Really dumb question about chicken breast "halves"

[Choc]

Hi,

I have a question about chicken breasts versus chicken breast "halves". I have a recipe (http://chicken.allrecipes.com/az/SlowCookerChickenandDumpli.asp) that calls for 4 skinless, boneless chicken breast halves. At the grocery store, I can find packages of "skinless, boneless chicken breasts". Is each piece inside this package a "chicken breast" or a "chicken breast half"?

I ask this because when I made this recipe, it seemed as though there were far more dumplings than chicken. (I used the assumption that a "chicken breast half" was half of one of these pieces of chicken in my package of "chicken breasts". It felt like more chicken was needed.

Thanks!

 

[Raine]

Did the package say split breasts? Usually chicken breasts packages are breast halves. A whole breast would like like this only smaller ( this is a turkey breast)

 

[Choc]

Hmm, I don't believe it says "split breasts" (at least nowhere immediately visible), but from your picture it looks as though that's what they were. The package reads:

Young Chicken Boneless Skinless Breasts with Rib Meat

Maybe the fact that they're "Young Chicken" explains why they're smaller than I'd expect?

In any case, I put three of the pieces in my crock pot this time instead of two. I hope it works out. Thanks for your help!

 

[LMJ]

It's not really going to make a difference if you're cooking in a crock pot anyhow. Though bone-in breasts ought to have more flavor!

 

[GB]

What you buy in the supermarket is usually a chicken breast half (at least at my supermarkets). A full chicken breast is enough meat for two people.

 

[luvs]

GB is right.

 

[Silversage]

GB is always right

 

[GB]

GB is always right

Can you tell my wife that

 

[Andy M.]

Think of it this way:

Looking at a whole chicken, there is a chicken breast half on each side of the keel bone.

My supermarket packages them in mixed form. I bought a package yesterday that contained five breast halves in three pieces.

 

[marmalady]

I can't add anything to the otherwise brilliantly correct posts above, other than to say, 'there are no stupid questions!'