On 2013-12-26 10:51:14 +0000, Ophelia said:

>> I couldn't get through the back[bone], where he says "I oughta have a
>> cleaver for this". I don't have a cleaver either so I took an unused
>> chef's knife did my best then used a rubber mallet on the back of the
>> knife to get through the last of it. Crude but operable.
>
> It worked for you ok didn't it? You got the joints you wanted, so well done

Yeah, it did. But honestly using a rubber mallet and a knife to make it
through a butchering job--it just seems so amateurish.