Korean fried chicken is wonderful one of the many things I miss from when I lived in korea. We actually had an awesome place here but they went out of business I guess its not popular enough of a dish I was sad though I am picky about food & they did a wonderful job making it.
I ate Korean fried chicken every day when I was in Seoul and I’m going to admit, as an American I was just too used to the big meaty chickens we get here through the industrial chicken market. Over there I got the same gangly bony chickens you got, but it tastes just as delicious if not better. Especially with beer!
Basically. If you raised chickens yourself they would also be about this big. The chickens we use for industrial meat production here are weird mutants
we raised chickens for eggs but a couple of times we ate them and they were much better than anything ive ever had and yeah, not a lot of meat. I only ever had them baked like that where they cook in their juices but i can imagine theyd be good fried
They are. Also you can quarter and fry squirrel for something very similar (before everyone gets all judgy, I try to source as much of my meat as I can ethically, and sometimes that involves squirrel hunts)
Meat birds grow really fast and big and if you don't cull they tend to not live great lives. They're only meant to live less than a year.
Egg birds are bred for longevity, not size. They'll make you way more food in eggs than they will eating them. Usually looking at 1 egg on average a day for the first 3 years
They literally cannot live long without developing catastrophic cardiovascular failure. Their organs don’t grow quickly enough to support the meat growth spurt they’re bred for.
That’s bc they are like 5th gen cross bred. All pure chicken breed stock for the USA are owned by a handful of companies who keep the pure lines. Then they inbreed down about 5 times to get the bird for your $5 chicken nuggets. No hormones or chemicals….just really focused inbreeding.
The meat industry in America at least is pretty evil all around (maybe with a few exceptions and not counting actual homesteaders who raise their own meat)
I can’t speak for the rest of the world, but I feel like our (the US) poultry farming industry definitely prioritizes meat production, between breeding, feed and hormones, I’m sure. But it’s also a taste and culture thing, as most people here want only the meat, nicely packaged in a tray at their supermarket. In other countries, they love the gangly bony gristly bits of the chicken. This is all broadly speaking, of course.
Hormones in poultry has been illegal in the US since the 50s. But I think you’re spot on about taste and culture things. Americans don’t like their chicken too chickeny lol but people talk about getting the ick from the gristly bits.
It's a breed and feed thing. Growth hormones are not permitted for use in poultry raised for human consumption and sold in the USA.
I work in the poultry industry, but on the turkey side. Modern chicken broiler genetics are insane. These would not be birds you want to have in a backyard flock- you look at them the wrong way and they have some sort of defect because their genetics are so insane that they legitimately don't have the vasculature to support all of that muscle. Spaghetti breast is due to the portions of breast furthest away from the heart not being able to get enough oxygen to it in time and turning necrotic.
Broilers need to be kept in very controlled environments in order to have the success rates they do, and we are all familiar with the morals and ethics associated with that. Backyard birds are a from an entirely different genetic line that is about producing a healthy rounded bird and not BREAST MEAT OVER ANYTHING ELSE YOU WANTED DARK MEAT OH TOO BAD ITS ALL BREAST BABYYYYY
chickens are smaller in the rest of the world, yes. to varying degrees, but in my experience all significantly less than the US. they also tend to have more flavor and juiciness.
I generally love mass-farmed American chickens, but they don't make good fried chicken. There's so much meat in the breast that the ratio of skin-to-meat is totally off. 😢
Grew up around farmers. The best chicken I've ever had came from free range chickens that were litterly slaughtered earlier that day and quite a bit less meat than what you get from the store.
Caged are for egg chickens. For meat poultry we just throw them into a large indoor chicken houses with evaporative cooling fans. The main reason we put hens into cages is because it makes egg collection easier, but it is extra cost for meat chicken.
Why walk when youll be dead in a few weeks? I refuse to buy tyson or anything of the like. Meat is one of those items I will happily spend more on to not support shit like that.
A lot of people bash US chickens and there is some truth (try an Amish chix) but I can still take a chicken and cook it Korean style and make something worth begging for. I am not going to get worked up and say everyone else has it better than we do or we do it better. Waste of time.
