Hands down, fastest way to cook a whole chicken

never buy costly roasted chicken again...

1. Put down a barrier between the countertop and the chicken.   I save the insides of cereal boxes etc or you could use a plastic grocery bag or even a paper one,    This saves  some disinfecting clean up.    
2. Cut an onion and peel it: all you need is to half or quarter it.      This is for the "rack" .   Don't skip it, it's really important,    The onion is discarded and no one sees it.    Place it on the bottom of the slow cooker.   Leave the lid off.    
3. So far you have no chicken cootie hands.    Place the chicken on the barrier, amd clean out the insides if needed.    Place dry rub in a coffee filter or on a paper towel.   This keeps the bottle clean.   
4. Dry the chicken with paper towel.  Sprinkle the skin with a dry rub.  There are many recipes for dry rub and you can make them ahead when u r making spice mixes  or probably use seasoned salt from the dollar tree.    
5. Place chicken over the onion.    Discard the barrier.   Wash your hands . Cover the slow cooker and set it for an hour a pound on high.  Disinfect anything that has touched raw meat or your chicken cootie hands have touched.   

Chicken should be a temp of 179 and the lefts should remove easily.   

Done in five minutes .    

Deli chicken : three pounds : useable meat 1.5 pounds : purchase price 5.00.  Net cost of  useable meat 3.34 lb.  

Cooked chicken : five pounds : usable meat 3.5 lbs:purchase price 3.85 : net cost of useable meat 1.10 lb 

Difference 2.24. Or, in other words, savings 67 percent roughly.    

You spend the most percentage of your discressionary income on food.    Of that, the most costly part is protein.  Saving 67 percent on protein goes a long ways to feed your family well on four dollars a day.