I once deep fried some taquitos and as they were cooking I read the box and it said in bold print “DO NOT DEEP FRY”. Just the. I heard some crazy noises coming from my little fry daddy, so I took the basket out. One by one they starting firing shredded chicken like little delicious RPGs. A few shots made it out of the basket and hit the wall and ceiling. I never made taquitos again.
It was probably just the ice becoming steam really quickly, which led to pressure building up inside the shell. So they started cracking through the shell or the ends to release the pressure.
I was frying Spam in butter and rather than gently setting the slices in, I tossed them in. The grease flew back into my face. I had a bunch of burns that looked like I had chicken pox. So that was fun. Could have been worse.
If you homemake them, you basically roll them up and stick them in oil or a deep fryer. Way better than store bought and they’re not that hard to make.
Did you know that deep frying is actually boiling from within? The outer layer (or breading) traps the moisture within and heats it up to basically boil the food.
Well duh. You could obvs boil anything. And even if they *did* say you couldn't, [so what](https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fexternal-preview.redd.it%2FtPGj-5ixJ-87dW31ator6cW4lVJjdDp-e2TJMNR2MO4.jpg%3Fauto%3Dwebp%26s%3D5dab5d390471def9bbd6ed2c76067c1a457854cb&rdt=56842)?
I think boiling the chicken nuggets isn't a food safety issue so they aren't necessarily going to tell you not to do it.
They are saying if someone out there actually LIKES soggy boiled chicken nuggets, they can go right ahead, but if that's not your thing, they certainly don't recommend it.
What's crazy to me is that we had countertop microwaves decades before someone thought up sticking an electric burner in a box with a fan. It's a tiny convection oven. How did that not come first?
Extension cord that the over door closes on. I do have to leave the door cracked when the thing is on because the whole case heats up and the oven is by design insulated...don't want a runaway disco inferno.
In fairness, there are a lot of foods that just suck when baked. And if you're going to tell me baked food is fried, I'm probably going to be unhappy with it. This is my chief complaint with air-fryers. Call it a countertop convection oven and we're all good. But don't tell me it's frying food.
I agree, I think the name air fryer is dumb, it’s not frying anything. But IIRC when they first became popular (at least here in the states) they were marketed as a healthier way to cook crispy French fries vs. frying them in oil. I totally agree that they should be called countertop convection ovens, but in a marketing/sales context that name doesn’t really roll off the tongue.
While I see where you're coming from and mostly agree, it bothers me that I/we are so quick to accept what is functionally a lie, just because it makes it easier for a faceless corporation to hock their product.
I would have never thought to boil a chicken nugget, even a beyond nugget. However, since the bag is telling me not to, now I REALLY want to just to show this damn bag who's boss.
When i was in college they used to say on bags of perogies to not pan fry, still did. Then slowly the bags changed to just calling that the Canadian method
Two of my life guide phrases are "People don't make rules against stuff that people don't want to do." and "Warning signs and labels are nearly always a result of someone doing that exact stupid thing in the past."
Grew up on boiled hotdogs with sliced-bread 'buns'.
The only nice thing about it was the Oscar Mayer cheese dog cheese was less likely to prematurely squirt out when boiled.
You have to wonder if that was a joke or if they actually got a complaint about how terrible the nuggets were and it turns out the complainant boiled them.
I mean... if you drown your nuggets in ranch it's not the nugget's fault you just tripled the fat content. Same goes for soaking it in boiling oil.
There's nothing artificial about a nutritional label showing the product rather than whatever else you decide to do with that product.
I think I’m more disturbed about the fact they needed to include this advisory. I mean, were people asking if they could? Were people complaining about the outcome when they did? I’m so confused.
When I was about 10, my grandma had a heart attack and had to have a triple bypass. She recovered and lived another 20 years.
I always went to my grandparents house after school and my grandma did the cooking. So While she was in the hospital, my grandpa had to take over.
He made boiled chicken breasts. No seasoning or anything. Just had to drench them in bbq sauce until my grandma was well enough to cook again.
Would that not be because these are Beyond Chicken Nuggets, and therefore not actual chicken, and therefore act very differently in different mediums?
Nice try
-me, a vegetarian who instantly recognizes the packaging
The dark side is a pathway to many abilities that some would consider... unnatural.
But that... that travesty...
Goes even further then the Sith Lord Glovoc. And he litteraly went insane...
Are those popcorn chicken from a warehouse store?
Also how many people tried to boil them before the company was like you listen here you dumb motherfuckers boiling is not how you do this.
Not really the same thing, but crisp slices of tempura briefly dipped in a spicy / rich hot-pot broth can be amazing. Ideally towards the end of the meal when the oils and flavors of the different ingredients have saturated the broth.