All that said, Korean fried chicken is legit superfood.
There are no GMO chickens lol, do you mean nongmo fed? Cause prob not, gmo isn’t anything bad or to hate anyway. That’s to hate are the practices of the company that mostly does gmos.
I once ordered "pond chicken" from a restaurant and only after eating some and being conflicted by the fishy muddy taste, I looked at them twice and realized it's actually frogs.
The average urban/suburban American is grossed out by raw chicken being all moist and chicken (or basically any food) with the head and legs still on it. Their view on the animals we use for food are so disconnected from from the source that it's wild to anyone who eat the more natural animals that haven't been bred to be freaks. God forbid chickens don't have k cup breasts and can actually move around.
When I lived in Korea I had this chicken restaurant next to my train station that did delivery and once a week I would go in and ask them for my order to be delivered, with the walk home it arrived about ten minutes after I did. Hot and crispy. I got like 2 lbs of these beautiful chicken chunks, about 1-2 inches in size on average, so crunchy and juicy and ugh it was amazing. I’d have sauces I made at home to dip it in, but it was truly delicious as hell lol. It was like $10 total too.
They spoke no English, and I knew hello, good morning, an goodbye in Korean, so I remember miming a scooter and then giving them my Korea ID, it told like ten minutes but were got there, Korean restaurants often have pictures so that part was easy. But it was funny after that they treated me slightly like they’re adoptive white boy, one time I walked in (I usually went every Friday) and they were busy so the kid (I swear 5 at most) came up and waved me out and said basically told me to just go home and it’ll be there soon lol. A couple other times when slow they would have sit down and have soup or kimchi or a few times when they had a special they made me some to try lol. It was nice, to have that.
Idk where you got that from but when I visited my family in Korea a couple of years ago, I had this type of chicken and it was delish. A little bit of salt and pepper for dipping and ooooo, I was sold.
the best chicken I've ever had in my life was scrawny like this, eating something this tasty is way better than having a corpulent american incest chicken slathered in oil and sauce.
This IS Korean fried chicken, just not the modern coloquial version that you're likely to see at like bbq chicken or Bonchon covered in sauce and generally portioned into the normal cuts and using more modern bred chickens. This is Yetnal Tongdak if I remember correctly.
PartyLobster8911@reddit
Korean fried chicken is wonderful one of the many things I miss from when I lived in korea. We actually had an awesome place here but they went out of business I guess its not popular enough of a dish I was sad though I am picky about food & they did a wonderful job making it.
ConstantSond@reddit
wow that’s cool
ResponsibleSoil3991@reddit
You can often see them in markets in South Korea. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/J7In6Bzm98g?feature=share
wasting_time_n_life@reddit
I ate Korean fried chicken every day when I was in Seoul and I’m going to admit, as an American I was just too used to the big meaty chickens we get here through the industrial chicken market. Over there I got the same gangly bony chickens you got, but it tastes just as delicious if not better. Especially with beer!
janegayz@reddit
So is the chicken we eat here only common here? There's KFC in other places, is that kfc small like this?
Agillian_01@reddit
Yeah, a lot of the growth hormones used in the USA are illegal to use in most of the world.
DagothUrGigaChad@reddit
Basically. If you raised chickens yourself they would also be about this big. The chickens we use for industrial meat production here are weird mutants
janegayz@reddit
we raised chickens for eggs but a couple of times we ate them and they were much better than anything ive ever had and yeah, not a lot of meat. I only ever had them baked like that where they cook in their juices but i can imagine theyd be good fried
DagothUrGigaChad@reddit
They are. Also you can quarter and fry squirrel for something very similar (before everyone gets all judgy, I try to source as much of my meat as I can ethically, and sometimes that involves squirrel hunts)
IllegalGeriatricVore@reddit
Depends. There's meat birds and egg birds.
Meat birds grow really fast and big and if you don't cull they tend to not live great lives. They're only meant to live less than a year.
