However, collagen also makes chicken feet taste good after stewing, and chicken feet have less fat, which is quite good as a side dish.
But there are many bones in the chicken feet, which are rude and inconvenient to get dirty.
It doesn't matter whether you eat at home or at a barbecue stall. It's difficult to have a banquet.
About ten years ago, boneless chicken feet appeared in the restaurant and tasted great.
But then there were rumors that these boneless chicken feet were chewed by the old lady, and even some people took pictures (actually, it was a workshop in Thailand), which made many diners have psychological obstacles.
People who have chewed chicken feet should know that it is not easy to chew them clean. How can you chew a complete boneless chicken claw with your mouth?
In fact, boneless chicken feet are peeled off by hand with simple tools such as knives and scissors. Just look at the neat incision
What about the bones in the chicken feet?
Chicken feet of Chai Chicken are thin and not easy to process, so most of what we eat now comes from white feather chickens or other broilers, and the texture is tender.
Chicken feet need to be boiled before they are boned, and the fingers of chicken feet should be chopped off before cooking. When cooking, it is necessary to master the heat. Cooking time is too short, bones are not easy to come out, cooking time is too long, the epidermis is easy to be damaged, which affects the appearance.
For example, research shows that the bone removal rate, brittleness and integrity are the best when cooked at 88 degrees 12 minutes.
The next key step is cooling, and the chicken feet are quickly cooled with cold water, from soft to hard.
In this process, the contraction degree of bone and connective tissue is different, which leads to the loose connection between bone and blood.
Next, use a knife to cut the back of the chicken feet along the bone direction, and finally hold the phalanx with your fingers and push it in, then take it off. So is the leg bone.
In addition, there is also a kind of deboning technique circulating in Sichuan and Chongqing.
Boiling chicken feet is the same as cooling, except that the leg bones are cut off with a knife first, then the toes are tapped gently with a wooden hammer, and then the broken toe bones are removed.
Although some patented technologies have claimed that automatic bone removal can be realized by machines, in fact, bone removal is mainly done manually at present.
This is because the shape of chicken feet is irregular, which is not conducive to standardized operation.
Skilled workers only need half a minute to peel a chicken claw, and they can peel 60-80 kilograms a day.
Of course, it is not completely impossible to "chew chicken feet with your mouth" circulating on the Internet.
In a small workshop, if the cooking and cooling techniques are not well mastered, individual chicken feet are not easy to be boned, and there may be cases where hands and mouths are used together, but this will not be a common practice.
In addition, there are raw boneless chicken feet on the market, and the possibility of chewing them out with your mouth is almost nonexistent.
Because the risk of microbial contamination of raw chicken feet is too great.