Why duck carcasses are dipped in hot tar: farm secrets

Homemade, home-grown, fed with natural products - it's the best, the most useful! It is difficult to argue with this if you do not know what methods farmers sometimes use to give their goods a presentable look. Our interlocutor Stanislav told about one secret of pre-sale preparation of ducks.

Accidentally hit the farm

Due to the nature of my work, I often travel around the country. I use business trips by car for the benefit of my home: I bring potatoes, mushrooms and cucumbers from central Russia; tomatoes, watermelons, onions and fish from Astrakhan; fruits from the Krasnodar Territory; meat from Kalmykia; domestic ducks, geese, chickens and turkeys from Stavropol. In general, I try to feed my family only natural products.

Once friends asked me to bring some domestic ducks. I always took the bird from one farmer. But this time I was a little unlucky - he ran out of goods and had to wait a few hours while a new batch of ducks was slaughtered. To speed up the process, I decided to drive to his farm, since it was located five kilometers from the outlet. And it was there that I found the pre-sale preparation of ducks in the old fashioned way.

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Depilation in tar and "make-up" with corn oil

Briefly about the technology. Duck carcasses are plucked after slaughter, but roughly - feathers and down remain on them. And this is already removed by a kind of "depilation" with the help of tar. The method is very simple:

there is a bucket of boiling tar on the fire;
a duck carcass is dipped into tar for a few seconds;
further, this carcass is immediately immersed in a trough of cold water;
tar instantly freezes in water and the remains of feathers and down stick to it;
after that, the frozen tar together with feathers and down, like a shell, are removed from the carcass.

Everything is like in a beauty salon, but instead of wax - resin. It looks, of course, shocking. But remembering how we chewed tar instead of gum in our happy Soviet childhood, I relaxed a little.

The farmer, noticing my surprise, replied, “It's completely harmless. My grandfather did this, my father did this, but now many people practice this. A good feathering machine is expensive, and at least a hundred liters of tar can be brought to me for a couple of duck carcasses. It's economical! "

But the “presale” did not end there - although the duck became clean, it remained quite pale. To eliminate this "defect", the carcass was simply rubbed with butter and corn flour. A yellow "blush" has already appeared on her and sellers will now boldly say that the bird grew on natural corn. This is a kind of farm marketing, and I don’t know what she is actually fed with.

After what I saw, I still bought a few carcasses from this farmer, but this was the last time. Arriving home, I found information on the Internet that tar, which is a residual product of oil refining, contains a whole arsenal of toxic substances - from vanadium to nickel. Now I prefer to take scorched ducks. At the very least, the black dots of the burnt feathers indicate that the carcass was not placed in a toxic liquid. Well, let it be tinder with butter - it looks more appetizing!

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