Topic: A breakthrough at last

[976bar]

I usually buy a 5kg pack of Halal Chicken Breast from Makro at around

[Peripatetic Phil]

I guess it may not be Free Range, but given the current economical climate of my bank account, I have no option... :/

Understood.

[Micky Tikka]

You may be missing that vital BIR taste with such good chicken Phil

[Peripatetic Phil]

You may be missing that vital BIR taste with such good chicken Phil

Or not !  The lack of flavour in battery birds (poor little s@ds) is really noticeable, and if there is any CR0 member who has never tried a free-range bird then I can only urge him or her to do so.  Organic I can  take or leave, but the difference between the flavour of battery and free-range is absolutely obvious.  I buy free-range for ethucal reasons, but my taste-buds get all the benefit.

** Phil.

[Micky Tikka]

was supposed to put a  after my post was ment to be a joke
never mind 

[Garabi Army]

You may be missing that vital BIR taste with such good chicken Phil

Or not !  The lack of flavour in battery birds (poor little s@ds) is really noticeable, and if there is any CR0 member who has never tried a free-range bird then I can only urge him or her to do so.  Organic I can  take or leave, but the difference between the flavour of battery and free-range is absolutely obvious.  I buy free-range for ethucal reasons, but my taste-buds get all the benefit.

** Phil.

With the greatest of respect, there is no way you could back up that statement in a blind tasting, chicken is chicken is chicken. If you cook meat correctly from room temperature you would never notice the difference. ... apart from corn fed chicken, which is cr*p, and tough, and expensive 

[Peripatetic Phil]

With the greatest of respect, there is no way you could back up that statement in a blind tasting, chicken is chicken is chicken.

With equally great respect, I completely disagree.  All sorts of provocative responses come to mind, but this forum has had far too many flame wars of late so let me try to disagree in a constructive way.  I have eaten (before I knew better) battery chicken, and I have eaten a great deal of free-range chicken.  There is just no comparison.  Battery birds lack all flavour, and could almost be replaced with textured soja protein, so little do they contribute to the final flavour of the meal.  A free-range bird, on the other hand, simply oozes flavour, and not even someone lacking 90% of their taste buds could fail to tell the difference.  A meal (if one is a carnivore, as I am) is only as good as the meat that it contains.  Do you know why Paris is the epicentre of French haute cuisine ?  Because it is the place where the best ingredients and the best chefs come together.  Further north, you get one; further south, you get the other; but in Paris they come together and the food is out of this world.  Does M. Blanc jr. buy, cook and serve battery fowl ?  Of course not.  He buys the best local free-range birds that he can, knowing that only by so doing will the quality of the ingredients match the quality of his cooking.  Enough.  Diatribe ends.

** Phil.

[Graeme]

Wow way off topic now 

We now have 5 pages of what ?? 

[uclown2002]

@CA

I notice your (superb) recipes typically use raw chicken.

Do you ever pre-cook your chicken?

If not, can I ask why?

Dave

Thanks for all the constructive and interesting responses; in hindsight it would have been more better if I'd started a new thread.  I have a follow up so I'll do that in another thread.

[Whandsy]

I know a lot of people have been understandibly antagonised by some of George's comments  , however I do get the impression that he's after tasting something special, so if you've got some kind of breakthrough going on George, I for one, am interested in hearing about the findings

W