Heritage Large Fowl - Phase II

[hellbender]

I can chicken, raw pack, and it is great. The pressure canning process cooks it, it's ready to go when you open the jar. Makes for great quick meals when you don't have time to thaw and cook chicken.

We don't do it anymore (depending upon capons instead) but my parents and grand parents canned chicken, venison, pork...and a few things I wont mention. Very effective and SAFE. Cold/DRY pack. Just a bit of salt on top. Never heard of any of it go bad and some was eaten three years after process....no foolin'!

EDIT: If I were going to oil eggs, I'd use coconut oil. It is actually inexpensive when you consider how far it will go and has many other uses as well...JMHO

 

[bnjrob]

We don't do it anymore (depending upon capons instead) but my parents and grand parents canned chicken, venison, pork...and a few things I wont mention. Very effective and SAFE. Cold/DRY pack. Just a bit of salt on top. Never heard of any of it go bad and some was eaten three years after process....no foolin'!

EDIT: If I were going to oil eggs, I'd use coconut oil. It is actually inexpensive when you consider how far it will go and has many other uses as well...JMHO

I think various entities try to scare folks into thinking that they can't preserve certain foods, or that foods must be eaten within a certain time frame, just to make more money off of them.

Yes, coconut oil would be my choice for a natural oil and I have thought about trying it and seeing how it does as far as whether or not it attracts any bugs or not. And I want to see whether or not I'd need to get the highly refined stuff that does not have the coconut smell to it - eating scrambled eggs that took on the odor of coconut doesn't sound appealing. I keep coconut oil on hand, I should just go ahead and oil a few dozen with it and see if it transfers the coconut smell to the egg contents and if it attracts any creepy crawlies.

 

[Lacy Blues]

I have coconut oil and I don't have the expensive stuff. I have a really good sense of smell/taste and I cannot smell coconut at all when I open the jar. I've tried tasting it directly and by itself and there is no coconut flavor at all. I don't like coconut so I can tell you, if I tasted it, I'd know it.

 

[MagicChicken]

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Scrambled eggs with onions and spinach, in coconut oil: my favorite breakfast. Saute the onions and spinach in a little coconut oil, then add the eggs for scrambling. Yum!

Let us know how the egg storage experiment goes.

 

[hellbender]

I have coconut oil and I don't have the expensive stuff. I have a really good sense of smell/taste and I cannot smell coconut at all when I open the jar. I've tried tasting it directly and by itself and there is no coconut flavor at all. I don't like coconut so I can tell you, if I tasted it, I'd know it.

I do...absolutely love coconut but there is not a hint of coconut smell to the oil I us. As I said, I don't oil eggs but it has many uses. I get my oil from Walmart, brand name: LouAna. 100% pure. I paid less that 9 bucks for quart and that goes a LONG way.

For eggs, one could oil far more than 100 dozen (guessing) and would have enough left for your hair, body and just about anything you want to slicken up a bit.

 

[Lacy Blues]

 

[fowlman01]

I bet you dollars to donuts the industry will use this opportunity to KEEP the HIGH prices once this is all history.  The prices will never go back to pre-crisis.  This type of action started with coffee about 30 years ago then sugar was next.  Big business has a proven model to make the large price jumps after all it, (the shortage) drives the diamond and gasoline prices,lol.  Believe me they will use this situation to push through their registeration of all fowl as well.  They have been fighting the cattle producers for years trying to force electronic tracking of all bovine and registration of all premises.  This is just Big Brother, Big Govenrment, Big business trying to control everyone and everything.

All The Poultry products shortages are the results of the largest outbreak of Avian Influenza in history. The outbreaks are not in backyard flocks these outbreaks are in biosecure commercial flocks of turkeys and chicken. About 50 million birds have been depopulated. So how they are handling it is putting more restrictions on back yard flocks, which are not having problems with AI.

Walt

 

[finnfur]

I can chicken, raw pack, and it is great. The pressure canning process cooks it, it's ready to go when you open the jar. Makes for great quick meals when you don't have time to thaw and cook chicken.

Thanks for the "oil" procedure.
Wife dry cans meat also - we clean it , shove it in a jar. sprinkle of salt and pressure cook. your right great quick meals.

 

[qball53]

All The Poultry products shortages are the results of the largest outbreak of Avian Influenza in history. The outbreaks are not in backyard flocks these outbreaks are in biosecure commercial flocks of turkeys and chicken. About 50 million birds have been depopulated. So how they are handling it is putting more restrictions on back yard flocks, which are not having problems with AI.

Walt

I understand the issue is real but it will be leveraged by the industry to place restrictions on the individual. They will also re-coop their losses with price hikes and they will never return to previous levels. big Argri-business will prevale.

 

[fowlman01]

I understand the issue is real but it will be leveraged by the industry to place restrictions on the individual. They will also re-coop their losses with price hikes and they will never return to previous levels. big Argri-business will prevale.

Absolutely.......and they are paid for the birds destroyed. Nothing much goes down when it has been up in price.

Walt