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Jb

Joined: 08 Jun 2005
Posts: 7761
Location: 91� N

Posted: Tue Nov 23, 10 10:15 pm Post subject: Hanging birds
Head up or down? does it matter and if so which? I didn't think it did and then someone said that they should always be hung head down (he didn't know why he just thought that was the case)

Gervase

Joined: 17 Nov 2004
Posts: 8655

Posted: Tue Nov 23, 10 10:42 pm Post subject:
Head up, by the neck. Upside down lets the putrescing guts bear down on the breast, risking tainting the meat.

Ruralnaedowell

Joined: 11 Nov 2010
Posts: 121
Location: Welshpool

Posted: Wed Dec 08, 10 11:32 pm Post subject:
The trip home in the footwell of the pickup with the heater on full blast will give you that gamey tang........ Cheers

Bebo

Joined: 21 May 2007
Posts: 12590
Location: East Sussex

Posted: Thu Dec 09, 10 8:55 am Post subject:
Head down for chickens so that the blood drains into the broken neck cavity. But you don't hang them for long like you do game birds. Game birds head up.

Bodger

Joined: 23 May 2006
Posts: 13524

Posted: Thu Dec 09, 10 9:59 am Post subject:
Thats spot on To be honest, I've never really been into the hanging of game and its not something that I do. I'd argue that game tends to be tastier than domestic poultry to start with, so why the need to quite literally let it go off a bit and in some cases, a lot? Does hanging game really enhance something thats already pretty tasty ?

cab

Joined: 01 Nov 2004
Posts: 32429

Posted: Thu Dec 09, 10 10:02 am Post subject:
Bebos advice is spot on, I've always hung that way. But I have heard the alternative view, that hanging breast down is better because you get more tenderisation of the breast meat. I don't believe thats true, but is the justification I've heard for that. The other thing I'll add is that, in my view, you just don't need long hanging for most game birds.

Bodger

Joined: 23 May 2006
Posts: 13524

Posted: Thu Dec 09, 10 10:12 am Post subject:
There are many ways to make pheasants tender. Do you remember this method ? https://forum.downsizer.net/about27732.html&highlight=pheasants

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