Chicken Leg
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Chicken Leg
What is a chicken leg called?
Chicken legs include the drumstick and thigh. When the two chicken pieces are left together, they’re often called a leg quarter and sometimes a hindquarter, though some people use leg when referring to the drumstick alone.
What is the difference between a chicken leg and a drumstick?
Answer. Answer: A chicken leg has two parts to it, the drumstick and the thigh. The drumstick is the calf part of the leg, while the thigh is the top part of the leg.
What are the 7 cuts of a chicken?
A Guide to Meat: The 8 Cuts of Chicken
- Breasts. Breast meat comes from the front of the bird and consists of lean muscle. …
- Tenderloins. The tenderloin is a long and narrow muscle found beneath the breast muscles, so it’s similar in taste and texture. …
- Thighs. …
- Drumsticks. …
- Wings. …
- Giblets. …
- Necks. …
- Backs.
What is the cheapest part of a chicken?
When we cooked bone-in chicken breasts, thighs, drumsticks, and wings and then stripped the meat from the bones to determine the price per edible ounce, we found that drumsticks were easily the cheapest.
Are drumsticks cheaper?
One of the most economical cuts of processed chicken — that is, chicken that a butcher has cut up and packaged for you — is drumsticks, according to America’s Test Kitchen. In a side-by-side comparison of cooked meat from the bone, the ATK crew determined that these lower leg parts are the cheapest
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