roast Chicken

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Roast chicken is a synonym for chicken , broiler , chicken or chicken. Roast chicken is both a term for a broiler chicken that has already been slaughtered and for a roast chicken . These are special fattening breeds and their hybrids with a live weight of up to 1550 grams and an age of 35 - 40 days, i.e. before reaching sexual maturity. Despite the term chicken , it can also be a female. An exception are the roasters , male broilers that are fattened for up to 70 days to reach a slaughter weight of four kilos; Various products are made from their meat. The chickens have a tender, white meat, a thin skin with little subcutaneous fat. The process of the sternum, ischium and pubic bone are still flexible and elastic at this age.

Sales names

According to the ordinance on legal trade classes for slaughtered poultry and poultry parts, chickens in Germany are divided into roast chickens (chickens) and soup chickens . In Austria the sales description is instead "young (fattening) chickens" and soup chickens .

While in the Austrian cuisine , the fried chicken is preferred has in German cuisine developed the fried or grilled chicken since the 19th century's most popular chicken dish which now mainly to food stalls sold cooked ready. For a long time, fried chicken was the most popular dish of the Wienerwald restaurant chain . A quick way to fry a chicken is called a spatchcock in English .

  • Live broilers

  • Chicken ready to roast

  • Roasted chicken

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Herrmann, F. Jürgen: Textbook for cooks . Handwerk und Technik, Hamburg 1999, ISBN 3-582-40055-7 , p. 224 .
  2. ↑ Dudenredaktion: Duden - German Universal Dictionary: The comprehensive dictionary of meanings in contemporary German . Bibliographisches Institut GmbH, 2016, ISBN 978-3-411-91171-4 ( google.de [accessed on July 12, 2019]).
  3. ↑ a b Reinhard Fries, Volker Bergmann, Karsten Fehlhaber: Practice of poultry meat inspection . Schlütersche, 2001, ISBN 978-3-87706-591-4 , p. 17 ( google.de [accessed on July 13, 2019]).
  4. ↑ a b poultry: chicken, duck, goose & Co. In: Federal Center for Nutrition (BZfE). Retrieved July 12, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Definitions for labeling. In: Federal Law Gazette. Retrieved July 13, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Austrian Food Code: A.7.1 description. Retrieved July 13, 2019 .

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