Step: 1

Place the chicken with its legs facing you, breast side up, on a cutting board and cut skin between thighs and body.Repeat for other leg.

Step: 2

Holding one leg in each hand, lift chicken and bend back legs until bones break at hip joints.

Step: 3

Remove leg and thigh from body by cutting between the joints, close to bones in back of bird.

Repeat for other side.

Step: 4

To separate thighs and drumsticks, locate knee joint by bending thigh and leg together.

With skin side down, cut through joint of each leg.

Step: 5

With chicken on back, remove wings by cutting inside of each wing just over joint.

Pull wing away from body and cut from top down through joint.

Step: 6

Separate breast and back by placing chicken on back and cutting through joints along each side of rib cage.

Step: 7

To cut breast into halves, place skin side down on board and cut wishbone in two at V of bone.