Remove Carcass from Leftover Thanksgiving Turkey Soup

Video Transcript

"My name is Brandon Sarkin, on behalf of Expert Village. Today, I'm going to show you how to make turkey soup out of leftover holiday turkeys. Here we are, some two hours later. Be really careful; watch out for the stem. You'll see our soup has taken on a much different appearance at this point, as has the turkey carcass that's in it. It's going to look a lot more bare. You can see how some of the meat is still hanging on there. You can just grab it with these tongs, just like that. This should just fall right off, which is what we want it to do. Grab that little piece, grab that; there's a little piece of skin there, grab that. That's pretty clean looking, compared to how it went in. Let's also grab that piece. There's the wishbone. You're going to want to watch out, because if you're not careful, you will end up with a bone or two in here. Some of the rib bones will probably fall out on their own. Just be aware of that when you go to serve it. Before serving, go through it very carefully to pull all the bones out, if there are any in there. That looks like the back, which it is. There was a good piece of meat stuck to that, so I'll put that back in there. I probably don't want this big piece of skin in there. It has served its purpose. Usually you can just shake the piece of bone and any of the meat that's on there just falls right off, just like that. Obviously, this is very, very hot, so you want to be careful that you don't burn yourself when you do this. Here's the large part of the carcass that's still in here. We should be able to grab this whole thing, and I can pull it out and pick the meat off of there, and add it back in later, as I see fit. There's another bone, that's actually the neck. We're going to pull the whole neck out because no one wants to eat that. It's just in there for flavoring. Although, if you want to eat it, feel free to leave it in there. That's pretty much this step. There you have that."