[Sca-cooks] chicken plucking

[Gorgeous Muiredach]

At 05:40 PM 1/10/2002, you wrote:
> > > What do you do if you don't have such a machine? And is this how
> > > it was done in period?
>
> > I imagine it was done the same as is done now without a
> > machine.  You dip the
> > bird in hot water..and then manually pull the loosened
> > feathers out!  Yuck!
>
>Its not a bad job - it just STINKS!

Gosh, does it ever stink.  And goes in the clothes, and the house/building
you're doing it in, and the grass if you're outdoors...  Blerch...  I was
recently at my dad's farm, and we haven't slaughtered chickens there for a
good 7 years, and the cabin we'd do the slaughter in *still* smells of Death.

The part that gets me in plucking is removing the tough wing
feathers...  Ughhh.

And and and and...


Gorgeous Muiredach
Rokkehealden Shire
Middle Kingdom
aka
Nicolas Steenhout
"You must deal with me as I think of myself" J. Hockenberry