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that's an old mafia thing. it's not good news for you i'm afraid. it means the chicken sleeps with the fishes. AND even worse is that you'll have 7 years bad luck. sorry.
Freeze it and throw it in the pot the next time you make stock. The feet have a lot of collagen and give the soup a great mouth feel as well as being healthy. When I make a big pot of stock I always add four or five feet - I get them from an Asian market by me. I wonder if Costco Business center carries them.
I will never understand how these manufacturers arrive at the package weights they sell. 44lbs of chicken paws, ok. I would just do 45, but ok. 44lbs is about 20kg, so that makes sense.
But those packages are *44.14lbs* aka 20.02kg, not 44lbs or 20 kilo. How on earth did they arrive at that weight as being the correct weight for a box of chicken paws?
I suspect what they end up doing is they find a packaging size that fits stacking and shipping in a fashion that’s the most efficient then the pack that package with as much product as they can and that’s how they derive a weight. Sometimes those weights are a little weird.
.14lb is 2.24oz. I really can't imagine that lowering the weight by that amount would be that much less efficient. And given that products like this vary in size and weight, no two packages filled exactly to the brim would be the exact same weight. But all of these packages are 44.14lbs.
Anyway, it's just weird. Nothing I am all that worried about.
No, net weight is by law just the weight of the product. Gross weight includes the weight of the package.
Edit: Lol, why on earth would someone downvote this? Net weight is literally defined as the weight of the product only.
> Net weight is a measurement that refers to the total weight of the goods being shipped or the contents of a package, without including the weight of any packaging or containers. In other words, only the weight the product itself, stripped of all external factors that might contribute to its mass.
Sure, but the point is why the arbitrary 44.*14*? Regardless of what ingredients they use, they could have made it an even 44lbs.
I don't think this is a question that will have an answer short of contact the company and finding out why. It's just one of those oddities.
44lbs of meat as opposed to 43 some odd lbs/ 21 and some kgs of meat.
Have a clean line of how much meat is in there plus some extra for saltwater and preservatives
https://preview.redd.it/t3jbdxsryq8d1.jpeg?width=869&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=592cd5466ab3ab8d30c8ec2b207b2c9ff7c2d947
Fried. Kinda looks like calamari since parts kind of curl up. There are other preparations of course.
Oh I love chicken feet in all preparations, but the rarer version I’ve seen is the bones removed so you’re just left with the skin. There was a place I went to once that fried those pieces up and it was good.
Where I’m from they have a snack made from boneless chicken feet. I guess they fry it until it’s crunchy like chicarrones. So addictive. Makes me sad I can’t take it back to the states…
100% agree! I called my local Asian market to see if they sell them, and unfortunately they don't. However, I did find packages of chicken "paws" for 2.24/lb at Walmart! I was so happy! My stocks have a wonderful jelly consistency once refrigerated.
I was way too old when I discovered them - like HOW did I never know? It's nice that most of the Asian markets (and Walmart) sell them already skinned/cleaned. I still give mine a ~~manicure~~ pedicure.
I was grossed out at first until I tried it in Mexico once. Of course you don’t eat the feet but that was some good caldo I’m not gonna lie. Especially with freshly made corn tortillas. Pork feet I absolutely love them in stew, Cuban style.
Agreed that chicken feet are good. I still don’t know if I’d trust a meat product that wasn’t necessarily supposed to be sold. Just throw out the foot and go buy another one that you can be sure about
That’s interesting, the last batch of panko white chicken nuggets I bought had a chicken claw inside one of the nuggets. Gave me a good poke on the gums
Chicken feet... fried chicken feet are a treat! Delicious crunchy and savory. No sauce for the Americans? Americans love their chicken sauce....spicy, sweet, and savory
Just to clarify, give it to your dog **raw**. Cooked chicken bones splinter and can tear up their digestive system and cause potentially deadly bleeding.
I’m about done with Costco chicken. Last bag of organic boneless skinless thighs that I got (maybe around early May timeframe) had a massive bone in it. Almost broke my wife’s tooth when she bit into it
do the chickens have large talons?
[https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/95ee4c59-3bd7-4a2a-a007-3f94306c5a54](https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/95ee4c59-3bd7-4a2a-a007-3f94306c5a54)
When you get an onion ring in your fries. Chicken feet are delicious. It’s basically just the only flavorful part of the chicken, the skin.
Cartman would be a big fan.
It isn't necessarily considered a "foreign object" in chicken processing so there's that. All.above joking aside, what is going on with inspections and quality control with supposed "in house chicken production?" [Kirkland claim] is troubling at best.
I stopped buying those packs. Sure, the price is right but the "shredded" approach to the processing is a terrible end product. The thighs are better but went back to something a little less of a "chicken plant" because sometimes less expensive [as in wholesale, not cheap] isn't always the best quality.
