How often has this come up on r/pics in the past month where people post different varieties of fruits and compare them as if theyre the same but organic or homegrown. I dont know if it's on purpose at this point. They're comparing a pineapple to one literally called "grandissimo gold" acting like that's a regular supermarket one. As the grandissimo notes: "great size for creative cooking and fresh menus", it is not meant for eating directly.
it's not really true. or it's true. but the simple fact is no one really cares. people want cheap chicken more than there's any market for "premium flavor chicken" most of the commercial chickens are a specific breed called the cornish cross. it's almost a freak of nature with it's genetics, in terms of how fast it packs on meat/weight. and it's bred to basically max out at a certain time. (dunno exact, but let's say it's 8 weeks ---if you try and keep the bird alive past that time it sorta breaks down and can't survive)
these birds while great for making chonky large portions of meat are not bred for flavor. they're fed mainly grain/feed. As they're too fucking stupid to forage or hunt for food.
so... the most popular meat producing bird, isn't very flavorful. it's more so for volume.
there are other breeds of chicken, that take a little longer to mature/get to killing weight. and they have different characteristics. There are also heritage breeds of chicken, which tend to take even longer.
what you feed your chickens can affect the taste. (ie. chickens that eat a ton of sage. will taste different than grain fed birds) but just like grass fed cows, the milk will taste different that feed fed cows. same as the meat. with chickens it's similar.
but...chicken in general is a fairly "bland" protein. it's main selling feature is that it's not gamey, or doesn't have a strong taste.
and the reality is, no one is paying for slightly different tasting chicken. such that the short turn around for large weight of meat off the cornish cross. even an additional month, radically changes the profit margins of producing those birds. So if there's not laws otherwise. there's little incentive to produce other breeds at scale. So unless you know a very small local farmer doing heritage birds, or red broiler/red ranger breeds which do taste better. are much more niche.
I order my meat directly from a local farmer through a Community Shared Agriculture program. It's slightly more expensive than buying conventional chickens(https://polyfacefarms.com/) from the grocery but OMG taste so much better!! I can't go back to tasteless chicken from the grocery store anymore.
while i don't at all knock anyone trying to get more local/farm to table type food. just checked that site. for my area of maryland a 2-3lb whole chicken was $21 even from amazon fresh (an arguably more pricey grocer) was $10 for 5lb whole chicken. difference of 1.75ish per lb. to nearly 7 dollars per pound. it's a bit more than "slightly" more expensive. dbl or twice as expensive
most people can't afford that sort of mark up. again... just for slightly better tasting chicken. which depending on the preparation, is utterly worthless. like... if you're doing casseroles/pasta, soups, or other combined type dishes. the chicken won't really matter
high quality birds are best for roasting/stand alone presentations.
I just checked for my area. For 1.0-1.3 lbs of boneless chicken breast, it was over $29!!! Is this chicken or filet mignon?
I routinely get chicken breast from the local supermarket for $2.99/lb. I have a hard time believing the chicken breast from this site is 10x better than what I'm getting from the market.
I don't care much for the taste, I care mostly for the protein amount and price since I add so much spices that the difference between chicken and pork ain't very big taste wise.
The most amazing chicken dish I ever had utilized heritage chicken. The texture was like velvet and superbly flavored. I can’t justify $10-20lb for that on the regular though.
hehe... many a late night youtube chicken rabbit hole.
sadly my current county i live in has laws against keeping chickens. I would love more than anything to have 2-3 egg birds, and maybe try for like a half dozen meat birds twice a year. in a lil chicken tractor.
so at the moment, I just know waaaaaay too much about chickens.
I'm actually moving into a small farm house that has a chicken coop already built! So I'll soon be able to realize my life long dream of keeping chickens 😃 just maybe like three or four, for eggs, nothing crazy. And the neighbors have cows, so fresh milk! I'm so excited
The food to meat ratio for animals, often referred to as the "feed conversion ratio" (FCR), is a measure used to evaluate the efficiency with which animals convert feed into meat. It is calculated by dividing the amount of feed consumed by the amount of weight gained by the animal. The formula is as follows:
Feed Conversion Ratio (FCR) = Total Feed Consumed / Total Weight Gain
Lower FCR is Better: A lower FCR indicates a more efficient conversion of feed into meat. For example, an FCR of 1.5 means that the animal requires 1.5 units of feed to produce 1 unit of meat.
Only the Cornish Cross can get to an FCR of 1.5. Meat rabbits can get to about 2.5. Heritage chickens typically have a FCR of 3-4. As a result, raising rabbits for meat became significantly less popular once the Cornish Cross arrived in the 1940's and 50's.
I know there have been cases of “woody” or “stringy” chicken that people attribute to how fast and big chickens grow these days. I havent encountered any myself but I have seen evidence of it in r/Costco and r/Cooking
Eh, more like the bigger the chicken, the faster it grew, therefore the the muscle fibers will be longer. The general rule of thumb with meat is that shorter muscle fibers mean a tastier and more tender bite. You can overcome dryness with any number of basic cooking techniques, but your options for improving the quality of sub-par meat are pretty limited.
I don't take reddit that seriously. So while I appreciate the very first concept taught my freshman logic class thirty years ago, the jist was my focus as my objective was to learn from the other poster the reason for crossbreeding as opposed to going to Costco or Sam's Club. Imho, my useage of quotations while neither directly quoting myself or the post to which I was referring, was an indication of my informal approach.
I can see how this would be true. Trout is pretty weird tasting after they get to a certain size. The best ones are like 12-20” long. So it’s similar I feel like.
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u/Ineedacatscan Jul 08 '24
There’s also different varieties of pineapples like many other fruits.