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Pepin Debone Chicken.flv

newnew2005love · 1.4M views · 2011-12-03 · 10:25

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Overview

Jacques Pepin demonstrates deboning a whole chicken, quickly and with complete control. It is a short, wordless-feeling technique demo that shows a skill most cooks never learn.

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HN calls it the single best cooking video on the internet and suggests it as a skill worth practicing for an hour.

Recommended by 2 HN people across 3 months · HN mentions 2016–2023

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What people said

tptacek · 2021-06 · Strong recommendation

That video is amazing and taught me how to make omelets. Of course, Pépin is also responsible for the single greatest cooking video on the Internet: [VIDEO]

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tptacek · 2016-11 · Strong recommendation

Recurring reminder that Pepin's chicken deboning video is the best cooking video that has ever or will ever be put on the Internet: [VIDEO]

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IvyMike · 2019-11 · Recommendation

One minute: what a dechoker is and how to use it: [LINK] One hour (because as easy as it looks you're gonna have to do it at least 4 times): deboning a chicken: [VIDEO]

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