How to Carve a Turkey's Right Leg

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My name is Brandon Sarkis from Expert Village. Today I'm going to show you how to carve a turkey. The first thing we are going to do is you're going to want to take our turkey off of the plate that I've got it on, or if you have it on a pan or whatever you were keeping it on. So what I will do, it should just slide right off here. You need to watch out because the turkey is going to leak juices out like it did in this plate. So you want to be careful when dealing with it that you don't get a bunch or turkey juice everywhere. Alright, the first thing we're going to do is locate the thigh joints on the backside of the turkey. If you know your turkey anatomy at all you will know that they are right down here on the bottom side. A couple of ways you can get to them, probably the easiest way is to grab a hold of the leg like this and start slicing through the skin and get at the leg and anatomically speaking of a turkey is about the same as a very, very, very large chicken. So if you know how to take apart a chicken you have a very strong understanding of how to take apart a turkey. So the actual hip joint is down here at the bottom. So we're going to work our way down into there with our knife, and you'll see it just popped right out of joint. I got the tip of my knife down inside there and just gave it a little pop. And we're going to cut this straight out, so you'll see, and the good thing is you want to always pop these out of the joint as opposed to sawing through it because if you just cut through it first of all you are hurting your knives, and second of all it just doesn't come apart as cleanly. So let's transfer this to a plate to put it on. And one other thing that I like to bring up is that I'm cutting this in order from dark meat to light meat. That way the dark meat is more moist and doesn't dry out nearly as fast so you are cutting your white meat last which is the stuff that dries out quicker. And now we'll move on to our next step.

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