What is this, found in chicken?

souter

Spatchcocked chicken, was Ante or post mortem? NB it's the little white thing, not the phone

souter

Oops, cannot figure out how to how to post picture. We're eating the bird in 30 mins so asuming I survive will try again with the picture - it's like a rawlplug with a blue head, found in the upper breast.

whiskeyman

I've seen those in expensive chickens.
It pops out when it's cooked.
It's a pop up thermometer?

Was it embedded in the top?

souter

tada!
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4nv3piBlrLrcXBiTzBLMFdkQ0QxTFNERzRQaS1uNXV3Y1Rz/view?usp=sharing

(it's the small white thing, not the phone. which is included for scale and was not found in the chicken)

souter

whiskeyman wrote: »

I've seen those in expensive chickens.
It pops out when it's cooked.
It's a pop up thermometer?

Was it embedded in the top?

Oh yeah, that makes sense - so it was actually added value as opposed to accidental hazard. Good job because I am starving.

Alun

Never seen that before, where did you buy it? I'd have thought there'd be some explanation of what it was on the packaging somewhere, no?

souter

Local butcher.
Yeah I'm going to have a chat - with added Paddington hard stare.
Ffs, judging the doneness of a chicken is not rocket science and is the responsibilityof the cook. Not someone or thing on an assembly line implementing a probabilistic measure.
And haven't started on pointless one use plastic.

Dizzyblonde

A lot of butchers will give you one of those, especially when you're buying a turkey. They're ingenious - the coloured bit pops up when the bird is cooked. They've been around for decades but they disappeared for a while.