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[Carmie]

Normally I do not buy premade chickens at Costco, but I was there today when they were setting them out...so I bought one.

When  I got home, I put it in the refrigerator for tonight's dinner.

when I began to prepare dinner, I cut the legs off of the chicken and sliced a few slivers  of the breast to warm up.

OMG!  The chicken was raw.  The meat around the legs was very red...not pink.  I put the pieces in the microwave and cooked them on high for 15 minutes.  Then I put the rest of the chicken in a casserole dish and placed it in the oven.  It is baking in there now.

I wish I would have taken a picture of the chicken legs before I nuked them, but I did take a pic of the chicken I placed in the casserole dish.

I don't want anything from Costco, but they better make sure their chickens are cooked completely.  Somone could get sick eating raw chicken. I plan to shown them the pictures the next time I am there.

[4kitties]

Wow!  That is horrible.  Someone really messed up.  

I buy the rotisserie chickens at Costco all the time, about every two weeks.  Never had a bad one or one that was improperly cooked.

[BlueFinch]

It makes me so mad when this happens. It's happened to me (not at Costco) a few times. There's no excuse.

The industrial rotisseries have precise timing, from what I was told. So how could it be messed up?

On the flip side, I picked up a chicken last week that was so dry and overdone I could hardly chew it. It went in the trash the next day.

At least, overcooked is not dangerous. Undercooked sure is.

[kitcat51]

Notify the store, their equipment for cooking the chicken isn't  working properly.  I've had lots of Costco deli chickens & that's  never happened. Sorry @Carmie.

[Mombo1]

@Carmie    🤢

[Mistreatedbycs]

@Carmie 

I don't buy their chicken because I don't like the taste of it but I do

see the people manning the chicken station with thermometers.

Someone dropped the ball on this one.....didn't you notice any blood

in the bottom of the container?   

The one's in the store are also golden brown, yours does not look like that.

[gidgetgh]

I could not have eaten that, not even with your diligent efforts to get it cooked.

[VanSleepy]

Last year was the first time I bought one of the Costco chickens after hearing people raving about them for years. Mine was raw, too. Since then I've seen lots of complaints on different sites. I won't try again.

[Carmie]

@Mistreatedbycs   It was golden brown.  The part shown has the legs and wings removed and one half side of the breast. I think most of the skin is gone.

The container bottom was black, so I didn't see my blood until I cut into the chicken. It was very bloody around the legs.  That's the part that looks red in the pics.

yes, someone dropped the ball on this.  I bought it around 1 pm...kinda early.  I hope they didn't sell anymore that were not cooked properly.

I just removed the chicken from my oven....it is done now.

[DiAnne]

I usually buy a couple of the rotisserie chickens every month but I am usually cutting them up for chicken salad or chicken enchiladas, etc.  I have never gotten an under cooked chicken.  Something must be wrong with their equipment.  I am sure they will have many complaints.