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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.

there's a wrong way to eat a chicken wing?

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.

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.

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).

Cool video, but I'm not eating the cartilage.

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?

Surely, that just completely misses the point?

I've got to admit, I find de-boning a chicken wing slightly ridiculous...

Absolutely! If I'm not too exhausted from having to get up at an ungodly hour that morning, I get a late burst of creative energy late at night and will often bake, paint or both at once until 3 or 4 in the morning. This is why I'm going to be looking for restaurant work as opposed to bakery work when I'm done with pastry school -get to sleep in, wander into work in the late afternoon and gogogo until the wee hours. Yay!

Totally weird. I thought we were a rare breed. However, I don't night bake by choice. It's just that by the time I get all the ingrediants together, it's already nighttime. Oh yeah, it also helps that I usually forget something and have to rush back to the store. *sigh*

Best time to bake and to decorate those cookies!
Barbara Chapman

I often bake well into the night most times by design but sometimes because I under-estimate the time ill need, like recently making a triple layer Boston Cream pie and ended up in the kitchen till past midnight but I actually enjoy the calmness that the evening has, less pressured

pfft...you know it. I baked a batch of blueberry muffins last night and didn't end till 1 in the morning. It's now 7:50AM and the only reason why I'm still conscious and not passed out on my keyboard is because of my crayz insane sugar high.