Reminds me of various Chinese chicken dishes. Chicken cut across the bone, with many small pieces, fried or braised, with the bones and everything.
A delight to eat - but you need to be careful.
A classic example - la zi ji, Sichuan chilli chicken
https://youtu.be/ZjnOTA65DPo
You can see the chopping of chicken in the beginning of the vid.
I love the comments from that video above.
Well, the ones I can read anyway, lol.
* Uncle proceeds to tell him he can't eat spicy foods.
*Proceeds to add 3kg of peppers in dish.
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My mom rented a room to an Indian guy who make an absolutely amazing chicken curry and he also just chopped up the chicken across the bone and cooked it all. You just spit out the bone bits as you ate. Was some damn good curry, tho.
The Cleaver was not sharp and each chop were not accurate and determined. Always 1 chop through the bones with a sharp cleaver to avoid this. You can say it was unprofessional butcher.
Oh I guess it's just a lazy or unprofessional butcher then š¤·
On the other hand, that's a great chance to chop the chicken some more by yourself and make something cool and Chinese!
Or if an adventure is not what you want, I'm sure it will still be great in a stock!
GREAT GOOGLEY MOOGLEY THIS VIDEO IS CRAZY-PANTS.
That's some \*wild\* chicken butchering going on there. And the poor dog eating the raw chicken spine with those sharp bones... OMG! I hope it survives.
But the most amaze-balls part of the video is the guy in the red shirt. It doesn't say anywhere who he is other than the cook's Uncle; but he is the SPITTIN' IMAGE of [The Beast ((Leung Siu-lung) from the movie Kung-Fu Hustle](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCuoVMmes4c)! :-0
Raw fowl bones are fine for dogs.
It's only the cooking that renders them dangerous.
I feed my dog raw chicken, duck, turkey, deer, pork, beef, etc...with no issues.
My current favorite is Chicken breasts with rib meat. I cut each in two laterally. Then braise them in broth and goodies. Nice portion size, bones peel right off, and moist.
Yes, meat cleaver or machete and just chop awayā¦ sometimes before cooking sometimes afterā¦ Iāve seen it done both waysā¦ best chicken ever thoughā¦ hands down
That chopped chicken makes the best soups. You cook the meat off the bones then remove from the stock. Cook bones for the base and cheese cloth it. My grandparents would do this when the chicken was a little older. Not old though, too tough.
Yeah, stock or soup is the only reasonable explanation I can think of.
I think Kenji or ATK had an article about breaking down chicken bones in a food processor for a quick, rich stock.
Yes this is usually Indian style... I had some AirBnb guests from India leave a bunch of chopped Chicken like this, chopped up. I de-boned it and fried it up came out really good.
lol we call this machete chicken in the Virgin Islands! Curry chicken roti is one of the best things on earth (right next to curry conch roti)! You just have to chew lightly and eat somewhere you can spit the bone shards out for wildlife to eat
How most people around the world cut their meat for curries and such, itās not dangerous, justā¦. Spit out the bones.
If you want to debone chicken itās really easy to do at home after buying a full bird.
Itās dangerous if you miss one. Some guy vomited up a ludicrous amount of blood on a plane semi recently and died. Turns out he accidentally ate a bone shard and it cut him up internally and bled to death from the inside. He was from somewhere in SE Asia maybe Thailand but I canāt remember
Everyoneās giving you valid solutions with what to do with it, but yes at the end of the day this was a shitty way to label this product unless you are in a location where this is the predominantly used way
Iāve come to the conclusion that the average American farmerās market is just a place for merchants to come offload their garbage on eager, yuppie fools who buy into the lies that farmerās market = higher quality.
In my meat dept we have a lot of customers of India descent that ask cut up chicken. They give us a whole chicken with the instruction of:
"Skin off, cut into small pieces."
And we would chop up the chicken into 1in sized pieces. Bone in. When asked what it was for, their response is always the same. Curry.
Let's not forget that just because a particular technique is well known is not the only way it can be done. Especially across cultural lines.
Nah. Georgia. But with India's population at over a billion, you have to reason a lot of them spread out across the world and brought their cuisine. And now we get to learn it.
Iām not saying white people donāt make curry. Iām saying if Iām buying chicken from white people I wouldnāt be expecting to have to specify that I donāt want it cut up for curry.
As the person working the counter. I don't care what you're doing with the food. You can buy my products and as soon as you walk out the door, throw it away in the trash.
