1.4M views · Dec 3, 2011 · 10:25 · 2 HN recommenders · 5 mentions · discussed 2016–2023
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 Hacker News points people here: HN calls it the single best cooking video on the internet and suggests it as a skill worth practicing for an hour.
“Pepin's chicken deboning video is the best cooking video that has ever or will ever be put on the Internet”HN comment, 2016
“Pepin's chicken deboning video is the best cooking video that has ever or will ever be put on the Internet”
Pepin deboning a chicken
Recurring reminder that Pepin's chicken deboning video is the best cooking video that has ever or will ever be put on the Internet: this video
“Pépin is also responsible for the single greatest cooking video on the Internet”
Pepin cooking demonstration
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: this video
“One hour (because as easy as it looks you're gonna have to do it at least 4 times)”
Learn chicken deboning in an hour
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: this video
Educational content recommended on HN
3blue1brown is a special kind of awesome. I'd love to filter the internet by "content that can give you insights right now that would otherwise take years of study in a specific discipline to even know exists". Another that I saw recently on an HN comment (thanks tptacek) is this video A quick google for "3blue1brown awesome github" (my usual strategy for finding good similar content) landed me here: link The awesome lists are pretty good starting points for finding good content, but there's a ton of them of variable quality, so you end up with stuff like this: link (which has 68 forks...)
“Here's the video transcoded on YouTube for anybody else who's curious”
Wow! I'm not sure how I missed that back in the day. Here's the video transcoded on YouTube for anybody else who's curious: this video
