Many cooking recipes ask for spatchcock chicken and butterfly chicken, but is there a difference between the two? So how do Spatchcock and butterfly chicken differ? Spatchcock chicken is when a whole chicken is split lengthways down the back and then pressed on the breast to flatten it out. To butterfly, usually means to cut a boneless chicken breast horizontally, almost all the way through, and then open it like to book to double the size but half the thickness. We will now cover both methods in greater detail. How to Spatchcock a Whole Chicken Spatchcocking is a relatively simple process and only requires a pair of poultry kitchen scissors,…
