The war on Chicken

[Swoop]

Chickens are good people.

A little insulting to the French, but "meh".

There's a conspiracy, I'm just not sure what it is yet.

Our regular supplier will be walking past soon with an entire boxload of options to choose from.
Take your pick. Perhaps a middle eastern bunch of people?

[Akzle]

Dehydration can be severe, for obvious reasons, and leads to or worsens other symptoms such as cramps, gut-ache and headache.

Rehydration helps though - not beer, not lashings of warm tea, definitely not that expensive blue water in a squeezy bottle with a nipple.

Dissolve 6 level teaspoons of sugar plus 1/2 level teaspoon of salt in a litre of clean water (recently boiled water is good as it is relatively sterile and the warmth helps the sugar and salt dissolve). If in doubt, use less sugar and especially less salt, or more water.

Try to replace the fluids you are losing, roughly volume-for-volume.

It works at the gym too, or on a long summer day's ride in the leathers.

err, whilst a spoon full of sugar help the medicine go down, it tends to feed the disease, before your body, and being about the shortest chain carbohydrate it isn't all that good for your body anyway.

electrolyte, is what you want. sodium bicarbonate. salt (sodium chloride) can help, but too much ends up diuretic and counter productive. trace minerals too, magnesium and zinc especially

apparently eating clay is good too. presumably one of the sodium ones like bentonite.

[HenryDorsetCase]

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It's a bit sad that TV is riddled with reality cooking programs (mainly shite) but the ability of the proles to cook is actually getting worse.

indeed. I am a big fan of roasting le chicken on the barbecue. We dont buy supermarket meat because we have an award winning butcher five minutes walk away.

Here is a roast chicken that looks like an ad for roast chicken.

[Bass]

My time in the meat industry was enlightening. Specifically, how prolific the bugs are.
For bug tests on the end of the killing line (arguably as clean as it will ever be after a knife going in), 100,000 bugs per square centimetre was good quality - reject was 1 million.

[eldog]

apparently eating clay is good too. presumably one of the sodium ones like bentonite.

Had all the stock of bentonite grease in the country recently. Didn't know know about it contained sodium..

I wouldn't eat the grease though.

[Akzle]

Had all the stock of bentonite grease in the country recently. Didn't know know about it contained sodium..

I wouldn't eat the grease though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bentonite

huh, reading through that, perhaps calcium bentonite. something to do with evil having positive ions, calcium bentonite, being negatively charged binds the evil and excretes it.

down the page it mentions it's a bulk laxative, so, errr...

grease you say?
gimmie some, for science.

[Akzle]

link at bottom of wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicinal_clay

[Akzle]

and THAT link would suggest kaolinite.

[george formby]

indeed. I am a big fan of roasting le chicken on the barbecue. We dont buy supermarket meat because we have an award winning butcher five minutes walk away.

Here is a roast chicken that looks like an ad for roast chicken.

A real bbq, too! I applaud your efforts. My chook is usually spatchcocked. If you put water into your tray rather than kitty litter it helps to crisp the chicken skin and you can have herbs floating around in it to make you salivate more as it cooks.

Be careful with those pre-formed briquettes. Quite a few of them contain coal.

Top job that man, you must have a palate.

You obviously love your grill rack... As Bernard Matthews used to say, bootiful.

[GazzaH]

err, whilst a spoon full of sugar help the medicine go down, it tends to feed the disease, before your body, and being about the shortest chain carbohydrate it isn't all that good for your body anyway.

electrolyte, is what you want. sodium bicarbonate. salt (sodium chloride) can help, but too much ends up diuretic and counter productive. trace minerals too, magnesium and zinc especially

apparently eating clay is good too. presumably one of the sodium ones like bentonite.

Nah. Sugar is needed to get the salt into the gut cells, which then draws the water in, and Bob's yer uncle.

Simple oral rehydration therapy saves a huge number of lives in the third world, using basic readily-available measures (such as the iconic glass Coke bottle) and supplies. It works in NZ too.

Add a mashed up banana for potassium and flavour if you like. Provided the sickness and diarrhoea calms down within a day or two, you'll be fine on the usual 'balanced diet' (fries on one side of the plate, burger on the other).

[Honest Andy]

Be careful with those pre-formed briquettes. Quite a few of them contain coal.

Really? I never considered the possibility. How do you (I) tell? Is it still a problem if you've got them real ashy before cooking? (they're not properly hot till then anyway). I almost always use briquettes, 'cos they don't fall out of the chimney-starter

My favourite thing to do isn't chicken, it's lamb flaps, closely followed by xmas ham. mmmmm....

[cc rider]

... yes, I've warned her of the risks.

Both of us are currently recovering from her last error of judgement. But she'll do it again....

So you'll be cooking the chook in the future Grumph? You are a good man.

[Grumph]

So you'll be cooking the chook in the future Grumph? You are a good man.

Thank you...Not enough knew that, LOL. Yes, I'd be cooking it. I'm a better cook than 'er anyway. She only buys supermarket chicken to avoid cooking it herself as she likes chicken more than I do. I'd live on beef given a choice.

[george formby]

Really? I never considered the possibility. How do you (I) tell? Is it still a problem if you've got them real ashy before cooking? (they're not properly hot till then anyway). I almost always use briquettes, 'cos they don't fall out of the chimney-starter

My favourite thing to do isn't chicken, it's lamb flaps, closely followed by xmas ham. mmmmm....

Ones with coal in burn sootier and you can smell it. Dirty exhaust smell. They soot up the bbq noticeaby, too. Dirty smoke is a give away, too.

I would think that when the coals are white most of the noxious stuff has gone.

I only use South African or Aussie charcoal, not the Chinese stuff in the plain white bags. I'm still a bit skeptical of some of the Aussie stuff, a few bags of natural I've used look like it's made from planks which makes me think of treated timber. I may just be overthinking it..

Beef cheeks and mammoth pork hocks......

[Akzle]

https://wikihow.com/Make-Charcoal

not hard, my recommendation would be to punch a single hole in the top of your drum (/paint can, if doing small bits), it will flare off, (you can reclaim this with plumbing - it's methanol. just don't let the police know you've got it because it's illegal without paperwork.) once it stops flaring it's done. cover the hole and cool slowly.

lots charcoal. cheap. and an excuse to bonfire and beer.