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Pin bone

Meaning in culinary arts & cooking, with examples

nounCommon term

In culinary arts & cooking, pin bone means: One of the small, slender bones that may remain within a fish fillet.

In Turkish: balıktaki ince kılçık

How it is used

Usually plural in fish preparation: check for pin bones or remove pin bones.

Example sentences

  1. The cook found several pin bones in the salmon fillet.

    A fillet can still contain these small embedded bones.

  2. She used tweezers to remove the pin bones before portioning.

    The example describes a separate finishing step after filleting.

Common collocations

  • remove pin bones
  • check for pin bones
  • filletA boneless piece of fish or meat, such as a fish fillet or beef fillet. As a verb, to fillet means to remove the bones and cut out these pieces.
  • portionThe amount of a food served to one person. As a verb, to portion means to divide food into equal amounts for serving.

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