Thoughts on Food {My Elgin Chicken Test!}

In my first post in this series of {my} Thoughts on Food I mentioned that I'm going to cook both an Elgin Free Range Chicken and a "normal" chicken to see the difference, the difference was so unbelievable, both hubby and myself was astounded!  The "normal" chicken was dry and shrunk to almost half it's size.  Taste wise  it tasted like chicken, but the skin didn't crisp up as I would have wanted it too - I didn't even want to take pics. 

Then on Friday evening we cooked this Elgin Chicken.  From the beginning I could see a huge difference, there was no blood in the package, in other words no fluid and moisture drained from the bird so it was not injected with water to make it heavier!  The bird was huge in comparison to the others on the shelf and it kept it's size after cooking.  This one chicken could comfortably have fed 6 people.  The skin was wonderfully crisp and the flavour was amazing!

I only seasoned it with a bit of salt, olive oil, lemon juice, coriander, lemon zest and some paprika and a tiny bit of chilli.

Hubby braai'd the chicken beautifully and also commented on how easy it braai'd - no burning or excessive shrinking!

We enjoyed this beautiful chicken with a home made garlic bread, some oven roasted veg and a green salad. Superb!

I will always buy Elgin chicken from now on!