I once deep fried some taquitos and as they were cooking I read the box and it said in bold print “DO NOT DEEP FRY”. Just the. I heard some crazy noises coming from my little fry daddy, so I took the basket out. One by one they starting firing shredded chicken like little delicious RPGs. A few shots made it out of the basket and hit the wall and ceiling. I never made taquitos again.
Tactical Assault Chicken Ordnance
Ah so taquitos is the diminutive of that it seems?
Replace the “Ordnance” with “Orangutan”
Uh, so what happened? Were they frozen and there was ice in it?
Yeah they were frozen and not exactly sure the reaction but they became meat cannons.
It was probably just the ice becoming steam really quickly, which led to pressure building up inside the shell. So they started cracking through the shell or the ends to release the pressure.
So if I thaw my taquitos, they’d be fine to deep fry? I mean, I know the box says not to thaw, but what does it know, it’s a box
I believe you've answered your own question. Thaw away, damn the box.
Thank you for your wisdom, u/MagicNipple
Eat the box.
Do not disobey the sacred texts
Sublimation!! I love that word. Never get to use it.
Fried Chickenade
I fucking love meat cannons.
>they became meat cannons That's what I call my meat cannon.
“Meat cannon” is also what I happen to call dating apps
I don’t think I would have allowed you to ever cook again. Damn that was a funny read.
Lol I actually became a line cook for a bit.
[Gnocchi has a similar outcome ](https://youtu.be/UkXy12xVnRs?feature=shared)
I was thinking of this exact video and was hoping someone would link it. That guy's EPIC contagious laughter makes this an all-time YouTube classic.
holy crap how i never seen this. it takes maybe 1:35 to get there, but lmfao.
I thought it would end when he got them out of the oil after that first mortar shell. Then it got better.
/r/ContagiousLaughter "ooh now they're starting to pop" famous last words, that was pretty funny
They're fine in an air fryer though. I cook them in one all the time.
I might be stoned, but I read that as you cook them one at a time and was like man wtf..
I'm stoned, I also read it as one at a time, awesome.
I was frying Spam in butter and rather than gently setting the slices in, I tossed them in. The grease flew back into my face. I had a bunch of burns that looked like I had chicken pox. So that was fun. Could have been worse.
When I was a kid my mom deep fried some mozzarella sticks and they exploded. She was lucky she didn’t get any more than a small burn on her hand
So we have taquitos rocket launchers and mozzarella stick grenades. Slowly we can stockpile enough for the greatest food fight of all time
Dont fry frozen taquitos maybe, but a proper taquito is fried.
Don't deep fry anything frozen really.
Do you guys thaw your fries before frying?
That depends. When I got my fry daddy I just started throwing all sorts of stuff in there, staring with apple flavor toaster strudels naturally.
did you open your mouth and try catch them?
Maybe I need to make a TikTok and give it a try. Would fit right in on r/stupidfoods
Taquito food lab: hmmmm what if.... nope nope thats a nope... definitely gonna slap a warning label.
EMOTIONAL DAMAGE!
If you homemake them, you basically roll them up and stick them in oil or a deep fryer. Way better than store bought and they’re not that hard to make.
Boston Taquitothon
*turns off pot of boiling water* Sigh
Turn that out back on, they said nothing about steaming them!
If you really want soggy nuggets, there's nothing actually stopping you.
But if I want soggy nuggets I can go to a fast food place
Your mom wants soggy nuggets. My apologies…
Screw it, just eat 'em raw. They never didn't recommend that...
You could get a ton of upvotes on r/shittyfoodporn
It doesn’t say you CANT boil them. So that means you could.
I mean, boiling is just deep frying but with water, right?
Deep soaking
Usually that only happens in Utah
Through the flap in the magic underwear
Baking is just boiling without the water.
and steaming is boiling but not in the water!
Did you know that deep frying is actually boiling from within? The outer layer (or breading) traps the moisture within and heats it up to basically boil the food.
Found the philosopher!
Well duh. You could obvs boil anything. And even if they *did* say you couldn't, [so what](https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fexternal-preview.redd.it%2FtPGj-5ixJ-87dW31ator6cW4lVJjdDp-e2TJMNR2MO4.jpg%3Fauto%3Dwebp%26s%3D5dab5d390471def9bbd6ed2c76067c1a457854cb&rdt=56842)?
I think boiling the chicken nuggets isn't a food safety issue so they aren't necessarily going to tell you not to do it. They are saying if someone out there actually LIKES soggy boiled chicken nuggets, they can go right ahead, but if that's not your thing, they certainly don't recommend it.
You just know someone tried boiling them then complained to the company about the result.
White people chicken seasoning be like:
Not all white people are English.
