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This section outlines the steps in preparing poultry for cooking: slaughter and bleeding, scalding (in boiling water to facilitate feather removal), defeathering (removal of feathers), evisceration (removing internal organs), and deboning (removing bones).
The video introduces the topic of preparing poultry and game dishes. It highlights the increased poultry consumption in the Philippines and defines poultry as domesticated fowl like chicken, turkey, duck, pigeon, and quail, raised for meat and eggs. Game refers to wild birds hunted for food.
This section classifies various poultry and game birds, detailing what each is raised for. Categories include chicken (meat and eggs), duck (meat, eggs, feathers), turkey (meat), goose (meat, eggs, feathers), quail (meat and eggs), pigeons (meat), guinea fowl (meat), wild duck (meat and feathers), and pheasants (meat).
The video categorizes chickens by age, sex, and weight. It explains terms like broiler or fryer (young, tender chicken), roaster (5-6 months old), capon (desexed male), stag (male under 10 months), hen or stewing chicken (mature female), and cock or rooster (mature male). Other poultry types discussed include pecking duck, duck or itik, and squab (young pigeon).
This part details how to select good quality poultry. It covers live fowl (clear eyes, soft feet for young, thick feet for old), whole poultry (bled, defeathered, intact head/feet/viscera, well-fleshed), dressed poultry (bled, defeathered, visceral organs removed, smooth yellow skin), ready-to-cook poultry (cut up, marinated/seasoned), and poultry parts (packed and chilled/frozen).
The video discusses the nutritional value of poultry, emphasizing its high-quality proteins. Chicken, for example, contains 22.6% protein, 76.3% water, and traces of fat, vitamins, and minerals. It also differentiates between dark and white meat, noting that dark meat, found in frequently used parts like legs and thighs, is richer in fat and has higher riboflavin and myoglobin content. Variety meats like gizzard, heart, kidneys, and liver are also mentioned.
The video illustrates various cuts of poultry, including whole chicken, halves, breast quarters (with or without wing/back), split breast (with wing removed), boneless skinless breast, and eight-piece cut. It also details different parts of the chicken wing (drumette, midsection, tip) and leg (whole chicken leg, boneless skinless leg, thigh, boneless skinless thigh, drumstick), and giblets (heart, liver, neck).