I slaughtered my first chicken today. Asian style (Graphic Pictures)

[Roosterfry]

I learned from my step grandfather who is from China, he has slaughtered hundreds of chickens in his day I'm sure, it was interesting. He said now I'm a professional, and we didn't waste much at all!

 

[jnkir7]

can you explain how you did it

 

[Omniskies]

I would love to know how you did it, too. I'm always looking for new ways to use up the parts we traditional don't think of as edible.

 

[Mahonri]

I figure a cleaned out gizzard, the heart and liver are rewards for my dog for being so loving.

I throw away the intestines and the crop and the skin with the feathers.

 

[chickengrl]

 

[Omniskies]

We keep the gizzard, liver, heart, and lungs. If you have never fried lungs, you have to do it at least once. They balloon up into these tiny round balls that end up tasting like the gizzard/heart.

I throw away the crop and intestines, but have found an Asian recipe that uses the intestines. You clean them out completely, slice them long-ways so they are opened up and look a lot like flat noodles, then cook them in boiling water for 15-30 seconds. They were served with rice and...I can't remember what else.

As far as I'm concerned if I'm going to spend all of the time dressing out an animal I'm going to get as much out of it as possible (that still tastes good, obviously

. I'd like to find a use for everything, whether it be food, fish bait, decoration, or whatever else.

 

[knjinnm]

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I use to stir-fry the livers until I realized the liver is the bodies filter for everything which may not be so good for humans. Livers are also extremely high in cholesterol.

 

[Roosterfry]

Ok just got back to a computer. I have plenty of pictures but some im not sure what im allowed or not allowed to put on this forum, i havent read all the rules yet.

I'm gonna give u the story from begining to end. Started off by having a boiling pot of water ready and a sharp knife and a bowl. I stepped on the rooster's feet and grabbed him by the head, cut into it's neck directly below the beak. It started to bleed out I collected the blood into a bowl, only took about 1 minute. We then dipped the chicken fully under water feet and all for a couple seconds and swished it around. Took the bird inside and completely de-feathered it beak to butt, then removed beak, then skin from feet, comb, and even tongue!

and at this point I was mainly just watching. He mixed the blood with a little salt and put it to the side to let it settle for a couple hours. He then removed the guts, but saved the gizzard,liver, what appeared to be the small intestine (it was the first tube leaving the gizzard)

He did do what another post said by opening it up with a knife and cleaning it out, I believe he ended up adding it to the broth/soup pot. He saved the head feet and those other parts i mentioned to place that into the sort of soup/broth. The other part of the chicken was cut up into pieces with bones into hunks. Then my grandmother got a huge skillet and put some sort of oil into it about 1/4 in. seared the chicken with soy sauce, garlic salt, and a pinch of MSG then covered to fully cook, then served on rice. All the other parts were placed in to the soup mixture wich was just water and a lil salt. The chicken was fantastic!

it was a welsummer roo about 5 months old. a lil tougher than what u buy at the store but... taste like chicken!

I did try a bit of the chicken toe... was actually good, no funky taste just kinda fatty and I tasted part of the comb, sort of bland and chewy but not bad. Now the blood on the other hand was poured into the broth mixture and it conjealed together and made a gross solid patty thing upon contact with the boiling wate

i had to try it... i almost barfed. it's even hard to type this part! it tasted like salty blood

Ok here comes the funny part aparently my father and step mother made some sort of bet and my father was dared to eat all the meat on the head area!

Aparently what he would earn by eating this was pretty good. He was not real excited about this but disected all the meat from the head and removed the bones and after several attempts managed to get it all down with out hurling! lol... then as we were all laughing at my father my step grandfather, who is about 80 laughed so hard he fell backwards bringing the broth/soup pot down all over him when it was boiling hot! amazingly he was ok and got up burned and a little banged up but still laughing

i have pictures of all this.....

 

[ChickieBooBoo]

you can post the pics, just add (graphic pictures) to your title and your good to go!

 

[Roosterfry]

Wait... somebody please explain to me how to add pics to this thread?