Poultry cut: where it is, price, recipes
Drumette
The drumette: the first wing section, a single bone wrapped in meat, like a tiny drumstick. Push the meat to one end and it becomes the chicken lollipop of Indian-Chinese restaurants.
- Roasted
- Grilled
$5/ lb
- In French
- Manchon
- Japanese side
- Tebamoto (drumette)
- Where it sits
- Wing. Carving a French roast chicken, the wing comes off with part of the breast, so "leg or wing?" really means dark meat or white.
- Tenderness
- 3/5
- Flavor
- 4/5
- Marbling
- 3/5
- Price
- $5 / lb ·
- Actual size
- ~8 cm
Compared with its neighbors
Compared with Whole wing, Drumette scores the same on tenderness, flavor and marbling and costs $1 a pound more.
| Cut | Tenderness | Flavor | Marbling | Price | How to cook it |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drumette | 3/5 | 4/5 | 3/5 | $5 / lb | Roasted, Grilled |
| Whole wing | 3/5 | 4/5 | 3/5 | $4 / lb | Roasted, Grilled |
