Kansas City Food Blog

​Chicken wings are typically multi-napkin, lip-burning affairs -- you have to plan for a messy dinner when you sit down for a bowl of wings at The Peanut. But Lifehacker links to a video from Food Wishes that shows the secret to deboning chicken wings and having a relatively mess-free dining experience.

To those who would say that this is blasphemy, I would say watch the video -- you're going to want to try this method. Chicken wings, like lobster, require a lot of effort in exchange for not a lot of meat. But what you get is sweet. And this method would appear to make sure that, by removing bones from the equation entirely, you don't leave any meat behind.

It's basically a five-step process that would take only a few seconds if the narrator (who sounds a bit like Seth Rogen if he was eating chicken wings) didn't stop to demonstrate and explain each step.

1. Identify the end with a larger protusion of bone.
2. Remove the cartilage between the two main bones of the wing.
3. Pull out the longer, slender chicken bone.
4. Pull out the larger chicken bone.
5. Eat the now-boneless wing.

This could be the ultimate solution for how to enjoy chicken wings without debasing yourself in a sports bar and ordering the boneless chicken wings (ie. chicken breast tenders). No longer will you have to suffer the pain of hot sauce accidentally smeared onto your eye, or a white shirt that is stained within five minutes of sitting down to eat. Either that, or this is how society loses its way.

[Image via Flickr: Izik]