There’s nothing like a good rotisserie chicken.
It’sthe perfect mealwhen you don’t know what to serve for dinneror when you don’t feel like cooking.
I personally love to pick up a rotisserie chicken at least once a week.
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I’ll serve it with salad and a baguette andvoila!Dinner is taken care of.
My other favorite thing to do with rotisserie chicken is touse it in recipes.
When it comes to rotisserie chickens, not all of them are the same.
Photos: Ronnie Koenig / Art: Jené Luciani Sena
To keep things fair, I sampled each chicken without adding any sauces, additional seasonings, or toppings.
All of the chickens available looked like this, so it wasn’t that I picked the odd bird.
Cutting into this chicken, I hit bone right awaythere just wasn’t a lot of meat on it.
Photos: Ronnie Koenig / Art: Jené Luciani Sena
Perhaps some salt and pepper would have improved it, but I was here to try the chicken as-is.
The meat was dry, not juicy.
I would not buy this chicken again.
Photos: Ronnie Koenig / Art: Jené Luciani Sena
I think that being sealed in this bag caused the chicken to get overly steamed.
“That’s the skin,” I told him.
Admittedly, the skin was very baggy looking, which was a bit unappetizing.
The bird was also still trussed, with string holding its legs together.
Unfortunately, that didn’t seem to help in cooking this bird to perfection.
The taste: While the meat was certainly edible, it was bland and flavorless.
Since the bird looked well-seasoned, with visible seasoning on the skin, I was expecting more.
I might toss this chicken into my enchilada recipe, but on its own it was a no-go.
The price is a big part of the allure.
The whole bird costs just $4.99 and that rate has not budged in well over a decade.
Costco reportedly also takes pains to ensure its chickens stay fresh.
