Making the most of chicken

[ukgardener1]

Dont get me wrong i love Hugh and what hes done for growing your own and eating your own BUT the price of what he cooks against take away does not take into consideration the electric or gas he uses to do it, where as the take away meal does this in the price.

[Steaminlidz]

"You wouldn't expect a family to boil up a lood of bones and vegetables and make a broth." Yes, that is exactly what I would expect. If you a) don't have the patience to feed your kids properly or b)can't afford to - don't have children. You have a choice. What a moron.

[danbit5]

im not having it either tony, ridulous,,i like to dig in, not poke, watched one my mates in a hostel pull out 5 bones was like fishing.wasnt in sync with are personalities, thats what they feed us when cameroon gets us in the old homes,times wil be worse god bless all ,im sure he has still same respect for me as many times you flushed the toilet,probably what i ask god when i die,i just rember grammer school chicken kevs for breakfasrt no bone

[TheDarwiniser]

tony seems to not lack food in any way.

perhaps if mcdonalds wasnt so near, he may value real food.

[annagilda1]

Aaaargh! Tony you halfwit! My family uses the entire chicken every time we buy one! I love making "a nice chicken broth!!"

There is nothing more wrong, or disrespectful than to waste a huge proportion of an animal, that has died, so we can eat.

[IncreaseLucidityAIK]

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[magical11]

I have no idea what's everyone talking about. Isn't Tony endorsing home made meals? Why is everyone bashing him?

[magical11]

@magical11 Oops...sorry. I just realised who tony is...and found out he wasnt the cook.

[doyle1088]

If Tony ate more chicken broth and less ready made curry, maybe he wouldn't be so fat!

[arisingartist]

haha that tony is stupid :')

[TreyRoque]

Obviously Tony spend more time on 'ping!' cuisine - judging by his pallor and obesity.

[Gemmalouiselea]

Ha ha Tony what a ass wipe!! dont be lazy and get some cooking done!

[IsRens]

You got to be kidding me, the reason why people have bone marrow disorder is because they don't take there time to extract the nutrients from the BONE. The bone is one of the most important part of the animal, Tony was probably raise going to McDonald for a meal everyday.

[ScouseBeatzForum]

tony for president!

[biofire]

Tony's exactly what's wrong with the world's current generation. Learn to cook and eat healthier food you melting tub of lard.

[ollie272]

Fuck chicken welfare

[starryian007]

Tony seems to have totally the wrong idea of modernity. Just because we live in the 21st century doesn't mean that we cease to create dishes and enjoy cooking our own food.

Having watched the programme I think the bottom line is that he is simply a lazy, bone-idle cunt.

Peace.........

[shashou01]

tony=twat

[danbit5]

at least hugh tried maybe my bacon onion stew surprise you but i wont some hughs chicken stock to flavour it,bisto cubes are not the tasty part. away eat a pork sausage tony and compare it to a pork chop:) guess what bit wasnt in your sausage:)

[Simsyland]

tony is a fucking idiot... hes gonna find out the hard way what his ready meals will cost him... i prefer cooking fresh ( ive had no choice as i cannot stomach junk food now days cos of having gallstones removed... which makes it harder to digest all the fat and garbage thats in them due to having a lower bile level in my body than before)

[HollowsRus]

Ganjamule, are you tony?

[cebperry]

That's first class vitriol! (from another self satisfying middle class c*nt!)

[pubuman]

Ganjamule is a fucking idiot! It appears that he cant actually say more than one sentence.. what a moron!

[adamgt24]

fuck off tony you fat mCchicken sandwich faced bastard, hugh is a legend, your just a hamster chopped prick that wont go the effort to make a fantastic stock because your too lazy and only want to eat cake, fat fat fat go die in a hole you fucking moron!! go GOOOO!!!!!

[martijndekok]

Tony is a morron. I get the feeling he thinks boiling bones for stock is 'dirty' and not of this time. Maybe he should go and take a look in the factories where they produce the junk he eats. I think he'd be unpleasantly suprized

[1PartyBoy4Life1]

my dad looks like Hugh no lie

[blackjason21]

fuck u fearnley .

he eat care class animals .

go to the hell basterddddd

[gaelicscots]

that tony is a fucking knob, I am 24 year old student and I make fantastic chicken and beef soups from bones and carcass.

