Cooking Chicken is Curious

Chicken is one of the biggest types of meat around, having been eaten for centuries and perhaps millennia. It’s easy to raise, cheaper than beef or veal and also lays eggs, a byproduct and a massive food source. Chicken is simple to obtain and can be made into all sorts of dishes and cooked in all sorts of interesting ways.

So many ways to cook it

The great thing about chicken is that you can cook it in so many ways. You can fry or grill it, or roast your chicken in the oven. Slow-cooked chicken is always tasty. Boiling a chicken is an option, especially if you are making soup.

My personal favourite is rotisserie chicken. Rotisserie chicken gets cooked nice and evenly on all sides. What’s nicer is that rotisserie chicken is generally cooked for you, which makes things a lot easier. The even cooking makes everything a bit more juicy, but also makes the nicest roast chicken skin.

Cook the chicken thoroughly!

What is most important when it comes to chicken is making sure the chicken is fully cooked through. The way you get rid of any dangerous bacteria is to cook your chicken all the way though. When you cook chicken, it has to be cooked at over 165 °F (74 °C), and this killed the majority of potentially harmful bacteria. And for the love of god, don’t eat it raw.

If you are cooking a whole chicken, then you can press against the chicken thigh and see if any red fluid comes out. Red fluid means it need longer, but if the juice runs clear, then the chicken should be cooked. On smaller chicken pieces, you can do the same thing, but you can also check to make sure there is no pink or red meat within your chicken. That also means it’s cooked. But keep in mind that everyone’s chicken and everyone’s way to cook chicken is different, so take this with a pinch of salt.

Chicken also appears all over the place.

The best thing though is how you can have chicken replace all sorts of things. Chicken burgers, chicken pies, chicken stew, whatever can be made from beef can also be made from chicken. Just look at fast food chains. Everywhere where they sell beef burgers, there’s also often a variant made with chicken. Chicken is insanely popular and insanely tasty.

That’s what is so great about chicken, pretty much the entire chicken gets eaten or used in some way. It’s not just a breast and thighs, you can separate bits of chicken and cook them in different ways. For example, you can make a chicken pate from its liver, or you can barbecue chicken legs and wings. And when the whole carcass has been more or less eaten, what’s left can be boiled up and cooked into a broth for use later on.

At the end of the day though, you have to be careful and make sure your chicken is cooked properly.