How to Trim Turkey Meat

Video Transcript

"My name is Brandon Sarkis on behalf of Expert Village today I'm going to show you how to carve a turkey. I usually divide my turkey up into three parts I will do the light meat, dark meat and actually I will do the breast, dark meat then all the pieces like all this stuff we are going to trim, this will be its own piece here in a second. So we are going to take a very small very sharp knife again and we are going to take all the skin off cause that is good stuff. Know what we are going to do is why you want to use a smaller knife like this is cause you're going to get in here and remove as much of this off the bone as we can, without getting into the bone. Cause that will be not very tasty, a little hard to eat too. Although you don't have to go this far with it you can just take everything else off and call it a day if you want. But I want to get my moneys worth and I also want to show you how to get your moneys worth. It is really hard to characterize this as light or dark meat because it all tends to kind of come together here at the end. You're going to get stuff that borders on one and another, if you have someone who typically who is really picky about the light meat. You're always going to want to make sure that they get the breast because breast is nothing but white meat as oppose to the thighs and the legs that are nothing but the dark meat. So I prefer the dark meat too myself I think it's a lot more flavor and it has a lot more moisture in it (flip to the other side) I got pretty close to the rib cage in here so I probably pull this piece out, I thought I could."