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filleting or boning - which is the best bet?
I use a boning knife. A F.Dick boning knife to precise.
Really good value compared to some of the over priced stuff out there.
dick boning.... s****...
DrP
You can listen to this while you do it. It might help.
In all honesty if you are just jointing and deboning chickens then a chefs knife will be more than enough. Perhaps a paring knife to take out the wish bone but that’s about all.
A filleting knife is only really good for fish; it’ll be too flexible for anything more.
A chef's knife will be rubbish for deboning chicken! The blade is way too broad to be any use. Semi-flexible boning as per the link gobuchel will be your best bet. A proper filleting knife will generally be too flexible, as you say...
Dismembering chickens? The Cu Clucks Clan knife, obviously. 😉
Chainsaw?
Dismembering chickens? The Cu Clucks Clan knife, obviously.
👏🏻 Worthy of perchy, that one!
If it's only for chickens a flexible blade boning knife will be a bit better than a rigid blade one when taking meat off the small bones. If you want a boning knife for bigger jobs as well then a rigid blade one will be required and will also do chickens perfectly well. I wouldn't bother with one of each, I have a 5.6403.15 Victorinox Fibrox Rigid Boning Knife 15cm for everything, it takes a very nice sharp edge and grip is great even when wet. Get onto YouTube and watch some Jacques Pépin chicken deboning videos for techniques, after a few goes you'll be doing a chicken in just a few minutes. Leave the filleting knife for fish.
Rigid blade
https://www.nisbets.co.uk/victorinox-fibrox-rigid-boning-knife-150mm/c671
Flexible blade
Breaking down a chicken
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfDsNRXPKE8
A bit fancier - debone a whole chicken
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3fIl5T3XsU
croe
If you want a boning knife for bigger jobs as well then a rigid blade one will be required
I'd disagree - flexible is better for bigger carcasses too - it allows you to follow the bone more easily and leave less behind (based on lots of experience of butchering deer carcasses).