Preparing for Uncertainty and Self Reliance

[heydaralon]

Chicken kidneys are also delicious. A delicacy imo

[brewster]

Chicken kidneys are also delicious. A delicacy imo

For some reason kosher birds never come with giblets, not even turkeys. My favorite part of a roast turkey? The neck. I've actually bought packages of necks and smoked them. Damn good. 2nd favorite is the ass, as long as it's roasted long enough to render the fat. I'd buy turkey asses by the pound if I could get them, I assume they're turned into pet food.

[Fife]

Rooster fries are tasty. And they make you crow like a champeen.

[brewster]

Rooster fries are tasty. And they make you crow like a champeen.

My wife loves to tell a story about road tripping with her family and they see "bull fries" on the menu in Wyoming or such. The waitress is trying to be delicate explaining when her MD stepdad shouts out "oh, you mean testicles!"

[heydaralon]

Where do you buy rooster balls? There is a butcher shop near my house that sells goat and rabbit. I want to eat bull balls in order to absord their essence and counter act the harmful estrogen growing effects of eating soy protein all these years.

[TheReal_ND]

Chicken kidneys are also delicious. A delicacy imo

For some reason kosher birds never come with giblets, not even turkeys. My favorite part of a roast turkey? The neck. I've actually bought packages of necks and smoked them. Damn good. 2nd favorite is the ass, as long as it's roasted long enough to render the fat. I'd buy turkey asses by the pound if I could get them, I assume they're turned into pet food.

I had to look this up because the whole kosher racket is actually something that mildly intirgues me. Apparently some people are reporting missing giblets in kosher turkeys where the bag holding them should be. It seems like there is a rule where they have to be cleaned and processed separately so if they get damaged they are just discarded. I don't see anything about kosher turkeys excluding them all together and I would venture to guess that nobody is bothering to ensure the same levels of standards with a chicken carcass so the process is forgone outside of just selling them sperate.

This is actually interesting because it seems to insinuate that people were aware of the fact that not cleaning a carcass and keeping the guts inside compromises sanitation when this kosher rule was made. Though I can't find it.

[C-Mag]

Rooster fries are tasty. And they make you crow like a champeen.

18th C Trivia
What's the name for a rooster that's been castrated ?

[brewster]

Rooster fries are tasty. And they make you crow like a champeen.

18th C Trivia
What's the name for a rooster that's been castrated ?

Capon. Back when I was a kid my mom could actually get them in the markets. Basically a big ass chicken. I've heard that in some areas of the country you can find 'stewing chickens' in the market, basically laying hens that were retired. You never see that in the city.

[C-Mag]

Rooster fries are tasty. And they make you crow like a champeen.

18th C Trivia
What's the name for a rooster that's been castrated ?

Capon. Back when I was a kid my mom could actually get them in the markets. Basically a big ass chicken. I've heard that in some areas of the country you can find 'stewing chickens' in the market, basically laying hens that were retired. You never see that in the city.

I had to look that up to confirm, I'd always known them as Cockerels, both names are acceptable as it turns out. I haven't seen one since I was a kid, we had an old neighbor that raised them and butchered them. They get frickin huge. As a little kid they were something to keep an eye on.

I've never eaten one, but it stands to reason like hogs and beef, it improves the meat and size of the animal.

[Montegriffo]

The thing about cockerels, mutton or other older beasts is the ability to cook them for longer without the meat falling apart.
This gives more time for the flavours to develop.
Next time someone serves you a coq au vin and it is a tender breast fillet send it back. It should be an old cockerel and still on the bone.
Capon is usually sold young when it is still a tender meat.