Turkey Breast Tendons
in both the After Thanksgiving Report thread and the CSB thread i posted how Im currently working w some pretty nice Fz turkey breasts.
I mentioned that if you do not now to remove the tendons from the smaller muscle ( minor ) or the larger muscle ( major ) its easy to do :
here is the boned out TB. note the 'cord' on that lower muscle. thats the 'minor' muscle's tendon and the easiest to remove
grab it anyway you like, and with a
here are a few better pics :
note how far this tendon goes in the smaller muscle. makes sense as that's how the muscle's energy gets to the bone
again, scrapped to the near end.
this is how long the tendon is relative to the muscle. it get very thin, but is still chewy, so scraping not cutting works best
here is the larger muscle, note the tendon starts 'flat' as it cut off the insertion 'at the