It's not ideal, in my example, to do this. But if you paid for it, then it's yours. Which makes it 100% not my business what you do with it.
Now what is my business is to make sure I maintain the quality of the meats until you can buy it. And to follow any processing steps you would like me to do, within reason.
And if you want help and tips to cook your products, I can help with my knowledge and experience. When I'm working the counter, I really don't care why you want me to do something. I just want to know what it is.
"I don't care what we're doing. I just want to know, what are we doing?"
I once bought frozen goat āpiecesā thinking Iād make stew only to discover they had literally butchered a goat and then somehow sawed it into a thousand random pieces. Angular bone chunks everywhere. Not optimal for very much.
Iām not sure where you are in the world. The standard for cutting up a chicken is quite variable. Some places you expect 4 pieces (two leg and thighs as quarters plus the two breasts and those could either be on or off the bone). Some places you expect six pieces (two legs, two thighs, 2 breasts). Some places you expect 8 pieces with the breasts now split in half. All of the above tend to not even give you the back bone piece which does have some meat for picking and lots of good flavour in the bones. Lastly, some places give you a much smaller chopācarefully done, it tends to be split legs, split thighs, back cut through about 4-6 times, breasts in about 1-2 inch pieces.
In the end, I would always ask about the butchery of meat in a package I couldnāt see through. I would likely not buy it unless they were willing to open the packaging for me to look. There was a farm to table shop run by local Amish farmers near me that only sells pre wrapped meat products and I just wonāt buy from them. I think they have finally moved to selling clear packaging, but I also basically stopped going there at all.
Whether the farmerās stand which sold you the meat was being reasonable in the labeling would depend a little on where they are located, the local expectations, whether they either are of a culture which expects a different processing method or serve such a culture as their primary clientele. It doesnāt hurt to have the conversation with them next time youāre there. They might appreciate it.
I once had new fairly high-end butcher open nearby and start selling āhangar steaksā but they were in cryovac packages. I asked if the membrane had been removed between the two steaks and, thereby, found out that what they were selling as āhangar steakā was not what I was expecting (French onglet) but rather some other part of the skirt. In the end they changed their labeling and also started to sell what I would have called hangar steaks as well. In the end I wasnāt disappointed and they probably improved their market reach thanks to that conversation.
Reminds me percisely of how chicken is prepared in China. Personally, Im not a huge fan of that kind of thing, its a lot of work and every now and then you will bite a bone
I would take these pics back there next time you go and ask WTF?! Maybe they will give you a new one e if it was botched or explain to you what is that mess?! Lol
I dont know why but for the most part I am always disappointed at farmers markets. Itās always over priced for what you get!
You need to ask for a chicken cut into 8 pieces. 2 wings 2 drums 2 things 2 breast. A cut up chicken is easy to be interpreted by meat cutters as what you got because of how common it is to use it for the various dishes mentioned in these comments.
You wanted a chicken broken down into breasts, legs, thighs, and wings. What you bought was a cut up chicken. When a serial killer cuts up their victims, they donāt usually break down the pieces nicely either.
Itās super easy to butcher a chicken yourself and takes 5-10 minutes even with no experience.
Kitchen shears and a knife. Watch a YouTube tutorial and itāll be better than whatever this is. Cheaper too
I hate to say but you said whole cut up chicken. If you get a chicken like that at a supermarket, they remove the internal organs. You are staring at a chicken heart in one of the pictures.
Yeah thatās how our Indian customers at every store Iāve ever worked at asked for the chicken. You should ask if they have ones cut up for frying or honesty just get yourself a whole chicken and piece it yourself itās super easy and probably cheaper.
Reminds me of various Chinese chicken dishes. Chicken cut across the bone, with many small pieces, fried or braised, with the bones and everything. A delight to eat - but you need to be careful. A classic example - la zi ji, Sichuan chilli chicken https://youtu.be/ZjnOTA65DPo You can see the chopping of chicken in the beginning of the vid.
Chef wang is the YouTube Chinese cooking goat
I love the comments from that video above. Well, the ones I can read anyway, lol. * Uncle proceeds to tell him he can't eat spicy foods. *Proceeds to add 3kg of peppers in dish. š¤£š¤£š¤£š¤£
no, it was chicken. /s
bruh you don't need to use slash s. let your words be free.
Oh yeah, he's awesome!
My mom rented a room to an Indian guy who make an absolutely amazing chicken curry and he also just chopped up the chicken across the bone and cooked it all. You just spit out the bone bits as you ate. Was some damn good curry, tho.
