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All about adopted foods
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Just watched Poh's Kitchen yesterday.
Has anyone tried Turducken?
Seems to be popular in the eastern OZ states. In Perth, it is called a Quintet because it is a turkey that has a duck inside then a chicken then a spatchcock or a quail.
machiam english's cockentrice.. interesting!
Capon
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A capon is a rooster that has been castrated to improve the quality of its flesh for food.
The Romans are credited with inventing the capon. The Lex Faunia of 162 BCE forbade fattening hens in order to conserve grain rations. In order to get around this the Romans castrated roosters, which resulted in a doubling of size.[1] European gastronomic texts of the past dealt largely with capons, as the ordinary chicken of the farmyard was regarded as peasant fare, "popular malice crediting monks with a weakness for capons."[2]
[edit]Effects of Caponization
Caponization is the process of turning a cockerel (rooster) into a capon. Caponization can be done by surgically removing the rooster's testes, or may also be accomplished through the use of estrogen implants. With either method, the sex hormones normally present in roosters are no longer effective. Caponization must be done before the rooster matures, so that it develops without the influence of sex hormones.
Capons, due to the lack of sex hormones, are not as aggressive as normal roosters. This makes capons easier to handle, and allows capons to be kept together with other capons since their reduced aggressiveness prevents them from fighting.
The lack of sex hormones results in meat that is less gamy in taste. Capon meat is also more moist, tender, and flavorful than that of a hen or rooster, which is due not only to the hormonal differences during the capon's development but is also due to the fact that capons are not as active as roosters, which makes their meat more tender and fatty.[3]
Capons develop a smaller head, comb, and wattle than that of a normal rooster.
Capons are fairly rare in industrial meat production. Chickens raised for meat are bred and raised so that they mature very quickly. Industrial chickens can be sent to market in as little as five weeks. Capons produced under these conditions will taste very similar to conventional meat, making their production somewhat pointless.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A capon is a rooster that has been castrated to improve the quality of its flesh for food.
The Romans are credited with inventing the capon. The Lex Faunia of 162 BCE forbade fattening hens in order to conserve grain rations. In order to get around this the Romans castrated roosters, which resulted in a doubling of size.[1] European gastronomic texts of the past dealt largely with capons, as the ordinary chicken of the farmyard was regarded as peasant fare, "popular malice crediting monks with a weakness for capons."[2]
[edit]Effects of Caponization
Caponization is the process of turning a cockerel (rooster) into a capon. Caponization can be done by surgically removing the rooster's testes, or may also be accomplished through the use of estrogen implants. With either method, the sex hormones normally present in roosters are no longer effective. Caponization must be done before the rooster matures, so that it develops without the influence of sex hormones.
Capons, due to the lack of sex hormones, are not as aggressive as normal roosters. This makes capons easier to handle, and allows capons to be kept together with other capons since their reduced aggressiveness prevents them from fighting.
The lack of sex hormones results in meat that is less gamy in taste. Capon meat is also more moist, tender, and flavorful than that of a hen or rooster, which is due not only to the hormonal differences during the capon's development but is also due to the fact that capons are not as active as roosters, which makes their meat more tender and fatty.[3]
Capons develop a smaller head, comb, and wattle than that of a normal rooster.
Capons are fairly rare in industrial meat production. Chickens raised for meat are bred and raised so that they mature very quickly. Industrial chickens can be sent to market in as little as five weeks. Capons produced under these conditions will taste very similar to conventional meat, making their production somewhat pointless.
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Lobsters prices are down!! $25-30 per kilo.
And I ask my bogan-like angmo colleagues why they do not like lobsters, they say it is like eating spiders. Yuck!
No wonder these people use lobster meats as baits before the Greeks/Italians/Chinese discovered and stopped their stupid practices.
New Zealand also hit by blocking of lobster exports to China
Friday, 03/12/2010
A Free Trade Agreement hasn't stopped Chinese authorities interrupting rock lobster exports from New Zealand.
Exports from Australia and New Zealand through Hong Kong were blocked without explanation two weeks ago.
In both countries, lobster prices have crashed, while fishermen have struggled to balance the need to generate cash flow with saving their quota for later in the season when the situation is resolved.
Darryl Sykes, from the New Zealand Rock Lobster Industry Council, says the FTA with China only offers Kiwi fishermen a slight advantage in this situation.
"We've still got to pay VAT on the product that lands in the country, but we're not liable for import duty, so that is the advantage," he said.
"But we can't capitalise on the difficulty that Australia is experiencing. We can't manufacture any more fish."
And I ask my bogan-like angmo colleagues why they do not like lobsters, they say it is like eating spiders. Yuck!
No wonder these people use lobster meats as baits before the Greeks/Italians/Chinese discovered and stopped their stupid practices.
New Zealand also hit by blocking of lobster exports to China
Friday, 03/12/2010
A Free Trade Agreement hasn't stopped Chinese authorities interrupting rock lobster exports from New Zealand.
Exports from Australia and New Zealand through Hong Kong were blocked without explanation two weeks ago.
In both countries, lobster prices have crashed, while fishermen have struggled to balance the need to generate cash flow with saving their quota for later in the season when the situation is resolved.
Darryl Sykes, from the New Zealand Rock Lobster Industry Council, says the FTA with China only offers Kiwi fishermen a slight advantage in this situation.
"We've still got to pay VAT on the product that lands in the country, but we're not liable for import duty, so that is the advantage," he said.
"But we can't capitalise on the difficulty that Australia is experiencing. We can't manufacture any more fish."
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Where there is food, we need music too. Eating when music is playing is like heavens.
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