A promotional video, released as the business made subtle changes to the McNugget formula, explained the process in detail. The clip, recorded at the Tyson Complex in Tennessee, not only highlights the lack of pink slime involved but also how labour intensive making a McNugget actually is. According to the Golden Arches website, a portion of chicken McNuggets is calories, 13 grams of fat and 0. You may have noticed when tucking in to your order that the McNuggets come in different shapes — four to be exact.
According to McDonald's, the reasoning behind this is to ensure consistent cooking times for food safety. However, as per a Insider article, the company also claims, " Chicken McNuggets are shaped uniquely for kids and kids at heart — it makes dipping more fun!
Either way, if all goes according to plan, the facility batters and then pre-cooks the nuggets, before the journey to McDonald's restaurants across the country. Given the precision involved, this process should ensure absolute consistency across the board. However, as the world discovered last week, sometimes something slips through the cracks. On the surface, this investment seems ludicrous. This one's shaped like a kidney, that one's shaped like an egg, this one's shaped like.
In fact, if you've spotted a boot-shaped Chicken McNugget you may be onto something more than just a game of ascribing shapes and characters to inanimate objects. You may have stumbled upon one of the lesser-known tricks of the McNugget trade—the fact that they come in four distinct shapes. A video created by McDonald's Canada several years ago shows viewers how the chain makes its iconic nuggets, and it unveils several interesting things about the process you probably didn't know.
For one, the chicken meat in your McNuggets is actually ground. It's then seasoned and mixed before being pressed by molds into four distinct shapes—the ball, the bell, the boot, and the bow tie also called "the bone". After some trial and error to create the perfect chicken nugget formula, they hired Keystone Foods to automate the chicken-chopping process and Gortons to create a batter that could be produced on a mass scale.
McDonald's introduced the McNuggets nationwide, created a chicken craze, and never looked back. The pink slime rumour that plagued McDonald's McNuggets has repeatedly been debunked by the food chain. Nicoletta Stefou, the supply-chain manager at McDonald's Canada said: "We don't know what it is or where it came from, but it has nothing to do with our Chicken McNuggets.
Pink slime is the product of meat being mechanically processed and treated with anti-microbial ammonia - but McDonald's does not use this method. McNuggets have been made with all white meat since and the restaurants stopped using mechanically processed beef in The Guinness World Records crowned former New Zealand beauty queen and medical student Nela Zisser as the world's new record holder for eating chicken nuggets.
But it seems Usain Bolt could be hot on her tail to take the title - as the sprinting legend revealed he chowed down on an estimated 1, McNuggets during the Bejing Olympics.
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