Is it better to eat cock or hen?

As an edible meat second only to pork, there are many ways to eat chicken. There is a folk saying that old hens are used for stewing chickens and cocks are used for cooking. Many people don't know why. This article will talk about why there is such a statement.

In fact, the reason why the stewed chicken uses the old hen is because the old hen has lived for many years and contains more nutrients. If you simmer slowly, the influence of the old hen will gradually be released into the soup. If you use some drugs to make a medicated diet, it will be a tonic to eat. In the folk, only rural areas will raise local chickens. Because of the uniqueness of their feeding methods and the fact that chickens are raised in rural areas to place orders, the influence of such hens will be higher than that of feed chickens, so there is a saying that old hens are used to stew stew meat.

But many restaurants simply don't pay that much attention. An old hen costs more than 200 yuan, and dozens of ordinary stewed chickens. How can people treat you with an old hen? And the cost price of an old hen is so high that not many people can afford it.

The reason why the rooster is used for cooking is because the meat of the rooster is somewhat different from that of the hen. Its meat quality and living habits will taste better if fried with its meat. But this is not absolute. Those sauteed chickens, braised chicken rice and chicken are all fried. How many of them do you think use cocks? Many chicken farms will give priority to hens when raising feed chickens, and will not kill and sell them when they are eliminated.

Therefore, if you want to eat authentic fried chicken, it must be fried chicken made by the rooster, but this does not mean that the fried chicken made by the hen is unpalatable, but relatively speaking, it tastes worse, and the hen has more fat, so the fried chicken will be very greasy, while the rooster has less fat, so the fried chicken will be better.

Therefore, there is such a saying among the people, but this practice is generally done by individuals and families or relatively high-end hotels. Ordinary hotels and small shops don't pay attention to this at all. Everything depends on the cost. It doesn't matter what kind of chicken is used. If the cost is high, they must be cheap chickens.