/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>9659002
i liek mcchicken

>>9659002
I am going to start making my own chicken breasts at home. Any advice or brands to use/avoid?

>>9659009
Best advice I can think of is twofold:
-factory farmed chicken breast is very lacking in flavor. I'd suggest cooking legs instead--they are much tastier, and they are easier to cook. But if you insist on breast see if you can get chicken from an Asian market, like Vikon or "Buddhist" chicken; that is free ranged and tastes a lot better than supermarket chicken.

-As for cooking your chicken breast, make damn sure you don't overcook it. Use a thermometer if you're a noob. There's a fine line between properly cooked and overcooked-and-dry-as-fuck.

>>9659176
I love chicken but I am scared as fuck to undercook it so I most certainly always overcook.

And I don't the whole breast is dry meme. I eat plenty of chicken, mostly breats and it is never dry or lacking in flavor. Of course i marinate / season heavily.

>>9659002
MArinate boneless, skinless chicken breasts in italian dressing overnight. Grill them. Cut into bite sized chunks go great in baked potato or on a salad.

>>9659201
>Of course i marinate / season heavily.
Sounds like the meat itself is very lacking in flavor, hence the need for strong marinades and/or seasonings.

If you have good chicken (read: not factory farmed) it will be fucking delicious without those steps.

>>9659002
>>9659009

>breasts

Fuck that shit. Unless you're trying to become Zyzz 0.5 there is no fucking point in eating that bland shit. Sure you can season the fuck out of it but it's still a pretty boring piece of meat. I'll take thighs any day of the week over the tasteless tit meat.

>>9659222
>If you have good chicken (read: not factory farmed) it will be fucking delicious without those steps.
Are you super white? I eat all my food with plenty of seasoning because I like flavor.

>>9659252
If you "like flavor" then why are you buying shitty chicken that needs a lot of spices to taste good?

I've got nothing against using spices or seasonings, it just seems silly to start out with flavorless meat when you have an alternative. Spices + bland chicken might be OK, but spices + good chicken is even better.

I've been making chicken gyro pitas. All the ingredients are store bought but fuck it
>chicken seasoned with garlic, onion powder, red pepper, black pepper and salt
>Frank's red hot sauce
>tzatziki sauce
>tabouli
>hummus
>chopped raw tomato, onion and cucumber
>splash of lemon juice
>pita bread

Another favorite is chicken pesto alfredo
>1/2 pasta
>1/2 chicken seasoned same as above
>sauce is 1/2 of parents' homemade pesto
>1/2 store bought alfredo sauce (again fuck it; I'm not making it from scratch for such a small amount)
>a few strips of bacon chopped up

I save up the juices from cooking in the freezer and when I have enough, I use it to make gravy with the same seasoned chicken and also make mashed potatoes and stuffing.

I save up my bones in the freezer and make chicken soup with the usual veggies
>potatoes
>carrots
>celery
>onion

>>9659002
There's nothing better you can do to a chicken than make tandoori chicken.
It can't get better than that

Anyone got like a list of marinades and shit to put in a bag of chicken breast/thighs/whatever and let sit or freeze? Not talking like store bought teriyaki or fucking mojo

I like to pound my chicken breasts flat to about half an inch.
They cook quicker and more evenly resulting in a jucier meat.
You can bread and fry them or bbq them.

I prefer thighs to breasts though.

I read the OP and tried to think of my favorite chicken dish, and my mind went blank. I eat chicken, of course, but I prefer so many other meats or fish.
Anyway, I guess I'd have to say my favorite is roasting or rotisserie chicken ( I have a rotisserie on my grill), and then using the leftovers to make curried chicken salad with the meat and stock from the carcass.

>>9660645

All of these things are great for marinades. Just depends on your end goal:

buttermilk
frank's
worcestershire
soy sauce
lemon juice

>>9659229
>he enjoys increasing his chances of heart disease
sad!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEGymfKWXt0

>>9659229
>thighs

Enjoy your cholesterol.

Just breaded and pan fried some breasts, served on pancakes with maple syrup, okra and blistered tomatoes on the side.
comfort food is amazing

>>9661368
Why is it that ck is full of 60 year old women who haven't learned something for a few decades

>>9659002

Chicken satay. Teppanyaki. Cacciatore. I could meme all night about chicken.

>>9661560
Because /ck/ is filled to the brim with roasties. As you'd expect from a board that does no actual cooking and shitposts all day about fast food.

>>9661560
When was the last time you had a checkup with your "concerned" medfag profit pirate? They push cholesterol drugs like candy to pay for their yacht and ski condo with the kickbacks from the ever altruistic pharma industry. It's not only 60's good housekeeping magazines, it's coming from the medfags we worship.