So I am standing at the meat counter in Whole Foods. I want some chicken for a BBQ.
They have a "100% natural chicken" and for a little more money they have an "organic" chicken. What is the difference, I ask.
"The "natural" chicken is from Washington and its fed corn. The "organic" chicken is from California and its fed soy. I think the corn chicken has more flavor."
Hmmm.
Buying local is good because there is less transportation but corn is evil and chickens dont naturally eat corn.
Chickens dont naturally eat soy either and its more expensive.
The natural chicken looks kind of yellow. The soy chicken looks kind of white or greenish white.
You are what you eat and so is chicken...
Hmmm.
So I bought them both and cooked them both in our Traeger grill.
20 minutes on high; 70 minutes on medium; 10 minutes on smoke; with regular basting.
Both chickens tasted good but the corn chicken was a little greasier. Maybe that is the flavor? The taste test was a draw because they both tasted good.
The difference came when I picked all the meat off the bones.
The organic chicken was perfect. Perfectly cooked. All the meat came of easily.
The corn chicken however still had pockets of uncooked fat inside. It was stringier and greasier even though the organic chicken was actually larger and they cooked for the same time.
So I will be sticking with my "no corn" rule and paying a little more for soy chickens in the future. Bon appetite.
