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Poussin vs Spatchcock - What's the difference?

poussin | spatchcock |

As nouns the difference between poussin and spatchcock

is that poussin is a chicken reared to be eaten at a few weeks of age while spatchcock is chicken meat when prepared by spatchcocking. (See below..

As a verb spatchcock is

to cut poultry along the spine and spread the halves apart, for more even cooking when grilled.

poussin

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A chicken reared to be eaten at a few weeks of age.

    • Anagrams

    * ----

    spatchcock

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Chicken meat when prepared by spatchcocking. (See below.)
  • A rushed effort.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cut poultry along the spine and spread the halves apart, for more even cooking when grilled.
    • spatchcocked chicken
  • To interpolate, insert or sandwich (in or into)
  • *1922 , Joyce, Ulysses ,
    • Why is the underplot of King Lear in which Edmund figures lifted out of Sidney's Arcadia and spatchcocked on to a Celtic legend older than history?
  • To prepare in haste.

    • Usage notes

    * Also known as Frogging the chicken.

    See also

    * butterfly * spitchcock