There are about 4 methods of deboning chicken feet:

1. Manual hand peeling. Boil the chicken feet and cool them in ice water. With the chicken paw facing up, use a knife to cut a slit from the calf of the paw to the palm, then push and break off the largest bone along the slit towards the palm, and the big bone will be pulled out; A long slit is made on the claw. The small bones are tightly connected to the claw meat and are not easy to fall off. It requires skillful effort. When the toe bones are removed, the claw skin and flesh are often damaged, making it difficult to restore the original appearance. This series of operations can only be successfully completed in the hands of a chef with extensive hand peeling experience.

(Those without experience will be asked to leave)

2. Cut with a knife. The size of the chicken feet is uneven, making it difficult to operate on the chopping board docilely. Moreover, there is abundant collagen exuding from the cooked surface of the chicken feet, which is sticky and slippery. Not only is it inefficient, but you can also injure yourself if you are not careful. , so it has not been widely used.

3. Mechanical bone removal. Although I haven’t been able to see the bone-removing process with my own eyes, I think that for many smaller companies or small workshops, the speed of small quantities of production and dozens of workers is not necessarily slower than the machine, and the machine is fast and can withstand stress. It is also large, and the broken bone residue needs to be sorted out bit by bit manually later, so it is more suitable for large enterprises with a high degree of mechanization.

4. Bite with your mouth. It has been reported since the Thai factory that employees wore aprons and sat next to chicken feet stacked in a hill. They picked them up and gnawed them without gloves. The speed was astonishingly fast. In a few seconds, a chicken foot fell off the bone. It really improved a lot. The efficiency is improved, and the shape of the chicken feet is no worse than that of hand peeling, knife cutting and machine deboning. No wonder, this method started to spread!

So, this tells us that "heaven is going to entrust great responsibilities to these people, and they must work hard first..." If you get something without working, there will be distorted results. Foodies have always agreed with the saying that "existence is reasonable". If you only eat boneless chicken feet, you will lose the fun of chewing the bones and sucking the soup. When you chew the chicken feet, you will lose the original soul.

Of course, if you want to eat chicken feet that fall off the bone in one bite, gourmet chefs will tell you a trick!

Tiger Skin Chicken Feet:

1. Cut off the toenails of the chicken feet, wash them, and put them into the pot with cold water.

2. Add green onions, ginger slices, white vinegar and cooking wine, and bring to a boil. During this period, mince the ginger, garlic, green onions, and millet pepper and set aside.

3. Take out the chicken feet after cooking, drain the water or dry them with kitchen paper.

4. Heat oil in a pan, add chicken feet and fry.

5. Fry until the surface of the chicken feet becomes darker in color. The most important thing is to soak it in cold water for 1 hour

6. Heat the oil and sauté the minced onion, ginger and garlic, and pour in Stir-fried soaked chicken feet. Add dark soy sauce and light soy sauce and stir-fry until coloured. Add boiling water to cover. After boiling, turn to low heat and simmer for another 15 minutes. Finally add millet, pepper and salt to taste.

If you have the courage to eat other people’s saliva, why not spend some time eating it yourself!