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 How To Joint a Chicken

How to joint a chicken - step 1. Click picture to enlarge.
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The chicken used was around 1.35 kilos (just under 2 lb) with the jiblets removed. It was a standard supermarket bird but it was a corn fed one.

You will need a strong and sturdy knife and very firm pressure to cut through the bones.




How to joint a chicken - step 2. Click picture to enlarge. First, enlarge the above picture (not immediately to the left) of the whole chicken. Check out where the various parts are (marked in red on the picture).
Turn the chicken up on it's neck end (legs uppermost). Cut gently at first through the parson's nose end down through the breast bone line. When you hit the breast bone you will need to exert considerable pressure on the knife to cut all the way down the breast bone through to the neck end.

 
 
Jointing a chicken. Click picture to enlarge. Turn each half over (cut side down) and separate the legs from the breast by cutting the legs from the breast as shown in the picture on the left.

Again you will have to exert considerable pressure.


 
 
Jointing a chicken. Clikck to enlarge. The picture on the left shows the two chicken breasts and the two separated legs. The next step is to separate the wings from the breast. Do this in exactly the same way as you separated the legs from the breast.



Jointing a chicken. Click to enlarge. This picture on the left shows 6 chicken pieces -  two breasts, two legs and two wings. That's fine but you may well want to make more even portions by cutting each breast into two or three parts. That's pretty easy if you have got this far!
 

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