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- Feb 3, 2013
I am a cheap bastard, so I usually buy the cheapest. Bone-in is almost always cheaper, too, plus bones can be used for stock. Apparently bone-in yield on thighs is 80% meat/skin, 67% just meat (but who throws out the skin?), which is really cheap at 50 cents/lb.This but buy them with bones, Jesus. That way you can make fried chicken with the best part of the bird. The dense, thick, flavorful meat of the thigh is great. Plus you can get platters of this shit for sometimes about $0.50 a pound. And thigh is the best way to replicate your favorite dishes from the local chinkies. They use that for virtually everything. Sure, that's because it's cheap as hell, but it's also because it's delicious as hell. The thigh is criminally underrated. Take advantage before hipsters fuck it up somehow.
My mom asked me for a good gift idea, so I said a gigantic crockpot so I can make a crapton at once. My big one now just isn't cutting it anymore.