Dyck watches it while the guides gut and skin the day's take, deboning the meat on the spot.
Add the onions and cook, stirring occasionally, until soft, 5 or 6 minutes; turn off heat. 5. Remove the duck confit from the refrigerator and scrape off the fat; debone and shred the meat.
But as a practical matter, this means two things: (1) the bones, which hold the cold after the bird is removed from the refrigerator, are gone, which means that the bird roasts faster, and (2) the deboning process itself brings the meat up to room temperature, and if done the day you intend to cook the bird, also means that the bird roasts faster.
Another thing you can do in order to increase the odds your turkey won't be a complete disaster is shirk tradition and debone the bird, says Carr, the meat specialist.
Potential causes of contamination of poultry during the slaughtering and processing procedures include contact of the carcass with body parts that contain a high microbial load (e.g., feathers, feet, intestinal contents), use of contaminated equipment, and physical manipulation of the meat (e.g., deboning, grinding).
In addition to personal hygiene, and cleaning and disinfection programmes in slaughterhouses, chilling facilities and cutting rooms, particular care should be taken when cutting and deboning and packaging, keeping contamination of the meat to a minimum.
Deboning of the forequarter is completed by removing the meat from the neck and the breast region of the spinal column.
The slaughterhouse had sent all the meat that day to one customer, a deboning facility in Centralia, Wash., which then sent the meat on to to two other wholesalers, Interstate Meat Distributors in Clackamas, Ore., and Willamette Valley Meat in Portland, Ore.
Enter the meat processor.