Tony is obviously a bigger fan of kebabs and big macs.

[TimmyBoy20061985]

Hear hear. The only reason he thinks boiling bones in a pot isn't feasible in a modern kitchen is that many modern people, particularly Brits, have lost their good cooking habits. I haven't tried Hugh's particular soup but it looks simple and easy to make, and as he says it's economical. Most importantly, it looks fresh and delicious - give me a bowl of that with a nice crusty bread roll and I'll be a happy man!

[VinylToucher]

I agree with you, I'm 25 and every time my girlfriend and I roast a chicken we always make stock ! great for freezing or soup the next day.

[miheadhurts]

@gaelicscots Hey, it takes many years of dedication to get Tony's skin complection and fat to muscle ratio. My gag reflex stops me from eating big macs and KFC but in some way I have to admire someone who would rather eat something devised in a lab for Mcdonalds than natural ingredients cooked at home. I pity his piles, constipation and flatulence though.

[mrpukh]

@gaelicscots best comment ever

[ukgardener1]

@gaelicscots your 26 now so when was the last time you did a broth from bones ??

[HabanaBoyJDog]

lad at the end obviously doesnt know how to make stock

[djbenchi]

the guy at the end was obviously a wank

use those bones wan what a soup

[moila12]

we had a free range chicken for christmas dinner,it was great!!!

it was great and made a change from free range turkey

WELL DONE HUGH

regards

john

Perthshire

[mrnosy1]

wow these all are long comments X[)

[uridium64]

yeah lots of walls of text

[jfsabl]

My family always made soup from the bones, it's the best you can get. if you don't want to pick the last bits of meat, just cook the flavor out even longer into the broth. It's not like you have to use any particular veg with it. Add maize and chiles or noodles and cucumber or just call it broth and sup from a cup. Not wasting food is a beautiful thing.

[plant38]

When your out and this is the only food on offer then you have to eat it, if there was a more ethical place to eat then i would!

I am sorry if people were offended by the comments i made but they were my opinion! I found it very upsetting to come on here and find people calling me a fat w**k*r and telling me to f**k of back to Tescos, fair enough thats their opinion, but am i not allowed an opinion of my own?

[plant38]

which was to try and get people to change they way they eat and how they view chicken in particular, now i have changed the way that i view the chicken i eat, Hugh wanted us to stop buying cheap meat as he was worried about the lifes chickens have and i dont buy it from the supermarket any more i refuse to, i will be honest and say yes i do eat it while im out and about but not nearly as much as i used too, so you could say the programme helped

[irillion]

Hi Tony, I'm sorry you've gotten abuse on here - I'm sure Hugh would condemn that. I've got to admit when I first watched the programme I was really shocked at what you said about broth! But I'm really glad the programme helped you to change the way you think about your chicken a bit, and the amount of it you eat - that's progress, and makes you far better than a lot of people. Well done for making changes, however small, it's still something.

[jemmo357]

I can't believe people complain that "proper" food is too expensive, then buy 'convenience' foods, made of far nastier bits than the bones that the soup was made of, and tasting mostly of salt, sugar and artificial flavourings.

We make stock from any leftover bones, and most of the meat eaters we know who do roasts do too. It makes sense as bone broth is nutritious, delicious and economical. It also shows proper respect to use every part of the animal you can. It's the 21st Century way Tony!!

[plant38]

yes it is me i dont knw if you watched the full programme or not (this is just a small clip of it) i was picked to go on the show due to me eating quite alot of fast food and convenience food and for my major dislike of veggies, at the very begining of the show i made a comment about "I would rather die than eat a salad" this is my phobia i just cant stand the thought of eating it, i think alot of people on here that have been mean missed the whole point of the programme

[irillion]

However, I would urge to give vegetables a chance. If you have an actual phobia that's a shame (is that with all veg or just salad leaves?) but there are so many different kinds that can be cooked in so many different ways - there could be some you haven't tried that you would love.

[plant38]

I cant belive all the abuse i have got on here.

