Free Range vs Caged

[Fake]

Okay, who here is able to taste the difference between Free Range Chickens vs Caged Chickens?

I've had both and can honestly say that I don't notice a difference besides price.

[jimbalayajones]

The difference is the chicken's quality of life before they kill it...Yeah...That did sound a bit self serving...

[secuda]

Free chicken are happy chicken. and you feel better to knewing that they had a good life as it could.

[Voroff]

Honestly, depends on the chicken breed. Some will be chewy and taste like cardboard even if free range. Being raised in a cage do not help with the taste thought, as the flesh is muscles and muscles has texture that is best when chicken can run and do chicken things, like a chicken.

[Rumpelcrutchskin]

It`s not about quality of meat, it`s about how you treat the animal used for meat and about you as a human being.

[Tazor]

Are they really free range chicken? Or just chicken that were raised at soil level inside an enclosed space? What age were they slaughtered at? Were they fed antibiotics?

True free range chicken are completely different. First of all you don't slaughter them at the magic 6 weeks to maximise profits. You aim for 12 weeks. You don't even need to taste the meat. They look different. The meat has a more red-ish color. The meat is tougher. Tastes better and has more texture. Even the bones are tougher. Roosters are even tougher. Their meat is dark red. You need to boil them for a long time but they make a great soup.

You don't feed them antibiotics through their life. MAYBE you give them some as soon as they hatch to prevent infant mortality. These will get flushed out of their system before 12 weeks. Antibiotics also have the side effect of making them fatten up faster, which ruins the meat.

On top of the better taste, it's healthier for you.



I highly doubt you had true free range chicken. Just some scam on the packaging darting around what free range used to mean.

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They taste the same.

[ZZZZZ]

taste like chicken

[steven1mac]

There is more meat and whiter meat on caged chickens.

[Pocahawtness]

No difference, since eggs don't go anywhere anyway.

[Angel]

I've always thought I could tell by the texture and colour of the yolk however it may just be due to the difference of farms so my thoughts are inconclusive.

Free ranged may not be as free ranged as one may think. Many imagine free chickens frolicking in the fields but it may actually mean they get a bit more space than caged chickens. It's hard to determine how much space that actually is as different countries have different restrictions and legal requirements.

[the vampire of time and memory]

there's some science to it but it's really not about the taste

[Hobbit XIII]

had chickens and can taste the difference between my chickens (no longer have them) able to walk freely around the fields and the free range and the caged.

My chicken eggs were smaller but tasted much stronger.
Free range tasted good and caged that is going back a long time but very none tasting and actually makes me feel ill just thinking about eating them.

Probably applies to their eggs and offspring too but you get more good stuff from the walking about chickens than you do from chickens in bad conditions.
It has soemthing to do with them eating better and using their brains which passes that out to you when you eat them because there brains are more functional you essentially get some brain food where a very factoried produced chicken you wont get those extra vitamins and potentially would need to take supplements .

[the vampire of time and memory]

Escrito originalmente por Hobbit XIII:

had chickens and can taste the difference between my chickens (no longer have them) able to walk freely around the fields and the free range and the caged.

My chicken eggs were smaller but tasted much stronger.
Free range tasted good and caged that is going back a long time but very none tasting and actually makes me feel ill just thinking about eating them.

anything you raise and prepare yourself tastes better it's confirmation bias

[Hobbit XIII]

Escrito originalmente por the vampire of time and memory:

Escrito originalmente por Hobbit XIII:

had chickens and can taste the difference between my chickens (no longer have them) able to walk freely around the fields and the free range and the caged.

My chicken eggs were smaller but tasted much stronger.
Free range tasted good and caged that is going back a long time but very none tasting and actually makes me feel ill just thinking about eating them.

anything you raise and prepare yourself tastes better it's confirmation bias

no, because at first I did not like the new taste, after a week of eating them I liked them more but initially I preferred the free ranged from the shop.

[Tristin]

As consumer, only thing you should care is the end-product. The only exception if you wish to make, is that you've seen the process with your own eyes by visiting the location, and saw how it was done. Fakes and deceptions are part of many business.