So I decided I was going to start buying chicken whole because it probably saves money giving me an excuse to have more knives and make delicious stock. Dumb me.

You can get a tasty and delicious whole-roasted rotisserie chicken at Costco for $5.99.

I can’t find a whole chicken for less than $16.

This is like the lesson I learned when making homemade BBQ sauce and tan tan ramen: you can spend a whole lot of time and money only to make something equivalent to what you can buy in the store for much less time and money.