/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.19203547]

How did chicken nuggets become the standard nuggets? Why do don't you see pork or beef nuggets being just as popular?

[Anonymous No.19203588]

Well several cuisines have breaded and fried pork, like schnitzel for instance or chinese-american fried pork. I think it's primarily an economic thing, since pork has plenty of scrap meat/waste meat you could use for pork nuggets.

[Anonymous No.19203595]

>>19203547
its an offcut product. Its all the left over bits. Left over pork is usually hotdogs and beef is mince. Look up advanced meat recovery if you're interested. Theres heaps of scientific articles on it.

[Anonymous No.19203597]

>>19203547
Economics.
Scrap beef is more valuable as burger meat and animal feed
Scrap pork is more valuable as sausage
Chicken nuggets are the most valuable thing you can make with scrap chicken.

[Anonymous No.19203599]

Pork nuggets are called "sausages".

[Anonymous No.19203607]

>beef nuggets
That just sounds weird. Like chicken steak.

[Anonymous No.19203610]

chickens eat seeds so their flesh goes with seed oil

[Anonymous No.19203613]

Also pork nuggets are dim sum.

[Anonymous No.19203614]

>why is CHICKen the standard?

[Anonymous No.19203633]

>>19203547
Nuggets are a great way to use up unsellable, humane grade chicken meat and cartilage from a chicken carcass after it has been split. Unsellable pork and beef is made into sausages, hot dogs, and bologna as well as ground beef and beef patties, typically ones you buy either pre-ground in tubes or frozen boxes, which is often used in extremely cheap, cost-cutting supply chains like fast food restaurants and cafeterias for schools, prisons, hospitals.

So, a mix of demand and what's most cost effective.

[Anonymous No.19203640]

>>19203547
>How did chicken nuggets become the standard nuggets? Why do don't you see pork or beef nuggets being just as popular?
fried food is bad enough, chicken is among the few reasonable options other than plant-based

[Anonymous No.19203660]

>>19203547
God I want to make some fried pork chunks now, that sounds delightful. I'm gonna do that and make some stir fry, maybe make some tigerskin eggs too. Green beans, mushrooms, onion, pepper.

[Anonymous No.19203790]

>>19203588
Schnitzel is the size of a saucer compared to a nugget though, as opposed to bite size breaded/battered pieces of beef or pork like a nugget is.
You can get a battered burger in some UK chippies, thatd be similar to a beef nugget. Albeit bigger obviously

[Anonymous No.19203805]

>>19203790
Wait so this exists in a British holding but they give us shit for chicken fried steak and chicken fried chicken?
They probably think it's best with some curry sauce, too

[Anonymous No.19203820]

>>19203805
Its more common in Scotland but ive seen it in a few places local to me in North West of England. Mainly in chippies that like to add lots of non traditional chippy things to the menu.
The most common is the battered sausage. Thats easy to find. If you got some sausage meat you could make little nugget shapes to make pork nuggets easy enough. That'd be nice I think

[Anonymous No.19203834]

>>19203820
Hrm, I might like to get in on that
Is it the same type of fry batter they use for fish?
There's an authentic, British-owned chippy here, I kind of want to work there for a summer to steal their recipe
(I think the secret is gram flour, shh, don't tell anyone)

[Anonymous No.19203864]

i like to take a package of "beef for stew" and coat it and deep fry it for beef nuggets

[Anonymous No.19203872]

>>19203834
Yeah exactly the same battered. Battered sausage, battered spam and battered burger are the main battered meat stuff other than fish. Ive heard it often said that the "secret ingredient" for nice light crispy batter is cold sparkling water

[Anonymous No.19204133]

>>19203547
>burgers
>pork chops
>chicken nuggets
where's the difference other than the animal?

[Anonymous No.19204142]

>>19203599
why don't they come in nugget form

[Anonymous No.19204145]

>>19203872
What are the advantages of sparkling water over beer for batter

[Anonymous No.19204150]

>>19203595
thank you ChatGPT

[Anonymous No.19204154]

>>19203547
because pork is not kosher

[Anonymous No.19204391]

>>19204145
Its the bubbles which are important. Water would be "lighter" than beer, since its just carbonated water obviously, and i guess a more neutral flavour

[Anonymous No.19204398]

>>19204133
Burgers and pork chops aren't bite sized nuggets coated in breadcrumbs or batter?

[Anonymous No.19204413]

>>19204398
>bun is breadcrumbs before being crumbed
>he's never had shake 'n' bake pork chops
i really don't know what to tell you, anon.
all 3 i listed are snack foods.

[Anonymous No.19204414]

>>19203547
kikes and muzzies don't eat pork
hindians don't eat cows
also n-words can't drink milk, and nobody uses pigs to get truffles
eggs meanwhile are a good "bi-product"

plus chicken meat is softer and less calories / higher protein, so even /fit/fags like it
also less parasites, as chickens don't eat dirt like a cow / pig, getting infected with worms
and chickens aren't even a mammal, so the diseases would be harder to transfer. salmonela only gives diarhea

[Anonymous No.19204416]

>>19203547
Spam fritters are the closest equivilent I can think of to a pork nugget, they're actually not that bad.

[Anonymous No.19204748]

>>19204142
next time I break out the fryer I'm gonna try breading and frying some sliced up sausage just to see if it can be done

[Sean No.19204749]

>>19203547
Cheapest maybe?

[Anonymous No.19205956]

>>19204749
I don't think so. There's lots of cheap offcuts from pork and beef

[Anonymous No.19205973]

>>19203607
Beef nuggets used to be a school lunch offering sometimes when I was in elementary school. They came in the expected nugget format, but were beef of course. I thought they were better than the chicken nuggets.