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When we cooked bone-in chicken breasts, thighs, drumsticks, and wings and then stripped the meat from the bones to determine the price per edible ounce, we found that drumsticks were easily the cheapest. (Surprisingly, wings were the most expensive.) They’re also easy to cook, flavorful, and moist, so this finding is just one more reason to make our Grilled Spice-Rubbed Chicken Drumsticks.
Drumsticks: Price per pound: $1.69, Price per edible ounce: $0.23
Thighs: Price per pound: $2.19, Price per edible ounce: $0.29
Breasts: Price per pound: $3.29, Price per edible ounce: $0.36
Wings: Price per pound: $2.69, Price per edible ounce: $0.40
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Take a few pounds of drumsticks, put them in a large pot cover with water with about four inches covering, bring to boil, cover, turn off the heat, and let them sit for about an hour or until there is no pink showing on the meat. Take them out of the pot, cool them, roll off the meat, and use them for anything. Works with a whole bird too.
Just started cooking, been buying chicken breasts, beef and lamb for the past week and most of them are 10$/lb. Just discovered drumsticks are 2$/lb today, entering a new world!
Personally, I think those 10 pound bags of frozen chicken quarters are the best.
Is that price after cooking? Because I buy my caged, full of hormone, “vegetarian diet” chicken breast for $1.99 a pound.
In where I live drumsticks cost more than wings and breasts.
This video pretty bare bones, some footage of the how this conclusion came to be would have been appreciated
I love drumsticks 🍗
But I Love Breast and Wings and Hate Thighs and only eat Legs when BBQ'd. So there !
Holy chickens…. this video didn't try to sell me anything? Ever since Chris left, ATK seems more like an infomercial than a cooking site.
I like chicken breasts; therefore, I will buy chicken breasts.
Of course wings are the cheapest… you’re paying less per pound because there’s a damn bone in the middle and there’s less meat per pound.
Why not make a video describing the methodology used and what the prices per pound and edible meat percentage were for each piece?
Breast is dry andtastes like condensed paper pulp. Highly overrated. U can munch on drumstick bones too if it is a curry.
I love how fast these videos are…no BS filler…just the facts.
What's wrong with his face?
In Japan the breast is the cheapest. I think probably because they are the hardest to cook and they like the fatty parts over the dry breast.
Wrong again, Bob! Buy a whole chicken and cut it up yourself, cook chicken stock from the carcass and you can make soup and sauce for the rest of the parts. It's food for a week … and, no, I wouldn't eat chicken for a week straight hehe! Cut, sort and freeze the parts. Don't put cooked chicken in the fridge or freezer. The taste just … dies!!! Frozen is much better. Then only take out as much as you need. You can cut up 2-4 chicken at once and you only have to clean up the work surface once and then you will have chicken until forever. At least over here it's WAY cheaper to buy a whole chicken. 😀
In Norway, chicken breast is 17 dollars per kilo (2,2 pounds)
Drumsticks are tough and have no meat on them. They’re also more expensive per pound than thighs.
Or just don’t buy chicken to begin with.
Drumsticks are fine but I enjoy cooking with boneless chicken breasts.
People don't buy whole chooks?
I just wait till boneless breasts goes on sale for $1.99 lb
I agree with the other comments. Thighs rule, wings drool.
was this figured at a thighs and legs being the same price per pound or different price?
Chicken wings are for stock. They cost so much these days because of the Buffalo wing fad. I'm a white meat person but if I have to go dark I pick thighs. They are almost as cheap as legs but don't have as much tendon, which I find revolting. Plus, thighs have more actual meat on them, so pound for pound of edible product, I think the thighs are cheaper.
Thank you!
Yeah, but theyre not wings… GOTSTA HAV MUH WANGZ!!!
I love breasts and thighs.
Some people want wings.
Growing my mom would make chicken wing soup and that was very economical. We only buy chicken breasts here to use in recipes. maybe one thigh and leg a month for the Mr. I will stick with the white meat.
I buy whole chickens (typically $0.99 per pound in Ohio, USA) and butcher them myself. I typically buy two at a time and put a quarter and a breast in a container and so I get four two person dinners, plus a wing night and pulled chicken and broth.
Not if you live in Asia.
Thighs and legs taste better anyway.
what about whole fryers
Boneless Breast meat or no chicken meat.
It's the cooking shows that cause certain prices to go up. Take a chuck roast. Chuck used to be the cheapest meat because of all the fat, but thanks to cooking shows that show people how to slow cook it to make it easy to eat and be tasty too, chuck is some of the most expensive of the roasts and steaks, at least in my area.
To me, drumsticks, wings or breasts are completely different pieces of meat for completely different recipes – therefore it is not an alternative by any means. So when you want to save money, dont buy chicken wings, buy oatmeal.
Where i am from, only old people and gypsies buy chicken wings. I literally dont know anybody who buys them outside of these groups 😀
That was so short;;;
Fq
Thanks, trying eat less beef more chicken. This video will help!
Get the leg thigh and bone it out,,,not that hard to do when you figure it out, Stuff with what ya like,,roll and string tie it a grill or oven bake it it,,Wonderful
Why dont you tell me to get flank steak instead of fillet mignon? It's much cheaper
Chicken breast is the best. It’s white meat and good for you .. you just need to season it and cook it right. Dark meat isn’t healthy and it’s cheaper cause it’s slimier and wings have to many bones
Did you factor in bone weight???
Better yet don’t eat chicken
wow, I wonder how much time went into making a 32 second video.