Tags for this video have been changed from 'chicken, nuggets, chicken nuggets, how to, make, recipe' to 'chicken, nuggets, chicken nuggets, how to, make, recipe, nickos kitchen' - edited by RhesusMonk

>> ^Ryjkyj:

Sorry, but there's just no way that a home kitchen can beat the taste of macerated skin and tendon covered in "chicken flavor".


Don't forget the butane.

These look delicious, but when I eat chicken nuggets I require three to be round and three to have a little boot shape and he doesn't even mention how to make nuggets in the approved shapes!

Well done, though! (;

>> ^chingalera:
It's the delicious slurry being stirred by that giant, stainless paddle that makes these delicious nugglies seem grody~Not to worry. That chicken glop is lovingly whipped. Sinew and tendon, cartilage and growth-enhancers, feet and feathers into a flavorful wad of chickeny yum ready for the deep-fryer!


I intentionally had tendon in my dinner tonight so I'm getting a kick out of your reply. My girlfriend regularly takes my chicken bones and eats the cartilage off them. Although not my favorite we often have chicken feet at our table when we have dim sum with friends. Are you suggesting that we WASTE parts of the chicken just because you aren't used to eating them?

What material would you prefer over stainless steel that would be non reactive and easy to sanitize?

Why do you say "glop is lovingly whipped?" Don't you want uniform mixing and flavor?

Growth enhancers are not necessary. Breeds labeled as "Fryers" grow exceptionally fast eating regular old feed. I once bought a set of Ameraucanas with my fryers. They had the exact upbringing but grew three times as fast (literally).

Are you trying to spread FUD? Are you secretly on an antimeat agenda?

>> ^Stormsinger:

I like listening to Henry Rollins almost as much as I like listening to Kevin Smith, and for many of the same reasons. These two men are witty, articulate, and they just "get it". Every single talk I've heard from either of them has always contained some little nugget I hadn't previously considered.


This! I don't know why people hate Kevin Smith soo much, whenever I hear the guy talk I'll listen forever. Same with Louis CK when he's just on a radio show or doing an interview...or John Cleese...OR Stephen Fry! Goddammit too many interesting people!

I like listening to Henry Rollins almost as much as I like listening to Kevin Smith, and for many of the same reasons. These two men are witty, articulate, and they just "get it". Every single talk I've heard from either of them has always contained some little nugget I hadn't previously considered.

But damned if I can see how Rollins or Black Flag ever got a following...it doesn't seem to be for any musical ability, it must have been more for lyrics than anything else.

>> ^Issykitty:

>> ^schlub:
Why is this "terrible"? It looks like real meat to me. All that's happening is it's being breaded... If I made nuggets at home, it'd be the same thing... lump of ground meat + breading + fry...
>> ^Issykitty:
terrible


I don't have a good answer for this except that it subjectively grossed me out. Feel free to remove the tag as you see fit, of course.



It's the delicious slurry being stirred by that giant, stainless paddle that makes these delicious nugglies seem grody~Not to worry. That chicken glop is lovingly whipped. Sinew and tendon, cartilage and growth-enhancers, feet and feathers into a flavorful wad of chickeny yum ready for the deep-fryer!

>> ^schlub:

Why is this "terrible"? It looks like real meat to me. All that's happening is it's being breaded... If I made nuggets at home, it'd be the same thing... lump of ground meat + breading + fry...
>> ^Issykitty:
terrible



I don't have a good answer for this except that it subjectively grossed me out. Feel free to remove the tag as you see fit, of course.

Why is this "terrible"? It looks like real meat to me. All that's happening is it's being breaded... If I made nuggets at home, it'd be the same thing... lump of ground meat + breading + fry...
>> ^Issykitty:

terrible

>> ^bareboards2:

I'm fascinated by the use of gravity.
I also wonder if workers on the line ever eat these things.


They wait till they're through the breading line then smuggle them home in their trousers. Open waistband, nuggets drop off line and into smuggling pouch.

What the hell?

If possession is 9/10 the law, then ownership of the nuggets officially transferred from the school/federal lunch program to the student who was fasting.

From there, that student has every right to do with his lunch thereafter. He can eat it, he can throw it away, he can feed it to the pigeons, or he can give it to a friend.

The school/federal lunch program, therefore, has no say in who and/or what receives the product after it has transferred out of their hands.

This is bull and we all know it. This kid deserved better from the adults who are supposed to be educating him.

There actually is a nugget of truth in his "sermon."

"You were made by God to be _______." That part of the sentence? If you are Christian/theist, that is a true statement.

The fallacy is that a MAN finishes the sentence. A MAN deigns to dictate to God what God has made.

