/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.18274632]

welcome to the tendie test kitchen. today we explore the various breading options we have in regards to the classic american poultry baton.

today's tests will include

lightly floured, lightly floured, with an egg bath and second flour dredge, and finally lightly floured, with an egg bath and breadcrumb coating.

let us begin

[Anonymous No.18274642]

i am watching this thread very closely for results

[Anonymous No.18274725]

>>18274632

[Anonymous No.18274728]

first we thaw a chicken breast we have portioned and froze

[Anonymous No.18274753]

unwrap your bird, and beat the fuck out of it until it's even in thickness

[Anonymous No.18274757]

she's a hefty gal. let's butterfly her.

[Anonymous No.18274760]

We're making tendies, it doesn't need to be perfect

[Anonymous No.18274766]

trim off all the fat and connective tissue, or anything else you don't like the look of, then cut your two filets into strips

[Anonymous No.18274776]

saute the trimmings in a little olive oil. toss in a little spinach and salt. I'm feeding this to my cat. the only pussy i have at the moment.

[Anonymous No.18274782]

okay, now that you've tendified your chicken it should look something like this.

[Anonymous No.18274784]

>>18274776
You should not give fried stuff to your pets

[Anonymous No.18274787]

>>18274784
shut the fuck up

now we pat dry our tendies

[Anonymous No.18274790]

>>18274787
oops

[Anonymous No.18274807]

let's heat our oil. I'll be using 3 week old french fry oil that's been in the fridge. we at the tendie test kitchen find this to be both economic and practical. we have yet to study widely reported incidents of feminization resulting from consumption of seed oils.

[Anonymous No.18274813]

s&p

[Anonymous No.18274826]

garlic powder, onion powder, shakea cayenne. you are afterall the bud dwyer of the chicken fryer.

[Anonymous No.18274829]

flour.

[Anonymous No.18274832]

air fryer tendies are nice and healthier

[Anonymous No.18274854]

Excited to see these tendies fry

[Anonymous No.18274863]

okay, we're all ready to go

[Anonymous No.18274868]

>>18274807
Anon that better be peanut oil or all your tests will be invalidated by the test kitchen counsel

[Anonymous No.18274870]

first up is our lightly floured tender. no egg wash or breading, just a light dusting in flour.

[Anonymous No.18274883]

the heat of the oil cooks the tendie

[Anonymous No.18274915]

our first contender enters the ring

[Anonymous No.18274928]

>>18274915
more like contendie, amirite?

lets do our egg wash and double flour dredge now.

first do an egg dip.

[Anonymous No.18274930]

now a second coat of flour

[Anonymous No.18274940]

second tendies are in.

[Anonymous No.18274954]

we clean as we go in the tendie test kitchen. while the tendies cook, i will take this opportunity to consult with a culinary colleague who has access to a supercomputer that computes optimal cooking scenarios. his cleanliness and hygiene are unorthodox, but his methods are sound.

[Anonymous No.18274969]

double flour tendies looking promising

[Anonymous No.18274973]

>>18274969
usually they are a bit crunchier

[Anonymous No.18274978]

>>18274973
I suspect double flour will be the superior tenders, so I'm doing a double batch of them

[Anonymous No.18274981]

two more double flour in

[Anonymous No.18274984]

okay, looking nice. let's continue.

[Anonymous No.18274991]

our last test will be egg dipped and breaded tendies.

[Anonymous No.18274999]

generous coating of breadcrumbs

[Anonymous No.18275004]

>>18274984
Top middle two look perfect. Are they crunchy or soft like tendies?

[Anonymous No.18275008]

okay, all results are in. time for testing to commence.

[Anonymous No.18275058]

best frying method is light fry, then let them rest for a couple minutes, then fry again. it's what chinese american restaurants do when they make orange chicken.

[Anonymous No.18275072]

Lightly floured.

It's pretty good.

[Anonymous No.18275079]

Oh, yeah.. here's all of them

Anyway, from left to right we have breaded, double floured and one single floured on the far right.

Single floured was nice. A slight, soft outer coating.

[Anonymous No.18275085]

Better lighting

[Anonymous No.18275092]

Double flour is fire. Soft and juicy salty chicken with a nice crispy exterior that has some crunch to it. Better than the single flour coated. Worth the extra effort.

[Anonymous No.18275103]

Now the breaded. The crispiest of all three. Very good flavor.

I think the breaded wins. I expected the double flour to be the best, but the breaded was slammin'.

[Anonymous No.18275115]

this concludes the today's testing.

initial findings indicate breadcrumbs yield superior tendies. more testing will be required before this can be confirmed.

our oil lives to fry another day. thank you for joining me on this culinary journey. goodnight, faggots.

[Anonymous No.18275119]

>>18275115
Thank you for your service.

[Anonymous No.18275141]

>>18275115
Great thread. May I suggest flour, egg wash then breadcrumbs

[Anonymous No.18275168]

>>18275141
Thank you. The breaded ones were floured before the egg dip, too.

[Anonymous No.18275207]

>cooking with anon
Based

[Anonymous No.18275219]

You know what is really good is if you use a ranch dressing packet and you mix it up with the egg and a splash of milk. So you flour the chicken, then dip it in that mixture then bread it and it tastes super good

[Anonymous No.18275235]

>>18275219
Yeah, i have done that before. It's fire. I often marinade the chicken in italian dressing before doing that.

[Anonymous No.18275283]

>>18275235
Hell yeah I always forget about the italian dressing my parents do that too. Your tenders look great by the way

[Anonymous No.18275288]

FRICK YEAH WE DOIN' SCIENCE

[Anonymous No.18275399]

Cool thread, OP! /ck/ needs more content like this.
And now I'm craving tendies.

[Anonymous No.18275437]

today I ate pork knuckles in the oven (steak)

[Anonymous No.18275462]

>>18275115
>>18275103
When can we expect sauce experiments?