Butcher's twine

[roadfix]

Can I use ordinary cotton twine to truss a chicken? Or does it have to be a food specific twine?

 

[Aunt Bea]

I would use it as long as it is cotton. I save the bakery strings for things like that.

 

[Andy M.]

100% uncoated cotton.

 

[Hoot]

Never use any synthetic twine as it will melt. It is much the same as patching for a muzzle loading weapon. It has to be 100% cotton or the results will be quite ugly.

 

[Hoot]

Come to think of it, I have used sisal twine, in a pinch.

 

[mkaylady]

Where can you buy inexpensive butchers twine?

 

[pacanis]

Can I use ordinary cotton twine to truss a chicken? Or does it have to be a food specific twine?

I did a lot of Googling on this a couple years ago and from what I can tell, all butcher's twine is is cotton string. And even though I had some cotton string, I went out and bought some thinner cotton string... and it sits in my cupboard, not my collect-all drawer

 

[Zhizara]

You can usually find cotton twine near the yarn section of Walmart.

 

[taxlady]

Never use any synthetic twine as it will melt. It is much the same as patching for a muzzle loading weapon. It has to be 100% cotton or the results will be quite ugly.

Does it just make a mess that needs to be cleaned up or does it damage the muzzle loader?

Or worse?

 

[Andy M.]

One of the cheapest places to find it is a hardware store.

 

[Hoot]

It can be bad enough the you will have to replace the barrel. Although, I have only seen that once when a green horn at Rendezvous took a number of shots using some kinda patch and wondered why it was so hard to load.

 

[roadfix]

Thanks for the replies. I'll pick some up at Home Depot tonight.

 

[Bigjim68]

Where can you buy inexpensive butchers twine?

Butchers twine is not expensive anywhere. The last I bought was at a pricey cookware store. I bought it because it came in a nifty plastic container with a cutter. Seemed like a good idea at the time. Less than bucks. I quickly reverted back to my old ways of cutting the string with a knife.

 

[Sir_Loin_of_Beef]

If you just need it once in a greeat while, just ask your butcher for a couple of wraps around his hand. S/he sould give it to you free fer nuthin.

 

[roadfix]

I got 400 feet of 100% cotton twine for 2 bucks.....enough to last me a lifetime....LOL...

The two whole chickens I did on the rotisserie came out excellent, btw. I dry rubbed them the night before.

 

[pacanis]

I got 400 feet of 100% cotton twine for 2 bucks.....enough to last me a lifetime....LOL...

The two whole chickens I did on the rotisserie came out excellent, btw. I dry rubbed them the night before.

You not only got 400' of cotton twine for 2 bucks... you got 400' of butcher's twine for 2 bucks

 

[roadfix]

You not only got 400' of cotton twine for 2 bucks... you got 400' of butcher's twine for 2 bucks

Yeah, no kidding, considering Amazon sells pretty much the same thing but labeled butcher's twine for much more than that.