Skin or Pluck?

[NinnyGillaspie]

Hubby culled our mean rooster this morning. His first time. He scalded and plucked. Says he's gonna try skinning next time. Any suggestions on which method is better?

 

[RWD]

Plucking is the only way to go. To skin is to sin...............

 

[itsy]

I've done both. I don't have any sort of plucking machine, so it takes me longer to do it by hand. Scalding is easy, but plucking can be a bit of a chore. Do you always eat the skin or do you cook skinless chicken?

Before we moved, I had 6-8 chickens to do and I needed to just get it over with and do it quickly, so I skinned all of them. Wow, was that so much easier! I did it all by myself and it took me a short afternoon. My boyfriend cut them up and we put them in vacuum bags. We still have a bunch in the freezer - but I've made one AMAZING chicken soup and we also made a delicious sautee.

 

[ChickieBooBoo]

I prefere to pluck because I like the skin on when you eat it, just a personal preferance.

 

[Tracydr]

I use a lot if skinless chicken so I think with the 18 I have to do the next few weeks, 12 Cornish x and 6 red broilers, that Im going to do some of each.
I'm working by myself and only like to do a maximum of one a day. By skinning some of them I hope to make the chore less tedious.
I'm trying to decide if today's will be skinned or plucked. I'll heat the water, since I need to clean the feet and see how I feel. We'll see. I'd prefer to pluck all of them but the one I did last weekend had a bunch of pin feathers, making for a very tedious time.