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Pepin Debone Chicken.flv on HackerTube: recommended by 2 Hacker News commenters across 3 separate months, 2016–2023.

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Jacques Pepin demonstrates deboning a whole chicken, quickly and with complete control. It is a short, wordless-feeling technique demo that shows a skill most cooks never learn.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN calls it the single best cooking video on the internet and suggests it as a skill worth practicing for an hour.

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2016–2023
“Pepin's chicken deboning video is the best cooking video that has ever or will ever be put on the Internet”
— tptacek, Nov 2016, in “Jacques Pepin, unlike other celebrity chefs, will actually teach you how to cook”

What HN commenters said

5 Hacker News comments link this video. Each one links back to its thread.

tptacekJun 2021Strongly recommends

That video is amazing and taught me how to make omelets. Of course, Pépin is also responsible for the single greatest cooking video on the Internet: ▶ this video

in “J. Kenji López-Alt is Seattle’s reluctant powerful food influencer” · View on HN

tptacekNov 2016Strongly recommends

Recurring reminder that Pepin's chicken deboning video is the best cooking video that has ever or will ever be put on the Internet: ▶ this video

in “Jacques Pepin, unlike other celebrity chefs, will actually teach you how to cook” · View on HN

IvyMikeNov 2019Recommends

One minute: what a dechoker is and how to use it: [link] One hour (because as easy as it looks you're gonna have to do it at least 4 times): deboning a chicken: ▶ this video

in “Ask HN: What's the most valuable thing you can learn in an hour?” · View on HN

rwl4May 2023Cites it

Wow! I'm not sure how I missed that back in the day. Here's the video transcoded on YouTube for anybody else who's curious: ▶ this video

in “GIL Strang's final lecture at MIT” · View on HN

anon9001Aug 2019Cites it

3blue1brown is a special kind of awesome. I'd love to filter the internet by "content that can give you insights right now that would otherwise take years of study in a specific discipline to even know exists". Another that I saw recently on an HN comment (thanks tptacek) is ▶ this video A quick google for "3blue1brown awesome github" (my usual strategy for finding good similar content) landed me here: [link] The awesome lists are pretty good starting points for finding good content, but there's a ton of them of variable quality, so you end up with stuff like this: [link] (which has 68 forks...)

in “Ask HN: Best resources to gain math intuition?” · View on HN

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