Chicken is to meat as denim is to fabric. It's the peoples meat you snobs.

Chicken is amazing.

These comments are some basic-ass Ron Swanson bullshit. Chicken is a glorious meat. Tender, flavorful, and you can just rip into it. Holds spice and sauce better than beef, I’d argue. And that crispy skin, mmm. Nobody’s taking away your thousandth plate of brisket, take a breath.

Thank you!

The yoga lady has arrived!!

I'm going to skeletonize a Peruvian rotisserie chicken in your honor

Because that’s poultry. Meat is meat

Thanks for the info!

Cause chicken is for vegans and women who do yoga, get that chicken nonsense out of here.

Chicken is very low in cholesterol/ saturated fats/ and sodium’s, and very high in digestible protines and actually proactive against cardiovascular issues!

This looks soooo bland.

It’s not, it’s been brined

Looks like lunch.

Listen, chicken is a fabulous protein. It can be roasted, broiled or smoked, but boneless, skinless chicken breast is not the way to go. You gotta give us a thigh, show us some of that dark meat sizzling and those gorgeous bronze skins. (Had the song “House of Osmodeus” from *Helluva Boss* stuck in my head while I wrote this. Take that as you will)

Lolol ik it’s not a glorious pic, just had the thought while cooking. Love the enthusiasm

I've never been here and the responses are hilarious.

And we shouldn't lower our standards now

We have always called it yardbird because as meat goes it’s the lowest form of the main meats.

It’s the lowest form of meat

Horses and rats would like a word

I had horse in a Mongolian restaurant, and it was pretty goddamn good. I've never had rat, but squirrel's delicious too.

Ew chicken

You don’t like?

I'll eat chicken, but I prefer meat tbh

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Hey look, it's Chipotle

But no thighs or marinade?

Why would we post veg in the meat sub reddit?

Nice name, love skyrim

Lookin good thanks for sharing the photo and posting

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Haha milk drinkers has a good meaning now

The mitochondria is the power house of the cell

That’s because this is the meat subreddit.

Ask anyone and they’ll with 100% certainty call chicken MEAT

You don’t think chicken is meat?

I do, I was just being silly.

Oh my bad. Carry on.

He said **meat** bro

I never saw any chicken posts either. They can't type. They hunt and peck. 😁

Chickens are boomers confirmed.

You son of a bitch

Chicken is unbelievable

Drum sticks are amazing. The Jim’s concur

Yeeep

I agree chicken is crazy.

Pollo loco

Settle down

You ever put singles on a taco?

You like popcorn chicken or popcorn shrimp?

I love chicken! https://preview.redd.it/aztp3ni9bz8d1.jpeg?width=1009&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=59fb3a0ab6ef6ff9e96a6e9a0e5939b915ab79fc

How do you make these?

Marinate cut up chicken breast in pickle juice for a couple of hours. Pat dry and rinse! Season with salt, pepper, garlic, onion, a little bit of my favorite chicken seasoning, and paprika, oregano, parsley. A little olive oil. And grill on a grill pan or outside :)

Are you asking how to bbq chicken?

When I make little nuggets like that on my grill it sticks to the grill and doesn’t ever turn out looking like this so I was curious if I was missing something. Usually I end up throwing them on skewers and they turn out fine but yeah just wanting some tips cuz those look good

-De carbonize your grill grates. -Season them. -Make sure your grill grates are hot before the chicken goes on. As soon as your grill reaches 400, your grates aren't hot enough. Let that baby heat up. -Dont move your chicken before it's fully cooked on that side. Eventually any sticking should release when it's fully cooked/caramelized. Unless you have lots of carbon cake. -Experiment. I've had varying success with dry chicken, wet with moisture, and wet with fat when it comes to sticking on the grill. But you can so it!

Mmmm yours looks better

No yours looks awesome!

Chickens aren't meat. They're birds. Much like fish isn't meat... It's fish. Right?

"Fish, for sport only, not for meat. Fish meat is practically a vegetable."

Ron?

Rock solid logic.

These comments are cracking me up but I kind of tend to agree. I think it’s mostly because chicken is often served thoughtlessly - nuggets, fried, whatever - without much effort or real flavor other than salt or basic spices. I’m not anti-chicken though. I *love* a good roasted chicken with a nice jus/sauce and veggies like carrots, broccolini, squash.

Also factory farm chicken and cage free chicken have completely different taste. And most of us only eat the flavorless factory farm chicken. A good cage free chicken, and prepared yakitori style will change your perception about chicken being bad meat.

