Store-Bought Chicken Breast Almost Too Large too Cook

[pdirt]

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I haven't measured this and I am guessing here, but it appears to me it would be something like this for the breast meat (for one breast each type):

Heritage vs CX (normal size CX): 6oz vs 12oz
Heritage vs CX (extra large CX): 6oz vs 16oz

That 6 oz probably took 16-20 weeks to grow.
That 12/16oz took probably 6-10 weeks to grow.

Most people will say the magic of heritage breed meat is in the thigh and legs. The flavor is just so much richer than CX.

 

[Bullitt]

I haven't measured this and I am guessing here, but it appears to me it would be something like this for the breast meat (for one breast each type):

Heritage vs CX (normal size CX): 6oz vs 12oz
Heritage vs CX (extra large CX): 6oz vs 16oz

That 6 oz probably took 16-20 weeks to grow.
That 12/16oz took probably 6-10 weeks to grow.

Most people will say the magic of heritage breed meat is in the thigh and legs. The flavor is just so much richer than CX.

Thank you, pdirt.

That is great information.

 

[ChickenLegs13]

The last 2 I killed are frozen solid so I can only give you the freezer bag weights of each bird (breast with wings & back with thighs & legs) of some 20-22 week old crossbred RIR/Maran barnyard mutts.
27 oz and 31 oz.
If I cook them any time soon I'll update with the actual breast weights.

My wife is a yuppie big-city girl and only knows how to cook store bought chicken, so she puts a can of chicken broth or bullion cubes in all her chicken dishes. Whatever she cooks tastes like you're eating a straight can of chicken broth.
She can't understand how when I cook homegrown chicken stew or soup the chicken taste like chicken, the vegetables taste like vegetables, the white gravy sauce tastes like white gravy, the noodles taste like noodles, the rice like rice, each ingredient has it's own taste instead of the whole thing tasting like you're eating a bowl of chicken cubes.

 

[Bullitt]

The last 2 I killed are frozen solid so I can only give you the freezer bag weights of each bird (breast with wings & back with thighs & legs) of some 20-22 week old crossbred RIR/Maran barnyard mutts.
27 oz and 31 oz.
If I cook them any time soon I'll update with the actual breast weights.

My wife is a yuppie big-city girl and only knows how to cook store bought chicken, so she puts a can of chicken broth or bullion cubes in all her chicken dishes. Whatever she cooks tastes like you're eating a straight can of chicken broth.
She can't understand how when I cook homegrown chicken stew or soup the chicken taste like chicken, the vegetables taste like vegetables, the white gravy sauce tastes like white gravy, the noodles taste like noodles, the rice like rice, each ingredient has it's own taste instead of the whole thing tasting like you're eating a bowl of chicken cubes.

Ha Ha! That is funny.

 

[CrazyTalk]

Chicken breast goes for $3-4/lb - legs and wings and everything else are less than $1/lb. If they aren't getting bigger, the guys breeding these things aren't doing their jobs.