Skills that are not commonly used but must be mastered: Sharing the key points of whole chicken deboning techniques

It is very delicious, nutritious, and cheap. Except for a very small number of vegetarians, chicken is an ingredient suitable for everyone!

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Although whole chicken deboning is not used much, it is indispensable!

For example, dishes such as Kung Pao Chicken, Salt Crispy Chicken, Fried Chicken Steaks, and Chicken Balls do not require bones.

What’s more, removing the bones can make it safer. Children and the elderly can eat it without worrying about safety issues caused by bones!

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Preparation work:

Prepare a towel to pad the chopping board to ensure that it will not move randomly during work!

Prepare a kitchen knife and, if possible, a sharp boning knife.

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Step one: chop off the chicken head and neck. As shown in the picture below

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Step 2: Remove the two chicken legs

Knife from Cut the gap at the root of the chicken thigh. After opening, press the main body of the chicken with one hand, pinch the chicken thigh with the other hand, and gently pull it outward to separate the joints connecting the chicken thigh and the main body! Then use a knife to cut the chicken around the thighs and remove the chicken legs!

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Step 3: Remove the chicken wings and breasts

Use a knife to cut open the joints where the chicken wings connect to the chicken body! Use the hand holding the knife to press the root of the chicken wing and press it tightly! Pinch the root of the chicken wing with your other hand and pull it out hard until the chicken wing is pulled off along with the chicken breast.

Special attention: the knife enters through the joint seam to avoid cutting the cartilage into the chicken

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< p> Step 4: Remove the two small chicken fillets on both sides of the chicken breast

Basically, you can only remove it with a knife. The tip of the knife slides along the bone. The difficulty is slightly equal to 0.

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Step 5: Remove the bones from the chicken wing root

Connect the chicken wing root to the middle of the wing Use a knife to cut it open, and use a slight force to break off the joints.

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Then use a knife to cut the meat on the skin of the wing root, slide it down along the bone, and finally use a knife to cut the chicken at the junction with the chicken breast and remove it. Chicken wing bones.

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Step 6: Remove the bones from the chicken wings

The middle part of the chicken wings Use a knife to cut open the joint between the wing tip and the middle of the wing and push it outwards until the joint is detached. Then, hold one end of the wing against the chopping board, hold the tip of the wing with one hand, and pinch the bone with the other hand to pull it down. Separation of flesh and blood!

Let’s talk nonsense here: there are two bones, one large and one small, in the wings!

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Step 7: Separate chicken thigh bones

Place the chicken legs flat on the cutting board, use a knife to slit the thighs from the root to the middle joint, then hold the chicken legs with one hand and the chicken thighs with the other hand, and break them slightly to separate the joints! Then, with the thigh root facing down, pinch the thigh meat with one hand, pinch the bone with the other hand and pull down, you can pull the thigh bone away! If a bit of chicken is attached, you can cut it off with a sharp knife.

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Step 8: Separate the chicken leg bones

Cut the chicken into small pieces with a knife Open, then hold the chicken feet with one hand and the chicken legs with the other hand. Use a slight force to break off the joints of the chicken feet. Then use a knife to cut the meat at the connection between the chicken legs and chicken feet. Break it, take out the bones at the joints, and then cut off the joints of the chicken feet.

Pinch the bone at the joint with one hand, hold the knife with the other hand, slide down the bone to the joint where the calf and thigh connect, and then use the knife to separate the bones and flesh.

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Step 9: Remove the remaining brittle bones and calf spurs from the chicken

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Here we need to check whether there are any crispy bones left on the chicken. If there are any, remove them. Of course, it is best to keep a little meat attached. We can wrap some whole egg batter in fried oil and fry them into spicy chicken crispy bones. The whole bag is sold at the vegetable market for 100 yuan per pound!

There is a very small bone at the connection between the chicken leg and chicken foot, about 2mm thick. We carefully found it and then removed it!

PS: The small bone at the connection between the calf and the chicken foot is very thin. It is recommended to pick it off carefully!

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At this point, the deboning of the whole chicken is basically completed. As for deboning chicken feet, it is actually not suitable for everyone to do at home, and hotels do not recommend that you handle this step yourself! Buying boneless chicken feet directly is more cost-effective!

1: Make clever use of chicken joints throughout the whole process without using too much force!

2: We use the knife throughout the process mainly to break open the surface muscles of the chicken and remove the areas close to the bones.

3: It is not recommended to use a knife to break the bones to debone the chicken legs, because it is very easy for the bone residue to fall into the chicken!

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