F&W Test Kitchen whiz Justin Chapple demos a genius trick for trussing chicken with dental floss.F&W Test Kitchen whiz Justin Chapple demos a genius trick for trussing chicken with dental floss.
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[MUSIC] I'm Justin Chapple from Food & Wine's set kitchen.
Join me as I demonstrate Mad Genius Tips. [MUSIC] Trussing
a chicken is super important. When you keep the bird
nice and tight, when you keep the drumsticks in and
the wings in, you're going to really ensure even cooking.
But what do you do if you don't have kitchen
twine? My mad genius tip will solve that problem. What
is it? It's one of my favorite household items. Plain
old dental floss. Yes. You can cook with dental floss.
It's kind of amazing. So the first step is you
want to tuck your wing tips behind the drummetts of
the wing. Just like this. Easy so far. The next
thing you're going to want to do is turn the
bird so that the legs are facing away from you.
Then, take your handy dandy dental floss It's better to
start with more than less, in a case like this.
And you're gonna slide it under the tail of the
bird. And just like you would tying a shoe, you're
going to do one loop, and we're going to make
one more loop just to ensure that it's nice and
strong. And you're gonna go down Then, you're gonna wanna
pull the dental floss down like this, in between the
drumstick and the thigh. Then, with one motion, flip the
bird, pull your dental floss nice and tight, so that
you have control over it, and you're gonna tuck one
under each wing. Just like you did with your first
loop, you're gonna do one loop and two loops. And
that my friends is going to hold it nice and
tight. Then finish off with a knot and you're left
with your excess string that you're going to just snip
off with a pair of kitchen shears. [SOUND] Now you
wanna flip your bird And at this point you'll season
it and put it in the oven. And that is
a Mad Genius Tip for trussing your chicken with dental
floss. [MUSIC] [BLANK_AUDIO]