Cavetools

Hey this is Michael ‘Medium Rare’ O’Donnell with http://cavetools.com. In this quick tutorial, we’re going to teach you how to tenderize and flatten a chicken cutlet with a meat mallet. So the first thing you want to do is put the chicken down on a cutting board. In this video, we’re using wax paper, some people to use saran wrap to cover the chicken. Either way works, you’re just making sure that you’re not getting meat splattering all over the place. So you start with the flat side of your meat mallet, and you want to start in the middle of the chicken, where the thickest part is. And as you’re hitting it, you can see we’re doing short strokes that are going from the middle and pointing out, and we’re starting to work in this circular fashion. And as you go around, it’s spreading that thick piece of chicken out more and more. The circular motion just helps to move it all out towards the outside of the chicken. You can continue to go until the chicken is as flat as you’d like, there really isn’t any “pe