[Sca-cooks] Bizarre, OT baked chicken recipe

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

On Aug 3, 2005, at 12:18 PM, Christiane wrote:

> A friend of mine sent this, and has asked me if it could be real.  
> It looks sort of dangerous to me, or at least really messy (as the  
> chicken could explode all over your oven). What do you think, hoax  
> or not?
>
> Gianotta

Fun, but undoubtedly a hoax/joke.

Try this experiment: drop popcorn into boiling water and see if it pops.

The stuffing is still fairly moist, but in order to gelatinize the  
starch and get [superheated] steam building up inside the kernels, so  
they'll pop, you need it to be quite hot indeed. When you stuff a  
bird and roast it, the stuffing is generally the last part to reach a  
safe/cooked temperature; what keeps such a bird moist is fat and  
other liquid in the stuffing, and perhaps sewing the stuffed bird up  
to seal juices inside the skin.

So, for an ordinary roast bird, you'd want the internal temperature  
to be a minimum of 160 degrees F and up (give or take), and more like  
180 or even 190 for it to be considered on the well-done side.

You'd need the flesh of the bird to be _well_ up over 212 degrees F,  
so the meat would end up kind of like plywood heated until the glue  
disintegrates. It'd taste about that way, too...

To anyone with questions about the doneness of poultry, there are a  
few rather simple rules, and a meat thermometer is a great tool.

But meat thermometers aren't funny ;-)

Adamantius


>
> ============================================================
>
> Here is a chicken recipe that also includes the use of popcorn as  
> a  stuffing
> - imagine that! When I found this recipe, I thought it was perfect   
> for
> people like me, who just are not sure how to tell when poultry
> is  thoroughly cooked, but not dried out. Give this a try.
>
> BAKED  STUFFED CHICKEN
> 6-7 lb. baking chicken
> 1 cup melted  butter
> 1 cup stuffing (Pepperidge Farm is good.)
> 1 cup  uncooked popcorn
> (ORVILLE REDENBACHERS LOW FAT)
> Salt/pepper to  taste
> ______________________________
> Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Brush chicken well with melted  
> butter, salt,
> and pepper. Fill cavity with  stuffing and popcorn. Place in baking  
> pan with the
> neck end toward the back of  the oven. Listen for the popping sounds.
>
> When the chicken's ass  blows the oven door open and the chicken  
> flies across
> the room, it is  done.
>
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