Just for everyones information i actually do care and the only reason i wouldnt make a broth is because i dont like the veggies, at the end of the day its up to everyone what they do with the remains of a chicken or any animal for that matter its just not my choice and i am sure there are plenty of other people out there that are the same.

Thanks to Hugh fo letting me go on the programme

[jemmo357]

The chap in the programme (if it is you?) doesn't mention a dislike of veggies. He says that "it's what people did in the stone age ... you'd not expect a family to do [it] now". This is pretty insulting in itself IMHO. In the minds of many it seems a bit ignorant given that absolutely everyone did it til about 50 years ago when ready meals took off, and many more people are rediscovering it again now that the fad for convenience food has been shown for the unhealthy, expensive scam it is.

[WestYorks]

Is tha fat lad for real. is there anything better than a nice broth on a cold day, (or on any day.) he just showed what a fool he is.

[fili44]

tony you fat mother fucker.

[slikasrick]

what does he mean "this is not something u would expect a family to do". Is he on drugs. It's the most normal thing in the world in my family and familes of my friends. Tony, u suck balls. Sweaty ones

[Nitratec02]

Have you noticed the presenter on river cottage. He always is obsessed with feasts and harvests.

[rustler69]

that guy at the end is probably used to tinned.what i love to do is a few days after christmas with the turkey left overs, what i have learnt to do from my parents is make a lovely broth from it.recipe been handed down over the years and its superb

[telfertbh]

the guy at the end is a dick

[wearnotsheep]

I can't understand what that man said at the end. Its not a chore to make broth from a chicken. Infact if he even tried it I'm sure he'd be hooked. Its something that we have always done in our home and tastes wonderful.

Well done Hugh for all your good work and for trying to back this back into fashion. Its shameful how much waste is produced these days!

[glenrea]

Any bin man (like myself) will tell you how many chicken carcasses that foxes etc drag out of bins and bags often have a 3rd or more of the meat remaining. And then people whinge that they spend to much on shopping?!?!?!

It's a testament to the amount of good food and money people waste because they can't be bothered.

[davey2k7]

completely agree with u mate, i watched this since i was 12 when hugh did cook on the wild side, and it discusted me how much people (admitedly not knowing) chucked out such good portions.

[napier995]

nice1

[sundaeg1rl]

I agree. I know someone who buys a chicken, cuts off the breast and chucks the rest because she's 'too squeamish' to pull off the meat and/or throw it in a pan and make stock. And she moans because she's skint!

[cinigum]

i would also like to name and shame and branded product! KFC... now i like many others may have heard the horiffic problems that KFC's birds go thought, many being plucked alive!!!

I think this show should go alot further,show the world what many fast food chains treat there lifestock let alone sell them as cheap meat!

[cinigum]

dispite what that man said at the end about parents not making broth, my mother has alwase made a soup from left-over bones and it has to be said it the best soup ever. Better than anything out of a can or packet!

[joop1977]

i cant believe some people roast a whole chicken and only use the breast meat,what a waste

[lewkio]

Hurrah for the chicken out! campaign, it's really opened my eyes. I also bought the river cottage meat book which is excellent further reading for anybody interested in farmed animals welfare across the board. Put it this way, I won't be eating any supermarket meat at all (as long as I can avoid it, obviously going to friends' for dinner could be tricky...). Essentially I'm a vegetarian unless I know what I'm eating is good stuff.

[lewkio]

Ideas for next campaign? Pig Off! please. Let's show people that pigs eat each others ears.

Also in terms of economy, last night we had roast chicken. the only free range bird left was small, 0.8kg in fact. But it still fed four of us perfectly well, and we made a good stock from it. It cost £2.50. So you can still have 2 for a fiver!

[EllenRebecca3]

"Essentially I'm a vegetarian unless I know what I'm eating is good stuff." That's exactly what I'm doing at the moment! :-) I'm a border-line vegetarian. I only buy free range eggs and chickens (I wish they'd tell us how cows and pigs are treated before they reach our supermarkets. We just assume their raised in a field or sty but it's important to know). I won't even buy mayonaisse that's made with battery hen's eggs. :-)

[bertiechic]

I would like to know why the RSPCA are powerless in stopping this treatment of chickens, if it were cats or dogs or any other animals they would be stopping it right away...

