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01-24-2012, 04:11 PM | #1 |
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| Nervous.. cooking my first chicken tomorrow. lol So for the past four years I have made it my goal to cook meat in minuscule pieces so that it cooks all the way through... well I finally decided to go out and buy a whole chicken and try and cook it. I've put it in the fridge this morning, so it should be fairly thawed by morning. I'm going to take the skin off (as directed in my recipe) and put it in the slow cooker with a tasty sounding sauce and leave it all day. By 5 it should be pretty darn good. (I hope!). Now the fun part... how the heck do I carve the thing? Gonna see if I can find a good youtube video. But any tips are appreciated.
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01-24-2012, 04:21 PM | #2 | |
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But.....I'm not a carver.....I'm a hacker upper (it tastes the same tho )
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01-24-2012, 04:25 PM | #3 |
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| Yeah just watched 3 videos of "how to carve a chicken" I'm pretty sure there is no way in H@!L I'm going to be able to perfectly carve that bird in 2 minutes like the chefs just did. I doubt I even have a knife sharp enough to cut... so I will likely join you as a "hacker upper" I'll have to remember to take a before and after pick, so show just how bad I mutilated the bird.
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01-24-2012, 04:27 PM | #4 |
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| Oh and then I'm going to try and make some chicken stock.. Do I just take a big pot and chuck the bones in and boil? lol. Once it's been boiled am I good to just stick it in containers and freeze it?
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01-24-2012, 05:35 PM | #5 | |
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carcass onions celery salt and pepper carrots whatever random veggies I have in the fridge and cover with water reduce by half so its nice and gelatinous when chilled, strain out all the veggies and bones (reserve any extra chicken in the stock if you want to) and freeze in 1 quart baggies or ice cube trays (if you use less per recipe) (you can do all of this in your already dirty crockpot if you want to )
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01-24-2012, 06:49 PM | #6 |
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| I second the dirty crockpot method.
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01-24-2012, 06:52 PM | #7 |
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| How long do I put that on for in the crockpot?
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01-24-2012, 07:04 PM | #8 |
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| I usually do my cooking late at night. So once I'm done with everything, and I am ready to make stock for future meals, it's really late, like midnight. I put the crockpot on high (mine doesn't really get all that hot, no simmer even) and leave it until the next morning. Let it cool, and strain it from the crockpot to a smaller pot. Then I get yet another pot, and strain it again over a fine tea strainer. You could use cheese cloth too. I strain between pot 2 and 3 once or twice more, just in case. From here I put in fridge if I'm going to use it for the next days food, or if not, in the freezer. Short answer: 6 to 8 hours.
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01-24-2012, 07:05 PM | #9 |
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| It may just fall off the bones. Or at least start to, just pull out of crock pot if it is done and pull the meat off the bones and serve like that. If it is a whole chicken and it is partly frozen will it be done in 5 hours in a crock pot?? ok.. just checked. If it is a 3 up to 4 lbs and not frozen it will take at least 5 hours in a crock pot. You must clean out the cavity.. no giblets etc.
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01-24-2012, 07:11 PM | #10 | |
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01-24-2012, 07:18 PM | #11 |
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| Might be good to add the chicken skin to the stock pot... yeah that bird should be so tender it'll fall right off the bone. Yum! You can also add all the parts inside the chicken to the stock.
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01-25-2012, 01:42 AM | #12 |
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01-25-2012, 04:30 AM | #13 |
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| I find the skin makes my stock much too greasy I end up chilling and skimming when I forget to remove it all
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01-25-2012, 03:32 PM | #14 |
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| Well the chicken was delicious! I will post a link to the recipe in a bit (I'm supposed to be studying.. lol). So it totally fell apart because it was sooo tender and moist, so there was no need to carve. It wasn't pretty, but boy did it taste good. All that trouble to learn how to make stock, and when the bf saw what I was doing he realized that was not what he thought stock was, and said it looked gross and he wouldn't use it. (personally if a recipe calls for stock or broth I modify, or wont use the recipe cause I always found store bought stuff salty and icky) anyways, he thought he was getting chicken noodle soup out of the deal, and I told him he could make it himself. So we ended up not making stock. lol. Now he understands why I usually just modify recipes or avoid recipes that call for stock or broth, it's not something I generally keep in the house. But supper was good.
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01-25-2012, 03:52 PM | #15 | |
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But you use the stock to MAKE the chicken noodle soup! Did you already toss the carcass? Oh well. At least your chicken was delicious
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