Yes, hard grainy particles that don’t break down—I was so disappointed in this but picked up from ++
Jones Road WTF ~ couldn’t wait to take the recent page from Artbabe’s playbook—surprise, surprise! +
To spatchcock, just snip along one side of the backbone. You can do the other side, too if you r/o
It takes quite a bit of work to remove, but other than that I like it. Nice dark black color.