behind Grocery Store Rotisserie Chicken
It's one of the oldest bits of kitchen advice in the books: If you want to save money, skip convenience foods and cook from scratch
This applies to brownies (39 cents for handmade, $2 for a boxed mix), cut fruit (a pineapple costs $2.75 per pound vs. $4.28 if precut), and ready-to-eat meals, which cost roughly twice as much as the ingredients.
But there's one food where this rule doesn't apply: rotisserie chicken.
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Most supermarket stores charge more for whole, raw chicken than spit-roasted chicken. Despite savings, a finished supper that doesn't need to be cleaned, filled, seasoned, and roasted at home sounds like a great deal for busy shoppers.
Why are rotisserie chickens cheap? There's a secret to preroasted poultry. KCET reported that supermarket stores' golden, juicy rotisserie chickens are typically unsold raw chickens set to expire.
Grocery retailers make less money selling chickens at a cheaper price than on raw birds, but much more than if they throw them aside. We found the greatest grocery store rotisserie chicken.
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