Egg birds are bred for longevity, not size. They'll make you way more food in eggs than they will eating them. Usually looking at 1 egg on average a day for the first 3 years
catsgardening@reddit
They literally cannot live long without developing catastrophic cardiovascular failure. Their organs don’t grow quickly enough to support the meat growth spurt they’re bred for.
huphill@reddit
Air chilled (preferably heirloom) chicken is probably the closest you’ll get to that here in the states outside of raising your own.
catsgardening@reddit
One of my neighbors in NYC has 10 heirloom chickens in their yard.
Denjis-left-big-toe@reddit
That’s why it be tasting weird
ShutInLurker@reddit
That’s bc they are like 5th gen cross bred. All pure chicken breed stock for the USA are owned by a handful of companies who keep the pure lines. Then they inbreed down about 5 times to get the bird for your $5 chicken nuggets. No hormones or chemicals….just really focused inbreeding.
LePontif11@reddit
I eat this stuff and probably will continue to do so but intense focused inbreeding doesnt sound better than hormones...
catentity@reddit
The meat industry in America at least is pretty evil all around (maybe with a few exceptions and not counting actual homesteaders who raise their own meat)
TheNewYellowZealot@reddit
“Yes I would like the Habsburg meal, please
Alpacapybara@reddit
Can I have a Habsurger?
imbeingsirius@reddit
pretend I have money and this is an award
Single-Pin-369@reddit
Supposedly the USA KFC is the worst version of KFC
janegayz@reddit
What's the best? Is it Korea? these are genuine questions from me by the way, ive heard korean fried chicken is really good
Humble-Ad2886@reddit
Factory farms pump everything with hormones and despair
wasting_time_n_life@reddit
I can’t speak for the rest of the world, but I feel like our (the US) poultry farming industry definitely prioritizes meat production, between breeding, feed and hormones, I’m sure. But it’s also a taste and culture thing, as most people here want only the meat, nicely packaged in a tray at their supermarket. In other countries, they love the gangly bony gristly bits of the chicken. This is all broadly speaking, of course.
Troubled_Red@reddit
Hormones in poultry has been illegal in the US since the 50s. But I think you’re spot on about taste and culture things. Americans don’t like their chicken too chickeny lol but people talk about getting the ick from the gristly bits.
HelpfulSeaMammal@reddit
It's a breed and feed thing. Growth hormones are not permitted for use in poultry raised for human consumption and sold in the USA.
I work in the poultry industry, but on the turkey side. Modern chicken broiler genetics are insane. These would not be birds you want to have in a backyard flock- you look at them the wrong way and they have some sort of defect because their genetics are so insane that they legitimately don't have the vasculature to support all of that muscle. Spaghetti breast is due to the portions of breast furthest away from the heart not being able to get enough oxygen to it in time and turning necrotic.
Broilers need to be kept in very controlled environments in order to have the success rates they do, and we are all familiar with the morals and ethics associated with that. Backyard birds are a from an entirely different genetic line that is about producing a healthy rounded bird and not BREAST MEAT OVER ANYTHING ELSE YOU WANTED DARK MEAT OH TOO BAD ITS ALL BREAST BABYYYYY
lulublululu@reddit
chickens are smaller in the rest of the world, yes. to varying degrees, but in my experience all significantly less than the US. they also tend to have more flavor and juiciness.
Talk-O-Boy@reddit
Your mom has more flavor and juiciness
OkiDokiPanic@reddit
Yup! Here in the EU we actually outlawed the breeding of oversized chicken.
serg06@reddit
I generally love mass-farmed American chickens, but they don't make good fried chicken. There's so much meat in the breast that the ratio of skin-to-meat is totally off. 😢
SpookyghostL34T@reddit
Grew up around farmers. The best chicken I've ever had came from free range chickens that were litterly slaughtered earlier that day and quite a bit less meat than what you get from the store.
