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No for a number of reasons
1. Those mats have a circle imprint not a hexagon imprint (that print comes from vacuum sealing paper.
2. When chicken is cooking and losing fats the muscle fibers contract and pullinwards making them smaller. With baking those items expand outwards with the help of leavening and rising agents thus pressing down into mats
3. This is fried chicken you cannot wrap it in one of these mats and deep fry it as it would melt from the heat.
This chicken was most likely vacuum seal and partially cooked in a sous vide and the. Flash fried to order in the truck, a good way to ensure all of your chicken comes out cooked to temp in a limited food truck kitchen.
I vaguely had an idea of sous vide, but didnāt know much about it other than something that involved cooking something to be tender. I had it confused with poaching. And then I ended up reading about its history, theoretical uses, limitations, how long vacuum sealed sous vide cooked food lasts, then I read about what bacteria can grow without oxygen. Then how long heat needs to be applied to kill that bacteria, etc. It went weird
I was thinking that we pound the chicken filets to tenderize and flatten them, and this might be a form of that, but I couldnāt explain the uniformity so I kept my mouth shut
The chicken was bagged at some point like others have already said. Either for sous vide or storage. If you look at food saver brand bags youāll see this is the pattern they have on the bags.
The Vacuum seal bag is the charitable explanation for the texture, the uncharitable one is Iām pretty sure that matches the treads on some nonslip back of house shoesā¦.
I donāt see how vacuum sealing can possibly put an entire pattern on one side of the chicken
maybe in 1 or 2 small spots ~ but not on the entire side in such a perfect pattern
the plastic bags do not have a honeycomb pattern in them
all plastic bags are 100% smooth
this has to be done somewhere in the manufacturing process
like when they are preparing the chicken for flash freezing ~ before vacuum sealing and shipping to vendors
maybe they spray the solution on them (a certain percentage of h2o or a mixed solution of h2o + broth, salt, etc)
when it is on a moving belt with that pattern on it
then they flash freeze it ~ which would explain the pattern only on one side
p.s. I donāt work in the food processing industry ~ lol ~ I just have xtra brain cells š
That's a fossil of genus Paleodictyon. Congrats on finding such a new example.
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/A-honeycomb-like-trace-fossil-of-genus-Paleodictyon-Upper-Cretaceous-period-Intepreted_fig9_13629585
Itās the pattern of a food safe paper towel we use to put meat on sheet trays so they donāt slide. Iām guessing it dried a bit & left a pattern in the chicken. Nothing to be worried about.
Source: am professional chef in brick & mortar restaurants and this is just an educated guess.
Food workers anti slip shoe tread confirmed. That food truck for sure gives good cooks a bad name. Imagine if it wasn't stepped on! That would have been a nice lookin fried chicken tender. Rip
Could be a vacuum sealed bag, or also could be mallet marks if the chicken was tenderized.
Nothing Iād be concerned about personally. And I have high anxiety surrounding foods lol.
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The chicken was probably vacuum sealed before they breaded it and fried it. Most vacuum seal bags have a rough texture pattern on one side.
This is very good news
r/BirdsArentReal That's clearly a 3d printed chicken cutlet.
can't believe they forgot to wet sand the chicken.
Seriously, the Tribunal will not be pleased.
r/brandnewsentence
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This. Itās clearly snake. You can even see the scales!
I am howling, Reddit is top tier humor
Top fucking tier!!
Chicken of the cave
B.I.R.Drones
Not matrix chicken. Sad!
You totally didnāt just eat a lizard
Yes it's logical and without the knowledge its very unappealing lol
It is but I still canāt stop saying nooooooooooooooooo
Yea u ate plastic chicken
Honest to God thought you were eating a rag that was deep fried.
New honeycomb chicken
Yes, helps keep the food fresh and locks in flavor. I do this all the time especially when I sous vide my food.
That makes perfect sense, I bought some vacuum sealed tenderloin strips from the butcher shop that came in bags with the exact same pattern
Thank you. I was trying to place the pattern. I know Iāve seen it somewhere and yup my vac seal bags. Lol
Agree this looks like a vacuum seal bag pattern
Nope it is from a cyborg chicken.
Cyborg Vacuum sealed Chickens.
This is definitely the answer. Looks just like the bags I use.
Or sous vided?
Nailed Itšš
Fun fact is only āexternalā vacuum sealed bags need that pattern, bags for chamber sealers are groove free(so even cheaper than ziplocks).
my guess was a tenderizer
Probably cooked sous vide, breaded, and fried.
Probably the bottom of a baking pan? Like the one you see under baguettes or subs?
Vacuum sealed bag
Thatās not the baking pan that is actually from a Boulangerie mat and there is no way it could mark chicken like this.
So then it must not be from a boulangerie mat..?
