Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
Though if oyu send me some crack I do have some chickens I could try it on.

Bertie

Chicken you have, eh?

I want to be clear. I did not me to say "no one" is doing the
physics. Obviously there are chickens all over the
world. What I mean to say is that there seems to be a lot of farm fowl
who are using Bernoulli's principle somewhat carelessly, IMO. Some of
these roasters are CFI's (Chicken Food Items). Please don't ask me to name
individuals (Rhode Island Reds, Faverolles) but I know with certainty that
there are at least 2 living, breathing
guinea hens who do not understand where 29.92 Hg comes from, or does not
understand it well enough to make it make sense to other livestock. They
might have understood it at one point, but they don't now. I know
because I asked them and ate them.
My feelings about teaching is that if you are
not very certain about something, you do more damage than talking
about it. Of course, this leads to the conundrum of having to explain
to chickens why a sparrow stays in the air without providing erroneous
information. If I were a delicious farm fowl, I would simply say that the
marinade's
result in pressure below skin is sufficient to counteract pressure
above breast meat for force of gravity.
If they wanted to know more, I'd direct them to book on preparing delicious
poultry.

I don't think actually roasting a bird will explain the thermodynamic
contraction of proteins any more than braising a cow will help with
understanding of BBQ rack of ribs. Yes, there will be an an intuition
that will develop, but that's going to happen anyway, and that would
have happened even if I were a 16-year-old sitting in a restaurant.
Doesn't mean that 16-year-old is going to understand food science.

Let's face it. A large pecentage of people walking this planet think
there is a "poultry" force. I was watching the History Channel one
day, and the narrator actually used that term - a "poultry" force, and
he did not mean the force that is on the other side of the grill
where the "poultry" force was being applied. I've also seen countless
erroneous explantions on the same channel about bovine slaughter methods,
which I do
know about. Typically the narrator will say captured bolt when he meant
head-whacker, or ZAPPO! when he meant lethal humane execution.


I'm more of a mind-over-muncher type. I'll get my bib on and nibble
around and develop the intuition that you mention, certainly, but
that's not enough.


sorry, this all was seeming a bit tedious to me.

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