butterflying
Halving without severing
Butterflying is a culinary technique where meat, fish, or shellfish is cut almost in half and opened flat, resembling butterfly wings.
This creates a thinner, more uniform piece that cooks faster and more evenly.
Shrimp are commonly butterflied before grilling or frying, and chicken breasts are butterflied to stuff or pound thin.
Butterflying the pork loin helps it cook through without drying out.
Removing skeletal structure
- filletingCutting meat from bones
- splittingDividing into parts
- flatteningReducing to evenness
- spatchcockingSplitting bird for cooking
pounding · tenderizing · grilling · shrimp · chicken · poultry · prawns · knife
Moving swiftly and briefly
- dartingMoving suddenly, swiftly
- hoveringSuspended without support
- glidingEngineless aerial movement
- swoopingDescending in curves
skimming · drifting · floating · dancing · flickering · weaving · meandering · bobbing
Butterfly and moth scholar
- specimensRepresentative items for examination
- mountingSteadily increasing in degree
- pinningFastening with pointed fasteners
- spreadingExtending over space
display · preservation · netting · catching · wings · antennae · taxonomy · collection
Sudden brain blood blockage
- breaststrokeArms circle, legs splay
- backstrokeSupine aquatic locomotion
- freestyleWithout prescribed technique
- lapOne complete circuit
pool · swimmer · relay · sprint · competitive · technique · undulation · synchronization
deboning
Removing skeletal structure
- filletingCutting meat from bones
- splittingDividing into parts
- flatteningReducing to evenness
spatchcocking · pounding · tenderizing · grilling · shrimp · chicken · poultry · prawns · knife · technique
flitting
Moving swiftly and briefly
swooping · skimming · drifting · floating · dancing · flickering · weaving · meandering · bobbing · circling
lepidopterist
Butterfly and moth scholar
- specimensRepresentative items for examination
- mountingSteadily increasing in degree
- pinningFastening with pointed fasteners
spreading · display · preservation · netting · catching · wings · antennae · taxonomy · collection · cabinet
stroke
Sudden brain blood blockage
- breaststrokeArms circle, legs splay
- backstrokeSupine aquatic locomotion
- freestyleWithout prescribed technique
lap · pool · swimmer · relay · sprint · competitive · technique · undulation · synchronization
- cuttingslicing, slice, chopping, dice, dicing
- meat techniquesroasting, grilling, braising, searing, smoking
- BBQ techniquessmoking, grilling, charcoal grilling, direct heat, indirect heat
- fish prepfilleting, scaling, gutting, deboning, skinning
- Meat Cuttingslicing, dicing, trimming, boning, filleting
- butchering techniquesfilleting, spatchcocking, portioning, disarticulation, breast removal
flutter, butterfly, butterflies, buttery, fluttering, flitter, fluttered, butterflied, flittering