Step one of this exercise, however was removing the hens from their plastic bag and discovering an ocean's worth of water/blood mix.

Now, any normal human being would have dumped the bags and sent the nice rich blood-mix to the septic system. Instead, I poured it into a paper plate, and microwaved it until the proteins coagulated.

This left me with a thick gravy-ish stuff that the cats have declared to be better than treat-in-a-tube.

I was the most-favorite two-legger in the house until they got the last of this with their daily treats. I'm still the most-favored two-legger, but only because I'm running without opposition.

I bought a potato and onion to go with the game hens.

The onion got sliced and separated into rings, so I could try making air-fried onion rings. I put the rings and a little oil into a tupperware bowl, added a tablespoon or so of falafel mix, and agitated gently while singing "Shake it Up, Baby".

This breading was far and away the tastiest onion rings I've ever made, and might rank in the top ten of rings I've ever eaten. This experiment was worthy of a repeat. Falafel mix is also great breading on air-fried chicken.

The potato got sliced into roughly 1/8" thick slices, tossed with oil (re-using the Tupperware bowl that I hadn't washed yet), and airfried at 400 degrees, because that's what the AI said was a good temperature to try.

This worked a lot better than my previous attempts of frying them at 350. The chips are crispy and taste like potato chips instead of baked potatoes.