/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>15341990
Because you basically admitted to it in the OP.

>>15341990
based. drumsticks are the worst of the 4 cuts.

If grilled properly it makes for an excellent starter. Plebs.

I think everyone knows by now that thighs are best cut of chicken for every application. Fatty dark meat that tastes best and has best texture.
Breast is nice if its cooked well and its lean but its easy to overcook to be dry garbage.
Drumsticks are a necessary evil, they're alright.
Wings go straight into making stock, fuck those.

>>15341990
>paying extra for watered down stock w/out collagen
enjoy the alzheimers and osteoporosis

>>15341990
At least they’re dark meat. Plus I like the extra skin and cartilage they’re good for gnawing on.

>>15342037
Breast is for making things like curry, where you drown the meat in so much liquid and spice that the identity of the meat is almost irrelevant, and you just want to get some extra protein into the dish.
Wings have a very high skin to meat ratio, which makes them good for frying and saucing

>>15341990
>OP doesn't know how to cook chicken legs
Damn I knew first worlders were stupid but have some dignity son

>>15341990
>>15342020
This is absolute truth. All those disgusting tendons and grizzle. Hands down the worst cut of poultry.

>>15342020
>>15342272
thighs are the best

>>15342272
>All those disgusting tendons and grizzle.
This means you get your fat and collagen from other sources, processed and trans-saturated I'm guessing. If you ate a healthy diet, the fat/skin, and gristle wouldn't disgust you.

>>15342020
>>15342037
>drumsticks
those are chicken wings in the OP

>>15342298
The fat and skin is all good. I love that, but the drumsticks have nasty bits.

>>15342307
>those are chicken wings in the OP
chicken wings have 2 components - flats AND drumsticks. I prefer the flats.

>>15341990
>drumsticks
>dry

I prefer the thighs, but good lord anon, how badly are you overcooking these?

I like em cuz they’re like meat lollipops, it comes with its own handle. A thigh is objectively harder to bite into

>>15342308
That's why you crack/fracture the bones and stew that shit down until it's liquefied goodness.

>>15342374
if im making soup, sure. But for most dishes, thats no what i'm doing.

Drumsticks are great, there's are all that cooked on flavor at the ends of the bone you get to gnaw at and the crunchy cartilage. And yeah the meat is a bit firmer but there's enough fat that it isn't like overcooked breast, it isn't dry. Not everything needs to be fork tender and juicy as a peach, sometimes it's nice to have some resistance, where you need to bite and tug and gnaw, exert a bit of force. And maybe you have to wash your face a little when you're done. It's fun.

>>15341990
>he doesn't eat cartilage
rich suburb baby detected

Cartilage makes for great soup.

>>15342037
>left a package of chicken thighs in the fridge a little longer than should've
>open the pack and do the sniff test, rancid
>fast-forward a couple of weeks and try to make chicken thighs again with fresh pack
>tastes rancid
>try again with pack bought that same day
>rancid
I can't eat chicken thighs without tasting that same shit, it's always this same gross taste in them. Don't get it with restaurant chicken thighs at all, just whatever I buy from the store. Washing the chicken doesn't help either.

>>15342516
>Amerifat food standards

>>15342516
the chickens actually fine, you're suffering from psychosomatic reaction where you associate home chicken thighs with a particular smell
if you ask someone else how they taste they'll say its fine

>>15342516
take your meds

>>15342516
You have Covid

is this the cooklet thread?

>>15342778
Every thread on /ck/ is a cooklet thread.

>>15342725
this been going on a good year or two pre-covid. Other people have chalked it up to me not liking a gamey flavor but never noticed it pre-rancid incident and other "gamey" meats don't taste like that at all

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