[Sca-cooks] automatic chicken plucker

[Pixel, Goddess and Queen]

> >
> > > <<, I'm really good with an automatic chicken plucker!  I can get off
> > > over 95 percent of the feathers without breaking skin!  >>
> > >
> > > Ohhh!  Is this anything like that Epilady thing?  I can just see it:
> > > "Epichicken"...I need sleep!
> > >
> > > Etain
>
> I have no idea what an Epilady thing is so I can't tell you if it's the
> same.  An automatic chicken plucker is a machine that looks a little like an
> old mimeograph machine, in that it has a largeish drum that turns.  The drum
> has a bunch of finger length rubber "fingers" on it.  You plug it in, turn
> it on, scald your dead birds and hold them close enough to the "fingers" so
> as to have the feathers knocked off.  You must keep rotating the bird to
> different positions and have to keep steady on the proximity to the
> "fingers" else you get the skin all ripped or else you end up having to do a
> lot of hand plucking for cleanup.  It's quite a site actually.  Feathers,
> blood and sweat flying everywhere!
> Olwen
>

An Epilady is a torture device marketed to women, ostensibly to de-hair
their legs. It has a rotating coil inside another coil, and operates by
yanking individual leg (or wherever) hairs out by their little roots. The
commercial (mid-80s) featured a lovely woman holding it against an
entirely smooth leg, smiling broadly rather than screaming in pain as her
leg hairs were yanked from their sockets.

But I can see where it might be useful in plucking hair from something
that's already dead. ;-)

Margaret