What makes chicken gamey

We have Lobster chowder, smoked pork heart salad, Dry aged NY strip with marrow butter, red wine, pearl onions, herbed Yukon potato and a smoked onion gravy dinner specials! The animal is often stronger, and the protein leaner in fat. If you were to kill a wild elk, it would be nearly fat-free. But the intensity of the flesh is so strong, you need to know how to properly cook it. Chef Daniel Volponi says gaminess, like so much in life, boils down to diet and exercise.

Anything that is wild and not farm-raised is going to have a more active lifestyle, with a more active heart rate. A domesticated animal is going to have a more subdued taste, because it is living a more subdued life. But what exactly does the elusive taste, well, taste like?

Volponi says a description of gaminess is ambiguous because it's largely detected by the receptors of our harder-to-describe fifth taste, umami. Not salty, not sweet, but certainly robust in its own right. Go a step further and marinate the chicken in a tasty sauce first. Look for an organic, free-range source because organic chickens are fed differently to regular factory-farmed chickens, so they are said to have a better taste and smell.

Share via. Facebook Messenger. Copy Link. Powered by Social Snap. Copy link. What's new. Log in. JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly. You should upgrade or use an alternative browser. Anytime I broil chicken especially if I do so at a high temp to cook the chicken faster, I've noticed the chicken gets a nasty flavor to it.

So specifically heres what I've done and i've done it multiple times. Get a piece of chicken breast , typically it's still cold coming out the fridge. Put it in a pan with some water mixed with whatever, and broil it at a high temp with tin foil over top.

The chicken gets this nasty gamey flavor to it. I say gamey, in the sense turkey is gamey. So say you eat some cold left overturkey somebody made and it's not veyr good, sometimes you'll get this "gamey" poultry taste to it. Not sure how to explain it but its not a meat flavor, like how if you cook pork you want to get that porky flavor to it, this is different it doesnt taste like chicken flavor it tastes almost tainted.

Now I know the meat is good, I've had this happen at least 3 times i can think of in my years of being on this earth. Each time it seems like I've tried cooking the chicken too fast, and somehow that affects the flavor. Is there any rhyme or reason to this? I actually cooked a package of chicken different ways, I made some nuggets and fried them, came out good juicy flavor was good I didnt add much seasoning either it tastes as you'd expect.

I am not sure how to answer this. Not trying to be sarcastic. You have proven that what you are doing results in a bad taste. So the obvious answer is to stop doing it.