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anyone here ever grind any chicken? i saw a tv show and they were using chicken sausage in a recipe. just wondered if anyone had made anything from ground chicken.i can buy boneless skinless chicken thighs in 40lb boxes at the poultry plant for 30.00 a box. i'm think about grinding a few and doing some experimenting.

i'm thinking

burgers
taco's
sausaage
how bout snack sticks

That's a good price. Cheapest I ever see it here is $.99/lb. Sedanos has them for that now, which is only occasionally.

My neighbor makes lasagna with ground turkey instead of beef, and you can't tell the diffrence. Seriously, i did a side by side taste test, and I love lasagna.
I would not be afraid of ground chicken.

No doubt the ground chicken is eatable, and if spiced could be fair.

Years back, an older family friend gave us some ground turkey that some program, or other gave to low income seniors.
After a few tries of trying to like it, we fed it to the cats.

Use it all the time now can't stand to eat hog lard sausage, so just grind chicken and use my breakfast sausage seasoning really good and almost 0 fat. Antelope same way!!

ground chicken sucks. Simple as that.

totally agree. It sort of turns into a giant mush ball.

Turkey OTOH I can manage.

On the other hand, I had for supper a taco using the bottom of the barrel makins' with a chicken hot dog chaiser.

To me, the mark of a good cook, is making something not so good into something good!

Mind you, myself, I'm not only so good at that!

My buddy and I made a ground chicken cordon bleu meat loaf at our Eggfest last August and people raved over it.

Mike

Saw a young lad in the sun at a gator farm near Monroe some years back. He was wearing a Superman cape and unloading a semi load of dead chickens by wheelbarrow. On the way he was dropping them into a huge grinder that fed them straight into another wheelbarrow. Each time he filled the second wheelbarrow he wheeled it into the farm and dumped it into a gator pond...

All day long and it was over 105 and those chickens may have died quite a while before they were delivered.

Yeah but you're special!!!

i figured on grinding it half frozen to keep it from getting mushy.

The old, "Nothing ventured, nothing gained", could come into play here.
Also, with forty pounds, from the old Red Green Show, Red, "Whatever this is, we've got a lot of it!"

I ain't putting any chicken in my grinder.

well the way i see it.it can't be that bad,its still chicken.you have to really try to mess up chicken.

My wife is always trying me to get me to eat more chicken instead or elk,deer, antelope. I usually choke it down with minimum complaints, but no way am I going do the ground chicken.

It is bad enough what they are putting in ground beef ,but I can only imagine what goes into the ground chicken.The phrase lips and a$$holes comes to mind.

Awhile back there was some documentation of about the amount of contaminated chicken on today's super market shelves. Now you are suppose to cut up your chicken on a separate cutting board, disinfect everything that it touches, and wash your hands and tools completely. How does that carry over to ground chicken?

Any ground bird impersonating a real meat such as in burgers or sausage gives me nightmares.

Ground chicken may well have a place, on my plate-----, likely not.

You make a great point. Extra done. Why grind chicken, this will be like ground turkey. Everyone thinks breastfeeding meat, the truth is thigh and legs. 93 percent hamburger will probably be similar fat content.

i was just thinking of trying it because we're paying top dollar for good burger at the butcher shop.at .75 lb chicken is pretty cheap eating.i think chicken would be better ground than turkey.

Try it, you can only be out so much, and you don't have to grind it all.

Ground chicken is pretty gooey and slimy. We use ground turkey in place of beef all the time in things like stuffed peppers, etc...

When I want to do something other than the norm with chicken, I have no problem with slicing and dicing with a good knife.

For all the bashing the ground chicken has gotten here, I'm thinking we have all eaten worse at some time.

Ground chicken ain't half bad. But if you want to cook something like a hot dog, look at the ingredients....one of the first ones "mechanically separated chicken" Is basically Beaks and Feet. at least that's what I told my kids.

I use ground chicken fairly often but mix it 50/50 with ground turkey, beef or pork. After browning the mixture, I always drain the fat by placing the meat in a colander. Better flavor with less fat is a good thing.

Until beef prices get somewhere near where they should be(prob never again) will be a lot of chicken and turkey here !!! Screw em the $hit can rot in the case before I will buy 4 $ pound burger

I wouldn't like that.

Buddy of mine calls regular hotdogs, blinkies. Because they're made from eyeballs and a$$holes.

Right now beef prices are really low at the sale,The big money is added by the retailers

I've always assumed that red, ground meat is to be made from venison.

It's and odd time that I purchase ground beef.

Exactly, I haven't bought any beef except maybe a fast food hamburger in 15+years.

First thing I thought