[Sca-cooks] Re: chicken plucking

[Olwen the Odd]

>The Hasidic slaughterhouse where I am posted at does uses water - cold
>water, to pluck their poulty. However, I believe that is because you have
>to
>use water when using an automatic picker, otherwise the picker will
>overheat, and the rubber fingers will melt. Since cold water isn't as good
>as hot to remove feathers, kosher poulty has been given a feather exemption
>by the USDA.
>On the other hand, the Ostrich Plant does dry pluck their birds by hand.
>Beatrix of Tanet

The Ostrich plant?  Never considered they would have their own plant?  How
many ostriches work there?  Are they paid well?  What type of birds do they
process.  It seems a little kinky that a bigger bird would have a plant to
process a smaller version of their own kind...;~]
Stefan aka Olwen

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