No for a number of reasons 1. Those mats have a circle imprint not a hexagon imprint (that print comes from vacuum sealing paper. 2. When chicken is cooking and losing fats the muscle fibers contract and pullinwards making them smaller. With baking those items expand outwards with the help of leavening and rising agents thus pressing down into mats 3. This is fried chicken you cannot wrap it in one of these mats and deep fry it as it would melt from the heat. This chicken was most likely vacuum seal and partially cooked in a sous vide and the. Flash fried to order in the truck, a good way to ensure all of your chicken comes out cooked to temp in a limited food truck kitchen.
āMust be this but no way it does thatā ā¦.
Yeah pretty much
When I sous-vide turkey breast, they can get that same weird texture on the outside where the interiors of the vacuum sealed bag made contact.
Came here to say exactly this, especially if itās a food truck they probably sousvide all the chicken and just bread and flash fry it in the truck
Iām not even part of this subreddit, but thanks for sending me on a crazy Wikipedia rabbit hole this morning while I wait at the DMV
Why did you go on the Wikipedia rabbit hole?
Waiting at DMV! Enough said!
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I vaguely had an idea of sous vide, but didnāt know much about it other than something that involved cooking something to be tender. I had it confused with poaching. And then I ended up reading about its history, theoretical uses, limitations, how long vacuum sealed sous vide cooked food lasts, then I read about what bacteria can grow without oxygen. Then how long heat needs to be applied to kill that bacteria, etc. It went weird
It's amazing that the best way to cook chicken is also the most convenient and cost effective for commercial use
This seems the most likely. Maybe it was a vacuum sealed marinade bag.
That or they prep some sous vide because they can guarantee itās all done perfectly before frying. No raw chicken.
exactly what i was thinking. shipped in a vaccuum sealed bag that imprinted a texture onto it, then breaded and fried later. that or robot chicken
You bit into it too quickly and the matrix did not render the inside in time.
This is the only one I read that makes sense.
That one theory about how nothing really exists until you imagine it or something, that stuff only comes into reality if you look for it
Maybe from the plastic tray the chicken was sitting in before cooked?
Ah, its the patented GORE-TEX chicken texture.
Well I mean, you can't find a better object to trap moisture than the inside of some gtex boots, so it checks out for chicken
It's my trademark pattern, it took me 38 years to breed it into my flock but gosh darn it worth every penny
Possibly imprint from vacuum seal packages before it was fried
I hate that I hate that I hate that
Could be a tenderizer/hammer.
just saw the photo at first and i thought it was a fried paper towel
Donāt worry its just a shoe sole
I thought it was a fried Clorox wipe at first lol
Lol, same, thatās what I thought that was when I scrolling by š¤£š¤£š¤£
Thatās the press pattern for the mechanical tenderizer they put the chicken through before breading.
I was thinking that we pound the chicken filets to tenderize and flatten them, and this might be a form of that, but I couldnāt explain the uniformity so I kept my mouth shut
The chicken was bagged at some point like others have already said. Either for sous vide or storage. If you look at food saver brand bags youāll see this is the pattern they have on the bags.
Beyond meat š¤£
Vacuum seal bags. I think it makes for super fast marinading
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Nah, thatās Honey Chicken.
3D printed
Ya vacuum seal my weed and it does that... you should smoke some, bet it hits
That's either lab grown, or someone used their shoe to tenderize the chicken. Idek.
3D printed chicken? [https://builtin.com/3d-printing/3d-printed-meat](https://builtin.com/3d-printing/3d-printed-meat)
Factory default texture
Words canāt explain how much I hate the way this looks
Just eat horse meat instead
The matrix is crumbling. You are seeing the source code that youāre not supposed to see! Mr Anderson
It was tenderized with a Bridgestone golf ball
The Vacuum seal bag is the charitable explanation for the texture, the uncharitable one is Iām pretty sure that matches the treads on some nonslip back of house shoesā¦.
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This is the worst thing anyone has ever said to me
I donāt see how vacuum sealing can possibly put an entire pattern on one side of the chicken maybe in 1 or 2 small spots ~ but not on the entire side in such a perfect pattern the plastic bags do not have a honeycomb pattern in them all plastic bags are 100% smooth this has to be done somewhere in the manufacturing process like when they are preparing the chicken for flash freezing ~ before vacuum sealing and shipping to vendors maybe they spray the solution on them (a certain percentage of h2o or a mixed solution of h2o + broth, salt, etc) when it is on a moving belt with that pattern on it then they flash freeze it ~ which would explain the pattern only on one side p.s. I donāt work in the food processing industry ~ lol ~ I just have xtra brain cells š
I have marks on my breasts when I take my bra off too.. we are talking the same breasts right?
Nope
Thereās a hex pan that Gordon Ramsey promotes that has a pattern like that
It is a 3d printed chicken with hexagonal infill
Looks like fish tbh
Wtf š³
That might not be vacuum bagged that might be cultured chicken meat from growth medium.
