How To Carve A Turkey Correctly

Spring Chicken

We've all been there and experienced that challenging and often embarrassing few minutes of 'destroying' a beautiful turkey that we planned for days and cooked for hours with spectacular results only to screw up at the very end in front of a crowd of anxiously waiting family and friends. 

There's a better way - learn to carve your turkey properly and easily. 

I know some of you won't heed my advice so I'm letting an expert show you how to do it. 

Here you go. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAe7-GpV98E 

You're welcome. 

Happy Thanksgiving. 

Spring "Start With A Sharp Knife And A Well Thought Out Plan" Chicken 
Spring Texas USA

OhioEgger

He's on the right track.
Here's an even better demo of how to carve a turkey:
http://andrewzimmern.com/2015/11/24/turkey-carving-demo/

JustineCaseyFeldown

thank you for putting this video together.  your video-making talents have really progressed over the years.  great stuff.

Killit_and_Grillit

I like the plan of attack. 

But they have never served in my house. If those wings didn't show up on the table, there would be anarchy. Haha

thanks for the video. 

Theophan

When I was a boy in the '50s, my dad carved the turkey at the table.  For some reason that they never explained, Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners were pretty formal.  My dad would wear a suit, even I as a little boy had to wear itchy wool trousers, a wool jacket and a tie, and all of the ladies (and my sister) wore dresses.  And my dad carving the turkey at the table, asking each person what he or she wanted, dishing out all of the other dishes which were arranged on the table around the turkey, and passing the filled plates  was a big formal ritual.  It was one time it paid to be low on the totem pole, because the ladies were always served first, but no one ate until my dad said grace after everyone was served, so I'd think my mom's plate must have been pretty cold by then, and I was the youngest, so the last one served (actually, my dad probably served himself last), so mine was hot!  

Anyway, even though it probably sounds stiff and formal and uncomfortable, there was something about the formality of it all that elevated it, made it very special and exciting, NOT a normal humdrum meal that happened to be turkey.  Sitting there in candlelight, and the delirious anticipation as we all were waiting for our plates to be served and passed down, and finally grace and the meal began, and toasts, ... whenever I think of happy childhood memories, those dinners are always the first that come to my mind.

So to me, it seems sort of sad, a loss of elegance, less elevated, less exciting and special, to do the carving in the kitchen.  But in my family now, after marrying my wife, we did things the way she and her girls were used to, carving in the kitchen, and sort of buffet self-serve in the kitchen, each carrying his or her own plate to the table.  It's still fun.  Though for the past few years Thanksgiving has been just me and my wife.

I get it, the arguments offered in these videos for doing it in the kitchen.  It makes sense.  It's practical.  But some part of me still feels like the point of a wonderful, special, once a year meal isn't being practical!

Slabotnick

I'm going to try it!