Can I boil a full chicken for several hours?
I know I can boil a chicken for about 30 minutes
I want to boil a chicken with vegetables, lemons and some spices for 3+ hours. Can I do it safely?
How is the chicken fat going to affect the texture/taste?
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After maybe 45 minutes to an hour, the chicken will be very soft and falling off the bones, the broth will have a strong but pleasant chicken flavor, and the lemons and vegetables will probably be completely depleted and disintegrated. This is usually a good start for home made chicken soup. At this point you'd probably strain it, let it cool, remove the meat from the bones and be left with soup.
After 3 hours the chicken meat will start to get mushy and disintegrate, the cartilage and connective tissue of the bones will also be melting and releasing gelatin into the broth, the vegetables will also disintegrate. This would result in a pretty strong chicken broth that is full of gelatin, which would be good once you strained everything else out.
If you did not remove the fat and skin from the chicken, the will mostly melt and leave rendered fat in the broth, but some of the skin will never melt and will remain with a very unappealing texture and flavor. The fat will generally float to the top and can be pretty easily removed once the broth cools.
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How long is too long to boil chicken?
As long as you cook it to 165 it won't be dry. Water boils at 212, so if you leave it in the water too long you will eventually overcook it and dry it out but start checking it at the 12 to 15 minute mark and you should be just fine.Can you overcook chicken boiling it?
The internal temperature should be 165\xb0. If they need more time check every 5 minutes. Don't let them overcook or they will become rubbery.Does boiling chicken for a long time make it tender?
Boiled chicken water = homemade chicken broth. Does chicken get more tender the longer you boil it? Yes, chicken will continue to become more tender as you boil it. However, once the chicken reaches 165\xb0F, it is likely to turn rubbery if you continue to boil.Can I boil whole chicken?
Put the whole chicken in a pot. Add thyme, curry powder, black pepper, onions, bay leaves, and salt. Add water into the pot to be on the same level as the chicken or an inch above the chicken. Cover the pot and leave the chicken to boil on medium then low heat for 45-55 minutes or until well cooked.How To Boil A Whole Chicken \u0026 Make It Tasty - Youtube
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If you intend to cook the chicken at a full rolling boil (submerged in water at approximately 100 degrees Celsius), there are no safety concerns with this. Your chicken, particularly the breast meat, will almost certainly be overcooked, resulting in meat that is more 'dry' and stringy than many people consider ideal. If you are serving the chicken in the broth, this may not be an issue.
However, you might be able to obtain similar or even superior results by reducing the cooking time drastically. Without knowing how you intend to serve the chicken, this is hard to predict
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