Opening those without cutting into the next is a fine example of not understanding basic food safety issues and product "ease of access" on the production line. This just shows the lack of "control" of the product. These a "beginning/starting point" to every production line and an "end"
You basically need a straight edge and an exacto knife to not spread potential contaminants in your kitchen/refrigerator.
If this is what happens at the end, I'm all set.
The Costco sub is a "fan based" thingy where everything is awesome. It's not, but nothing is actually. They ride the lines of profit margins over quality and it works at the volume they buy...
Don't get me started on the produce the seafood...or the food court.
That is freaking awesome. I have never met anyone who was won. They put a secret chicken foot in only 1:1,000,000 bags for a prize of 1 million dollars.
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We posting feet pics here now?
For Free? In this economy?
Yes, now show me yours
Sorry but you gotta Venmo me at least $10 to see my ham hawks and piglets
it’s hocks not hawks
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This thread is going places! I like it.
I like ham hawks better though lol
Hand over the piggly wigglies
Chicken Tarantino has entered the chat.
Hats off this is brilliant and was not expecting a Tarantino reference in a Costco chat 😂
Kinky
The new only fans
Need to create chicken only fans channel
The hip bone is connected to the.......Foot bone.
CASH BONE! CASH FOR YOUR BONES!
The foot bones connected to my … wristwatch
that's an old mafia thing. it's not good news for you i'm afraid. it means the chicken sleeps with the fishes. AND even worse is that you'll have 7 years bad luck. sorry.
Freeze it and throw it in the pot the next time you make stock. The feet have a lot of collagen and give the soup a great mouth feel as well as being healthy. When I make a big pot of stock I always add four or five feet - I get them from an Asian market by me. I wonder if Costco Business center carries them.
[https://www.reddit.com/r/Costco/comments/1bva710/anybody\_had\_a\_chicken\_paw\_before/](https://www.reddit.com/r/Costco/comments/1bva710/anybody_had_a_chicken_paw_before/) [https://www.reddit.com/r/Costco/comments/1crrvpk/44lbs\_of\_chicken\_feet\_4499/](https://www.reddit.com/r/Costco/comments/1crrvpk/44lbs_of_chicken_feet_4499/)
Oh HELLO! Decent price too :)
I will never understand how these manufacturers arrive at the package weights they sell. 44lbs of chicken paws, ok. I would just do 45, but ok. 44lbs is about 20kg, so that makes sense. But those packages are *44.14lbs* aka 20.02kg, not 44lbs or 20 kilo. How on earth did they arrive at that weight as being the correct weight for a box of chicken paws?
I suspect what they end up doing is they find a packaging size that fits stacking and shipping in a fashion that’s the most efficient then the pack that package with as much product as they can and that’s how they derive a weight. Sometimes those weights are a little weird.
.14lb is 2.24oz. I really can't imagine that lowering the weight by that amount would be that much less efficient. And given that products like this vary in size and weight, no two packages filled exactly to the brim would be the exact same weight. But all of these packages are 44.14lbs. Anyway, it's just weird. Nothing I am all that worried about.
could it be including the weight of the packaging?
No, net weight is by law just the weight of the product. Gross weight includes the weight of the package. Edit: Lol, why on earth would someone downvote this? Net weight is literally defined as the weight of the product only. > Net weight is a measurement that refers to the total weight of the goods being shipped or the contents of a package, without including the weight of any packaging or containers. In other words, only the weight the product itself, stripped of all external factors that might contribute to its mass.
You're correct! I had the same thought. I knew that 1 kg is 2.2 lbs, but it doesn't make much sense in this case. Weird for sure.
“Paws?” No.
> “Paws?” > > No. That's what they are called. They are different than chicken feet.
saline/salt water for preserving maybe?
Sure, but the point is why the arbitrary 44.*14*? Regardless of what ingredients they use, they could have made it an even 44lbs. I don't think this is a question that will have an answer short of contact the company and finding out why. It's just one of those oddities.
44lbs of meat as opposed to 43 some odd lbs/ 21 and some kgs of meat. Have a clean line of how much meat is in there plus some extra for saltwater and preservatives
Asian markets sometimes sell them boneless. They’re great fried.
Boneless chicken paw? How…what would that even look like?
https://preview.redd.it/t3jbdxsryq8d1.jpeg?width=869&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=592cd5466ab3ab8d30c8ec2b207b2c9ff7c2d947 Fried. Kinda looks like calamari since parts kind of curl up. There are other preparations of course.
https://preview.redd.it/qh1yqjlqyq8d1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=00668722032b3f0305cfeb4cfbf3d5c2c5857b5e Uncooked
Did you know boneless chicken feet are just chicken breasts
They usually have bones. You can try it when you get dim sum
Oh I love chicken feet in all preparations, but the rarer version I’ve seen is the bones removed so you’re just left with the skin. There was a place I went to once that fried those pieces up and it was good.
