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Speaker 1: Now I want to start with some TikTok techniques. And

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Speaker 1: you know, a lot of this stuff I see on

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Speaker 1: TikTok is for clicks. It's not either manageable or it's

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Speaker 1: falsified with camera tricks or things like that. The recipes

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Speaker 1: are horrible, but every now and again you get some

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Speaker 1: real kind of you know, passed on from grandmother to

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Speaker 1: grandchild tips that are fantastic. And the one I want

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Speaker 1: to start with I think is just brilliant. I have

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Speaker 1: used it before, I know it works. Don't know where

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Speaker 1: it came from, don't know why I knew it, didn't

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Speaker 1: find out from TikTok, but it's one of those TikTok

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Speaker 1: trends that people are doing. So you go to any

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Speaker 1: grocery store, you go to Costco, you go to Sam's Club,

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Speaker 1: you go to any of these places. What is one

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Speaker 1: thing that they have that everybody refers to as a

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Speaker 1: lost leader that everybody loves food wise? That is rotisserie chicken.

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Speaker 1: It is the go to hail mary of anybody with

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Speaker 1: kids or having to make a meal if you work,

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Speaker 1: and it's always great. Now, is it high in sodium? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they're high in sodium, But are they delicious. Yeah. The

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Speaker 1: good thing is that you can break them down quite

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Speaker 1: easily and use them for different things, whether you do

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Speaker 1: chicken en geladas, or you want to make tacos with

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Speaker 1: the meat or sandwiches, or you want to put it

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Speaker 1: in a rice peelof whatever it is. It's pretty versatile.

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Speaker 1: And when you break it down and get the meat

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Speaker 1: from the bones, you actually have quite a lot to

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Speaker 1: deal with that you could put into a salad whatever

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Speaker 1: it is. And it freezes as well, So it's a

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Speaker 1: wonderful tool for every day cooking. When you just can't

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Speaker 1: you throw a chicken on the rotisserie in your own house,

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Speaker 1: I will suggest you can do the same by boiling

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Speaker 1: a chicken. What my mom did. I remember this on Sundays.

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Speaker 1: She would boil a chicken and just pull it apart.

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Speaker 1: And it wasn't necessarily for Sunday, but it would be

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Speaker 1: used throughout the week in different you know, meals. So

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Speaker 1: you can boil a chicken and do this. You can

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Speaker 1: also do this with your own roasted chicken or uh

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Speaker 1: if you want to grill it, or make a rotisserie

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Speaker 1: on the grill if you've got one. I've done chickens

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Speaker 1: on my big green egg whole chickens, and I love them.

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Speaker 1: So ultimately, what it is is when you cook it

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Speaker 1: like that, it really wants to separate the bones on

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Speaker 1: its own. And when you start going in with a knife,

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Speaker 1: which is our traditional way to separate the meat from

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Speaker 1: the bone with a rotisserie chicken, that's great, but you're

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Speaker 1: you're gonna lose some of that great meat. So what

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Speaker 1: you want to do is you want to get a

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Speaker 1: ziplock or zip top freezer bag that will one that

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Speaker 1: will fit the entire chicken in there. You ziplock it,

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Speaker 1: you let that heat kind of work its magic a

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Speaker 1: little bit, and then now with your bare hands on

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Speaker 1: the outside of that gallon bag, you just start to

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Speaker 1: massage it and with your thumbs push it away from

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Speaker 1: the bones, start flattening it out, pulling things apart. So

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Speaker 1: now your hands aren't in there, you don't have to

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Speaker 1: wear gloves, and it will start to separate naturally from

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Speaker 1: the bones. So once you start doing that and you

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Speaker 1: feel like the bones, you can push your fingers around

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Speaker 1: the bones and bring all that off. Then you can

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Speaker 1: put it into a you know, like a cake pan

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Speaker 1: or something that's gonna hold the juices and all those things,

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Speaker 1: and start just pulling the bones out, checking to make

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Speaker 1: sure you don't leave any cartilage or anything like that.

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Speaker 1: Now it's all broken down, it's basically shredded itself. You've

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Speaker 1: got it off the legs, you've got it off the thighs,

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Speaker 1: you've got it off the breasts. Everything you start pulling away.

