What is the difference between a fryer and a broiler chicken

Many love them for chicken and dumplings and wonderfully flavored soups. Regardless of how you cook the stewing hens, the most amazing golden yellow fat rises to the surface. So clear, radiant and beautiful. It reminds us of the color of our egg yolks.

Clearly, these hens are concentrating some delicious nutrition, including omega-3s, from the pasture, hay and organic grain and offering it back to us. From our processing this week, we saw the thick layer of bright yellow fat in these hens. On some of them you have the option to just remove a big chunk of bright yellow fat and render it directly.

More thoughts: How to Cook a Stewing Hen and why you should! Schmaltz from our stew hens as a great cooking oil.

Roasting, however, insures that the heat permeates. They that have been developed to lay the eggs that become the broilers. They start laying at 7 months; at 14 or 15 months, when their productive life is finished, they are sold as older roasters; they weigh around 5 pounds.

Stewing hens are the chickens that have been developed to lay the eggs we eat on the table. They start laying at 5 months; at 17 months, when their productive life is finished, they are sold as stewing hens; they weigh around 3 pounds. While older roasters or stewing hens can be roasted, the council recommends moist-roasting, braising or stewing because the meat of both older roasters and stewing hens is tougher.

Some people prefer these birds because they believe that they have more distinctive flavors. Incidentally, either of these birds is best for chicken soup. They are allowed to grow to about 10 pounds in 12 weeks. Their flavor is that of a young roaster, but they are several pounds larger. Of course, most of us are limited by what we have available at our local supermarkets, so even if you can't get air chilled chickens or chickens that are "fryers" which, ironically, are just fine baked, they're just smaller it's good to know the differences, and what you'll pay to put a tastier meal on the table at the end of the day.

Hit the link below to learn more. Photo by Callie Reed. If you are going to put a chicken in your oven, and the chicken came with one of those little pop-up "done" indicators - throw the pop-up away and use a decent thermometer. The A. By Alan Henry.