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Pepin Debone Chicken.flv

Jacques Pepin demonstrates deboning a whole chicken, quickly and with complete control. It is a short, wordless-feeling technique demo that shows a skill most cooks never learn.

Why HN readers recommended it

HN calls it the single best cooking video on the internet and suggests it as a skill worth practicing for an hour.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel
newnew2005love
Topic
chicken deboning
Format
tutorial
Level
intro
HN recommenders in dataset
2
HN mentions in dataset
5
Recommendation years in dataset
2016–2023

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

Excerpts from the recorded comments. Follow each source for the full comment and surrounding discussion.

  • Recurring reminder that Pepin's chicken deboning video is the best cooking video that has ever or will ever be put on the Internet: [VIDEO]

    tptacek on Hacker News · 2016-11
    In Jacques Pepin, unlike other celebrity chefs, will actually teach you how to cook
  • That video is amazing and taught me how to make omelets. Of course, Pépin is also responsible for the single greatest cooking video on the Internet: [VIDEO]

    tptacek on Hacker News · 2021-06
    In J. Kenji López-Alt is Seattle’s reluctant powerful food influencer
  • One minute: what a dechoker is and how to use it: [LINK] One hour (because as easy as it looks you're gonna have to do it at least 4 times): deboning a chicken: [VIDEO]

    IvyMike on Hacker News · 2019-11
    In Ask HN: What's the most valuable thing you can learn in an hour?

Summaries, classifications and recommendation records are from the HackerTube source dataset. Read about this library and its limitations.