How to Debone a Chicken While Leaving It Whole
- 1). Remove any giblet pack. Check back and front cavities for any extra fat or organs and remove.
- 2). Rinse the chicken under cold water until the water runs clear.
- 3). Dry the chicken with paper towels to include the inside of the chicken cavity.
- 4). Place the chicken on the cutting board breast-side up.
- 5). Locate the wishbone by lifting up the neck skin. Cut the wishbone out using a small knife, and cut the skin around it away. Pull the wishbone out.
- 6). Flip the chicken over breast-side down and cut a deep slip from the chicken's neck to its tail, exposing the backbone. Separate the meat from the backbone and scrape and cut the meat on the left-hand side of the chicken.
- 7). Locate the leg and wing ball joints on the left-hand side and sever them. Continue down, removing the meat to the ridge of the breast and stop. Repeat these steps on the right-hand side of the chicken stopping again at the ridge of the breastbone.
- 8). Lift the chicken and cut very closely against the ridge of the breastbone to free it. Be careful not to pierce or split the skin covering the breastbone.
- 9). Chop the wings off at the joints leaving the upper wing bones. Scrape the meat away from the wing and remove the bone.
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Lift the drumsticks one at a time and cut the skin at the end to expose the bone. Cut the bone from the meat. - 11
Lift the thigh and cut the bone away from the meat.
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