00:00:07I’m going to show you how to trim a
00:00:09skate this is your skate it’s got a bony
00:00:18bit at the top here you can see what
00:00:22you’re going to trim off and a little
00:00:25fringe around the bottom which is just
00:00:27going to tidy up so we end up with a
00:00:29neat almost semicircular piece of fish
00:00:33now the easiest way to take this bit of
00:00:37bone off used to use a heavy chopping
00:00:41knife but instead of hacking it like
00:00:45that and I put the knife in position
00:00:49I’ll take a rolling pin but you can use
00:00:53a piece of wood or anything that’s heavy
00:00:56and wooden you may not want to use your
00:00:58rolling pin because we’re going to hit
00:01:01the knife like that and you might end up
00:01:03marking it if you don’t mind or it’s an
00:01:05old rolling pin that’s fine but you
00:01:08might prefer to use just a plain piece
00:01:09of wood the nice thing about this is
00:01:12that when you hit the knife with a pin
00:01:15it’ll go straight through the bone and
00:01:17make the cut in exactly the right place
00:01:29there we go the cuts perfect in the
00:01:33right place
00:01:34listen go in the bin and here’s your
00:01:41skate wing we’ve got a slightly raggedy
00:01:45edge to the bottom and we’re going to
00:01:48take a pair of scissors and just trim
00:01:50that up make it look a little nicer
00:01:51little more or hemispheric kitchen
00:01:55scissors a good nice heavy-duty kitchen
00:01:57scissors and you just trim around the
00:01:59edge
00:02:03no trick to this it really is as simple
00:02:04as it looks you’ll know if you’re
00:02:07cutting too far up into the fish because
00:02:09it’ll get hard to do this should really
00:02:11be no more than cutting cardboard no
00:02:15more effort than that required there we
00:02:24go so you have a skate wing nicely
00:02:28trimmed no bone at the back and no wispy
00:02:34frilly bits around here nice smooth edge
00:02:36and this is ready to be cooked either in
00:02:39a hot frying pan or in a hot oven or
00:02:42maybe in a pot with some white wine ever
00:02:45you like to do it that’s how to trim a
00:02:47skate wing
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