How to properly eat a chicken wing (VIDEO)

Ever wonder the best way to eat a chicken wing?
http://eatingtheroad.word...-to-eat-food-properly/

I found some awesome/funny videos on how to eat:
Sushi
Bananas
Watermelon (at a business lunch)
Crawfish
15 lbs of hot dogs

Funny, yes. Will it get strange stares in buffalo? Hell yes! No self respecting wing eat would ever do that. Plus, I hope the person doesn't do that at parties...he double dipped!

But all in good fun!

I always pull the little bone out and eat the meat off the big bone. I had a really hard time typing that.

never done that.

Meh, I like my method better.

....pray tell GNeedles59

I tried the experiment of eating wings with the method demonstrated in that video. (For Science!)

My control method of eating flat wings: take a bite out of one side, take a bite out of the other, separate the bones a bit to get at the chicken between the bones.

Results: I was able to debone the wings as the video demonstrated. In six tries, I was never able to debone it cleanly; I always ended up with a ragged piece of muscle. (I presume this would change with practice) The bones came out cleanly, with occasional shreds of meat adhering to them.

This was probably 150% more work than the control method, for 50% more meat. However, that tradeoff is mostly value-neutral to me--if I really cared about eating every shred of flesh or about how much work I was doing to eat, I probably would order something other than wings.
One clear but minor advantage of this deboning method over the control method: once the wing was deboned, each bite of the piece carried sauce with it. (With the control method, the between-the-bones morsel often has no sauce at all.)

Conclusion: the method depicted in the video is one among many reasonable ways to eat a flat wing.

ralphmelton thank you for the thorough analysis. I plan on doing my own experimenting myself this weekend.

I believe, as you mentioned, that the main advantage of the demonstrated method is the surface area available for sauces. This, in my opinion, far outweighs the meat procurement as one could surely find a way to gopher all of said meat from bone.

A question, were the wings thoroughly cooked as the video mentions this may be a problem in application of the method.

I will report back on my findings once I have empirical data.

One additional note: I think that my hands got greasier with the video's method than with the control method, because I was handling the wing more. This also doesn't matter much--if I feared getting my hands messy, I'd choose something besides wings or adopt the inscrutable Occidental ways of Buffalo Tarheel.

The wings were thoroughly cooked, a bit overdone for my taste.

I recently attempted to employ this technique. I found it extremely difficult to remove the first smaller bone as easily and cleanly as the video depicts. Maybe it was due how the wing was cooked but it seemed thoroughly done. I was never able to twist and pull the first bone out without a good amount of meat sticking to it. The second larger bone was always a bit easier to remove.

Although I was not able to preform this maneuver with the ease and dexterity of the demonstrator I did find it a good way to eat a buffalo wing. With a bit of work you are left with a piece of meat that has a large amount of surface area and is great for dipping in a delicious blue cheese dressing. I would recommend the study of this technique and it's application to heighten the enjoyment of your future wing nights/Hooter's visits.

I solved my personal wing eating dilemma by eschewing them for legs and thighs. I'm a leg and thigh man. Wing eating is for those below the salt. I fart in the general direction of wing eaters.