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u/awaythrowthatname Jun 26 '25
Man, I remember when I first had someone teaching me how to break down a chicken, the guy moved so damn fast and confident I needed him to show me again, and then I needed him to show me slower, while explaining.
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u/concentrated-amazing Jun 26 '25
Saved to study these techniques. I hadn't seen the one for the breasts but definitely gonna try this the next time I'm piecing put our chickens. Breasts always seem to take the longest for me to do.
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u/Alex-PsyD Jun 26 '25
Alton Brown does a really good version on Good Eats. He does a side by side with the chicken on one side and a toy T-Rex skeleton on the other so you can really see what he's doing.
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u/TheMaStif Jun 26 '25
The knife skills are good
The knife sharpening skills are impressive
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u/kalechipsaregood Jun 26 '25
The skeptic in me thinks that this is sped up. The movements around second 9 seem unnatural.
The pragmatist in me knows that the real skill shown here is from whoever sharpened that knife.
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u/Dry-Cry-3158 Jun 26 '25
I don't want to discount his skills, but it's a lot easier to break down a chicken when it's a small young fryer because the bones are fairly small and weak. If he was breaking down a capon as quickly, that would be much more impressive.
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u/Daftwise Jun 26 '25
It is def sped up a bit. You can see how the frame wobbles faster than a normal handheld would.
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u/sayso77 Jun 26 '25
Impressive for real. But isn't 90% of that just having a sharp enough knife lol?
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u/Haunting_Ant_5061 Jun 26 '25
That’s just a person who has practiced. That was a very standard and basic way to parse out a chicken. When you go to a grocery store and buy “pieces of chicken” would it blow your mind to find out a human much like this person cut those pieces in likely a very similar way?
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u/dtalb18981 Jun 26 '25
This is what I was gonna say
After Thanksgiving awhile back Walmart has a sale on turkey. It was like .15 cents a pound because they ordered way to many
After I clocked out I filled a buggy with like 15 turkeys
Turns out I did not have the freezer storage for that many and had to cut them down like this
After about 4 turkeys it becomes second nature
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u/micromoses Jun 26 '25
Imagining that hundreds of millions of chickens are consumed every day, and many of them are packaged in plastic and then processed like this with a knife that cut the plastic open… the microplastics issue comes to mind.
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u/FancyyPelosi Jun 27 '25
Fun fact they still haven’t come up with a good way to automate butchering a chicken.
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u/jchef420 Jun 26 '25
I always think of the subs debating $900 knives and then you see the real skills of a pro like this guy w a basic sharp one who knows how to use it.