How to Shred your Chicken UPDATED!!

Below is a post I wrote awhile ago on how to spred chicken. It's the way I've always done it....FOR YEARS! That is until I came across This Post and world of shredding chicken changed forever. What changed? Putting your chicken in your kitchenaid Mixer, that's what. Just like my method you cook your chicken first. Cook it anyways you like it. Then take the still how straight out of the fire chicken and place it into your mixer. Then simply turn it on. Within moments you have perfectly shredded chicken. I will never go back to my old way, but that is because I own a mixer and not everyone does own a mixer so I shall keep this post up. However if you do have a mixer, please try out this new way. I promise it will change your cooking your.

I love chicken tacos....I love chicken lasagna...I love chicken on my salad and I love chicken period.
Shredding chicken is so much easier that you may think. So let's just cover it now so that in the future when when I say use shredded chicken you already got that part covered.

What to do if you are just eating the chicken as is:
season the chicken breasts with your favorite seasoning and then cook it up (bake, grill, fry doesn't matter).
Remove it from your preferred cooking dish and set it on a cutting board.
Allow to cool slightly.
Then start digging into it with the teeth of two forks. like this....

This is how your shred chicken. You just dig into fork by fork and rip it apart.
If your going to be putting your chicken in a sauce than their is an even easier way.

What to do if you are putting your shredded chicken in a sauce:
Bring a large pot of chicken to a boil.
While waiting for water to boil give your chicken breast a good pounding to flatten out the chicken as much as possible.
Place chicken in boiling water and cook until done (about 20-30 minutes)
While chicken is boiling fix your sauce or cook whatever else you need to cook for your dish.
When chicken is cooked remove from water and place on a cutting board.
Then shred chicken by digging two forks into like the picture above.

Shredded chicken is an awesome way to add chicken to a dish. Try it out.