View Full Version : Fryers or roasters? Which do you prefer for grilling/qing?
GS36710
09-10-2003, 02:27 PM
I like the larger size of a roaster but my wife thinks the fryers taste better. I am not sure I can detect any real difference.
Opinions?
GS
PS: Heat baffle fabricated (used dryer vent tubing) and installed. Seasoning the Bandara tomorrow with a maiden voyage scheduled for this weekend.
By the book fryers will be a more tender (they are younger and smaller) - the roasters will be larger and perhaps have more fat.
If you slow cook 'em like in the Bandera or other smoker and if you inject them with Cajun Garlic Butter (or an equivalent) you probably won't notice much difference. :D
ricky
09-10-2003, 02:50 PM
either are good in my book........cant tell a diff.
parrothead
09-10-2003, 03:30 PM
They both taste like chicken to me. :D
BBQchef33
09-10-2003, 03:39 PM
i never buy fryers, i like the plump stuff.
david
09-10-2003, 03:45 PM
I buy what the store's got. Not much choice
nthole
09-10-2003, 04:02 PM
i never buy fryers, i like the plump stuff.
Does that apply to everything?
'Cause it seems over the past couple weeks I've been plumping up.
parrothead
09-10-2003, 04:05 PM
'Cause it seems over the past couple weeks I've been plumping up.
Corn fed, eh? And ready for the spit?
willkat98
09-10-2003, 08:52 PM
Fryer versus roasters. marketing bull****.
chicken is chicken
sit them on their beer cans and cook them. nothing more too them. It's chicken for Jesus sake, not pot luck
It will be good no matter what you do.
BBQchef33
09-10-2003, 09:11 PM
but roasters are chubby chickens. Fryers are puny little things.
Kinda like comparing me to Brian. ( But feed the fryer enuf rice and it becomes a roaster. )
david
09-10-2003, 09:12 PM
From what my mom tells me, there used to actually be a difference. Now, they sell whatevers cheapest to produce.
Well, guess I have to become a target, again! :D
There really is a difference. For us "home" buyers it's not important but in the restaurant biz it becomes an issue. When I worked in a restaurant we bought 2 1/4 to 2 1/2 pound fryers -- this was (1) for tenderness - we really fried and baked the chicken, (2) portion control, and (3) price. With roasters we would have lost a ton of money even if the price per pound was the same -- we sold 1/4's and 1/2's and so the number of chickens per 40# case was important in figuring food cost.
As Bill said chicken is chicken but in some circumstances there is a difference.
Fire away!
willkat98
09-11-2003, 08:00 AM
So what your saying David is, you would buy a case of Brian, cuz you can make more money off him, than a case of Phil, cuz he's too fat?
Depends on whether I'm selling by the pound or the piece!
:D :D
willkat98
09-11-2003, 08:09 AM
With pickles on the side.
ricky
09-11-2003, 08:15 AM
No rice though!!
david
09-11-2003, 08:18 AM
Bill- you shootin to open a Cannibal Cafe?
willkat98
09-11-2003, 08:26 AM
Bill- you shootin to open a Cannibal Cafe?
Why? You feeling a bit peckish? (Best Monty Python skit)
david
09-11-2003, 08:29 AM
Nope, just wondering if I can help. I got a grizzled old SOB neighbor that could use some "low & slow" over a fire in Hell.
Oldtimer
09-11-2003, 09:06 AM
Depends on whether I'm selling by the pound or the piece!
:D :D
I could take this to hell and back but being the kind polite gentleman I'am I won't. Besides I need a ride from the airport next weekend, not counting the crib to sleep in. :lol: Besides I'm closer to chicken **** than chicken.
smokeemifyougotem
09-11-2003, 02:09 PM
My mom just told me not to comment on chicken..........
OB
:lol:
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