I'm confused! In the RFC FAQ spatchcock is defined below. But I have many recipes where you spatchcock a chicken. In those recipes spatchcocking is basically butterflying the chicken by cutting out the backbone and flattening out the chicken prior to grilling/roasting. Used mostly as a time saver.
So which is it? A actual breed of fowl or a cooking method?
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I'm confused! In the RFC FAQ spatchcock is defined below. But I have many recipes where you spatchcock a chicken. In those recipes spatchcocking is basically butterflying the chicken by cutting out the backbone and flattening out the chicken prior to grilling/roasting. Used mostly as a time saver.
So which is it? A actual breed of fowl or a cooking method?
According to the dictionary, it is the splitting open of a dressed chicken prior to cooking. Here is the link: dictionary.reference.comsearchOpen ↗
On Tue, 22 Jun 2004 12:46:33 GMT, hahabogus <[email hidden]>
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I'm confused! In the RFC FAQ spatchcock is defined below. But I have many recipes where you spatchcock a chicken. In those recipes spatchcocking is basically butterflying the chicken by cutting out the backbone and flattening out the chicken prior to grilling/roasting. Used mostly as a time saver.
So which is it? A actual breed of fowl or a cooking method?
A 'Spatchcock' is a young chicken as well as a preparation method, the later being the more familiar. I think spatchcock, the actual bird, is/was a mostly British-ism.
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I'm confused! In the RFC FAQ spatchcock is defined below. But I have many recipes where you spatchcock a chicken. In those recipes spatchcocking is basically butterflying the chicken by cutting out the backbone and flattening out the chicken prior to grilling/roasting. Used mostly as a time saver.
So which is it? A actual breed of fowl or a cooking method?
If a recipe calls for spatchcocks, you can use Cornish game hens
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Spatchcocking is the butterflying method you mention - perhaps it's one of those things where the verb is now the noun...English language, ever changing. ;-)
I'm confused! In the RFC FAQ spatchcock is defined below. But I have many recipes where you spatchcock a chicken. In those recipes spatchcocking is basically butterflying the chicken by cutting out the backbone and flattening out the chicken prior to grilling/roasting. Used mostly as a time saver.
So which is it? A actual breed of fowl or a cooking method?
www.dictionary.com spatchcock
n : flesh of a chicken (or game bird) split down the back and grilled
Go to www.google.com toggle the "images" tab and enter spatchcock into the search box. The very first image you get is a spatchcocked bird on a webber grill.
I'm confused! In the RFC FAQ spatchcock is defined below. But I have many recipes where you spatchcock a chicken. In those recipes spatchcocking is basically butterflying the chicken by cutting out the backbone and flattening out the chicken prior to grilling/roasting.
Indeed, and you can also split the breastbone instead.
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Used mostly as a time saver.
Not only. In such recipes as the Georgian/Armenian chicken tapaka (chicken under press) and the Italian pollo al mattone (chicken under bricks) the method is essential and not just a time saver. The results are very pleasing indeed.
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So which is it? A actual breed of fowl or a cooking method?
If a recipe calls for spatchcocks, you can use Cornish game hens
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In my personal experience in England, the word 'spatchcock' is occasionally used as a synonym of 'poussin' or 'young (or baby) chicken'. The entry was put in the FAQ by Amy Gale, a Kiwi, which makes me think the term is/was used likewise in NZ. The entry is still there mostly for nostalgic reasons.
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I'm confused! In the RFC FAQ spatchcock is defined below. But I have many recipes where you spatchcock a chicken. In those recipes spatchcocking is basically butterflying the chicken by cutting out the backbone and flattening out the chicken prior to grilling/roasting. Used mostly as a time saver.
So which is it? A actual breed of fowl or a cooking method?
According to the dictionary, it is the splitting open of a dressed chicken prior to cooking.
Wouldn't that damage it's clothing? I'd probably spatchcock my chicken naked (the chicken not me).
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I'm confused! In the RFC FAQ spatchcock is defined below. But I have many recipes where you spatchcock a chicken. In those recipes spatchcocking is basically butterflying the chicken by cutting out the backbone and flattening out the chicken prior to grilling/roasting. Used mostly as a time saver.
So which is it? A actual breed of fowl or a cooking method?
If a recipe calls for spatchcocks, you can use Cornish game hens
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Spatchcocking is the butterflying method you mention - perhaps it's one of those things where the verb is now the noun...English language, ever changing. ;-)
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UK supermarkets sell spatchcocked small chickens, usually poussins. The birds have been split, flattened and cross- skewered into shape for grilling. Not certain if small game birds are also sold that way.
I'm confused! In the RFC FAQ spatchcock is defined below. But I have many recipes where you spatchcock a chicken. In those recipes spatchcocking is basically butterflying the chicken by cutting out the backbone and flattening out the chicken prior to grilling/roasting.
Indeed, and you can also split the breastbone instead.
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Used mostly as a time saver.
Not only. In such recipes as the Georgian/Armenian chicken tapaka (chicken under press) and the Italian pollo al mattone (chicken under bricks) the method is essential and not just a time saver. The results are very pleasing indeed.
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So which is it? A actual breed of fowl or a cooking method?
If a recipe calls for spatchcocks, you can use Cornish game hens
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In my personal experience in England, the word 'spatchcock' is occasionally used as a synonym of 'poussin' or 'young (or baby) chicken'.
Yes only occasionally. Normally the bird must be split and skewered for the term to be used.
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The entry was put in the FAQ by Amy Gale, a Kiwi, which makes me think the term is/was used likewise in NZ. The entry is still there mostly for nostalgic reasons.
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> I'm confused! In the RFC FAQ spatchcock is defined > below. But I have many recipes where you spatchcock a > chicken. In those recipes spatchcocking is basically > butterflying the chicken by cutting out the backbone > and flattening out the chicken prior to > grilling/roasting. Used mostly as a time saver.
Not so much a time saver as a way to assure even cooking. A spatchcocked chicken is about the same thickness throughout. It would cook at the same rate that way.
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> So which is it? A actual breed of fowl or a cooking > method?
According to the dictionary, it is the splitting open of a dressed chicken prior to cooking.
Wouldn't that damage it's clothing? I'd probably spatchcock my chicken naked (the chicken not me).
But there lies the irony. A dressed chicken is actually naked. Who makes up this stuff?