Relative_Yesterday70@reddit
No flavor in modern chicken here in us. I bet this tastes great.
whitezantedeschia@reddit
Which is the best fried chicken you'll ever have, cheap too! My fav is gamachi chicken, 가마치통닭 한마리 ㅋㅋ
ratliege_throwaway@reddit
mmm, add yangnyeom sauce
ZiaWitch@reddit
BelmontVLC@reddit
Fried frog 😭
Southern_Sprinkles_6@reddit
Looks like a real chicken and not the kind thats been bred to have so much meat on them that they cant even walk after a few months of age.
poonmangler@reddit
Well they don't need to walk, they live their whole lives in a tiny cage...
pirapataue@reddit
Caged are for egg chickens. For meat poultry we just throw them into a large indoor chicken houses with evaporative cooling fans. The main reason we put hens into cages is because it makes egg collection easier, but it is extra cost for meat chicken.
Southern_Sprinkles_6@reddit
Why walk when youll be dead in a few weeks? I refuse to buy tyson or anything of the like. Meat is one of those items I will happily spend more on to not support shit like that.
Humble-Ad2886@reddit
Yes the real discussion here is about how factory farms are the worst
Southern_Sprinkles_6@reddit
Meat should never have become the monstrous industry it has become.
Humble-Ad2886@reddit
Hard agrew
PowerPleb2000@reddit
Who’s gonna tell him?
NoNe666@reddit
How is this shitty?
What the hell is even this sub
Grigori_the_Lemur@reddit
A lot of people bash US chickens and there is some truth (try an Amish chix) but I can still take a chicken and cook it Korean style and make something worth begging for. I am not going to get worked up and say everyone else has it better than we do or we do it better. Waste of time.
All that said, Korean fried chicken is legit superfood.
ulnek@reddit
Grats? 🤷
Fine_Collection301@reddit
Yum omg
Past-North-4131@reddit
North Korean?
Elderberry371@reddit
Ragebaiterlmao@reddit
KFC better
urboitony@reddit
Looks non-GMO at least
Gay_Void_Dropout@reddit
There are no GMO chickens lol, do you mean nongmo fed? Cause prob not, gmo isn’t anything bad or to hate anyway. That’s to hate are the practices of the company that mostly does gmos.
urboitony@reddit
No I mean selectively bread to be really big
Humble-Ad2886@reddit
Everyone in this thread is way too used to shitty factory farm food
Lac3ru5@reddit
Bro 90% that’s a frog
CMDA@reddit
I once ordered "pond chicken" from a restaurant and only after eating some and being conflicted by the fishy muddy taste, I looked at them twice and realized it's actually frogs.
nothisistheotherguy@reddit
This is how I would describe snails as well
Rings-of-Saturn@reddit
Frog is good if you’re expecting to eat frog
CMDA@reddit
Exactly lol.
I ate like half of the portion I think, wasn't really my cup of tea
Ptatofrenchfry@reddit
Nah, that's definitely a bird.
Source: I eat both
SteakAndIron@reddit
....French?
Ptatofrenchfry@reddit
Nope, worked in various parts of Southeast Asia for several years
SteakAndIron@reddit
Oh thank God
EmbarrassedStreet828@reddit
No, it's a plane.
jerr_beare@reddit
I thought it was a turtle at first
nipommu@reddit
At least it looks better than 90% of Chinese food lol have you seen what they eat over there in China
Gay_Void_Dropout@reddit
Either all you’ve watched are fake rage bate TikTok’s, or you’re delusional cause Chinese food is gorgeous.
vansinghworld@reddit
Have you been to China?
xXAssmaster420Xx@reddit
Americans don't know what a real chicken looks like anymore? Lmfao
UnwoundSkeinOfYarn@reddit
The average urban/suburban American is grossed out by raw chicken being all moist and chicken (or basically any food) with the head and legs still on it. Their view on the animals we use for food are so disconnected from from the source that it's wild to anyone who eat the more natural animals that haven't been bred to be freaks. God forbid chickens don't have k cup breasts and can actually move around.
Gay_Void_Dropout@reddit
Where did you get were grossed out by moist chicken? Lol. Mine is leaking practically when I make it.
But that’s just an old person thing, overcooking meat. I’ve heard that from plenty of people even in other countries.
But I won’t fault anyone for not wanting to see a dead animal head, the thing with feet is more the hassle of needing to remove them.
