Will Rambeau Moderator Reg: 01-25-2003
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I was cutting up a roaster chicken for dinner tonight and I thought back to like one of my first classes at the Culinary Institute called "Meat Science". Now before I took this class I would have had no idea on how to easily chop up a whole chicken into eight pieces. I can do it in my sleep now, but here's my point:
Next time you're shopping for chicken, take a look at whole chicken prices, it's *CHEAP*. Buy it whole and simply take it apart and bag/freeze it for feeding RAW - I do and it works well.
You'll need a good chopping board and a good quality *sharp* knife.
And don't forget to wash your hands and equipment *well* after working with chicken.....
Grandson of a farmer. My granddad learned me these things when i was 11. He would show me how to slaughter a chicken and rabbit and let me repeat it a few times under his suppervission and then he said to me: "Well you know how to do it. Now it is you're turn" and the next 20 or so chickens/rabbits were for me to slaughter and cut into pieces.
Note
If you kill the bird by cutting of the head DO NOT let it fly they can fly without a head and tend to go to the fresh white linnen
thats why when slaughtering chickens u need a big bucket turned upside down on the ground...when the head comes off..put the body under the bucket and close off...put sumin heavy ontop and let the thing run and do what it wants...
Michele McAtee Webboard User Reg: 02-05-2006
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OR, for those of you who "just can't find that joint, the perfect right lil part", I just get those whole chickens on sale, then kindly take all 10 of them to the butcher counter at the store and ask him to package them in 2 lb bags. The "master" is always glad to do it, as at our supermarket, the true butchering aspects are virtually nil, as everything comes prepackaged anymore. Butchering at our supermarket is becoming a lost art...so I am *glad* to oblige him in his talents.
Natalya Zahn Webboard User Reg: 12-22-2006
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Great post Will! The day I realized I should just buy those "whole young chickens" (as they are labeled here), you could probably see the lightbulb go on over my head - DUH!! The ones I buy have all the giblets AND the neck stuffed inside, so, minus the feathers and feet, it's a whole package
Another plus to the "whole" birds that I found is that they are often YOUNGER, LEANER birds, without as much copius fat, and without the monstrous breast meat, on them as the big birds that get cut up and packaged as "leg quarters" and such. SOO, the quality is higher, the price is lower AND you get all the fun bits included (ever sat down and tried to identify all those crazy, oddly shaped little chicken organs that make up the "giblets"?? Will I'm sure you know what they ALL are! ). I do need to work on my quartering though, as I've just been winging it, and it can get a little dicey at times... thanks for the links!!
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Raw chicken on the cheap.......
#153299 - 08/26/2007 07:51 PM 
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Re: Raw chicken on the cheap.......
[Re: Will Rambeau ]
#153326 - 08/27/2007 03:59 AM 
they can fly without a head and tend to go to the fresh white linnen
). I do need to work on my quartering though, as I've just been winging it, and it can get a little dicey at times... thanks for the links!!
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