"kilikini" wrote:
> Janet Bostwick wrote:
> > jmcquown wrote:
> >> Mom likes to watch Rachel Ray in the afternoons so I've caught her
> >> show from time to time. �Is it just me or are the portions she makes
> >> absolutely *humongous*?
>
> >> Yesterday she did a show featuring chicken with roasted vegetables.
> >> She said allow 1/2 a chicken per person. �WHAT?! �She then proceeded
> >> to season and place 3 split chickens (and I do mean chickens, not
> >> cornish game hens) into a roasting pan with the vegetables. �Who
> >> (aside from TFM! LOL) eats like this?
>
> >> Jill
> > Thank you, thank you, thank you. �I thought it was just me. �Have you
> > seen the size portions of beef she cooks up? �I don't know her target
> > audience for sure, but if it is young people, they are making a heck
> > of a lot of money to spend on food. �The steak portion sizes are
> > outrageous and would cost a LOT of money around here -- maybe steak
> > is cheaper back east? �Even the slabs of fish she prepares are too
> > much. �Then there's the starch and veggie portion of the meal and
> > then dessert. Janet
>
> I always assumed she cooked for the audience. �I may be mistaken.

Exactly!! It's TV! Everything on the cooking show set is designed to
show well on TV, especially the food.

And anyway a half a roast chicken is considered a typical portion on
most any restaurant menu... naturally it's half a fryer not half a
roaster. There isn't all that much to eat on half a fryer, the entire
chicken weighs about 3 pounds uncooked, after trimming the obvious
superfluous bits and cooking it weighs about 2 pounds, and only about
one pound is edible if you're lucky, at least a pound is bone, fat,
gristle, and skin... so the most meat contained on half a roasted
fryer is 6, 7, maybe 8 ounces... how is that a lot. Those
rotisseried chickens sold at the stupidmarket delis are barely enough
to feed two otiose adults, but a hard working guy can polish off one
alone.... not everyone lazes around all day posting to newsgroups,
some actually have J O Bs and work, and not behind a desk.