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Rotisserie Chicken at Grocery Stores
One of the oldest pieces of culinary wisdom in the books is to cook from scratch instead of buying convenience foods if you want to cut costs. This is especially true for ready-to-eat meals, which typically cost about twice as much as the components needed to prepare them. Examples of such items include cut fruit (a pineapple costs only $2.75 per pound compared to $4.28 if it’s precut) and brownies (a homemade batch costs 39 cents, but a boxed mix costs more than $2).However, there is one dish—rotisserie chicken—to which this rule does not apply.
That’s correct: Compared to its spit-roasted counterpart, the average whole, raw chicken costs more at most supermarket stores.
For any busy shopper, investing in a finished supper that doesn’t require cleaning, stuffing, seasoning, and roasting at home looks like a far better deal than saving money. What then makes rotisserie chickens so cheap?
As it happens, your preroasted poultry is hiding a secret. A story from the California educational television channel KCET claims that unsold raw chickens that are close to expiring are frequently the golden, juicy rotisserie birds found in supermarket stores. Grocery retailers make less money selling them at a reduced price than they would selling raw birds, but far more than they would if they threw the chickens out.
In supermarket stores, repurposing unsold goods is fairly typical. In an effort to reduce wastage, supermarket advisers have acknowledged that meat and veggies are frequently mixed into prepackaged salads or deli products.
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The Dark Secret Behind Grocery Store Rotisserie Chicken (msn.com)