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Boning Knives And Their Use Today

ECBG — Sat, 22 Apr 2023 23:21:19 GMT

Remember the boning knives in every knife set we purchased when we set up our kitchen?

Now, we have skinless, boneless chicken. I never buy in the bone white meat chicken. Most likely, wives (people) today can't debone a chicken.

I use that knife to open packages.

Where is yours?

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Icegoddess — Sat, 22 Apr 2023 23:24:47 GMT

I use the paring knife to open packages. The boning knife I use to cut mushrooms and to remove the silverskin from a pork tenderloin.

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Snowpuppy — Sat, 22 Apr 2023 23:31:26 GMT

Never owned one.

Never "set up" a kitchen. It just sort of randomly came together. 😊

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LizzieInSRQ — Sat, 22 Apr 2023 23:38:57 GMT

I just used mine to take off the rest of my Easter ham off the bone,

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Carmie — Sat, 22 Apr 2023 23:59:40 GMT

I have a boning knife and I use it often. I still buy whole chickens and cut them up. I buy chicken leg quarters and remove the thighs from the legs and remove the back portion for soup stock. I buy whole wings and seperate them at the joint.

I use my knife to remove the skin from fish. I even used it on Easter to remove ham from the bone.

I can debone a chicken, but honestly chicken tastes better cooked with the bone in. I made bone in chicken thighs this past week and my husband said they tasted much better than the deboned ones. I agreed.

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Desertdi — Sun, 23 Apr 2023 00:22:23 GMT

I still use my ORIGINAL Chicago Cutlery boning knife, and my Sabatier butcher knife...both are out on the kitchen counter.

Edited to add: I recently used the Sabatier to hack down a cactus that was taller than I am.

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We rescue cats — Sun, 23 Apr 2023 00:36:45 GMT

I think my boning knife is one of the most important tools in the kitchen, between that and a favorite paring knife. It's getting harder and harder to find meat available on the bone. We prefer pork chops and chicken both to be cooked on the bone but it's often difficult to find.

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Sooner — Sun, 23 Apr 2023 00:42:31 GMT

@Carmie wrote:
I have a boning knife and I use it often. I still buy whole chickens and cut them up. I buy chicken leg quarters and remove the thighs from the legs and remove the back portion for soup stock. I buy whole wings and seperate them at the joint.

I use my knife to remove the skin from fish. I even used it on Easter to remove ham from the bone.

I can debone a chicken, but honestly chicken tastes better cooked with the bone in. I made bone in chicken thighs this past week and my husband said they tasted much better than the deboned ones. I agreed.

@Carmie What she said. Plus we use it a lot to shave down the fat cap on brisket for smoking, trimming a pork butt, or when I'm cutting up a chicken. Actually, we use ours a lot.

I have a big collection of knives I've bought over the years.

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Marp — Sun, 23 Apr 2023 00:45:01 GMT

Since I am a price conscious shopper I go by the mantra "I have knives and know how to use them". That includes my boning knife.

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Icegoddess — Sun, 23 Apr 2023 00:49:32 GMT

@Marp , I never learned how to do all that stuff.

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deepwaterdotter — Sun, 23 Apr 2023 01:05:14 GMT

I use mine to cut meat off of bones.

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Still Raining — Sun, 23 Apr 2023 01:17:01 GMT

Never really thought about it, most all of my family has boning knives. Very handy tools.

Last Thanksgiving my 13 year old grandson was deemed ready to tackle the turkey. My SIL was the teacher, so much for sandwiches and stock, and many many little scraps for a certain furry baby. Good training.

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kate2357 — Sun, 23 Apr 2023 01:23:06 GMT

We use our boning knives often....especially my husband and two sons. They go fishing for salmon and halibut and do their own cleaning/gutting/cutting and wrapping. I also use a boning knife a lot because I prefer to buy meat that is bone-in.

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Marp — Sun, 23 Apr 2023 01:30:25 GMT

@Icegoddess wrote:
@Marp , I never learned how to do all that stuff.

@Icegoddess, whenever I would say that or simply I don't know how my dad would always say "you aren't going to learn any younger".

Try. Just keep in mind that you are not prepping food for a restaurant so if it turns out ugly it will still cook and taste good.

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Icegoddess — Sun, 23 Apr 2023 01:45:09 GMT

@Marp wrote:
@Icegoddess wrote:
@Marp , I never learned how to do all that stuff.
@Icegoddess, whenever I would say that or simply I don't know how my dad would always say "you aren't going to learn any younger".

Try. Just keep in mind that you are not prepping food for a restaurant so if it turns out ugly it will still cook and taste good.

@Marp if I really wanted to I would try. I just didn't grow up learning domestic skills. I had to cook for Dad when Mother was in the hospital once and I don't remember what all I cooked, but he said I made the best mashed potatoes.

I kinda learned how to remove the silverskin from pork tenderloins from watching Gordon Ramsey demonstrating how to filet a fish.

I mostly have a handful of stuff I rotate through and most don't require any special knife skills.

What I really wish I had learned growing up was basic carpentry skills.

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aroc3435 — Sun, 23 Apr 2023 02:10:49 GMT

@ECBG I still debone meat--especially chicken so I still have that knife being used for its originnal purpose.

But, as someone else has already mentioned I often buy whole chicken and break down myself since bone-in meat does have more flavor.

For example, when I make Chicken Cacciatore I cut up a whole chicken, brown it, leave it on the bone and put in my seasoned tomato sauce and then strain out the bones at the end of long simmering on the stovetop.

I prefer standing bone in beef rib roast over tenderloin and bone in beef steaks, or leg of lamb, or bone in loin lamb or pork chops.

aroc3435

Washington, DC

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Sweetbay magnolia — Sun, 23 Apr 2023 02:20:04 GMT

I didn't even know I had one, but I use it for all sorts of things.

I tend to de-bone, when I do de-bone, after the bird is cooked, so the knife is less important than the set of fingers.

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kate2357 — Sun, 23 Apr 2023 02:27:06 GMT

@Icegoddess wrote:
@Marp wrote:
@Icegoddess wrote:
@Marp , I never learned how to do all that stuff.
@Icegoddess, whenever I would say that or simply I don't know how my dad would always say "you aren't going to learn any younger".

Try. Just keep in mind that you are not prepping food for a restaurant so if it turns out ugly it will still cook and taste good.
@Marp if I really wanted to I would try. I just didn't grow up learning domestic skills. I had to cook for Dad when Mother was in the hospital once and I don't remember what all I cooked, but he said I made the best mashed potatoes.

I kinda learned how to remove the silverskin from pork tenderloins from watching Gordon Ramsey demonstrating how to filet a fish.

I mostly have a handful of stuff I rotate through and most don't require any special knife skills.

What I really wish I had learned growing up was basic carpentry skills.

@Icegoddess

Off topic...sort of...but I learned carpentry skills ... as well as how to use a boning knife...from various boyfriends (way back when). Very handy to know how to do carpentry stuff. DH would ask...where did you learn to do that? Oh, you know, around. Lol.

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Icegoddess — Sun, 23 Apr 2023 02:33:18 GMT

@kate2357 Sounds like you had more and better boyfriends than I did. One thing I can do is a beautiful caulk job.

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JeanLouiseFinch — Sun, 23 Apr 2023 04:13:54 GMT

It may not be the appropriate knife for the job, but I use mine for slicing raw chicken breasts into cubes