skinning a chicken
 

I always have hated plucking and gutting chickens and fortunately my
mum and grandma would normally take care of that if I chopped the head off.
last night we needed to prepare a small rooster for the soup pot and it
was up to me to do it all so I thought I would try something different
skinning. I dont think i will ever pluck a chook again I had it ready in 5
minutes and the soup tasted great.
here is the link to the web article that gave me the idea to try it
I didnt hang the roo just took care of it on a wooden butcher board.

http://www.backwoodshome.com/articles2/grim79.html

enjoy

Re: skinning a chicken
 

Wow. So that's what "real" chicken looks like.....

Re: skinning a chicken
 

Very true, skinning is much easier than plucking. HOWEVER, if food gets really scarce you will want the skin and the fat calories that are in it. It is food. Don't forget that. It is great for making wonderful soups. In our modern society we take the fat and through it away cause most of us are already fat and we are so sedentary that we don't ever burn the fat. We just store it and plug up our arteries. My parents who grew up in the last depression, have a totally different story. They were always hungery, skinny and there was always work to do. They left nothing to waste!!

sb

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Skinning is faster and less messy, though you lose the skin and fat. Makes 'em harder to grill, fry, or rotisserie well for me. They tend not to hold in the natural juices without the skin.

Try dunking them in boiling water before plucking. Still messy, but it makes the feathers turn loose easier. Same as scalding a hog before scraping.

Re: skinning a chicken
 

aside from the feathers - that's the same way we butcher feral hogs..

- It doesn't get much fresher than cuttin a backstrap out washing / seasoning and putting it straight on the pit..

never thought about cuttin yard bird like that.


dang... I always get hungry when I read the Survival boards..


mmm:spam4:

Re: skinning a chicken
 

The easiest way I've found to skin any critter is to make a small slit in the skin on one leg, then run a blunt wooden dowel through the slit between the skin and the flesh. After loosening the skin a bit, inset a short piece of tubing in the slit and blow the skin up like a balloon (you can do it without the tubing if you aren't squeamish, but I don't recommend it). This separates the skin from the flesh and enables you to make few cuts and pull the skin off like removing a shirt. I've done it on deer, sheep and goats. You won't believe how easy it makes the chore of skinning.

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I think a good modern way to pluck a dead chicken would be to just run the lawn mower over it.
Set the blade fairly high.

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When TSHF, and one can't gasoline for the lawnmower, do you reccomend a reel type mower?