It’s the centerpiece of countless thrown-together meals, the key ingredient in innumerable last-minute salads, sandwiches and tacos. And, after your supermarket rotisserie chicken has given all it has to give, its carcass can be stored in the freezer and exhumed for stock at some later date.

The Feed Me team took on the challenge of finding Long Island’s best supermarket chicken. We stuck to the major chains and tasted each one’s basic bird. None of them was bad, but there was one clear winner, that all four of us put in our No.1 spot: the Kirkland chicken from Costco. At 3 pounds, it was by far the biggest and, at $4.99, it was by far the cheapest. (But do factor in that it costs $65 a year to be a member of the price club.)

At the other end of the value scale was Giunta’s Meat Farms, w

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