Pony2013@reddit
Na piss off with that. This particular chicken looks like shit.
snowlynx133@reddit
It looks like a normal ass chicken. Are you American?
Gay_Void_Dropout@reddit
When I lived in Korea I had this chicken restaurant next to my train station that did delivery and once a week I would go in and ask them for my order to be delivered, with the walk home it arrived about ten minutes after I did. Hot and crispy. I got like 2 lbs of these beautiful chicken chunks, about 1-2 inches in size on average, so crunchy and juicy and ugh it was amazing. I’d have sauces I made at home to dip it in, but it was truly delicious as hell lol. It was like $10 total too.
They spoke no English, and I knew hello, good morning, an goodbye in Korean, so I remember miming a scooter and then giving them my Korea ID, it told like ten minutes but were got there, Korean restaurants often have pictures so that part was easy. But it was funny after that they treated me slightly like they’re adoptive white boy, one time I walked in (I usually went every Friday) and they were busy so the kid (I swear 5 at most) came up and waved me out and said basically told me to just go home and it’ll be there soon lol. A couple other times when slow they would have sit down and have soup or kimchi or a few times when they had a special they made me some to try lol. It was nice, to have that.
Eltrew2000@reddit
Someone is going to have to explain to me why this is "shitty food"
It just looks like a normal splayed chicken
ChefAsstastic@reddit
MrMaoDeVaca@reddit
Ribbit
basement-fan@reddit
That first one would make a great black metal album cover
INeed111Naps@reddit
This is close to the “porn” part of this sub as any post I’ve seen.
vansinghworld@reddit
you eating some alien Romulus chicken bro?
Ok-Pianist5859@reddit
That's like dead chicken
YourDadThinksImCool_@reddit
Did you intentionally post the most unappealing shots, or was the genuinely all the chicken had to offer. . . ? 🤔✨
slushfilm@reddit (OP)
wgy are you commenting like some 14 years old on x
YourDadThinksImCool_@reddit
Lol... A 14yr old couldn't use half the words I used in my message..
But maybe you only understood the smaller ones.
LemonFunkl@reddit
The better question is, why do you care?
Dommymommy61@reddit
Is it a North Korean chicken?
YourDadThinksImCool_@reddit
Feeds the whole family 😀✨
YourDadThinksImCool_@reddit
Feeds the whole family 😀✨
JerryMau5@reddit
MisterNefarious@reddit
That’s a good joke
Hot-Evidence-5520@reddit
Idk where you got that from but when I visited my family in Korea a couple of years ago, I had this type of chicken and it was delish. A little bit of salt and pepper for dipping and ooooo, I was sold.
TheoreticalResearch@reddit
I don’t think you did.
wambamwombat@reddit
the best chicken I've ever had in my life was scrawny like this, eating something this tasty is way better than having a corpulent american incest chicken slathered in oil and sauce.
curiousdryad@reddit
I like thin strips of meat personally, large cuts of chicken gross me out
FungadooFred@reddit
Thought that was a dissected facehugger at first
samuraiseoul@reddit
This IS Korean fried chicken, just not the modern coloquial version that you're likely to see at like bbq chicken or Bonchon covered in sauce and generally portioned into the normal cuts and using more modern bred chickens. This is Yetnal Tongdak if I remember correctly.
lordlydancer@reddit
shitty presentation and photo, but it looks pretty decent
dividezero@reddit
TapeDeckSlick@reddit
You are the chicken, but the chicken ate nothing
slowcanteloupe@reddit
old style korean fried chicken. hard to find these days.
Appropriate-Log8506@reddit
Kentucky Fried Turtle
bomdiagata@reddit
I mean…what did it look like right-side-up?
skernstation@reddit
Frog
Thisfuggenguy@reddit
Spatchcock
Fun_Western164@reddit
It looks like they deep fried week old roadkill.
Brognar_@reddit
looks like you ate it out
SpunkyStarling@reddit
titivator@reddit
Looks dry af
Buttery_Smooth_30FPS@reddit
Looks mummified