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Post by sss3 on Feb 23, 2016 17:30:29 GMT
Where can chicken feet be bought? Don't recall seeing them in grocery stores. Think meat market would be expensive. Need more chicken broth than meat.
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Post by paquebot on Feb 24, 2016 0:09:52 GMT
Just about any Asian market would have them. Where you find them you'll probably find duck feet as well.
Martin
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Post by gracielagata on Feb 27, 2016 21:22:56 GMT
Hispanic as well, if memory serves... really most any ethnic grocer.
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Post by moldy on Mar 20, 2016 17:30:34 GMT
I"ll ask: how do you clean them? We butcher about 60-100 birds a year, and while I would like to try them for stock, they're too much of a pain to clean so many. I've used a blowtorch to pull off the nails and peel off the skin, but they still seem dirty....
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Post by gracielagata on Mar 20, 2016 17:42:34 GMT
moldy, That has always been my question with chicken feet- they stand in their own poop and such when they are commercially raised. Or do they use metal floors on meat birds too? Either way I feel like that would be an issue, taste and smell wise. Cow hooves when we got them for our dogs always smelled like manure or urine to me.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 20, 2016 18:13:58 GMT
Where can chicken feet be bought? Don't recall seeing them in grocery stores. Think meat market would be expensive. Need more chicken broth than meat.
You have an upcoming Santeria ceremony that we do not know about?
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Post by spacecase0 on Mar 20, 2016 23:45:08 GMT
my chickens live on a one inch wire grid, the feet seem somewhat clean to me... maybe that is how others do it ?
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Post by gracielagata on Mar 21, 2016 17:52:21 GMT
spacecase0, Mine live on dirt and straw, depending on where they are in their large pen or coop. I sometimes see chunks of poop or dirt stuck to a foot for a few hours... I am all for eating all parts of an animal... but the places feet go kinda skeeves me out to wanting them for my use. Fed to the dogs, sure, no problem there.
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Post by Skandi on Mar 21, 2016 21:59:43 GMT
Chicken feet here are dogs slaugter time treat, though the pug did lose one to an adventurous cat!
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Post by paquebot on Mar 23, 2016 5:04:38 GMT
We just soaked them in salt water and scrubbed them good. We weren't worried about where they'd been since the eggs had been there, too.
Martin
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Post by gracielagata on Mar 25, 2016 17:08:20 GMT
paquebot, But the shell doesn't get eaten by us like the skin of feet... though I did a bit more research after I sent my last reply- I guess it is fairly standard to remove the outer skin layers by some means, so that fixes that issue... So when the feet are pickled... does one eat the bones, since I assume the bones become flexible (basing that idea off of school science- that vinegar makes bones flexible lol). What is the appeal of something with so little meat on it? I did see that they can be used to make broth, which i thought was pretty cool, for all the cartilage saving aspects and such of it.
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Post by paquebot on Mar 26, 2016 1:40:40 GMT
gracielagata,after soaking in salt water, the scrubbing took off that outer skin. As I recall, it flakes off rather than peals off. Only ever had them in soup which was delicious. Never pickled them but toe bones aren't very big and would probably soften in the process. Martin
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