A surgeon and his wife demonstrate how to debone a turkey, duck, and chicken to prepare a turducken. The surgeon makes incisions, dissects joints, and removes bones from each bird, explaining each step. He removes the thigh bones and lower leg bones from the turkey and chicken, and removes the breasts from the duck. The video ends with the boneless turkey, chicken, and duck breast ready to be stacked.
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Deboning a full Turducken is no small feat but it can be done. Happy to answer any questions!
Should we do Part 2: “Assembly & Closure”?
Knives used are from @Sur La Table
-Shun Cutlery Boning & Fillet 6”
-Shun Kagerok Chef’s Knife 8”
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Transcript
Truducket one zero one. Surgeon style. Episode one. Boning. Make an incision straight down the backbones and cut through the joint capsule and pop out the hip, then dissect up to the shoulder. Cut right through the shoulder joint to free the shoulder and wing. Next, dissect out the carcass with the knife. Keep the blade almost flat along the breast and carefully dissect around. Then repeat the same thing on the other side of the backbone starting with the carcass second half of the carcass. Lift the carcass rank carefully peel the carcass off the meat from better neck. With the carcass out, find the femur in each thigh, trace along the bone and slide it out without cutting through the skin or the meat jacket. Same thing on the other leg. Now both thigh bones have been removed. Keep the wings for both structure and presentation. Remove with the lower leg bones by dissecting along the shank, then grab the tendons with needle nose pliers and pull them out. Now the chicken. Cut off the ankle joints and then cut off the wings. Make your incision over the backbone. Take your dissection down to the hip and shoulder. Pop them out and continue to dissect around the carcass and then free the carcass in one piece. Then remove both thigh bones best like the turkey and result a flat boneless chicken ready to stack inside the turkey. For the duck, we just want the best. Run the knife down one side. Follow the ribs lifting the first breast right off the carcass. Repeat on the other side. Trim up the fat, and remove the skin. Now we've got a boneless turkey, a fully boneless chicken, and duck best all ready to stack, roll, and stitch up into the ultimate