Understanding Poultry & Bird Game

The versatility, the popularity and the relatively low cost of poultry items make them ideal for all kinds of food service operations, from elegant restaurants to cafeterias and fast-food restaurants. Also chicken and turkey are popular among diet concious people because they are lower in fat and cholesterol than other meat.

Game bird such as pheasant, are also increasing in popularity and availability because they are now raised domestically by many producers. Farm-raised game birds are similar, in many ways, to chicken, so learning techniques for cooking and handling chicken teaches you a great deal about handling these other birds as well.

Learning about poultry is, in some ways, easier than learning about meats like beef and lamb. Because chicken, turkey and other poultry are much smaller, they are not cut up in such details.

However, poultry has its own cooking problems, so it is important to observe both the similarities and the differences between meat and poultry.