Chill and Package Chickens

learning so we're to the last part of this process guys and what we have here are large poultry bags these are a little bit too big these will fit a whole dog a dog on pig in them but i want to use an extra large poultry bag for these extra large birds this bag shrinks up in water we have boiling water right here okay it's not quite boiling it's about 200 degrees you can see right there okay it's important that we get our water temperatures right 150 for scalding around 200 for this and here's what we're going to do we're going to take our chicken lower them down in the water just like so and get this bag hot it shrinks once it comes out so we count to about imaginary number about 15 or 20. get it nice and warm nice and hot okay and then we will use that spoon to hold it fully underwater fully submerged then we're going to lift it up just like so give her a squeeze give her a good twist like so dad's over here with a hog ring i use a metal hog ring plier okay hog rings are little metal pieces like this some people use zip ties the hog ring works much much better this is ready to go in the freezer you do not need to age your chicken or put it in the refrigerator for two days or any of that magical unicorn stuff that a lot of the hippie channels will tell you to do you don't have to do that you put