I think really it’s because most people buy commodity chicken to eat regularly. If we treated chicken as it used to be, I think I’d be different. There’s a farm near me that charges £30 for a chicken. That seems a lot. But then I realise that chicken feeds 3 of us at least twice over, plus leftovers for 1-2 lunches and stock. Compared to one good quality ribeye, for the same money. That’s one meal for 2 people at most. Bargain. Yet people will still buy the tray of tenders/breasts for £8/9 off birds that haven’t lived good lives and roll complain about it. Wonder why it’s so crap?

That is a lot. They used to sell chickens for 10 bucks in the city I lived in a few years ago. They'd kill it and clean it immediately after you bought it. I really miss that place. The only live chickens for sale here are baby ones that you have to raise yourself instead of frying it up immediately.

How big of a chicken is that? I can usually eat about half a chicken by myself if I want to.

A bit over 2 kilos

For the love of all things holy please clean that grill!!

It’s a flattop grill, and it’s not dirty, it’s seasoned. However we chemically strip the seasoning every night so it will be shiny again. All the nasties are from the chicken currently cooking

It did not photo well. Carry on, chef

Yeah I noticed, the butter looks pretty gross in the photo. And I gotta good nice chicken smear on the side. This post was expected to get some rage but it’s ok, attention is attention

That's just extra seasoning

That’s a griddle not a grill

Without more information… who’s to say? [flattop grill](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flattop_grill)

There’s a reason…

Yeah, I’d eat that

The chicken or the sludge?

Yes

Chop that up long ways for some chicken fajitas or chop it up completely and toss it with cream cheese and buffalo sauce with some seasoning and put that mixture into a samish 🥵

There’s no such thing as chicken fajitas.

Lolol we are an Italian resturaunt so we can’t do fajitas, but the buffalo chicken dip already on the menu and it’s delish.

That's bc chicken isn't meat

Then wtf is poultry? Because it's definitely not feathers nor bones.

Oh sorry, forgot the /s

Came here to say that

Just make sure it's not dry and we're fine with it I personally favor dark meat for that reason

Why do so many comments say chicken breast? These are definitely tenderloins

Because they are breasts, buddy

You must not be seeing well, BUDDY

Tenderloin aren’t that thick and are more narrow.. are we talking chickens or ostriches here?

I work with meat/poultry as a job. These are not breasts they are long and pointy and have the tendon running through the tops just as they should. Tenderloins and breast plump as they cook and these days you see A LOT of large chicken due to hormones .

Let’s also consider angles and photos aren’t great representation of size

I agree, it’s hard to tell the size cause there’s no reference. I also have worked in a restaurant for 4+ years where we would break down whole chickens.. agree to disagree, I guess

That’s fine we don’t have to agree but we also don’t have to be condescending 😉🙏🏻

It is a tenderloin, our prep cooks don’t remove tendons and it sucks…

Is this in the US? I wonder what those chickens looked like alive. Could they even walk?

I stand corrected! Sorry, I’ve honestly never seen chickens that big lol

Looks like breast to me.

Your eyes are deceiving you

Yeah but basically the same thing when it’s said and done. Blind taste test id fail

Tenderloins are a different mouth feel to me and generally stay juicier . Definitely both chicken though

That's diet meat

That shit looks fowl/j

u/KnoxOber OP I gotta ask, cooking breasts at that volume, how do you avoid woody breast coming out of the supply chain?

I stay on the grill and flattop so when it comes time to chop that chicken, the nasty will be removed. And there’s always a coworker who will eat it.

But woody breast occupies major portion of the breast ...

Also, we use tenderloins as our breast wish probably helps alot

Tenderloin != breast

I’m not sure what you mean.. but if you mean the tuff dry ones, they are probably like 1 in 15 breasts here. We have a really decent supplier

Tough yes, dry, maybe, but you hit what I was wondering really - does a good supplier help avoid this.

I guess it’s pride month 

Should have smashed em, no?

Nah want the juice right?

That’s what you preserve by crushing em even and searing them faster

I only weight my meats when I am forced to speed it up, otherwise I feel the slower methods work nicer

That's because white meat is vegetarian

Yep, it's a carnivore'a salad

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This sounds like racism. Mods ban this person. /s.

Man I love meat

Man meat loves you back

That's a lot of chicken. Restaurant?

Yes restaurant

Nah homie is just casually searing off 45 chicken breasts

Meal prep, son

Nope just resturaunt

Nah more like apocalypse prep

He could be having a big cookout

Because chicken is poultry not meat

What a dumb thing to say

Well I guess KFC and Popeyes is vegetarian then.

That’s like saying cows are beef and pigs are pork, not meat.

It’s a joke

Oh; guess I missed the punchline

The worst cut of the chicken! ;)

Tell me you overcook your chicken without telling me you overcook your chicken

Thighs are still better

Depends on what you are preparing.

