How To Tell If Chicken Is Good Quality

Hi, welcome to Godfrey's, one of Britains best butcher shops. Today I want to give you a small insight into little tips about meat, that might make things a little bit clearer for you at home and might be of help to you. How to tell good quality chicken? What you want to look for is free range, preferably, because you're going to have more flavour.

Chickens come in many different shapes and sizes, different breeds, different ages. This is an older chicken, it's probably over a hundred days that one. This is a really old chicken, but it'll be really nice, with more flavour.

This one is a more traditional breed of chicken. As you can see it has longer legs than the highbred chicken, which is like that. That is a free range chicken, a normal Ross Cobbs Broiler.

This one here is a traditional breed of chicken, so it has a lot longer legs and not such big breast, but it has more flavour. Absolutely peppered with flavour those ones, but they're not a breast chicken, they're more leg. What you want to be looking for is, you want a nice chicken, you want it to have a nice colour, you don't want it to be slimy, you want it to look fresh, and you want it to smell nice.

You also want it to suit the job you're doing, how many people you're going to be feeding. If you're going to be feeding more than 6 people you're going to want a big chicken, and for that you want nice plump breasts and nice legs, nice free range chicken. That's how you tell a good chicken.