As a true ozbargainer, I appreciate the value of the cooked Costco chook - although they have upped the price recently from the $5.99 unbeatable bargain it was.
However, am I the only one who can't buy them now and find whatever brining/cooking method they use to be woeful compared to Coles/Woolies. The chicken is overly moist, with big white/translucent Goops in the chicken especially near the bones….the colour is also suspicially pink in tone.
Anyone else find this?
Our Siberian Huskies will not touch them.
That reads as though the chickens are under-cooked?
Just found a similar thread (sorry mods) and it appears I'm not alone and that it's the saline solution/plumping method they use that cause the pockets of goop https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/368314
That saline solution is just salt added for flavoring. Oh and did you know, if you weren't happy with the chicken, just take the left overs back for a refund.
Moist as hell and tasty. Only tried them once though.
But then again we do love Fat/Cartilage. Gotta make them for the Asian crowd
Nope, they're bloody delicious. I think you've grown accustomed to the dry over cooked chooks from Coles/Woolies.
taste issues aside, have Coles/Woolies been crossbreeding their chickens with sparrows? They seem to get smaller every week,
I personally only use the Costco chickens when I'm going to make chicken soup / toasted sandwiches and want roast chicken in them. Pretty much re-cooking to be sure.
The pink-ness of it throws me off too.
No flavour whatsoever. Too moist and almost undercooked… no charcoal flavour at all. Like they've been broiled or something.
Bought a few once for a picnic with friends, and had to throw away half the meat because no one went for seconds. Horrible.
Coles and Woolies aren't great either, but much better than Costco.
Best whole bbq chook is Kingsleys (ACT), and then Red Rooster. When I'm desperate the supermarkets will 'make do'.
+1 Kingsleys, definitely live up to their "unbelievable chicken" slogan
"Like they've been broiled or something"
Broiled = Grilled
ahh.
I thought it was cooked with water under it (like where it gets steamed in an oven).
Not boiled, but 'broiled'.
Learned something new today, thanks :).
A costco chicken is about the size of 2 wollies/coles chickens
And at that price you might as well go to red rooster or a local charcoal chicken joint
I only go there for their buffalo wings. The best.
Ive never bothered since they are so easy to make at home, but might give them a whirl. Cooked there or cook at home variety?
The cooked ones, the same place you get the cooked chicken.
What is the new price?
I agree that they are disgusting. Mine went back in the oven. Could barely bring myself to eat it, gave most of it to my dog.
I still get my chickens at charcoal places
You have no right to complain
You buy it you eat it
be grateful and don't buy again.
People thesedays are so ungrateful
That chicken died for you to have something to eat.
People used to say grace and be thankful to have a meal.
You have a right to complain, everyone does, in Australia at least. Just because someone doesn't like something doesn't mean they aren't grateful they have food to eat. Don't be so melodramatic. Go eat a lettuce leaf and leave the rest of us to whinge about our oversalted, gooey chook.
Where does the suggesting a lettuce leaf solve anything
Sounds like your got some hate issues and harbor tendency to shooting up venues
Take the chook back chook chook chook
They are the best, most juicy, tasty, and largest roast chickens around! Sometimes, they are slightly under-cooked however, which Costco should correct.
The chicken is overly moist, with big white/translucent Goops in the chicken especially near the bones
You just described a herbivores worst nightmare.
Finally a chicken that is not overbaked dried out and useless. Costco get the big tick from me. Go and webber or charcoal cook a chicken and you will KNOW the pink colour has nothing to do with undercooked but that this area has been smoke affected. That's what gives it the best flavour. Go utube ANY smoked chicken or other meat -it goes pink like ham or corned meat. DONT throw bricks at the best cheapest chicken on the market. Go buy your safe burnt offerings at the "other two" big supermarkets. Please COSTCO don't listen to these people who are used to dry overcooked chicken
i would be astonished if there was any "smoking" involved in making these chickens. More likely an added herb/flavour/colour prior to cooking
As soon as any fats or juices touch an element it produces smoke - please watch any charcoal or weber cooked meat and see the pink edges on the OUTSIDE of the meat where it is cooked the most! They have tried hard to reproduce the flame grilled process electrically and have succeeded to a small degree. Just go to Wooolies or Cooles and buy your dried out junk. Leave a choice for the rest of us! Finally somebody in Australia sells a decent chicken and look the votes are against you. Go figure. Just because you have a different belief don't force it on others! Go Costco chickens. Don't ever buy a charcoal or webber oven grill Jury.
I hear you, but id be surprised if the ovens they use have any exposed elements - most commercial roast chicken ovens are all internal elements - fan heat.
(note: not sure how i am "forcing it on others" and trying to take away your choice…..just asking if anyone else finds the same and since more than 40% of people say "yuck" i dont think im sitting here all by myself……..appreciate your passion anyway)
I don't want my choice to disappear - you have plenty of other choices. I don't. I don't want them (Costco) to cave in to pressure. I have much more to lose here than you do. Even three days ago I bought one that was too dry. I think it had sat there as it was the second last one. Bought another yesterday and it was good.
It doesn't need to be an element just a surface well above 100c that vaporises juices etc.
56 percent say its delicious so I'm not by myself either. If you like MacDonald burgers then buy there. Don't try to get Hungry jacks changed to be like them just so you can have want you want on every corner.
I have to agree with Ryanek - "I think you've grown accustomed to the dry over cooked chooks from Coles/Woolies."
Diversity and choices is what consumerism is all about. I'll leave you to yours happily and you lave so many options. I'll defend my choice as its almost the last left in town.
They are absolutely disgusting, anyone that thinks otherwise needs to see a doctor.