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Speaker 1: And once you do that, now you have enough to

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Speaker 1: make a meal that night. But depending on the family size,

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Speaker 1: you might have leftovers. And the greatest thing to do

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Speaker 1: or if you have a food saver or vacuum saver,

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Speaker 1: those are great too, to get the air out of there.

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Speaker 1: I was just letting it cool down. Before you do that.

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Speaker 1: You don't want to take really hot things, or even

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Speaker 1: warm things and put them in your refrigerator or freezer,

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Speaker 1: especially in the freezer. It'll start to create condensation and moisture,

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Speaker 1: it in the freezer, and you're going to be good.

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Speaker 1: To go for a soup, for a salad, for a sandwich,

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Speaker 1: whatever you want to do with it. The key here

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Speaker 1: is making an easy method for breaking down the rotisserie chicken,

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Speaker 1: getting all those things off. As a matter of fact,

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Speaker 1: It just gives you the meat and it pulls from

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Speaker 1: the bone in a way that you Most people don't.

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Speaker 1: They end up cutting through it or putting gloves on

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Speaker 1: and pulling it apart that way. But in a bag,

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Speaker 1: don't need the gloves. It's all stays in the bag,

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Speaker 1: makes much less of a mess, and you could literally

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Speaker 1: just pull out the bones from there if you wish,

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Speaker 1: and you don't, it never has to leave the bag,

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Speaker 1: all right. These TikTok tips, the food tips, a lot

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Speaker 1: of them are garbage. But when I see good ones

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Speaker 1: that I've tried or I think are tried and true,

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Speaker 1: I want to bring them to you. So for Technique

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Speaker 1: of the Week, we just talked about the de boning

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Speaker 1: a rotisserie chicken in the easiest way possible. You can

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Speaker 1: go back and listen to that on the podcast later

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Speaker 1: on tonight. If you didn't hear it, And now I

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Speaker 1: want to tell you something else that I'm a big

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Speaker 1: fan of. If you're like us, we have limited real

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Speaker 1: estate in our kitchen. We all do. Counterwise, a home

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Speaker 1: is an old home. I've said this many times, and

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Speaker 1: although it was modified before we moved in for a

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Speaker 1: stretch of the imagination, and counter space is at a premium.

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Speaker 1: So although I love gadgets, big rich On tech fan

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Speaker 1: love me gadgets, it doesn't mean all of them are

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Speaker 1: worthy of your counter space. However, if you burn rice

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Speaker 1: like the rest of us, no matter what you do,

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Speaker 1: and doing all the different techniques, you end up getting

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Speaker 1: that lower level of that crusty rice, then get a

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Speaker 1: rice cooker. Rice cookers are great, and they cook rice perfectly.

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Speaker 1: That is their job. The problem comes in when you

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Speaker 1: think that that is their only job. Because rice cookers

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Speaker 1: can be used for everything, for other things, which makes them,

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Speaker 1: you know, usable across the board, doesn't mean that they're

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Speaker 1: or what our friend Alton Brown calls them a uni tasker,

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Speaker 1: that thing. He doesn't like uni taskers, and although I

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Speaker 1: like him in theory, in practice, their pain you want

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Speaker 1: things on your countertop that can do more than one thing.

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Speaker 1: So what can you cook in a rice cooker other

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Speaker 1: than just plain rice. Well, you can do flavored rice,

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Speaker 1: also do porridges, you know, oat meal, that type of thing.

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Speaker 1: do one pot meals, curries, stews, risotto, even chili you

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Speaker 1: I've seen omelets, I've seen pancakes done in there. You

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Speaker 1: can do desserts, things like rice pudding. You can even

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Speaker 1: do cakes in there. You can steam vegetables, you can

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Speaker 1: cook pasta. There are recipes galore on the interwebs. You

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Speaker 1: find all kinds of things that you can cook in

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Speaker 1: your rice cookers. So now rather than it being just

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Speaker 1: I mean the premiere product for cooking rice, so you

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Speaker 1: don't have it burnt on the bottom and that smell

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Speaker 1: that permeates the remainder of the rice. That they are great,

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Speaker 1: but use them for that oatmeal, use them for that chili.

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Speaker 1: For breakfast, omelets, whatever it is. They are way more

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Speaker 1: versatile than people think they are. You're listening to The

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