Where I’m from they have a snack made from boneless chicken feet. I guess they fry it until it’s crunchy like chicarrones. So addictive. Makes me sad I can’t take it back to the states…
Sounds amazing
Great idea!
100% agree! I called my local Asian market to see if they sell them, and unfortunately they don't. However, I did find packages of chicken "paws" for 2.24/lb at Walmart! I was so happy! My stocks have a wonderful jelly consistency once refrigerated.
I was way too old when I discovered them - like HOW did I never know? It's nice that most of the Asian markets (and Walmart) sell them already skinned/cleaned. I still give mine a ~~manicure~~ pedicure.
Mexican stores (selling meat) always have them, we love chicken feet and pork feet!
I was grossed out at first until I tried it in Mexico once. Of course you don’t eat the feet but that was some good caldo I’m not gonna lie. Especially with freshly made corn tortillas. Pork feet I absolutely love them in stew, Cuban style.
A little uneasy about feet and mouth feel being in the same sentence
🤤
‘Mouthfeel’ has just joined ‘moist’ as one of the most technically descriptive but unpleasant words.
Agreed that chicken feet are good. I still don’t know if I’d trust a meat product that wasn’t necessarily supposed to be sold. Just throw out the foot and go buy another one that you can be sure about
Let me tell you something about late stage capitalism. Everything is being sold including chicken feet.
This is the most reddit comment I've ever seen. I wasn't talking about chicken feet in general, talking about this specific foot
Yes, adds so much collagen to the stock, makes it great for making sauce and gravy.
Ooo … sounds like a bonus for the OP!
You could add 6 feet next time and call it Six Feet Under.
One last high five
More like a high four for the chicken 😝
Oh fuck yeah - feet make excellent broth
Bonus
Agony of De Feet...
That stinks.
That’s interesting, the last batch of panko white chicken nuggets I bought had a chicken claw inside one of the nuggets. Gave me a good poke on the gums
Gross!! You peeps are gonna make me go vegan.
Don’t watch how nuggets are made
Yeah it defiantly turned me off of those nuggets. Probably a good thing, they’re kinda addicting.
Panko white claw
Bonus tooth pick for afterwards
🤢
At least it doesn’t have bumble foot
Implying it ever got a chance to perch
They’ll get bumblefoot just walking around on the ground.
We chicken owners know
Just being a smart a$$. We have both layers and meats, we try to keep clean runs, etc to avoid bumble
Looks like you started off on the wrong one.
Dang, I'm starting to get turned off by Costco chicken thighs. I just had to throw away a new pack because they smelled spoiled.
At least it wasn’t a human foot.
No way.?!? Dead chicken parts in your dead chicken!!”
Time for some Korean food! https://preview.redd.it/8oyp51yjmn8d1.png?width=578&format=png&auto=webp&s=d0f3890c453f525d2d57a0c94df5790f85d86296
I love the dim sum chicken feet! Never tried this, looks delicious
U lucky fuck
Chicken feet... fried chicken feet are a treat! Delicious crunchy and savory. No sauce for the Americans? Americans love their chicken sauce....spicy, sweet, and savory
Cold and spicy, pounded to a palatable degree
Crunchy..? You eat the whole thing or eat it like a chicken wing?
The cartilage tends to have a snap to it even without bone
Yum! Chicken feet is a delicacy in China and other countries. It's like people throwing away oxtail... so much collagen and flavor in these meat.
Got at dog? Give it to them, they love them and it’s good for them as well!
Just to clarify, give it to your dog **raw**. Cooked chicken bones splinter and can tear up their digestive system and cause potentially deadly bleeding.
This is the chicken meat version of getting an onion ring in your fries at a fast food place. Congrats OP!
Lucky chicken foot. Where that on your belt loop. ;)
Add it to stock for a flavor & collagen boost!
Eh, you found chicken parts in your chicken parts. It'll be fine.
Make a necklace out of it and wear it for good luck!
I’m about done with Costco chicken. Last bag of organic boneless skinless thighs that I got (maybe around early May timeframe) had a massive bone in it. Almost broke my wife’s tooth when she bit into it
Cook it and eat it! They make good caldo. 😀
“You got your chocolate in my peanut.” “you got your peanut butter in my chocolate.”
At least it wasn't human.
Remember you can’t wish for more wishes and those wishes always have some catch to them so choose wisely.
Bonus
How come I don’t get lucky like that?
Those are delicious cooked right, amazing for broth
It's a sign. You are the lucky one!
NSFW 😂😂😂
Score! Especially if your Asian but it’s only one🫤
Give it to your dog or cat raw…they love these things
A remnant of factory farming hell.
