On a lighter note...

[anahata56]

How to make a beer can chicken without the beer can...

Comments

[fiannaharpar]

My problem is that the poor chickie looks like it's trying to pass something....

I do want to hear how it turned out.

[anahata56]

I know, it's just OBSCENE, really...

But I'll let you know if it's worth the squick factor!

[anahata56]

First bite....

OMIGOD!!!!

Definitely worth manipulating a chicken into unnatural positions.

[silkensteel]

I have been cutting up and selling free range and organic chickens long enough that the "Oven Stuffer" kind of chicken looks obese and just plain wrong. :)

The free range and "free roam" (meaning not caged but have space to run around and stuff but still indoors) chickies have narrow breasts and huge meaty hindquarters. OMG delicious. Try one sometime. :)

[anahata56]

I get the oven stuffers mainly because they last more than one meal--roasted one day, chicken salad/soup/whatever for a couple of days thereafter.

But you're right--I prefer the smaller ones for taste.

I wonder if they'd look any less obscene propped up there on the little tube!!!

[silkensteel]

Shame you can't get Petaluma Poultry out there. Their "Rocky The Range" chickens are 5 lbs and up, but we usually get upwards of 7 pounders. Sometimes the "Rocky Jr." are themselves so large that when we bone out the breasts, we're looking at 3/4 lb and up single (half) boneless breast. People sort of freak when they've been eating mass marketed "boneless breast" from Safeway or Albertson's, those little things are about the size of a slice of white bread (and have just about as much flavor and moisture.) Then they come to Davis for college, go shop at the Co-op and fall over at a single breast that's the size of their head.

Bragging? You betcha. :)