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Dan K

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Hi All,
As many of you know, one day I'm going to wake up with my "Beloved Pet" permently attached to me. What a mutation to explain to the cops
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To the point: People were comming and I was waaaay behind in the food department. I had a dozen chickens to cut up. Take short cut said self. I used my "BP" Villager to reduce those chickend into 144 pieces and clean up the mess wash my "BP" in under 20 minutes. I never had to touch up the edge the whole time and only ran a steel down each side a couple of times after I was done!

Boy would I like for Sanu(sp?) To make me one like it with a bigger handle.
Dan
 
12 chickens? Sounds like a kukhuri cook's dream assignment. I too have enjoyed dismembering chicken (just one at a time, darn it) with a khuk, but I haven't found much else in the cooking realm where it really excels. Anybody else?
 
Actually when I got my first khuk a few weeks ago I was pretty bummed 'cause I didn't have anything that needed choping. I did however have dinner to prepare (fajitas). So for kicks and giggles I did all the cutting work with my khuk.

This brings up a very good way to test the sharpness of you knife; cut a tomato. The reason most people use a serrated knife for tomatoes is because a plain edge must be very sharp to work (a dull edge will just smash it). My HI khuk passed its first test with flying colors.

Although I probably wouldnt do this every day it was a lot of fun to see the look on my wifes face.
 
Date: Christmas '79.

Location: the hills of Nepal, North of Kathmandu.

My guide decided to have a nice Christmas dinner for my hiking companion and me. Early in the day he bought a chicken. The live chicken was trussed and placed in the back of a doka. I watched the doomed fellow all day ahead of me on the trail, peeking out of his jail.

When it was time to make camp the chicken was dispatched and butchered with a khukuri. He wasn't sectioned into the pieces I am familiar with, drumstick, breast, wing, etc. Rather there were chunks of lots of closeby parts, making me think the chicken had been laid out and quartered with two or three clean cuts.

He was definitely a working chicken. He tasted good though, after days of dahl bhat.

Hey Dan, I bet if you used my guide's butchering technique you could cut up all 12 of those chickens in three minutes!
 
That is the Nepali style of cutting up the chicken, Howard, and some of the chickens are such hard workers it is all you can do to chew them up. I did not like the small pieces, being use to grabbing a leg, or breast or thigh but I came to understand in a country where eating any sort of meat is somewhat of a luxury many pieces go farther than the way we do it here.

To this day, Yangdu, who is the oldest of 9 children still butchers her chickens for Nepali dishes in the same manner and uses a khukuri. When she cooks for me it is Western style butchering.

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Uncle Bill
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Khukuris are useful in the kitchen not only for chopping but also for whacking
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! Seriously, any meat that needs pounding for purposes of tenderizing or flattening (chicken breasts, veal cutlets, cheap steaks) can benefit from judicious (and vigorous) application of the spine or flat side of a BAS-sized khukuri blade - beats (pun intended) the heck out of commercial mallets or butcher's cleavers (pitiful 1/8"-thick little things that they are). Use a sturdy cutting board, however!
 
Berk,
The Cleaver I've got is about a 1/4" X 5"w X 8"long.

My chicken lands somewhere between those two points: 2-wings, legs-4 pcs.,breast-4pcs.,back-2pcs.
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Dan
 
Just curious,Uncle Bill -- what, specifically, is the Nepali way of cutting up a chicken? Is there any certain way it's done, or do they just cut the chicken into whatever number of pieces they want without any real regard for the positioning of the cuts? Do they just chop through the chicken, cutting bones and all?
 
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