Method of making bird wing and breast products and products made in accordance with the method
View Patent ↗A method of cutting a whole bird to form bird meat products comprises: removing a portion of each of the wings of the bird including the wing tip sections and the center, two bone sections; removing both of the breasts and the drumettes of the wings from the remainder of the bird leaving the drumettes attached to the removed breasts; and cutting through each of the removed breasts along cut lines extending approximately one third of the distance along the length of each of the removed breasts and generally parallel to the bones of the removed drumettes to create two breast products and two breast/drumette products. In one embodiment the breast products are cut in half lengthwise to form smaller breast products.
1. A method of cutting a whole bird to form bird meat products comprising:
removing a portion of the wing of the bird including the wing tip section and the center, two bone section;
removing the breast and the drumette of the wing from the remainder of the bird leaving the drumette attached to the removed breast; and
cutting through the removed breast along a cut line extending approximately one third of the distance along the length of the removed breast and generally parallel to the bone of the removed drumette to create a breast product and a breast/drumette product.
2. The method as recited in claim 1 further comprising cutting the breast product in half lengthwise to provide two generally equally sized breast products.
3. The food products made in accordance with the method of claim 2 .
4. The method as recited in claim 1 wherein all of the cuts are made using one of a knife, a saw and a water knife.
5. The food products made in accordance with the method of claim 1 .
6. A method of cutting a whole bird to form bird meat products comprising:
removing a portion of each of the wings of the bird including the wing tip sections and the center, two bone sections;
removing both of the breasts and the drumettes of the wings from the remainder of the bird leaving the drumettes attached to the removed breasts; and
cutting through each of the removed breasts along cut lines extending approximately one third of the distance along the length of each of the removed breasts and generally parallel to the bones of the removed drumettes to create two breast products and two breast/drumette products.
7. The method as recited in claim 6 further comprising cutting each of the breast products in half lengthwise to provide four generally equally sized breast products.
8. The food products made in accordance with the method of claim 5 .
9. The method as recited in claim 6 further comprising removing both of the legs of the bird prior to removing the breasts and drumettes.
10. The food products made in accordance with the method of claim 4 .