chronically-helpless primitive buys supermarket roasted chicken

[NHSparky]

Chicken doesn't re-heat very well.  I would never use a microwave for any kind of meat.

If I need to re-heat something, I put it in a 200° oven tightly wrapped in foil or a covered dish for 15-20 minutes.  If I got stuck with some undercooked chicken, I would leave it in for half an hour or 45 minutes.  My leftover chicken doesn't taste like a Firestone radial when I'm done with it either.

I don't even try to reheat it so much.  If I BBQ/bake a whole chicken and there are leftovers (duh--there will be) I usually pull the meat off and have chicken sandwiches for a few days.

[Ptarmigan]

Best way to reheat meat is to put it in the oven. Never put it in a microwave and it tastes bad. I have had roast chicken myself. Some places are better than others I found.

[Chris_]

Dark meat doesn't seem to reheat as well as white meat as far as chicken goes.  Pork and beef seem to handle it OK.

[Karin]

I haven't bought one of those in some time, mainly because they're so scrawny.  And, doing your own roast chicken is so easy.  I will say though, that they make the grocery store smell really good. 

[Randy]

They're easy-peasy if you have the Set-It-And-Forget-It rotisserie grill. Everything is better in those, if you can stand the clean-up that is. 

[Godot showed up]

They're easy-peasy if you have the Set-It-And-Forget-It rotisserie grill. Everything is better in those, if you can stand the clean-up that is. 

Now that I've been thinking of. Just getting my own rotisserie cooker. Goodness knows I like rotisserie chiekcen enough to make it worth it, and I'm getting seriously turned off to supermarket birds after the revelations in this thread.

[Randy]

It's the best thing you'll ever buy. We are extremely fond of turkey breasts done in it. Chickens, Game Hens, Big thick meaty country ribs are the shiznit. They cook quickly and perfectly every time. Poke around garage sales and Craigs list and you can often pick them up for 0-40 bucks. If you find one with the basket, get it.

[VivisMom]

I'm sure the ones at Costco are probably a little fresher. Although, I did buy two whole raw chickens at Costco once. I had to toss one out because its liver had some kind of green tumor, which had spread to the body cavity of the chicken. If they hadn't been individually wrapped, I would have tossed them both.

You should have taken it back. Costco's return policy is FANTASTIC.

[Boudicca]

Right now came across this thread.  Without reading any of the no doubt reasoned and sane responses of my fellow CCers, let me state unequivocally for the record, IF YOU WANT PERFECTION IN A ****ING CHICKEN, COOK IT YOURSELF.  My lazy ass goes to the commissary on Friday afternoons and if dinner inspiration hasn't struck by then, that roasted chicken tit, um, BREAST, looks pretty damn good.
WTH is so difficult about eating chicken someone else cooked, probably purchased at a fair to cheap price, and being a tad bit grateful someone else did the work?
Jeez, the bones of our ancestors are ALL rolling in their graves wondering at the stupidity of our spoiled, ****ed up modern world.