How To Cut Chicken. How to Cut a Chicken Into 8 Pieces in Under a Minute - Kitchen Conundrums with Thomas Joseph - YouTube. Since raw chicken is very slippery sitting it in. Pull one leg away from the body and slice through the skin between the leg and the body. How to Cut Up a Whole Chicken Position the bird on your cutting board breasts up with the drumsticks pointing toward you.
Place knife on the breastbone and apply pressure to cut the breast into two halves. Choose a sharp chefs knife thats 8 to 10 inches 20 to 25 cm long. With chicken breast side up pull each leg away from body then slice through skin between breast and drumstick. With the chicken breast-side down on the cutting board pull the wing tip away from the wing flat. Cut off the neck where it meets the body of the chicken and cut off the head if attached. Then make 1 smooth cut through the middle of the chicken near the thick end of the breast.
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Slice the knife horizontally through the middle of the chicken breast. Turn the chicken breast-side down and remove the backbone by making a cut down both sides of the backbone. Slicing Chicken with a Knife 1. Bone in chicken breasts are very thick and would take a long time to cook properly so cutting them into fourths helps shorten the cook time. Hold the knife in your dominant hand and turn the blade so its horizontal. How to Cut up a Whole Roasted Chicken.