Boning chicken legs with a thin, hard knife

[megapuff5]

Jacques Pepin has amazing skills

 

[jaybett]

That video plus Martin Yan's videos, got me interested in breaking down chicken in the Eastern style.

Jay

For reference, I also found these two videos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gf5QUFh3L8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2raI04WFJ4k

The second one in particular shows a very efficient technique for leg boning, I think I'm going to adopt this one.

 

[jaybett]

Martin Yan does a cut along the both sides of the breast and then does a cut down one side of the back. He continues the cut up from the breast and through the chicken wing joint. At that point he can pull the breast off. Here is a video showing the technique. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V37Pc45P4HA

Jay

So with this and the first link in the post above, do you cut the drumette at the joint where it meets the body in order to pull off the breast? I kind of want to try that method for removing chicken breasts.

 

[Chuckles]

The Japanese probably can break down and de-bone a chicken in less then a minute.

All you need is one person to break the minute mark. Then everyone else on the crew feels slow until they can do it too.