In reply to wintertree:
> I never wash chicken. Come to think of it, I never eat chicken. In a world full of pigs, sheep, cows, deer, wood pigeons, pheasants, bison and myriad other beasts whose flesh has wonderful, intrinsic tastes, why would I go to the effort of preparing and cooking a chicken?
Chicken has a strong flavour, pick one with lots of yellow fat and deep, dark reddy flesh. If you buy cheap, pale chicken that's been raised in an indoor cesspit and injected with water then yeah, it wont taste of much but what do you expect? It's hardly an effort either, pick chicken up, take wrapper off, put in oven, wait, take out a cooked chicken.