Tough old birds

[kruizer]

I learned a very valuable lesson yesterday. I was grocery shopping the other day and got a yen for smoked chicken. I found a large "6 1/2 lb" chicken in the frozen case and picked it up. Yesterday, I prepped it up with some Everglades cactus dust and put it in the Camp Chef at 325. When it was done I brought to my kitchen to carve it up and have supper. I started to cut it and found it was pretty tough and difficult carve. The lesson I learned was to READ THE LABEL. I looked at the wrapping and found out why it was so tough. IT IS A STEWING HEN. I sat down to eat a leg and it was like trying to eat a radial tire only with better flavor. We are going to try to make soup out of this old bird.

 

[brent b]

Smoked bird soup sounds great.

 

[fivetricks]

Yeah, you wanna stick with fryer size.

Hens are def too big as you found out and I've also had poor luck with the Cornish size birds as well.

 

[crazymoon]

K, Sorry that you had a rubber chicken but thanks for the laugh! :)

 

[kruizer]

Well, it was a lesson learned

 

[SonnyE]

Chicken Soup!
Yep, boil it tender.

And Welcome to the Human Race.