The most popular cut in the U.S. is boneless/skinless chicken breasts. I really struggle with this because it’s so wasteful and it highlights what is perhaps the least flavorful part of the chicken (a breast without skin). Nevertheless, farmers who want to diversify their offerings will typically come to boneless breast cuts first. This is…
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All the cooking shows show you to use poultry shears to cut chickens in half, but I’ve never met a pair of shears that I wanted to use more for more than 1 or 2 birds at a time. For farmers, creating value-added cuts from their pasture-raised meat birds, you can cut dozens of chickens…
Read MoreWhen you spatchcock a chicken or turkey, you butterfly it so that it lays flat on the grill or in the smoker. As a result it cooks faster and in a more uniform manner. If you want to wow your dinner or picnic friends, spatchcock that whole turkey (or chicken) and smoke it on indirect…
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