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Is it true that old ladies gnaw out boneless chicken feet?

Chinese people love to eat and will eat.

In foreign countries, all kinds of animal offal and trimmings are often processed into animal feed or pet food, while in China they are a delicacy on the table.

Some trimmings are even more expensive than meat, such as chicken claws.

Chicken claws in addition to the surface layer of chicken skin is the connective tissue inside, mainly collagen, nutritional value is relatively poor.

But collagen also makes chicken claws stewed and eaten after a good taste, and chicken claws less fat, as a kind of small dishes with meals is still quite good.

But the chicken claws inside the bones, gnawing up seems unseemly, and dirty hands is not convenient.

It's fine if you eat it at home or at a barbecue stall, but it's difficult to eat it at a banquet.

About a dozen years ago, boneless chicken feet appeared in restaurants, and it was a great feeling to eat them.

But then there were rumors that the boneless chicken claws were gnawed by old ladies with their mouths, and there were even photos taken (actually from a workshop in Thailand), which gave many diners a mental block.

People who have gnawed on chicken claws should know that it's not easy to gnaw them clean, so how is it possible to gnaw out a boneless, intact chicken claw with your mouth?

In fact, boneless chicken feet are peeled by hand with a knife, scissors and other simple tools, just look at the neat cuts.

Chicken claws from woodchucks are dry and thin, and not as easy to process, so nowadays most of what you eat comes from white-feathered chickens or other broilers, which have a more tender texture.

The fingers of the chicken claws should be chopped off before putting them in the pot, and you need to master the fire when cooking; if the cooking time is too short, the bones will not be easy to come out, and if the cooking time is too long, it will be easy to cause skin breakage when removing the bones, which will affect the selling appearance.

For example, some studies have shown that cooking at 88 degrees for 12 minutes, the rate of bone removal, crispness and completeness is optimal.

The critical step that follows is cooling, where cold water is used to rapidly cool the chicken claws from soft to firm.

This process shrinks the bones and connective tissues to different degrees, causing the bone-flesh connection to loosen.

Next, use a knife to make an opening in the back of the chicken claw along the direction of the bone, and finally pinch the toe bone with your fingers and push it inward and it will come off, the same with the leg bone.

Another technique for removing the bones is also practiced in Sichuan and Chongqing.

Cooking the chicken claws is the same as cooling them, but first a knife is used to open the leg bones and take them out.

The toes are then gently tapped with a wooden hammer, and then the toe bones are simply taken out.

While there have been some patented technologies that claim to automate the removal of bones by machine, in practice it is still largely done by hand.

This is because the irregular shape of chicken claws is not conducive to standardized operation.

And skilled workers peel a chicken claw only need half a minute, a day can peel 60-80 pounds it.

Of course, the Internet rumor "mouth gnawing chicken claws" is not completely impossible.

In a small workshop, if the cooking and cooling process is not mastered well, it will cause individual chicken claws are not easy to remove the bone, there may be a hand, mouth and the situation, but this will not be a common practice.

Also, there are raw de-boned chicken claws on the market, and the likelihood of it being gnawed out with the mouth would be almost non-existent.

Because the risk of microbial contamination of raw chicken claws is just too great.

In fact, even if they were gnawed out with the help of your mouth, there's nothing wrong with eating them.

After all, you have to wash the chicken after peeling it out, and then heat it up before you eat it.

You don't mind stepping in chicken poop every day, so why should you mind the old lady?

Hahaha!