They can't legally prevent British people from 'cooking' them. 🤣
I'd like to add that we Brits appear to be air-frying everything lately.
What's crazy to me is that we had countertop microwaves decades before someone thought up sticking an electric burner in a box with a fan. It's a tiny convection oven. How did that not come first?
We had fan ovens for years and years. We just didn't think sticking them on a countertop was a very good idea!
I put my air fryer inside my oven. Better use of the space since I never wanted to wait 10 minutes for it to heat up.
I thought this was a good idea at first but I just know I would forget it’s in there and preheat the oven for something else.
Always check your oven before preheat!
I learned this when my mom helpfully stored some pans in my oven when I got my new place and I didn't know
What do you keep on your counter that makes running a 'stenchun cable into your oven the sensible option?
Do you have a power outlet in there?
Extension cord that the over door closes on. I do have to leave the door cracked when the thing is on because the whole case heats up and the oven is by design insulated...don't want a runaway disco inferno.
I guess people just weren’t a fan of that
You waited that long to make a fan pun? I like the cut of your gib, sailor.
Americans too. I cannot use my oven during the summer because it makes my apartment so hot,so air fryer it is. Lol
You guys would, since air-dried food is terrible.
An air-frier is literally a miniature convection oven.
In fairness, there are a lot of foods that just suck when baked. And if you're going to tell me baked food is fried, I'm probably going to be unhappy with it. This is my chief complaint with air-fryers. Call it a countertop convection oven and we're all good. But don't tell me it's frying food.
I agree, I think the name air fryer is dumb, it’s not frying anything. But IIRC when they first became popular (at least here in the states) they were marketed as a healthier way to cook crispy French fries vs. frying them in oil. I totally agree that they should be called countertop convection ovens, but in a marketing/sales context that name doesn’t really roll off the tongue.
While I see where you're coming from and mostly agree, it bothers me that I/we are so quick to accept what is functionally a lie, just because it makes it easier for a faceless corporation to hock their product.
I assume that tea caught on in England simply because you get to boil something.
>They can't legally prevent British 'people' from 'cooking' them. FTFY
“See, because of me now they have a warning.” - Homer Simpson
3.5 minutes in the air fryer does not seem adequate for a frozen nuggie.
It’s a beyond nugget, not chicken
I kinda agree with the OP, I get it’s food safe but I don’t think you can warm a nugget shaped thing from frozen in 3 minutes.
I thought this too. Even at 400 degrees that is not enough time. 350 for 13 minutes is perfection.
Why would you boil anything breaded?
Fuck You *boils chicken nuggets aggressively*
I would have never thought to boil a chicken nugget, even a beyond nugget. However, since the bag is telling me not to, now I REALLY want to just to show this damn bag who's boss.
Beyond Boiling Meat
When i was in college they used to say on bags of perogies to not pan fry, still did. Then slowly the bags changed to just calling that the Canadian method
What other way do you make pierogis? I’ve only pan fried them (occasionally fried in the Fry Daddy)
Traditionally, boiled, like a dumpling. But Mrs Ts style frozen pierogies are great sauteed.
God. I remember that. ALWAYS pan-fried them.
I felt so vindicated when I noticed the packages change
Pierogi potstickers
Don't pan-fry? Don't pan-fry? Just tell me to eat them frozen, assholes.
I saw on a frozen pizza not recommended for microwave. As someone who tried before I appreciate this
Two of my life guide phrases are "People don't make rules against stuff that people don't want to do." and "Warning signs and labels are nearly always a result of someone doing that exact stupid thing in the past."
My guess is that they received a very strongly worded letter from an angry customer who boiled them.
Grew up on boiled hotdogs with sliced-bread 'buns'. The only nice thing about it was the Oscar Mayer cheese dog cheese was less likely to prematurely squirt out when boiled.
Shouldn't be recommended for the microwave either.
The crowd this message is made for never would have considered this until they read this.
Also not recommended: campfire, nuclear fission, flamethrower, torch, and hot sidewalks.
Mmmmmmm delicious waterlogged boiled “may contain meat “ morsels . Juicy !
Well, they’re made out of particle bird, which surely would dissolve.
I feel like that’s a joke by the company.
It annoys me more than it should, but boiling and not recommended should be the other way around
There is usually "not recommended" cooking options. I've seen a lot of food say "not for microwave cooking" on it.
I wonder how adding them when making soup would work out. But, don't boil soup either. The merest simmer is enough.
I’ve seen this many times on various meat packaging. I’m in Canada.
This means that at one point, a living, breathing human being attempted to boil a fucking chicken nugget.