[Morganissima]

The RSPCA are rubbish. Their Freedom Foods logo means nothing at all. Farms using that logo have been investigated and found to be horrific. The results were televised. The RSPCA only appear on the scene if there is a TV crew around.

[bertiechic]

so pleased that Hugh and co have brought intensive chicken farming into the limelight, it is a grossly ugly practice which i find so depressing.We had egg laying pet hens on our smallholding as i grew up, they are such sweet and delightful little animals, to treat them in this way is grossly disrespectful.I have been buying free range/organic for quite some time now, and find it very annoying when people say it costs too much,this is a poor and small minded excuse for not buying free range.

[pixistars]

just wanted to point out to those of you who think Hugh was out for his own gains, did you actually notice in the programe that he put a hell of alot of his own cash forward (it was all his own in fact) to make this programme to prove this point?

Im 100% there & will always buy free range from now on & I think the nos of people already changing speak for themselves.

[Leonmpj]

Tony highlights a common phenomenon in the modern world; that people don't want to admit that they are eating animals. It's not Stone Age to take bones & roast them; in fact it's more Stone Age to pick meat off the bone with your teeth, which we all do when we eat chicken legs, & rightly so. But the second people are shown what eating animals is really about, about the wider issue than "How cheaply can I stop myself from starving to death?", people turn off. THAT is Stone Age behaviour.

[greencigar]

i completely agree. Tony seems to be a victim of the conditioning that the supermarkets ideally want to impose. Delude someone into thinking they have no choice, and they will believe it.

[tuthuynuyen]

I was a single parent on benefits, then low wages . With 1 free range chicken I'd make a roast, pie, sandwiches, soup/stew & more. I always tried to buy organic/freerange meats, I'd rather eat a lentil lasagne/burgers etc everyday & have meat once a week/ month than eat standard meat more often. My son is healthy enough to now be doing physics at uni. It's my choice, and not everyone wants to do this, its about attitude and education, not money. Well done, thanks Hugh, good job.

[lorrydeeky]

Great to hear some sense from someone! Those budget obsessed Axminister folk were depressing me, not because of lack of funds, but because of lack of broader thinking. Its not all about money, you are right. You can make healthy veggie food very cheaply. I dont have a big budget but I've decided i'll never eat standard chicken again.

[zelator7]

fuck off and die you small minded prick

[plant38]

i take it u missed the whole point of the program and that was 2 try and change peoples minds and opinions of the food that they eat, just because i dont have the same views as you doesnt make me a fat wanker, oh and by the way i dont like tescos i prefere Asda thanks lol...

[plant38]

so what if am a fat wanker

[coyel]

So according to "Tony" only stone age people make their own soup?

Get back to Tescos you fat wanker!

[tarhun]

I'm not even sure stone age people could make soup. They'd need a metal container to cook it in.

[plant38]

so what if am a fat wanker who gives a fuck what you say

[coyel]

People that appreciate nice soup!

Thats who.

Goddamnit!

[redeye000]

i usually roast my chicken whole then have the legs for dinner with all the trimmings. next day we will have a cold salad with the breasts. now, of course the bones have been in the slowcooker over night wich willl make a lovely leek and potato soup. there we have it 3 dinners for the price of a chicken and some veg. Good video Hugh its important we now how to get the most out of our produce.....

[gerryzzz]

I live in a rural village and everyone I know uses bones to make stocks. Organic farmed meat and game is the only sort I buy. Gravies are always different depending on what they're based on. I keep stock in the freezer labelled according to what animal it came from. Great video, Hugh.

[morrisalex01]

I am continually stunned that people think it odd to boil chicken bones for stock. Time to wake up people and get the most from your food.

[kirkbyla]

its a total .... ah where do i start we live in an age where people buy pancake mix just add an egg and milk but find it weird to once we have killed an animal that not a bit of its existance on this earth be wasted

[richardcasellas]

Families should know how to get the most from food. We had a roast chicken on sunday, curry on monday and last night a risotto with left over home made chicken stock.