Brown chicken/turkey meat. WHY/HOW?

Sugarhunny1

Evening everyone,

I invested in a slow cooker a few months ago and rarely used it but have started over the holidays to really use it for other things apart from stews!

Tonight i cooked a turkey leg from tesco (99p!!!) and it was delicious! Lots of meat and it just fell off the bone (it was all brown though).

My question is.... why is some turkey/chicken meat brown? I am very squemish so don't want to know if its something horrible. Does that make sense? Hehe.

Sugar xxx

ariba10

It was Muscle: It was the part that did the work.

Sugarhunny1

ariba10 wrote: »

It was Muscle: It was the part that did the work.

And its fine to eat? I have a severe strange phobia and want to make sure its ok to eat. Sorry for sounding odd!

Sugar xxx

chalky_75

It is absolutely fine and by far the tastiest

Olliebeak

I buy diced turkey thigh for casseroles - that is brown meat and it's delicious! I use it as a substitute for any recipe that calls for chicken - much cheaper!

Loretta

The breast is white meat the rest is brown, the brown meat is the most tasty, once you have made it into a curry or something with a sauce or gravy you won't know what colour it is it will just taste delicious

You must get over your phobia - 99p for a turkey leg is a bargain!

lilmisskitkat

Just to be nosy - how did you cook it in your slow cooker? On its own or with veg etc? and what kind of liquid?

Also does it taste 'fatty' in any way? i usually only eat breast meat as i have a thing about meat tasting fatty/greasy but we need to use cheaper cuts as OH wont consider a meal without meat :rolleyes:

Thanks

Kate xxx

Skint_Catt

I've never been keen on the 'brown' meat from chicken either, but breast meat is flamin' expensive!

anonymousie

Brown meat on birds is brown because that muscle is designed to work differently- breast muscle has to sustain long effort but, I guess turkey legs don't need to work so hard-can't remember the details from undergraduate level (seemed soo irrelevent then!).

All is good meat and fine to eat. THe reason legs are cheap is exactly the reason you "have doubts" if just isn't as pretty on the plate and so less in demand.

Did you casserole it?