If the idea of this box of ten uncooked rotisserie chickens sounds appealing, I’ve read that apparently you can buy a similar box from Costco, for roughly a dollar a pound.
They had to be at least partially thawed to pry them apart. I’d think it’s best to use them up quickly.
Sharing them out seems like the only good option. As they’ve expired, you probably can’t use them in your food truck.
Pretty much for sure.
I know zippo abut food safety laws for commercial operators. And doubtless there are at least 50 versions in 50 states.
But the fact the chickens were a) expired and b) donated to a food bank strongly suggests the commercial operator who made the donation couldn’t use them in their usual way. Whether by law or mere policy I can’t say.
Depends on where you are, probably. In rural areas, IME, quite a lot of people, including many people without much money, have at least one big chest freezer and maybe more than one. I’ve got two. Old farmhouses were built for large families and also for processing much of the family’s food on site, and generally have space for them, if not in the house then in a back hall or barn (where they’re cheaper to run in unheated space if in a northern climate.) Having lots of freezer space saves money in the long run; you can buy things on sale, you can freeze things you or your neighbors grow; if you eat meat and can scrape up the funds you can save a lot of money by buying meat by the half or quarter or whole animal, depending on species and family size. Nearly everything will keep for a year or more in a good chest freezer; the tables you see are based on a refrigerator freezer opened multiple times a day.
I routinely get about a dozen chickens at a time from my neighbor; they slaughter them more or less all at once, sometimes in two batches, when they hit desired size and the winter’s coming on.
Having said that — I’d be pretty dubious of that block of chickens all frozen stuck together. If they’re stuck together, I’d be suspicious that they’d already thawed at least partially once after being frozen the first time; and they’d need to be at least partially thawed again to get them apart (as @puzzlegal said.) If you’re not set up to cook them all as soon as you thaw them, refreezing them yet again without cooking them first seems like a bad idea.
Agree for sure that people with big houses, sheds, big garages, basements, etc., tend to have multiple fridges and freezers.
The next question is how many of those are already jam-packed with stuff? Someone planning, as you did, to receive a dozen chickens can certainly make sure to have cleared a storage space. Or said another way, if you repeatedly get your chickens that way, you’ve reserved space for all 12 and don’t let other stuff crowd into that reserved space when you’re down to just 3.
Somebody not expecting a 10-chicken windfall might be hard pressed to fit them into all 3 chest freezers and the one in the kitchen.
That’s true. There is often some extra space (in my case usually mostly taken up with frozen water jugs, as full freezers are cheaper to run and hold temperature better in a power outage); but sometimes there isn’t.
unfortunately, crazy-ass Oklahoma is trying to force food banks to verify recipients are “legal’
Of course they are. Hordes of grabby immigrants are their moral panic du jour. And like all moral panics, all thought evaporates once the people get into, or more accurately, are stampeded into, that mode.
I’m certainly not excusing any of this. I just don’t find it terribly surprising. It’s exactly on-brand for the Fascist jerks.
One lawmaker has proposed a bill, which AFAIK, hasnt even gone into committee. One of the bills sponsors dropped out even. Dont blame all of OK until it passes.
This makes sense.
ISTR a Doper who, at least during the COVID shutdown, worked at a salvage store where they got a lot of bulk food products that were definitely packaged for restaurants, cafeterias, etc. and they got a lot of big flour sacks, 25 or 50 pounds, that kind of thing, packaged in gray paper which was stamped “NOT FOR RESALE” and they had to call the manager for an override every time someone bought one.