I finally stopped breaking down whole chickens with a cleaver and switched to shears
For years I hacked through backs with a cleaver and wondered why my cuts looked so rough. Last month an old timer at the shop in Boise handed me his 8 inch poultry shears and I cut the backbone out of a 4 pound bird in about 20 seconds, way cleaner. Anyone else use shears for spatchcocking or do you still go cleaver?