Comments on: What Does It Mean When Chicken Is Chewy? Explained https://eatpallet.com/what-does-it-mean-when-chicken-is-chewy/ Fri, 13 Sep 2024 12:25:58 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 By: CG https://eatpallet.com/what-does-it-mean-when-chicken-is-chewy/#comment-2577 Sat, 15 Apr 2023 20:57:44 +0000 https://eatpallet.com/?p=9110---b0c8865b-8b94-4d41-af40-25abce5f76b3#comment-2577 There’s another reason chicken quality has gone down lately – “woody” chicken seems to be a new thing – evidently caused by forced high growth rates at the chicken farms.

I made a chicken soup with large chunks of chicken tenders – all added at the last minute to just poach enough to be cooked but not be overcooked. Maybe fifteen chunks were perfect, cooked through and moist and flavorful, and perhaps ten were amazingly fibrous and tough, almost un-chewable, and basically no good. Since they were all roughly the same size, and had been cooked identically, preparation differences as an explanation went out the window. There is some lousy quality chicken out there.

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