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Описание: How are chicken nuggets really made? What happens to chicken before it becomes a nugget? You've eaten them dozens of times. Golden, crispy, perfectly shaped. But if you saw how they started, you might never eat one again. Not because of what's in them, but because of what had to happen to get them into that shape.
In this episode of The Curious Mechanism, we uncover the invisible industrial process that transforms chickens into one of the most consumed foods on the planet — revealing a system optimized for efficiency at speeds and scales most people never imagine.
This is not just a story about fast food.
It's a story about industrial food production, waste solutions that became global commodities, genetic engineering through selective breeding, and the invisible trade-offs we've accepted for convenience and cost.
In this video, you'll discover:

Why chicken nuggets were invented by a Cornell professor to solve a waste problem, not to create fast food
How industrial processing transforms irregular chicken meat into perfectly uniform manufactured products
What "mechanically separated chicken" actually means and why it's mostly been phased out
The real difference between food safety myths and actual contamination risks
Why modern broiler chickens grow to full size in just 6 weeks instead of 16
How quality control systems use metal detectors, temperature monitoring, and automated inspection
The hidden costs of a system processing millions of chickens daily at 140 birds per minute

The nugget isn't food that's been cooked. It's food that's been disassembled, processed, and reconstructed. And the system that makes it possible is invisible by design.
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