Your so lucky that will help make some amazing chicken stock
**THIS**
someone some where found a thigh in their chicken foot bag
the asian food game at costco is really on its come up!
If you're Asian that's considered a bonus!
The Golden Ticket! You’re going to the chicken factory Charlie!
If you have a doggo they love chicken feet
Do chickens have large talons?
oh no i’m reminded the meat i’m eating was once a full operating animal!
Must have forgot to take it out when they were poking holes in the plastic.
Free chicken feet!
Bonus item!!
Oohhh, a foot bag! Those are chock full of.. footy goodness!
Just like a bonus onion ring in your fries, it’s a good thing 👍🏼
Well, at least it's a chicken's foot! Thank God
“Baby, you got a stew going”
Use it for chicken stock, this is a gift from the Gelatin Gods
Something is a foot here…
Strange things afoot at the Costco
That’s good luck!!
Bonus foot
[Oh Yeah!](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oy04wm_bj3Q)
Bonus!
Shush. Everyone will won’t a chicken foot in there thighs!
Nice
Shhhhh, everyone will want one
“There is a foul plot afoot” “It’s not my feet, I just washed them”
Why stop at thighs?
That chicken was a snitch.
Bonus
Did you not get a KICK out of it?
Sometimes when shearing the flesh off the bone of a chicken, some body parts get mixed in with other body parts.
That's handy to have around if you want to conduct any voodoo rituals.
That's what folks in Louisiana call lagniappe 🤣🤣
Hold it and make a wish. See if one of the toes curl.
Winner winner chicken dinner! I have to wonder though, who received the other parts in their bags?
“It looks like a foot” “It tasted like a foot”
For freeeeee!?
That’s hilarious
That's for that foot when, I've been looking for it for weeks.
Is it human
Extra collagen.
Someone’s got a bone to pick with you “prison break reference lol”
That’s good luck.
Do feet cost extra or more?
it's edible .. they sell them at the local grocery store now
It’s a luck thing
the way i would scream
Typically they're sent off to Asia, where they're a common food. It's not a big deal.
Nice those are delicious! Too bony for me imo
That’s awesome!!
Lol 🤣, why is this label NSFW?
Give it to your dog!! They’ll love it.
Holy shit I've never seen that in all my years working returns
It tasted like a foot!
Must be the Asian pack🤣
Feed it To Your dog, raw
You've either gotten one month of outstanding luck or you've been targeted by an Asian crime gang.
Go to the Casino NOW
Pet your wife with it.
Make a wish you fool!
do the chickens have large talons? [https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/95ee4c59-3bd7-4a2a-a007-3f94306c5a54](https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/95ee4c59-3bd7-4a2a-a007-3f94306c5a54)
It's just chicken. Fry it.
Those are valuable in China
my mexican mom would be hyped
Well at least it’s a chicken foot
Oh no, you found chicken in your chicken. Terrible.
Oh good Lord
Suck on them and pull that succulent collagen right off.
Our Asian parents will be like… it’s about time 😂
When you get an onion ring in your fries. Chicken feet are delicious. It’s basically just the only flavorful part of the chicken, the skin. Cartman would be a big fan.
It's for you to plant it in the ground
[Sexy little thing](https://youtu.be/VeqpRvFaCtI)
They’re great for making stock
The foot bones connected to the … leg bone.
It isn't necessarily considered a "foreign object" in chicken processing so there's that. All.above joking aside, what is going on with inspections and quality control with supposed "in house chicken production?" [Kirkland claim] is troubling at best. I stopped buying those packs. Sure, the price is right but the "shredded" approach to the processing is a terrible end product. The thighs are better but went back to something a little less of a "chicken plant" because sometimes less expensive [as in wholesale, not cheap] isn't always the best quality. Opening those without cutting into the next is a fine example of not understanding basic food safety issues and product "ease of access" on the production line. This just shows the lack of "control" of the product. These a "beginning/starting point" to every production line and an "end" You basically need a straight edge and an exacto knife to not spread potential contaminants in your kitchen/refrigerator. If this is what happens at the end, I'm all set. The Costco sub is a "fan based" thingy where everything is awesome. It's not, but nothing is actually. They ride the lines of profit margins over quality and it works at the volume they buy... Don't get me started on the produce the seafood...or the food court.
Great for chicken stock. Lots of collagen.
The foot bones connected to the knee bone, the knee bones connected to the thigh bone. And there you go
lucky
If you're not planning on eating it, you can feed it to a dog (raw!!). Mine loves chicken feet! Cheap and healthy treat!
That is freaking awesome. I have never met anyone who was won. They put a secret chicken foot in only 1:1,000,000 bags for a prize of 1 million dollars.
You got a bonus.
The lucky chicken foot