People Who Work Smarter, Not Harder Share Their Best ‘Lazy’ Cooking Hacks

Not at Costco they aren't. They're at least the same size as the grocery stores near us, and usually larger. And definitely cheaper.

Not at my local grocery store. Their rotisserie birds are any whole chicken that gets with in 5 days of it's sale date. They refuse to have old product out on the shelves so all the "almost" old birds get turned into rotisserie chicken or broken down and made into fried chicken for the deli. Waste not want not

You've forgotten to add in the energy cost for the person doing the cooking, which can be extremely expensive to some people.

$4.95 at Sam's. Where are you getting it cheaper raw?

Them you gotta add the spices and the time to cook and the electricity. It's cheaper to buy it cooked. Plus, this is a LAZY thread. Don't hate on someone else's life bcz they take the easy road. To each THEIR own.

$7.99 rotisserie chicken weighing 3#. $13.96 for uncooked 4# chicken. Making you wrong? PRICELESS

Your time is worth something too. Takes awhile to prepare, roast, and clean up - the cost of the chicken and spices. And the energy the oven uses.

The rotisserie chickens from my Coatco are HUGE, and less expensive than buying, seasoning and roasting on my own. The roasted chickens at my grocery store are about on par with the mennonite chickens I’ll sometimes buy and they’re about the same size and around the same price per chicken.

The convenience alone is worth it.

That's just not true in most areas of the US. It might be in yours, but it definitely isn't in any of the states I've been in the last few years. Raw whole chickens cost far more than rotisserie chickens do in nearly every store I've seen, (we buy them a lot on road trips, vacation, etc.. cheaper than buying a raw one and cooking on site).

Not when you factor in gas, electricity, for cooking,water and dish soap for clean up. A 5.99 rotisserie chicken is still cheaper despite being ever so slightly smaller. Especially considering those "bigger birds" shrink after cooking 😉

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The cheapest I can get a whole ran chicken is 7.37. Where are you getting one that's less than $5?

1. Sometimes mes raw chicken has been injected with water to appear bigger 2. All meats loose weight when cooked.

But time is also money.

You're ignoring the coat of labour

Costco rotisserie chickens average 3 pounds cooked, and they're five bucks. Yes, it's a loss leader, but so what? They're also the best quality rotisserie chickens available based on comparisons that are done every few years. Average medium whole chickens are around 3.1 pounds raw, but unless you brine them, increasing their mass slightly, they lose mass when roasted. Cooked chicken is usually more expensive per pound than raw chicken. It also takes less time and work to prepare.

Not if you get it at Costco!

Time is money. My free time is what I place the most value on.

Here, a rotisserie chicken costs me $10. Same sized raw chicken costs me $18. Then I have to add in the cost of the electricity, the other ingredients to flavour the chicken, the time spent waiting to cook, and the clean up afterwards. Much more economical to buy one ready to eat. And I get at least 4 meals for 2 people out of one (more if I make a large pot of soup with the carcass).

They have two sizes of rotisserie chickens at my local grocery store. The ones sold at BJs and Costco are large, though. I get three meals from one for the two of us.

If it's any comfort, they're already dead by the time they're rotisseried.

🙂

Better still. Don’t buy Nutella. Their use of palm oil is destroying forests.

Like why tf have I never thought of this!?

Ow f**k, another company to let go of. Not Nutella, but 'Ferrero Rocher' as a rare treat. Though the only thing i bought from Nestle Was 'Sanpellegrino Limonata', but never again. Now i cant find any good lemon beverages. Any tips? (Sweden).

Second door on the right

Peas and thank you!

That he has never said sure, pulled one out of his pocket, tossed it to the contestant and said now, what letter, is a travesty lmfao

I hate them too I can't even swallow them yuck!

That's what dhamer said

So are most of the pesticides, bacteria, and viruses.

Said the circumcised penis.

Is something that lazy mothers tell their kids. It's only true for certain nutrients in a limited number of cases , although it often has more fibre, and in some cases where it is true it's the reason that the peel is unpalatable. Orange or banana peel, anyone?

Me neither, even if mashed.

For ginger just freeze it and grate into dishes using a micro plane grater! Super fast and the ginger keeps a long time!

Yep. Plus, your hands won't reek of garlic for days on end.

Same.

I often use cloves of garlic and little kno.bs (bp censors are funny about kno.b) of ginger, but honestly, I don't have the time when I'm cooking. A spoonful of garlic is so much easier than peeling, chopping, slicing, all that...

Amen to ginger

I managed to find it finely ground in a tube! I was thrilled.