Chef's concern re chicken dishes

Usage examples of pinfeathers.

There was a sizzling noise, a smell of cooked meat and burnt pinfeathers, a kind of low popping sound, and a burnt-paint smell.

The little man sat for a moment atop the decapitated duck, then climbed down its back, seeking toeholds in the intricate metalwork of the pinfeathers before dropping to the tabletop.

They glowed like Christmas tree lightstheir veins, their pinfeathers, their eyes, their tiny raptor beaks.