Exfoliate your chicken before cooking it!

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EXFOLIATE

Why you should ALWAYS exfoliate your chicken before cooking!  It gets rid of:

  • bone fragments
  • loose outer membrane that you don’t want to eat (yuck)
  • small feathers
  • dried blood

Watch short video on how I exfoliate my chicken before cooking:

Exfoliate Chicken Before Cooking Video

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