[Sca-cooks] Re: chicken plucking

[Tara Sersen Boroson]

>> 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


No, no, no.  This is where they *plant* ostriches!  You know, an ostrich
nursery.  When they grow big enough, they dig them up to transplant on
suburban lawns, like pink flamingos.

-Magdalena