would like to de-bone a whole chicken before cooking but have no idea how?

Answer 1

Deboning A Chicken

Instructions:
1. Using a 3 to 3 1/4 pound roasting chicken, remove the wings at the second joint and reserve. Lift up the skin of the neck to expose the flesh and, using the point of a small knife, follow the contour of the wishbone to get it loose. 2. Pull the wishbone out. 3. Place the chicken on its breast, and cut down the backbone to expose the meat. 4. Following the carcass with your knife, begin cutting the meat from the bone. Cut the joint at the shoulder. Cut on top and around the breastbone and on the other side. This is not really complicated; you simply separate the meat from the bone as you go. Do not worry about the leg, shoulder, and wing bones. 5. Remove the carcass in one piece. 6. Cut around the bone of the thigh to free it of meat. Holding the tip in one hand, scrape with your knife, "pushing" the meat from the bone. Separate the thighbone at the joint between the thigh and drumstick. The drumstick bone is left in. 7. With a large knife, cut the tip of the drumstick and... 8. "push" the flesh back to expose the bone. 9. Cut the tip of the wing bones. 10. You will notice that there are 2 fillets loose on the breast. Pull them off and position them lower than the breast, where there is no meat on the skin. Most of the surface should be lined with meat.

Answer 2

i only bone a chicken, when i need to do Kiev's. or breast of chicken,you need a sharp knife, chopping board, insert your knife under the skin of chicken,neck end,and put point of knife into the wish bone and remove the wish bone,to facilitate carving,then as near to breast bone as you can, remove the breast fillet, then the legs, cut away from the chtcken, then half way down the leg cut thruough the bone,then the wings cut away, and then cut end of the wing away,and i always put the carcus into a saucpan, and boil it up to make a chicken stew. then wash thougherly with hot soapy water,and your surrounding area also your board and knife.

Answer 3

Skinning and Deboning Chicken

http://home.howstuffworks.com/how-to-cut-chicken-cooking2.htm

Answer 4

if you boil it gently for a couple of hours the meat will just fall off and leave the carcass in the pan save' all that mucking about cutting and pickin bone's.

Answer 5

Go to WWL-TV.com out of new orleans..there is a chef named Frank Davis..i believe if you go to his website he will have a video on how to de-bone. Nothing is better than seein it done.

Answer 6

well first of all you need a very..very sharp knife,,and the rest well maybe google...let me know..thanks

Answer 7

http://www.cutlery.com/debone.shtml
http://www.ehow.com/how_2069_bone-whole-chicken.html
here are a couple sites with good how to instructions.
happy cooking!