Buying chicken breasts

Is anyone else having trouble finding normal sized chicken breasts? The ones in the stores here look like turkey breasts they are so big. There is almost no way to fry them without burning the outside before the inside is done.
 
Last night the package I used had 4 breast halves, each one weighing almost a pound!  The only butcher shops in my town are too expensive for every day groceries. Is this a unique problem, or have you run into it, too? 

Are you seeing this with all brands or one in particular?  I haven't noticed anything like this but then again I don't buy BSCBs very often, so I'll have to keep my eyes open next time I'm in the store.
 
Brad

I am just getting back to buying supermarket chicken. We had been buying whole free range and cutting them up. We have since moved to Syracuse, and I'm too far from my tasty free range friends....I can't stand super market chicken... the damned things are slimy, gelatinous, fatty and oddly colored. The breasts are large, but I have been sauteing and cutting them up for recipes in which they cook in a sauce, so I don't know how they fry whole...

Anyway, next summer I am finding another source for free range, I get chill every time I have to handle a supermarket slimeball...

 When I buy boneless breast from the chain supermarkets, which are packaged and weighed off premise, they are small. When I buy from the local independent grocer, where the chicken breast are purchased in bulk from a nearby processor and packaged for the consumer in store, they are rather large.
 I just flatten them with few whacks from a large soup can.

This is the only place where a man would actually complain about large breasts.

saps


This is the only place where a man would actually complain about large breasts.

LOL

Never seen them like that in the grocery store (quite the opposite, in fact!), but it's fairly common when I get them from the farm down the street.  When I have those, I simply slice them in half to serve two people with one breast.

There isn't a way to say that so it doesn't sound dirty.

Sanderson Farms and Tysaon are the two brands we have mostly here, and I've noticed the same thing with both. I weighed the last ones I bought and each of the four in the pkg was right at (or a tad over) a half pound. Ridiculous!

I buy chicken skinless breasts from a small independant market and the price per pound is always the same. The package usually has 3-4 large thick breasts. My wife trims any remaining fat and slices them to the thickness she likes. I have had Purdue and Tyson brand cutlets  and cannot taste any difference. My problem is the opposite of everyone else, she sometimes cuts them too thin for my liking.

Have you tried Green Hills on Salina in Nedrow? I find the chicken better quality than any other place around here.
 

Cosmos


I am just getting back to buying supermarket chicken. We had been buying whole free range and cutting them up. We have since moved to Syracuse, and I'm too far from my tasty free range friends....I can't stand super market chicken... the damned things are slimy, gelatinous, fatty and oddly colored. The breasts are large, but I have been sauteing and cutting them up for recipes in which they cook in a sauce, so I don't know how they fry whole...

Anyway, next summer I am finding another source for free range, I get chill every time I have to handle a supermarket slimeball...