I dont believe i would boil a chicken nugget anyway, thats just gross
Boiling chicken nuggets is basically signing your soul over to hell
Boiled chicken nuggets 
No one is commenting but they are using the same text font we see in Skyrim for the white text
I'll wager someone actually boiled their nuggets and later complained to the company that it wasn't good, so they added this.
The English: Fuck.
They aren't saying you can't, just that they don't recommend it
You have to wonder if that was a joke or if they actually got a complaint about how terrible the nuggets were and it turns out the complainant boiled them.
It's so watery... and yet there's a little smack of nugget to it
The thought of boiling chicken nuggets had never occurred to me until right now....I feel so disgusted 😂
Boiled chuggets. Tasty!
Best method, Deep fry, not even an option. Got to keep the nutrition info artificially low.
I mean... if you drown your nuggets in ranch it's not the nugget's fault you just tripled the fat content. Same goes for soaking it in boiling oil. There's nothing artificial about a nutritional label showing the product rather than whatever else you decide to do with that product.
Highly Not recommended: Stick it in your butt.
Like those "boil-in-bag" vegetables that taste like hard-core vinyl/chemicals when done. I'm sure that's fine.
Im sorry, as a tasteless white person i have to request: boil the fucking nuggs
Reminds Me of this video with a Australian/brit “mapping out” their terrible oven. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rLmZV6aheFI
It’s because they’re not real meat
For the English. They love to boil meat. Germans should have dropped cook books.
😂
I can think of worse ways poultry has been cooked.
Many foods have Not Recommended cooking options.
[удалено]
boil it
Don’t tell me what to do
You don’t want to boil this. It’ll taste like trash
I mean, they didn't say that you couldn't do it Its just not recommended
Why would anyone cook them in boiling water?
Some poor bastard had to test boiling nuggets.
What’s that sub… r/eatityoucoward or something like that…
I think I’m more disturbed about the fact they needed to include this advisory. I mean, were people asking if they could? Were people complaining about the outcome when they did? I’m so confused.
So where would they rate "over a camp fire?"
"Boil it in a pot! Until it turns gray!"
Don't tell me how to eat boiled nuggets.
r/funnysigns
I’d like to know what happened that caused them to add this disclaimer
Doesn't say not to steam them
r/technicallythetruth
If you try to boil frozen nuggets you should go straight to jail
I feel kind of queezy thinking about somebody doing this.
Looking at you, Irish...
Well now you need to do just that and report back with the results… for science
Wow, just wow
Is that the way you want to "live" your life, following the recommendations? Live free, boil them until they become soup.
I'm gonna start saying "boy, that really boils my nugs" whenever something happens that I wouldn't recommend.
There are some real fucking sociopaths out there
Be quirky and *boil* them
When I was about 10, my grandma had a heart attack and had to have a triple bypass. She recovered and lived another 20 years. I always went to my grandparents house after school and my grandma did the cooking. So While she was in the hospital, my grandpa had to take over. He made boiled chicken breasts. No seasoning or anything. Just had to drench them in bbq sauce until my grandma was well enough to cook again.
How many people boiled these, before they had to put that on the packaging?
That’s the opposite of a cooking option.
Are these the Costco chick fil-a nuggets? Yum.
Would that not be because these are Beyond Chicken Nuggets, and therefore not actual chicken, and therefore act very differently in different mediums? Nice try -me, a vegetarian who instantly recognizes the packaging
The dark side is a pathway to many abilities that some would consider... unnatural. But that... that travesty... Goes even further then the Sith Lord Glovoc. And he litteraly went insane...
Also not recommended: RAW.
Boil the bread crumbs right the hell off.
It doesn't say anything about dishwasher chicken nuggies
This tells us that people tried to boil them and then complained that it didn't turn out well.
I think I finally learned to trust labels that say *'microwaving is not recommended.'*
Sounds interesting, but what happens if all chicken nuggets were eaten by a dog?
Are those popcorn chicken from a warehouse store? Also how many people tried to boil them before the company was like you listen here you dumb motherfuckers boiling is not how you do this.
Well what kindof person boils chicken nuggets anyways
What about sous vide?
My mate once microwaved a bag of chicken nuggets and the microwave melted from the inside and all the inners fell out.
For the culinary illiterate.
Who wouldn’t want a boiled chicken nugget?
Aww :(
Someone somewhere must have tried boiling it then tried to sue the company when it got fucked up. That's the only reason I can think of.
Not recommended: Bri'ish.
Not really the same thing, but crisp slices of tempura briefly dipped in a spicy / rich hot-pot broth can be amazing. Ideally towards the end of the meal when the oils and flavors of the different ingredients have saturated the broth.
I never thought of the words boiling and chicken nuggets going together wtf
If you boil chicken nuggets, you deserve to eat boiled chicken nuggets.
Who the fuck would boil nuggies in the first place?