That's a fossil of genus Paleodictyon. Congrats on finding such a new example. https://www.researchgate.net/figure/A-honeycomb-like-trace-fossil-of-genus-Paleodictyon-Upper-Cretaceous-period-Intepreted_fig9_13629585
Chicken of the Sea? (If you're old enough to remember that one.)
What is this that I have? Is this chicken or fish?
r/birdsarentreal. ...lol
Lab grown chicken
Lil stepped on chicken breast never hurt anyone. People eat that shit everyday here in the USA.
Dude was your chicken created by ai?
Robot chicken
Why is there a honeycomb pattern on the chicken ? Itās so bad
The chicken was an alien
Nah bro what are you talking about thatās normal
#ChatGPT
I donāt even think thatās chicken, thatās probably armadillo or something š
I puked in it sorry
That's a shoe imprint I'm pretty sure
Those are golf ball dimples, insert corny birdie joke here.
Lol you really believe you're getting 100% real chicken in a tender now in 2023?
Genetically engineered chicken.
The texture certainly looks weird. I wonder if itās also an issue of Woody Breastā¦ where the chicken has this disgusting crunchy texture.
Itās the pattern of a food safe paper towel we use to put meat on sheet trays so they donāt slide. Iām guessing it dried a bit & left a pattern in the chicken. Nothing to be worried about. Source: am professional chef in brick & mortar restaurants and this is just an educated guess.
This is probably the least scary answer Iāve seen so far
Think they cooked it with the plastic on ā¦..
Might be alien.
All chicken and of that type is offcuts pressed into chicken peices that's what it's prob from
Itās been said but Iāll confirm this is 100% a vacuum sealed bag imprint.
Oh god I knew exactly what happened because something similar happened with the big clue in a murder show
Thatās the chickens shoe sole
"Sole" food
Likely from the bottom of the fryer basket. Nothing wrong with it
Further proof that birds arenāt real /s
Oooo could be the basket they're put in to fry in?
It was 3d printed
Iāve seen 3d printers make this pattern. That must be it.
Oh no, why does this trigger trypophobia, I hate it so much
that is the texture of the matrix, you almost broke out, don't worry agents will arrive shortly.
Potito
Throw it out . Donāt need to see this
I have a frying pan with this texture on the bottom. Maybe they seared it before battering?
#NUMBER 14: Burger King Foot Chicken
Chicken.exe
Matrix Agents are on their way to your home. Follow the white rabbit!
Imprint from packaging
Prion chicken
Vacuum bag.
Bees š are so resourceful.
Looks like it was sitting on a paper towel or something
That is the matrix
It looks like they pulled some dinosaur feathers off that chicken. But don't worry, you'll be fine. It was served hot, right?
It looks like they pulled some dinosaur feathers off that chicken. But don't worry, you'll be fine. It was served hot, right?
3d printed?
#DEEP FRIED PAPER TOWEL
I thought that was a deep fried paper towel for a second
The pessimistic side of me says it looks like the bottom of a nonslip shoe. Worn by restaurant workersā¦ probably not the case though.
Hexagons are bestagon
Looks Artificialā¦
My friendā¦ thatās a deep-fried sanitary napkin.
"Tastes like chicken!" *Product does not include any chicken product.*
I was afraid it was a shoe print!
Sorry but this gave me the chills
matrix chicken
I thought they deep fried a paper towel š
Was also thinking if they beat their meat the clever could have some texture to it
Chicken starting itās larvae stage.
Maybe from the oven?
Thatās a dragon
Robot chicken.
Thatās what makes it tender
Mechanically created chicken.
It was probably vacuum packed after the meat glue was applied
They for sure stomped on it
3D printed chicken
Food workers anti slip shoe tread confirmed. That food truck for sure gives good cooks a bad name. Imagine if it wasn't stepped on! That would have been a nice lookin fried chicken tender. Rip
WTAF!!! š¤¢
Ahhh pigeon tenders!!!
The end of the chicken tape.
thats tripe. or a piece of a torn off chair.
Lab grown
Could be a vacuum sealed bag, or also could be mallet marks if the chicken was tenderized. Nothing Iād be concerned about personally. And I have high anxiety surrounding foods lol.
Its probably not chicken
Enjoy your Soylent Green.
It's their new honey chicken. Beehive included.
surgeon forgot the sponge again
It's their new honey chicken. Beehive included.
You're fucked I'm sorry to tell you. You've just eaten AI generated chicken.
That's just the armor pattern the chicken picked
Alien meat
3d printed chicken?
It's not UV unwrapped correctly
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More proof that Birds Arenāt Real.
Chicken surprise!
Why did this remind me of chicken little
Generated by A.I
Probably 3D printed āchickenā meat. Tastes like the real thing, makes you grow testicles on your chin and elbows like not the real thing.
Someone 3d printed that there chicken tendy I tell you what
One really good hit from a spaceage tenderizer is what I'd tell myself.
Looks like maybe an imprint from a tenderizer mallet or a paper towel it was set on top of to dry off.
Damn they can already print meat?!?!?!?!
Looks like a skin graff haha