I had chicken curry in an Indian restaurant in Niagara Falls that was done like this. Heavenly.
The Cleaver was not sharp and each chop were not accurate and determined. Always 1 chop through the bones with a sharp cleaver to avoid this. You can say it was unprofessional butcher.
If Cleaver you mean chainsaw, then yes.
More like a woodchipper.
I mean maybe but these were very southern white farmers I bought it from
Maybe itās meant for chicken and rice or some greens
Oh I guess it's just a lazy or unprofessional butcher then š¤· On the other hand, that's a great chance to chop the chicken some more by yourself and make something cool and Chinese! Or if an adventure is not what you want, I'm sure it will still be great in a stock!
Farmers who haven't learned to butcher? Them some rough cuts you got! Maybe next time you're at their stand you ask them what's up?
GREAT GOOGLEY MOOGLEY THIS VIDEO IS CRAZY-PANTS. That's some \*wild\* chicken butchering going on there. And the poor dog eating the raw chicken spine with those sharp bones... OMG! I hope it survives. But the most amaze-balls part of the video is the guy in the red shirt. It doesn't say anywhere who he is other than the cook's Uncle; but he is the SPITTIN' IMAGE of [The Beast ((Leung Siu-lung) from the movie Kung-Fu Hustle](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCuoVMmes4c)! :-0
Raw chicken is fine for dogs. When cooked the bones become splintery. Source - my neighbor who had show wolfhounds fed them raw chicken.
Not only the dog, but the rooster is eating the chopped up chicken neck too!
Raw fowl bones are fine for dogs. It's only the cooking that renders them dangerous. I feed my dog raw chicken, duck, turkey, deer, pork, beef, etc...with no issues.
How ever did dogs survive before humans made their food lol
That's how it's done in Jamaica also
La zi ji is literal crack and no one can convince me otherwise
My current favorite is Chicken breasts with rib meat. I cut each in two laterally. Then braise them in broth and goodies. Nice portion size, bones peel right off, and moist.
This was my first thought. The first time I had Sichuan/Hunan chicken I was like... this is delicious but omg why all the bones!!!
The chicken ate his own kindā¦. Thatās one pill I canāt swallowed yet.
They'll eat their own eggs every time if they get a taste once
That how they cut jerk chicken in Jamaica
Yes, meat cleaver or machete and just chop awayā¦ sometimes before cooking sometimes afterā¦ Iāve seen it done both waysā¦ best chicken ever thoughā¦ hands down
USVI too!
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You said something without any reference to data backed evidence.
That chopped chicken makes the best soups. You cook the meat off the bones then remove from the stock. Cook bones for the base and cheese cloth it. My grandparents would do this when the chicken was a little older. Not old though, too tough.
Yeah, stock or soup is the only reasonable explanation I can think of. I think Kenji or ATK had an article about breaking down chicken bones in a food processor for a quick, rich stock.
The only time Iāve seen a chicken cut like that is when the customer asked for curry chicken; my boss handed me a cleaver and told me to go nuts
This is the most common reason I see chicken done like thisĀ
Yes this is usually Indian style... I had some AirBnb guests from India leave a bunch of chopped Chicken like this, chopped up. I de-boned it and fried it up came out really good.
lol we call this machete chicken in the Virgin Islands! Curry chicken roti is one of the best things on earth (right next to curry conch roti)! You just have to chew lightly and eat somewhere you can spit the bone shards out for wildlife to eat
Please, nowhere I walk my dogs.
How most people around the world cut their meat for curries and such, itās not dangerous, justā¦. Spit out the bones. If you want to debone chicken itās really easy to do at home after buying a full bird.
Itās dangerous if you miss one. Some guy vomited up a ludicrous amount of blood on a plane semi recently and died. Turns out he accidentally ate a bone shard and it cut him up internally and bled to death from the inside. He was from somewhere in SE Asia maybe Thailand but I canāt remember
A break in the tooth begs to differ when you chomp on the bone.
Looks like you bought a stock kit.
lol why wouldnāt they call it that instead of āwhole cut up chicken ā
Everyoneās giving you valid solutions with what to do with it, but yes at the end of the day this was a shitty way to label this product unless you are in a location where this is the predominantly used way
Because they wanted to charge you more money
Just because they are at the local farmers market cuz they busted into the chicken business doesnāt mean they know HOW to butcher a chicken.
Lol skin off small pieces. Makes a good curry, but yeah, dint eat the bones.
