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The video starts by explaining that fat distribution and maturity of the fowl affect product quality. Mature birds are best cooked using moist heat, while dry heat is suitable for young birds. Key principles include cooking at low to moderate heat for flavor and tenderness, stuffing turkey and chicken immediately before roasting to prevent microbial contamination, and refrigerating cooked poultry promptly. It also advises using dry heat with fat to brown pale poultry meat and placing chicken breast-side down when roasting for juicier results. Basting can improve the palatability of lean poultry.
Food contamination is a serious public health issue. Common causes of food contamination and spoilage include improper refrigeration, insufficient heating or cooking, poor personal hygiene of workers, preparing food too far in advance, contaminated raw ingredients, cross-contamination from improperly cleaned equipment, failure to reheat foods to kill bacteria, and prolonged exposure to temperatures that favor bacterial growth.
Poultry can be cooked using either dry or moist heat methods, with the choice depending on the bird's age and fat content. Moist heat methods, such as those used for Filipino dishes like tinola and rellenong manok, can be applied to all classes of poultry. Dry heat methods are generally reserved for young, tender poultry like broilers, fryers, capons, and roasters. Older birds require moist cooking to tenderize them before dry heating.
This section details how to cut a whole chicken into parts. It involves cutting along the breast bone, separating skin, detaching wing and leg joints by pushing and cutting, and then repeating the process for the other side. This results in detached breast and wing sections, and leg quarters.
The deboning process begins by placing the chicken breast-side up, cutting off wing tips, and removing the wishbone. The bird is then flipped, and a cut is made along the backbone from neck to tail. Flesh and skin are carefully cut away from the bones, separating wing and thigh bones from the carcass while keeping them attached to the skin. The breast bone and carcass are pulled away, and curve bones near the wing are removed. Finally, tendons are cut from wing bones, and leg bone ends are cut off, with the leg bones then removed, leaving a completely deboned chicken with intact skin, ready for stuffing and roasting, such as for rellenong manok.