Chinese people love to eat and will eat it.
In foreign countries, various animal offal and scraps are often processed into animal feed or pet food, but in China they are delicacies on the dining table.
Some scraps are even more expensive than meat, such as chicken feet.
In addition to the surface layer of chicken skin, chicken feet are composed of connective tissue inside, mainly collagen, which has relatively poor nutritional value.
However, collagen also makes chicken feet taste good after being stewed, and chicken feet have less fat, so they are quite good as a side dish.
However, there are many bones in the chicken feet, which makes chewing them inelegant and inconvenient to get your hands dirty.
It doesn’t matter if you eat it at home or at a barbecue food stall, but it will be difficult to serve it at a banquet.
About ten years ago, boneless chicken feet appeared in restaurants, and it felt great to eat.
But later there were rumors that these boneless chicken feet were chewed out by old ladies with their mouths, and some people even took photos (it was actually a workshop in Thailand), which made many diners psychological. obstacle.
Those who have gnawed chicken feet should know that it is not easy to clean them. How is it possible to gnaw out a complete chicken foot without bones with your mouth?
In fact, boneless chicken feet are peeled off by hand using simple tools such as knives and scissors. Just look at the neat cuts.
The chicken feet of Chai chicken are thinner and not easy to process, so most of what we eat now come from white-feathered chickens or other broiler chickens, which are relatively tender in texture.
Chop off the fingers of the chicken feet before putting them in the pot. When cooking, you need to control the heat. If the cooking time is too short, the bones will not come out easily. If the cooking time is too long, the skin will be damaged easily when the bones are removed. , affecting the appearance.
For example, some studies have shown that cooking at 88 degrees for 12 minutes will achieve the optimal bone removal rate, crispness and integrity.
The next key step is cooling. Use cold water to quickly cool the chicken feet from soft to hard.
During this process, bones and connective tissue shrink to different degrees, causing the connection between bone and flesh to loosen.
Next, use a knife to make an opening on the back of the chicken foot in the direction of the bone. Finally, use your fingers to pinch the toe bone and push it inward to remove it. The same goes for the leg bone.
In addition, there is another bone-removing technique spread in Sichuan and Chongqing.
The steps for cooking chicken feet are the same as cooling them, but first use a knife to open the leg bones and pull them out.
Then gently tap the toe with a wooden hammer, and then pop out the toe bone.
Although there are some patented technologies that claim to be able to achieve automatic bone removal by machines, in fact, manual bone removal is currently mainly used.
This is because the shape of chicken feet is irregular, which is not conducive to standardized operations.
It only takes half a minute for skilled workers to peel off a chicken foot, and they can peel 60-80 kilograms in a day.
Of course, the "biting chicken feet" spread on the Internet is not completely impossible.
In small workshops, if the cooking and cooling processes are not well controlled, it will be difficult for individual chicken feet to come off the bone. There may be situations where the hands and mouth are used simultaneously, but this is not a common practice.
In addition, there are raw boneless chicken feet on the market, so the possibility of it being chewed out with its mouth is almost non-existent.
Because the risk of microbial contamination of raw chicken feet is too great.
In fact, even if you use your mouth to help chew it out, it will be okay to eat.
After all, chicken feet need to be cleaned after being peeled off, and there are steps such as heating before eating.
You don’t mind if chicken feet are stepped in chicken feces every day, why should you care about an old lady?
Hahaha!