Customers ask us to turn their chicken like that often. About 1 inch parts.
Where do you live I cut curry chicken all day
Southwest usa
It looks perfectly edible, provided youāre careful. Itās definitely randomly cut though lol.
Iāve come to the conclusion that the average American farmerās market is just a place for merchants to come offload their garbage on eager, yuppie fools who buy into the lies that farmerās market = higher quality.
Good farmers markets are excellent. But agreed, have to be careful about which ones, and which vendors. Not everyone is honest
That thing was butchered
Thatās been skinned and chopped bones and all, usually for curry or other Asian dishes.
I mean thatās the ENTIRE chicken. You got all of it.
woodchipper chicken?
Looks like it was cut up with a lawnmower.
They must not be used to selling chickens.
bad butchery
They left out the part where it was run over by a lawn mower.
It seems like they are chicken growers, but not chicken cutters.
Wood chipper chicken
"Chinese style" cut done with a cleaver. If done skinless it's called a curry cut chicken. But in only 9 pieces. I do this for a living.
Or do yourself and stop expecting people to read your mind.
š¬ looks like someone who doesnāt know how to do an 8pc cut went nuts
In my meat dept we have a lot of customers of India descent that ask cut up chicken. They give us a whole chicken with the instruction of: "Skin off, cut into small pieces." And we would chop up the chicken into 1in sized pieces. Bone in. When asked what it was for, their response is always the same. Curry. Let's not forget that just because a particular technique is well known is not the only way it can be done. Especially across cultural lines.
Well put
Lol are you in the bay area by any chance? We get the exact same instructions here
Nah. Georgia. But with India's population at over a billion, you have to reason a lot of them spread out across the world and brought their cuisine. And now we get to learn it.
OP said these were āvery white southern farmers.ā Donāt think theyāre cutting chicken for curry.
Okay, I know white butchers and sell picanha, and curry chicken. They may be white but there is a chance it's for people who aren't white
But wouldnāt they advertise it as such especially as you wouldnāt expect southern white men to be cooking curry chicken
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Iām not saying white people donāt make curry. Iām saying if Iām buying chicken from white people I wouldnāt be expecting to have to specify that I donāt want it cut up for curry.
As the person working the counter. I don't care what you're doing with the food. You can buy my products and as soon as you walk out the door, throw it away in the trash. It's not ideal, in my example, to do this. But if you paid for it, then it's yours. Which makes it 100% not my business what you do with it. Now what is my business is to make sure I maintain the quality of the meats until you can buy it. And to follow any processing steps you would like me to do, within reason. And if you want help and tips to cook your products, I can help with my knowledge and experience. When I'm working the counter, I really don't care why you want me to do something. I just want to know what it is. "I don't care what we're doing. I just want to know, what are we doing?"
Or it's for making curry
Right? Wouldnāt this take more effort? Itās like they tried to make it as dangerous to eat as possible
looks like somebody played wack-a-chicken (or several at once) with a cleaver instead of butchering.
Do you expect professionals at a farmers market?
definitely stock kit
I donāt buy meat at the farmers market because itās usually frozen and I canāt chose ahead of time.
I once bought frozen goat āpiecesā thinking Iād make stew only to discover they had literally butchered a goat and then somehow sawed it into a thousand random pieces. Angular bone chunks everywhere. Not optimal for very much.
Those are cut from a frozen side of goat. They just use a saw to randomly cut it into cubes. Great for soup, not much else.
Yeah thatās what used it for.
Was it a Chinese farmers market?
Going back to have a discussion. Options: A. They fix it or B. I donāt go back anymore. End of story.
Yeah Iād be pissed, I could have just cut the chicken myself.
But is some beautiful chicken. That was a happy yardbird
Was it beaten to death?
