spasibo tovarischu
so many methods!
i've been watching some youtubes. there's a british demo for lamb wholesale cuts that looks useful
i need a large saw!
next time i'll get the whole animal instead of sharing (weird cuts when sharing)
ok, here i go. i think i have enough bourbon in me to get started. nazdarovya!
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EDITED TO ADD
IMPORTANT WARNING
bourbon + butchery = FAIL.
also, headphones.
see, the idea was "i'm overthinking this, take a shot and let's get at it". then i put on my headphones to power through the thing.
that was stupid. i whacked the neck bones with my chinese cleaver (not a meat cleaver) and the edge shattered leaving tiny shards of sharpened steel in the bone. then because of the stupid headphones i didn't hear them the first time and whacked again. more fucking shards (only then i realized the thing broke twice). it was a great fucking knife and i fucked it up. made the best pizza cutter. sadness.
took me a while to find the pieces of steel too, too-- imagine eating a tiny sprinkle of razor blades in your stew, and shitting blood for weeks afterwards. the revenge of the mutton! fortunately the shards were embedded in the bone (which i now have to extract). but ayayay. what headaches.
i gotta refresh & reapply my mind. that was a fucking dumb decision.
good question. many possible answers. and now let me be your cautionary tale. like igby.