thumb|Butterflying pork loin Butterflying is a way of preparing meat, fish, or poultry for cooking by cutting it almost in two, but leaving the two parts connected; it is then often boned and flattened. Spatchcocking is a specific method for butterflying poultry that involves removing the backbone, and spatchcock as a noun may refer to a bird prepared in that way.
thumb|Butterflying pork loin Butterflying is a way of preparing meat, fish, or poultry for cooking by cutting it almost in two, but leaving the two parts connected; it is then often boned and flattened. Spatchcocking is a specific method for butterflying poultry that involves removing the backbone, and spatchcock as a noun may refer to a bird prepared in that way.
==Etymology== "Butterfly" comes from the resemblance of the cut to the wings of a butterfly.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).