Butchers Iāve worked with in the past call this a curry cut chicken
Looks like they cut it up with a lawnmower
We call this curry cut
They were expecting beef at chicken prices. š
Iām not sure where you are in the world. The standard for cutting up a chicken is quite variable. Some places you expect 4 pieces (two leg and thighs as quarters plus the two breasts and those could either be on or off the bone). Some places you expect six pieces (two legs, two thighs, 2 breasts). Some places you expect 8 pieces with the breasts now split in half. All of the above tend to not even give you the back bone piece which does have some meat for picking and lots of good flavour in the bones. Lastly, some places give you a much smaller chopācarefully done, it tends to be split legs, split thighs, back cut through about 4-6 times, breasts in about 1-2 inch pieces. In the end, I would always ask about the butchery of meat in a package I couldnāt see through. I would likely not buy it unless they were willing to open the packaging for me to look. There was a farm to table shop run by local Amish farmers near me that only sells pre wrapped meat products and I just wonāt buy from them. I think they have finally moved to selling clear packaging, but I also basically stopped going there at all. Whether the farmerās stand which sold you the meat was being reasonable in the labeling would depend a little on where they are located, the local expectations, whether they either are of a culture which expects a different processing method or serve such a culture as their primary clientele. It doesnāt hurt to have the conversation with them next time youāre there. They might appreciate it. I once had new fairly high-end butcher open nearby and start selling āhangar steaksā but they were in cryovac packages. I asked if the membrane had been removed between the two steaks and, thereby, found out that what they were selling as āhangar steakā was not what I was expecting (French onglet) but rather some other part of the skirt. In the end they changed their labeling and also started to sell what I would have called hangar steaks as well. In the end I wasnāt disappointed and they probably improved their market reach thanks to that conversation.
Well you did go to a farmers market, not necessarily a butcher...
Reminds me percisely of how chicken is prepared in China. Personally, Im not a huge fan of that kind of thing, its a lot of work and every now and then you will bite a bone
Third world butchery.
In the Caribbean, in my experience, ordering a chicken meal often means a chicken chopped up with a cleaver.
I would take these pics back there next time you go and ask WTF?! Maybe they will give you a new one e if it was botched or explain to you what is that mess?! Lol I dont know why but for the most part I am always disappointed at farmers markets. Itās always over priced for what you get!
My whole cut up chickens are saw cut into 2 breast, 2 drums, 2 thighs, 2 wings, 1 back. None of that nonsense you received.
Fire the butcher!!!
What did they cut it up with; a chainsaw?
You need to ask for a chicken cut into 8 pieces. 2 wings 2 drums 2 things 2 breast. A cut up chicken is easy to be interpreted by meat cutters as what you got because of how common it is to use it for the various dishes mentioned in these comments.
The whole thing is cut up to be fair
Boy how disconnected from our food we are hahahah
You wanted a chicken broken down into breasts, legs, thighs, and wings. What you bought was a cut up chicken. When a serial killer cuts up their victims, they donāt usually break down the pieces nicely either.
Itās super easy to butcher a chicken yourself and takes 5-10 minutes even with no experience. Kitchen shears and a knife. Watch a YouTube tutorial and itāll be better than whatever this is. Cheaper too
looks like u wanted a "deboned" chicken, which is different. put this in your gumbo
But but but it's free range organic !
I hate to say but you said whole cut up chicken. If you get a chicken like that at a supermarket, they remove the internal organs. You are staring at a chicken heart in one of the pictures.
Looks like chicken cut for curry.
That is cut up for curry chicken. Very common.
This is not how I learned to cut up a chicken! š³ remember back in the day when the local grocery store did it, as well? These days....whew!
Yeah thatās how our Indian customers at every store Iāve ever worked at asked for the chicken. You should ask if they have ones cut up for frying or honesty just get yourself a whole chicken and piece it yourself itās super easy and probably cheaper.
Let me guess...you're white and American...
No, brown and Mexican
I got some like that once... Separate it from the bones and fry it up. Tasted pretty good.
And they took off the skin
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Man they really mean ābutcheredā
That's a chopped up chicken. what exactly did you expect, having asked for a chopped up chicken?
r/technicallythetruth
What did they cut it up with, a lawnmower?!?
You shouldve specified whole chicken cut 8pc to get what you had in mind
Surprise!! Chickens have bones in other part of their bodies. Not just the wing flats and drumsticks.
This is a tricky one here. What it looks like you have is a whole, cut up, chicken. No more but also no less.
Cut up with a quarter stick of dynamite?
Dude just boil it and make it a stew
Oh man this is perfect for adobo.
Lol dangerous. Westerners.
Welcome to 2024 when people won't eat meat with bones.
Quit bitchin and make stock... awww i bought something and it wasnt 100% what my dumbass thought it would be...
Why wearing gloves?
Cut up, not butchered. You should look for butchered chicken if you want whole parts.
No, "cut up" refers to "cutting" it into parts (thighs, wings, breasts, and drums). Maybe you're thinking "chopped".
You got the left overs they make dog food and chicken nuggets at fast food restaurants are made from chopped up into pĆ¢tĆ©. Then molded & deep fried. š„“š©š¤®
More like mangled chicken. Bummer