You were made by God to be homosexual. That is the way to complete that sentence.

The hubris of these puny scared men have in dictating to God what God meant. If anyone is burning, I'm betting on them.

As I said, the quote is my own, from another video on the subject.

As for the toxicity of ammonia, here is a link to the Health Effects portion of the CDC's Toxicological Profile for Ammonia.

Lots to read, but basically it shows that, except in huge doses of concentrated ammonia, ammonia is readily converted by the liver into urea (hence the ammonia smell of urine). Ingesting ammonia in quantities that are harmful (though still not fatal) causes burns, and ulceration of the mouth. Obviously if there was that much in the food, there would be a problem.

The report points out, "In a study of volunteers, ingestion of a single ammonium chloride tablet (approximately 15 mg NH4+/kg/day) led to a small transient increase (33% above fasting levels) in arterial blood concentrations of ammonium ion in 11 out of 20 subjects (Conn 1972); no change was noted in the remaining nine subjects in this group.[...]These data indicate that ingested ammonia is readily absorbed from the digestive tract and that the liver plays a large role in removing it from the blood (Conn 1972).



Basically, the FDA allows the use of ammonia to sterilize food products because, 1. the quantities needed to harm a human would cause said humans not to eat the products and 2. being naturally occurring, and necessary for life (for the provision of nitrogen for amino acid synthesis), the ingestion of ammonia in these quantities has no long-term health effects.

I'm not trying to argue that eating that pink goo is good for you - but the obsession with the ammonia is the wrong approach to attacking it. Phosphorus, sodium, potassium, magnesium, etc. are also poisonous in the right quantities, and they are also all necessary for human life.

If there is any common thread to my rants here on the sift, it's that people attacking the wrong subject, regardless of their intentions, makes them look stupid and reduces their credibility to those of us who care to know the truth. I completely agree with Maher's point that the republicans just attack anything the liberals support, but when he makes that point using misleading/wrong information, he's just as bad as them.>> ^Yogi:

>> ^Skeeve:
While I don't disagree with Maher's point, I'm getting really sick of people screaming about the ammonia used to treat the pink goo that is turned into chicken nuggets. As I said regarding another video:
"ammonia is a natural chemical that is necessary for human life. The amount of ammonia one would have to ingest to be harmful to a human is huge, and actually ingesting that much would be unthinkable because of the horrendous taste it would impart to the food."

This is like seeing someone sprinkle some sodium-free salt on their food and saying, "OMG that's potassium chloride! That's the lethal chemical in a lethal injection! That's going to kill you!!"
People just don't seem to care that a lot of chemicals that are popularly considered "toxic" are necessary for life or require unfathomably large doses to be harmful.

Where the hell is that quote from and is there any truth to it is what needs to be asked. To me that sounds like something a PR person would say, like in that video about Global Warming where they made the point that "CO2 is natural".
You've got more to answer for Skeeve and if you don't I'm bidding you a hearty GOOD DAY To You Sir!

>> ^Skeeve:

While I don't disagree with Maher's point, I'm getting really sick of people screaming about the ammonia used to treat the pink goo that is turned into chicken nuggets. As I said regarding another video:
"ammonia is a natural chemical that is necessary for human life. The amount of ammonia one would have to ingest to be harmful to a human is huge, and actually ingesting that much would be unthinkable because of the horrendous taste it would impart to the food."

This is like seeing someone sprinkle some sodium-free salt on their food and saying, "OMG that's potassium chloride! That's the lethal chemical in a lethal injection! That's going to kill you!!"
People just don't seem to care that a lot of chemicals that are popularly considered "toxic" are necessary for life or require unfathomably large doses to be harmful.


Where the hell is that quote from and is there any truth to it is what needs to be asked. To me that sounds like something a PR person would say, like in that video about Global Warming where they made the point that "CO2 is natural".

You've got more to answer for Skeeve and if you don't I'm bidding you a hearty GOOD DAY To You Sir!

While I don't disagree with Maher's point, I'm getting really sick of people screaming about the ammonia used to treat the pink goo that is turned into chicken nuggets. As I said regarding another video:

"ammonia is a natural chemical that is necessary for human life. The amount of ammonia one would have to ingest to be harmful to a human is huge, and actually ingesting that much would be unthinkable because of the horrendous taste it would impart to the food."


This is like seeing someone sprinkle some sodium-free salt on their food and saying, "OMG that's potassium chloride! That's the lethal chemical in a lethal injection! That's going to kill you!!"

People just don't seem to care that a lot of chemicals that are popularly considered "toxic" are necessary for life or require unfathomably large doses to be harmful.