What's Air Chilled Chicken

Learn about what it means when you see a package of chicken at Costco labelled as "air chilled".

Have you ever noticed the words “air chilled" on a package of Kirkland brand chicken?

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I prefer air chilled chicken for it's flavor and texture. You can read more of why I do in our post on - What's Air Chilled Chicken

It all comes down to the process of how the chicken is processed. Once a chicken is slaughtered you have to get the temperature of the meat cooled down. You can either do that be buy chilling it using fans or by dunking it into cold water.