Jointing a chicken

coletteflaherty

Gona look into jointing a chicken. I have two in the freezer. Can I thaw them, then joint them, then freeze them in their separated portions? I'm guessing not, and that with the ones I've got, I should just use whole.

thriftlady_2

NO !! you mustn't refeeze meat unless you cook it first. Best thing is to joint it before you freeze it.

**purpleprincess**

coletteflaherty wrote:

Gona look into jointing a chicken. I have two in the freezer. Can I thaw them, then joint them, then freeze them in their separated portions? I'm guessing not, and that with the ones I've got, I should just use whole.

Don't defrost, chop, then freeze again :eek: . Best bet is to cook them whole this time, eat what you want and then freeze the leftovers for later use. Next time you buy a whole chicken joint it then. It really is so easy, I do it all the time!! Don't forget that you can make a stock with the remains of a whole cooked chicken!

make_life_easier

When you do a chicken in the slow cooker do you leave the skin on it??

**purpleprincess**

make_life_easier wrote:

When you do a chicken in the slow cooker do you leave the skin on it??

Up to you!! You can leave the skin on, cook it in the slow cooker and then towards the end shove it in the oven for a bit to crisp it up. Or cook it without!

make_life_easier

leave it alone!! it'll be fine later!! What setting is it on?

by purple princess

I thought it might leave the juice a bit fatty.

Also in a previous post you mentioned the water seal around the lid. I havn't got an instruction book is this correct and why. what if you only have a bit of water in does this still happen (I have noticed my meal which is still cooking has water around the top - so I must have done something right).

Also would it have helped if I had put boiling water in from the start?

Kazonline

Rats! I didn't read the date at the begining of this thread and was going to rush off to Tesco to get my BOGOF chickens
Hopefully by doing this post it'll save anyone who gets this far and still hasn't noticed it's an old thread! lol,
Kaz x

cupid_s

ronankfan wrote:

I have 6 chickens sitting in my freezer now !!!!!!!!

this made me laugh and think of when my sister found her cat in the fridge

make_life_easier

Kazonlin - I thought so too, I thought I would go tomorrow, thanks for pointing that out as I would have been going out of my way for nothing:beer:

cupid_s

cupid_stunt wrote:

this made me laugh and think of when my sister found her cat in the fridge

with chicken, once you've disjointed then and are left with the carcass boil it up and make soup. 2 carcasses/leftovers can make about 12 individual portions of soup