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and-then-bam-cassiopeia reblogged your post and added:
…dang you’re so right about the feathers and the plucking
anyway my brain doesn’t want to leave the subject so: considering Luke and Rey are stuck on Ahch-To, if they were to kill a porg for food, best way to go about it would probably be to bleed it a funnel (ideally you’d shock it first, but I guess they can do that with the Force, or just get at the jugular through the brain, the old fashioned way). Scalding would make the plucking easier, but too much and the meat starts cooking. An alternate method would be to kill and then empty the porg without plucking it, coat it in wet clay and cook ‘til it hardens. When you break the crust the feathers come off with it.
FWIW I consulted with my sister and she thought an animal with waterproof feathers, like a Porg would surely have, would be a bitch and a half to pluck. So she endorsed your encased-in-clay method of cooking.
We bleed the chickens to a funnel, and turkeys, but that’s assuming you can catch them. I dunno how you’d catch a porg– I assume if you could hit it with concussive waves using the Force or something that’d be optimal, and then you could do whatever you wanted… but is it unethical for Jedi to hunt with the Force? I mean, what kind of boundaries are there on that? Surely canon has not addressed this.
Oh and people always ask, why not just cut the chickens’ head off, instead of just severing an artery, and the answer is that the blood circulates better with the head still attached so you get the animal bled more cleanly. It’d be even worse if you cut the thing’s head off with a lightsaber, as saber wounds don’t bleed.
You’re ideally supposed to use a stunning knife to kill chickens but we don’t have one and are sort of scared of getting one (what if the guy doing the knife-wielding stuns himself? that’d, well, be real unpleasant. he really doesn’t want to try. Also when he uses the regular knife he holds the chicken’s head. How do you avoid shocking yourself while you hold the chicken’s head? that’s not how electricity works). Anyway…
and-then-bam-cassiopeia reblogged your post and added:
…dang you’re so right about the feathers and the plucking
anyway my brain doesn’t want to leave the subject so: considering Luke and Rey are stuck on Ahch-To, if they were to kill a porg for food, best way to go about it would probably be to bleed it a funnel (ideally you’d shock it first, but I guess they can do that with the Force, or just get at the jugular through the brain, the old fashioned way). Scalding would make the plucking easier, but too much and the meat starts cooking. An alternate method would be to kill and then empty the porg without plucking it, coat it in wet clay and cook ‘til it hardens. When you break the crust the feathers come off with it.
FWIW I consulted with my sister and she thought an animal with waterproof feathers, like a Porg would surely have, would be a bitch and a half to pluck. So she endorsed your encased-in-clay method of cooking.
We bleed the chickens to a funnel, and turkeys, but that’s assuming you can catch them. I dunno how you’d catch a porg– I assume if you could hit it with concussive waves using the Force or something that’d be optimal, and then you could do whatever you wanted… but is it unethical for Jedi to hunt with the Force? I mean, what kind of boundaries are there on that? Surely canon has not addressed this.
Oh and people always ask, why not just cut the chickens’ head off, instead of just severing an artery, and the answer is that the blood circulates better with the head still attached so you get the animal bled more cleanly. It’d be even worse if you cut the thing’s head off with a lightsaber, as saber wounds don’t bleed.
You’re ideally supposed to use a stunning knife to kill chickens but we don’t have one and are sort of scared of getting one (what if the guy doing the knife-wielding stuns himself? that’d, well, be real unpleasant. he really doesn’t want to try. Also when he uses the regular knife he holds the chicken’s head. How do you avoid shocking yourself while you hold the chicken’s head? that’s not how electricity works). Anyway…
