Costco canned chicken

I think all canned meat smells like pet food. Reason being pet foods are formulated to smell appealing to pet owners (that is why you'll never find a mouse flavored cat food)
If it bothers you consider just pre-cooking chicken to be frozen for use later. I'll cook several pounds of chicken breasts in my crock pot on the week end then repackage them and freeze for quick use later.

I disagree that the only advantage is convenience. I think canned chicken has a different consistency. It literally falls apart into little shreds. It makes the best chicken salad sandwiches, which is the only reason I buy it.

I always thought canned chicken smelled like tuna, but my mom swears by the kind she gets at Sams Club - likely the same as Costco.

Keeping it on hand ( like I do with tuna) for emergencies makes sense. Not something I would use otherwise in my cooking.

I keep a couple cans on hand for buffalo dip or a quick pot pie. They make an all white meat version which is slightly more but I like it better.

This is what I have bought in the past, but not lately. I just picked up some tuna and I'm trying to remember if I saw chicken there, too. Maybe not, but that's usually where they keep it.

I think you can do anything with it that you'd do with cooked chicken, but it IS canned, not fresh. It's okay and I don't think it looks or tastes like cat food. It's more like using canned tuna to me, which I'm totally accustomed to. I've never used a lot of the chicken ... mostly I use it for donating to canned food drives ... but I like to keep it around for emergencies or pure laziness.

I do have one recipe I use it for, which is to mix it with a lot of shredded cheese and then mix in some mayo and a little finely-chopped onion. (The recipe actually calls for a lot of mayo, but I use a minimal amount.) Then spread lots of it on toast and put it back in the toaster oven until the cheese melts. My sister was just asking me to make this again. Actually, now that I think of it, the original recipe called for tuna but I subbed canned chicken and liked it that way.

HERE is the Sams version of canned chicken. I don't particularly like it but I will keep it on hand for convenience when I need some quick chicken salad or something like that. I should try to the Costco version and see if it is better. The Same version is $11 for 5 13oz cans.

Our school cook uses canned chicken. She says the trick is to rinse it. That get's rid of the tuna smell.

I bought a lot of canned chicken when my elderly dog was dying and that's all she would eat. Kirkland brand is definitely a nicer product with bigger chunks that can be smashed into fine shreds. The grossest was actually trader joes organic chicken, that looks like the really odd bits they cannot sell all glopped together in one big blob. I don't care for the consistency of that chicken. The Kirkland looks like breast meat chunks versus whatever was left on the carcass after they cut off the good parts.

The one I bought came in sets of six cans.

The idea of chicken in a can does not appeal to me. I buy fresh chicken and poach it for recipes that call for precook end chicken.

Maybe I don't think canned chicken is disgusting because my mom has always bought it. I tried Velveeta for the first time a couple years ago and was appalled by the taste and texture. You could not pay me to eat boxed mac n cheese.

Yep. My mom ALWAYS has it in her hurricane kit, and I do as well when I remember. If you have ever had a time when you were without power for multiple days, then the value of having something shelf stable that can be made into food that doesn't require cooking/freezing/refrigeration is pretty high. Gourmet it may not be, but food it is.