John Westfield

I'm a lifelong cooking enthusiast with a special love for strange and underused ingredients. I hope this blog helps open your mind to more of the wonderful edible treasures around us.

Why marinate chicken in buttermilk?

Smoked Chicken Brine Recipe Ingredients1 whole chicken1 gallon of water (or enough to completely submerge your chicken)3/4 cup salt1 cup sugar1 tablespoon of pepper1 tablespoon of cayenne. A question we ran across in our research was “What does buttermilk do to the chicken when soaking overnight?”. Ingredients10 – 12 cuts of chicken2 cups buttermilk4 cups …

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Do chickens have fingers?

Right, let’s get something clear off the top. Chickens do not have fingers. They have wings, so they don’t have arms, hands, digits, fingers, anything like that. How many fingers does a chicken God have? The vast majority of other chickens have 4 toes on each foot. When you have pet quality Silkies or Silkie …

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Are chickens gmo?

A number of factors go into raising larger, healthier birds than ever before, but genetically modifying chickens to be larger isn’t one of them! There are no GMO chickens commercially available, period. In fact, there are not currently any genetically modified animals commercially available. There has been no scientific evidence of any compromise to animal …

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