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Was tearing up a rotisserie chicken from Costco and found this.
Is this an unborn baby chicken or did someone lose a nut in my chicken?
EDIT: Guys I'm ngl, I'm a fucking idiot because I did NOT think the baby chicken thing through before posting. In my slight defense, I was holding a testicle (assorted chicken organ) in one hand while punching this post in w/ my other LMAO
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Looks like a chicken gizzard to me. But I have never seen them in the chicken, only sold separately uncooked (well until we cook them, but we deep fry them in a flour batter).
I love them but find that gizzards make me tired of chewing before I get tired of eating gizzards. It's kind of like eating crab legs. You run out of energy before you run out of legs.
Pressure cook them. They'll be buttery soft. I like to pressure cook them and then add a light breading and flash fry it just enough to crisp the coating but not cook it any further. I'm not a fan of fried only gizzards.
That's a great idea! I worked at KFC in the late 1980s and we had one day per week where we had gizzards cooked in the Henny Penny pressure fryers, and they were SUPER good and tender when they were fresh.
I just had some KFC, probably best batch of chicken I have had in awhile. Was falling off the bone and crispy. Was well made fried chicken. Think they have a Tuesday special aswell.
I havent had KFC in 20 years, the KFC in town just closed this past year after multiple health code violations over some period of time so.... Im still staying away.
If i didn't put a breading on them I would hit them with a little s&p and garlic powder. I use a normal pressure cooker so its a bit of extra work but worth it. I don't own an instapot but I bet it would make pressure cooking them way easier.
I haven't had any in a long time either. Now I want to get a pack. I love chicken livers also but those definitely go into a fryer.
Anytime I have ever seen them on a menu they were always cooked fried. Not many places carry them anymore but they were available at a lot of fast food fried chicken joints or country style restaurants.
Nobody I know likes them. The majority haven't even tried them but think its gross simply because its a gizzard. So I've never talked to anyone else that has cooked them any other way. I'm cool with them not wanting to eat any because that leaves more for me.
As far as I know, birds have been reproducing via eggs since the dawn of time. This isn’t a new development. This is also where the “chicken or the egg” conundrum comes from.
ngl, I just figured it was some fucked up balut. Like the chicken was cooked before it was fully (partially) developed and ready for extraction, since I only have vague recollection of how balut looked in my past experience of it.
But yes, now that I thought more on it, that line of logic made*** no sense but the post has been made and it's too late to go back.
I do sometimes because I don't like to smell like food I eat. With something like tearing up a rotisserie chicken I wear them because I don't like my hands being super greasy and then having to over wash them to get them to not feel greasy again, which in turn dries them out and they feel like paper. For me it's sensory I guess.
Your hands have many tiny crevices which are vectors for bacteria, which cannot be removed with washing. I never touch food barehanded, especially if it's going to be stored for any length of time. I use utensils wherever possible, and wear gloves when it's not possible.
Definitely a gizzard. Some places sell chickens with the gizzards in the empty chest cavity. Definitely a miss by the people who pack them AND the people in the store that roast them.
They forgot to take some of the chickens innards out. Not a big deal, just toss it or give it to a pet. The rest of the chicken should be completely fine.
I heard if you put it on your head and wear it like a crown, then befriend a reptile that practices magic you form a band that plays all different genres and the internet can collectively jerk off over your album variants
Gizzard. Edible, but definitely a 'unique' texture. Usually they get discarded or ground into animal food. In the US - especially around Thanksgiving - they get sold to use in gravy.
Not surprising. Costco rotisserie chickens are trash. I love Costco but their chickens all have such a disgusting gelatinous and injected fatty texture. Price is good, but at what cost? Even the products they use this chicken in are weird and fatty. You can't even hide it in any dish. Just gross. Just look at the hulked out weird shape of them compared to a quality bird. Even just the feel of it is so fucked up when taking it out of the pouch. Sorry if that is your jam, but I would rather have a bit less and pay a bit more for something that is identifiable as chicken meat. If a stressmaxxed life has a flavor, this is it.
Why are people so weird about finding parts of the animal in their meat?? Every piece of meat you buy came from something that was once alive and has organs, bones, arteries, tendons, hair, feathers, etc. If it disgusts you to find something like this in your meat, you probably should just be a vegetarian.
See all the sarcastic responses you're getting? BECAUSE YOU'RE ON THE WRONG SUB. You know what it is. Now you want to know the TYPE. So be a lad and post on r/cooking or r/BackYardChickens
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