Where do you buy your chicken and how much is it?

conceited

What do you think of the chicken in say supervalue and the big retail outlets.
Is it quality chicken or is it bloated with water and steroids etc etc?
If you don't mind can you put it in a format like.

were you get it
price
quality
amount

Thanks i'm sure this will help many visitors.

ajk24

o cruadhlaoi (Ballyburden Meats) - Ballincollig/Fermoy Cork
Free Range - excellent quality
5x7oz
€7.99

tribulus

Place in Howth.

40-45E (depends who's working there on the day).

30 breasts.

Very good quality.

I've weighed them several times after cooking and it has always come up around the 150g mark. Nice and tender and plenty of protein!

easy guv'nor

Turkey Breast steaks on special at Lidl at the moment, 4.19 per 500g I think.

Cheaper by weight than the chicken breasts in the same store.

jakeypooh

5 chicken breasts for €5
Butchers kitchen Naas
Superb value

mags16

Aldi whole Rep of Ireland chicken. 2kg, €6.49.

rubadub

Butcher opposite sallynoggin church, 10 for 10

Gumbo

my father has a butchers in Cabra and my brother runs a butchers in town.

20 fillets for €20

i will check the weight of them later.

Nowler

I get 50 for €50, i get em from a resturant, i get them to order extra from wherever they get em.
I go through bout 35 per week so its just aswell i get em cheap huh lol

Just get to know some1 that owns a resturant

Esse85

10 large chicken fillets €13 in the English market in Cork

Macha

Irish medium free-range chicken €8.99 from butchers in Sandymount. Excellent quality.

Much better value than fillets.

Rocket!

Butchers beside tesco, Santry Omniplex
6 for 7 euro(usually get 10 and 2lb of mince for 16 quid)
Great quality
Not sure on weight, little light compared to ones from home.

conceited

Cheers for the information lads .
I must try the English market in Cork and also get to know someone in a restaurant.

rubadub

Another point is storage of them, I do not like them in my fridge over 3 days. I only get to the butchers on saturdays though. You can cook up a batch of them and store them in the fridge, I put spices on mine so have them in sauce jars so they do not stink. You can cut them all up finely (a scissors works well) and stir fry the lot.

Cooked chicken will keep longer than fresh chicken. If you want to keep even longer you can cook and package it yourself in a "controlled environment". Wrap each fillet up in tinfoil and bake them, I would marinate them in spices and some oil first. Then as long as you do not open the tinfoil then they are pretty much cooked in a "controlled environment", i.e. any contaminants should be killed by cooking, and since you have not exposed them to more contaminants they should remain OK in the tinfoil for longer. No matter how clean your room is, unless you have a sterile lab your air is brimming with contaminants and will land on food the moment it is out of the oven.

If you have a pressure cooker you can dice and mix them up with something like curry sauce and fill up emtpy jars. Leave the caps slightly loose and with tinfoil on top. Now if you steam these for 1 hour at 15psi they are sterilized and will actually last indefinitely, just like other tinned or canned food.

If freezing I lay them out flat and cut them parallel, now I put them in bags and layer them up and freeze them. Now I have a thin frozen fillet and it can be cooked direct on a pan without defrosting, it is so thin it defrosts quickly, since it is flat it conducts heat well from the pan.

itsallaboutheL

easy guv'nor wrote: »

Turkey Breast steaks on special at Lidl at the moment, 4.19 per 500g I think.

Cheaper by weight than the chicken breasts in the same store.

very nice too

itsallaboutheL

conceited wrote: »

Cheers for the information lads .
I must try the English market in Cork and also get to know someone in a restaurant.

Pretty sure you can get three decent sized fillets for 4.50 in the market

cunnins4

12 fillets for €10 in the butchers on moore st. in dublin. Decent size too.