Brain is way worse.

Hard disagree, chicken hearts are the best part of the chicken and an amazing treat fried up with mushrooms, onions and butter.

Be honest, what isn't amazing when fried in butter with onions and mushrooms? You could skin a rat and that prep would make it delicious.

He’s right tho love some chicken or turkey heart

You can make a lot of stuff taste great with mushrooms, onions and butter. I’d eat an old Birkenstock if you cooked it like that.

Ever tried Beak?

Only if you don’t know how to cook it.

That and no flavor.

It’s got flavor if you know what you’re doing.

Also, if you buy good quality air dried chicken breasts (I buy Bell and Evans) they taste super chicken-y. I prefer dark meat, but quality dry brined breasts (especially skin-on, bone-in) over charcoal are delicious.

fat is flavor. boneless skinless chicken breasts have very little

I fuckin love chicken cause I marinate it and season it differently for every single dish. But I go really heavy with my seasonings. A plain or salted chicken breast? I would feed that to my dog.

yeah, or make into chicken salad for sandwiches, or shredded . but solely as the main protein on a plate boneless skinless chicken breast is lower on the list of best cuts imo I'll take a good skin-on thigh with the skin crisped up over a plain chicken breast lol

nah I seriously couldn't even do that, but I am Cajun so it's not my fault. my blood has cayenne in it.

So you cook your steaks with no seasoning? Not even salt and pepper.

If it's a good steak I'll cook it with a little salt and nothing else. Salt alone won't help the mass produced chicken breasts.

If it’s good chicken I can do exactly the same thing. Not all chicken is mass produced.

Ye let's just never never ever use marinade or sauce or spices of any sort

fat is an inherent property of the cut og meat, meaning you can't change it. the tastiest cuts are inherently fattier. boneless skinless chicken breast has very little fat. sure, you can season it up just like anything. but it's like makeup on a plain girl vs makeup on a naturally beautiful girl

I'll marinate chicken, but I prefer to start with a cut that has flavor like the thighs.

exactly. or skin-on bone-in breast that roasts nicely.

nah. be honest.

Honestly, not everyone can cook as good as they think they can.

Chicken breast is bland. you cant deny that fact. "Bb..but.. i added seasonings!! " Well no shit, now its not as bland. however some peices of meat have natural flavour, which chicken breast lacks.

I can and have denied it. It depends on where you are getting your chicken from. Not all chicken breast is bland. I’m sorry that’s been your experience.

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These comments are wild. Y’all think you’re cute saying chicken isn’t meat

It’s ok I love the attention🤣

It’s so lame lmfao. I swear it’s an extension of toxic masculinity, cuz chicken isn’t “manly” like red meat is. FOH

Not really, a lot of athletes myself included like chicken because it is higher in protein than a lot of meats and is neutral in flavor so you can season it enough ways to never get bored of it.

Don't you know it's only manly when it clogs your arteries! If you aren't 5 seconds from a heart attack you aren't manly at all.

It’s such a weird “joke”? I would much rather have chicken tbh.

It’s sorta irritating. Chicken is fuckin amazing

You're drunk if you say chicken is "amazing." Chicken is OK, depending on what part, and don't think I'd ever choose it over literally any other normal meat. White meat chicken is the worst there is. I'd rather eat seasoned cotton balls

You just can’t cook for shit apparently.

A blind, one-armed toddler can cook chicken you bozo. It's not my fault you have the palette of a child

I don’t I eat all of the meats. There is so much to do with chicken tho. Sure a blind one armed toddler could dry the fuck out of it like you but I like it juicy. Learn to cook young man.

That’s because chicken is a vegetable.

Recent scientific reclassifation is that it is actually a fruit.

If it lives after you cut its head off, it must be a vegetable.

Hey! Did you know vegetables aren’t real and are just a made up classification? Roots are roots, greens are leafy greens, and most others actually turn out to just be savory fruit. Correct me if I’m wrong

You know it's been proven that people are still alive for a few seconds after their heads are cut off right?

Very nice. I eat a cast iron chicken every other day :)

That’d hurt my teeth

Damn it now it hit me and it also hurts :)

I love grilling thighs to 190F. Hot enough that the fat and skin is starting to char a bit.

Chicken thighs and quarters are the best bang for your buck.

Chicken quarters marinated in some Peri Peri sauce is always my go to

Nandos buddies

I know a popular trend is to essentially prep thighs as giant chicken wings.... I haven't done it yet because I suck at making wing sauces but I love thighs Also great is roasting thighs over a pan of chopped of gold potatoes. Such a good meal and very easy