Video: How to Eat a Chicken Wing
If you're eating a chicken wing off the bone, you're doing it wrong, according to Food Wishes. Their tutorial shows you how to debone a chicken wing by simply (maybe) twisting and pulling out the bones. Do any of you use this method? Watch the video after the jump.
How to Eat a Chicken Wing
You can find three other methods to clean chicken wing eating in this Japanese guide to deboning chicken wings. Alas, none of them were used when we did our The Great Fast-Food Wings Taste Test. [via Metafilter]
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21 Comments:
But this technique requires two hands and I prefer to have one clean hand available.
FryPrayEatPassOut at 2:35PM on 11/01/09
I'll continue to do it my way.
dmcavanagh at 2:39PM on 11/01/09
The bone is a good indicator of the icky bits that I don't want to eat, so I'll continue to eat it off the bone tyvm.
ktoth04 at 2:53PM on 11/01/09
And here I've been shoving the entire wing down my gullet and eating it bones and all ...
redfish at 3:14PM on 11/01/09
It does depress me to see the waste from all the people who take a bite out of the middle, and throw away the rest. They skip the deep flavor from all the end bits. But then those are the same people who prefer boneless fried chicken, hate eating ribs unless they are overcooked "falling off the bone", and never eat all the fantastically delicious meat from a steak bone.
Same sort of people who order filet mignon steak.
peekpoke at 3:36PM on 11/01/09
Nice technique, but I don't twist the bones separately, I pinch and push all the meat down toward the "skinny end" and pull it off the bones.
iWander at 3:51PM on 11/01/09
Surely, that just completely misses the point?
I've got to admit, I find de-boning a chicken wing slightly ridiculous...
righteye at 3:56PM on 11/01/09
I've been eating wings pretty much like this for years. Though I don't always bother taking out the big bone completely - it makes a convenient handle for the wing meat hanging off it.
benbenberi at 4:16PM on 11/01/09
This is exactly the way I've always eaten wings. De-boning a chicken wing is no less ridiculous than cutting your steak into bite-sized pieces to make it easier to eat. It peeves me to no end when out eating wings, to see my friends be so wasteful with their finicky ways of eating things, and I am not shy about calling them out on it. If the wings are cooked perfectly, the bones come apart and out very easily. And if you're concerned with clean hands, should you really be eating wings in the first place?
marcusaurus at 4:17PM on 11/01/09
This it the exact method I plan to use when taking on the hot wing challenge near me!
droostring at 4:38PM on 11/01/09
Cool video, but I'm not eating the cartilage.
Jpunk at 5:27PM on 11/01/09
If you need a lesson you should not be eating chicken wings. I hope he doesn't get any knuckle hair in his Russian dressing.
ericphotonyc at 5:47PM on 11/01/09
I've do that for the little bone (yank it out). Not sure why you need to take the big bone out (Since he doesn't go to the trouble of de-boning the drummette portion of the wing).
wthrop at 7:35PM on 11/01/09
this is a great idea if you don't mind spending a full minute mashing the chicken between your fingers before you eat it. i'll stick with taking bites off the bone.
jkaww at 7:03AM on 11/02/09
I've eaten wings like this for years. I usually just pinch the cartilage to separate it from the bones and use it as a handle to dip in blue cheese or hotsauce, then just bite the meat off and toss the cartilage bits. Quicker than eating other ways and much easier to dip. Sometimes the big bone doesn't always come out, so its almost like a drumette at that point.
1n4001 at 9:19AM on 11/02/09
nice technique! but that's kinda like the infomercials where they make the conventional technique look impossible. like the woman who can't fry an egg without making a huge mess or using a ton of oil. i eat chicken wings without this technique and I don't leave all that meat on the bone.
_greenbean at 9:22AM on 11/02/09
I have my own technique. I push the middle section of meat up and bite it out, then rip the wing at one end to unfold it with the "hinge" at one end. Then eat the meat off of each bone. No cartilage consumption (blech) and I get all the meat off the bone.
Nickiter at 12:48PM on 11/02/09
For me, the fun of eating wings is the gnawing around! And trust me, I get all the meat out.
KidPresentable at 1:05PM on 11/02/09
there's a wrong way to eat a chicken wing?
naenae at 3:04PM on 11/02/09
Hmm...I usually don't have a problem just using my finger and poking out that meat that gets stuck between the two bones.
However, after watching this and reading the comments, I think I may go with pulling the small bone out then proceeding with the eating with the big bone still in.
wunami at 2:01AM on 11/04/09
I'm from Buffalo originally and I learned early on (from my Pops) that the only real way to eat a wing is to put the entire thing in your mouth and work it around for a while until you pull out a clean bone.
De-boning a chicken wing? Get real.
JamesC at 9:36AM on 11/09/09