Best part of the chicken (to eat)

IMO drumsticks are one of the greatest joys the world has to offer.

aaaggghh skin/breast/oysters/eggs how do i choose?

probably eggs, but i feel like they are a ringer and that is unfair.

I love the South Park where they get 'Colonel' and Cartman gets castigated for eating all the skin.

Skin>Liver>Eggs>Breast>Drumsticks>Other stuff

For years I have been campaigning KFC to sell buckets of skin.

Chicken poll

we are soulmates

For years I have been campaigning KFC to sell buckets of skin.

― Dom P's Rusty Nuts (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, May 13, 2009 5:08 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

beautiful sentence

Also: where the tittays at?

ALthough mostly I use legmeat these days. In fact, I should put some rice in birdbroth RIGHT NOW.

chicken feet taste pretty good but they have the most horrible texture of any foodstuff I have encountered.

Probaby go for leg or breast.

have also always wanted to try unlaid eggs.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/07/dining/07eggs.html

The more chicken breasts I eat, the less I like them. It's between drumsticks, thighs and aigs.

yeah eggs is totally messing up the program... outside of that,

drumsticks = thighs > wings

Where is "the whole thing" option ;_;

My answer is "it depends!" breat meat ftw off of a juicy roast chicken, but breast meat can be rubbery if used in a casserole - thighs are excellent for curries and cacciatore. In fact I made a delicious tomato, chickpea and chicken thigh dish just last night mmmm.

Not a fan of any of the bony parts. There's bones! And gristle! Why do people eat wings? There's no meat on them!

For versatility and affordability I'ma go with thighs. Eggs is a cheat, I'm ignoring that ;P

crispy crispy skin is my favorite so I voted for that one, but I eat eggs more often.

Everything except for breasts. And I'm not nuts about the heart, that gristly nugget. Love neck meat, oysters, all the dark juicy bits. Wings! Love to bite the crispy tip off a roasted wing.

Couldn't vote. Too many loves. Liver!

Hardest poll ever.
hmmmmmmmm...

...legs!

...well drumsticks, you know what i mean.

no beak?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

no parson's nose?

eww beak?
What next, cows teeth?

You know, I still dont think I'm sure what the oysters and parsons nose is.

Parsons nose = flappy bits of skin surrounding where the arse was cut out
oysters = two nugget sized bits of solid meat on the back/underside of the bird (and my favourite bit)

love the liver but if we're talking meat, it's tough. wings obviously amazing and cheap and gooey etc, breast is hugely overrated, dries up most of the time, but can be good if you get a nice one. legs are pretty good, juicy.

oysters - what the French call "les sots l'y laissent" - what the fools leave behind

breast least favourite, or actually maybe heart is - i dont think i've ever had heart. what's it like?

Everyone who does not choose thighs is a barbarian.

^ Not news that I am a barbarian.

breast is best

Breasts are totally decent fried or in a good, juicy roast chicken (somehow a lot of people I know roast a chicken so it comes out drier than the New Mexico summer). Mostly, tho, I don't like them as their 'boneless skinless' incarnation that is used as a wan mockery of meat. I'd rather eat tofu (which I like) than some stringy white meat that tastes like salmonella, if anything.

I'm just saying they get abused a lot. Poor breasts.

chicken breasts should have nipples, like all other breasts do.

Pigeons make 'pigeon milk' from their 'breasts.'

thighs are the only way to fly

voted wings of course, because eggs totally should not be on this poll wtf

Mostly, tho, I don't like them as their 'boneless skinless' incarnation that is used as a wan mockery of meat

otm these things are like baby mice...

fuck, eggs vs. wings with breasts a distant third...

also, boneless skinless breasts are invariable much more expensive than bone-in skin-on breasts. before you even get to the tastiness & juiciness issues.

they are seriously vile, maybe borderline acceptable in some kind of stir fry.

proper large sized skin on/boned breasts can be really tasty if you cook them right, but I still favour any other joint. you can make a stew of various other parts of the chicken really cheaply with a bit of lemon juice plus red peppers/chillis/onions and some garlic.

It is surprisingly difficult to find boneful, skinful wings chicken breasts for sale.

really???? i can find em at probably 4/5 super markets within walking distance of me. this is brooklyn though not the suburban/rural west.

Haha, I guess I mean they require more than a cursory glance at the chicken aisle.

Got a thing of 10 drumsticks thawing out on the kitchen counter right now...I've got one maybe-I'll-try-it recipe lined up but does anyone have any to share? Unfortunately, I don't have a barbeque grill or really anything deep enough to deep fry in.

since I moved to London I think I'd need to go to a butcher rather than a large supermarket to get boned/winged/skinned chicken breasts. it's shit. in Dublin you can get these huge boned/winged/skinned breasts pretty much anywhere. best over here is skinned boneless, which still are much better than your baby mice..

where's the option for bishop's nose?

at the christian brothers school in ireland circa 1955

Chicken breast alone is ok if you get a good organic cornfed one and you cook it right. I've found a whole breast comes up nicely if you marinate it for ages first in lemon juice and garlic and then chargrill or panfry it just long enough to cook it. Or bake in a foil parcel with juices (soy sauce and mirin, say) so it steams in its package, also keeping it moist.

Anyone who manages to dry out a roast chook is a fule.

IMO drumsticks are one of the greatest joys the world has to offer.

+1

Ick....

http://www.friedmanarchives.com/China/Web/Chicken_Feet_5x7_72_dpi.jpg

breast, but with the same provisos offered above (as part of a properly roast whole chicken)

buying pieces seperately: thighs, for pies.

My husband is a breast man, so I buy the boneless breasts, pound the shit out of them, marinade them in wine, minced garlic, dijon mustard, soy sauce and marmalade, then quickly saute them.

Christ, that picture is nauseating.

My first instinct on seeing this thread title was 'OYSTERS FTW!', so them. Kusod for including them.

My two kids and I are dark-meat eaters, so I've always wished they would breed chickens with multiple legs. Cross them with centipedes.

Heh, "kusod". No kudos to me for that.

I prefer "kusod."

I included the feets bcz the grocery store nearest me seems only ever to sell the feets. Maybe this is bcz I show up on a Sunday and the other bits are purchased? Seriously, tho, dozens of cellophane-wrapped styrofoam trays of feet.

Do you live in the voodoo practitioner part of town?

No chicken lips, no cred.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

love a good skin

much better than 'shirts'

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

eggs got slept on imo

bad result, chicken breasts are the Coldplay of chicken parts.

what is the animal collective of chicken parts?

hmm it is probably the neck

ipso fatso thread has the answer to this thread
omgomg i ate an entire chicken last night - sorry i was too drunk to take photo but it came in a vacuum sealed packaging and you just dump it into a microwave for 4 minutes and woo there it was, and then you can dump it into a bowl of noodles and it becomes fucking tasty. i'm sure i ate loads of bones too as they were all soft like. i wish i had more memories of eating it.

― ken "save-a-finn" c (ken c), Thursday, 11 June 2009 10:24 (Yesterday) Permalink

Only six votes for 'oysters'?! Savages!

The whole reason I don't eat chicken anymore is because of the skin. I just don't get the whole "eating skin" thing.

I think if I had to pick, I'd rather eat just the skin than the rest of the chicken.

^^^ OTM

during sunday lunches in uni we invented the best delicacy ever - basically drizzle gravy onto a ball of mashed potato, wrap chicken skin around, put in mouth, bite, sensation.

voting against breast is understandable, surprise at breast not winning is a little less so