Cooking Chicken - Page 2

kuan · #16 01-17-2002, 03:35 PM

In biology class we used to zap dead frogs with electricity to see how the nervous system worked. Not a very nice experience. We used to slit the neck and drain the blood from the chicken by pumping the heart while holding the neck back. About those eggs, the one with the red blood in the yolk is a fertilized one. Halfway to being balut... or are you sure that's not what you were eating?

Kuan

kokopuffs · #17 01-17-2002, 03:37 PM

Heads up, Afra. The residual blinking and flapping occur, all due to neurologic chemical reactions ongoing within the spinal cord and peripheral nerves (that go to the various body parts) after the head has been severed. The movements subside because the chemicals haven't been replenished.

Similar post-mortem movements have been noted among those who've been beheaded at the guillotine.

kuan · #18 01-17-2002, 03:41 PM

Gawsh we've really gone off track here. From how to cook chicken to beheading chickens. BTW, you're welcome koko

I wonder... would you be aware that you've been beheaded? At least for a split second? That must feel awful.

Kuan

PS: "Heads up Afra?"

LOL

kokopuffs · #19 01-18-2002, 08:48 AM

Kuan:

Beheadees have reportedly been requested to signal to their observers after the beheading that they were "perceptive" post-mortem. Observations of movements exhibited by the post-mortem head showed that they were, indeed, perceptive.

Is the head dead yet? Heaven only knows. Vocal communication by the post-mortem head was impossible but it seemed to gasp as though it were attempting to vocalize words. And, upon poking the eyes with pins, the face exhibited an astonished expression. Is the head dead yet or were these simple reflexes due to neurologic responses as opposed to conscious intervention?

Live_to_cook · #20 01-19-2002, 02:08 AM

Thanks for illustrating why I love coming here to learn about food and collect inspiration.

No, I'm not being sarcastic. A good chuckle is worth its weight in white truffles.

kokopuffs · #21 01-21-2002, 08:07 AM

I served such postings with the intent of being educational and informative! Food for thought!

Anneke · #22 01-21-2002, 04:48 PM

And you were Koko. Thoroughly!

..Thank you.

Rachel · #23 01-21-2002, 05:31 PM

yes Koko you were really informative! Is that what they teach at chiro school??Or are you behind the man beef site?

kokopuffs · #24 01-22-2002, 07:51 AM

I love you , too, Rachel. Having a degree in French from Berkeley I tend to be somewhat literate.

But no, at chiro school they teach us straight diagnosis, neurology, radiology, adjusting among other straight/hardcore sciences. The beheading information was, instead, gleaned from a book whose title is something along the lines of "Interesting Medical Occurrences" - I forgot the exact title.

Rachel · #25 01-22-2002, 05:32 PM

I never doubted your education or culture kokopuffs - just your taste in reading

But now that we've started, what other interesting medical occurences did you read about? Or is that A Late Night Cafe thread??

Pastachef · #26 01-22-2002, 05:33 PM

Rachel. Kokopuffs, your posts are ALWAYS educatonal, and keep my interest. I started out sleepily reading,
but this thread sure woke me up!