MetaFilter posts tagged with chicken

Three Chicks, One Worm

youngergirl44 — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 18:10:20 -0800

Three chicks, one worm. (SLYT, SFW) Original, without music

Team Chicken or Team Egg?

amyms — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 23:06:11 -0800

Which came first: the chicken or the chicken egg? Nomenclature for the win! AsapSCIENCE featured on Metafilter previously.

The smartest rubber Gallus domesticus you have ever met!

ChuraChura — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 12:10:47 -0800

Camilla the rubber chicken is the child of a chicken and an extra-terrestrial visitor (whose name is being concealed for legal and safety issues)." After a sad childhood in the circus, Camilla joined the Heliophysics team at NASA and befriended Little SDO, the satellite component of the the Solar Dynamics Observatory. In her capacity as SDO mascot and astrochick, Camilla flew into space with Little SDO, flew into a solar radiation storm, continues to monitor space weather, and is training for a trip to the International Space Station alongside astronaut Lt. Commaner Wiseman. Camilla also participates in science outreach and education programs, and she's currently in Australia, preparing to run the solar eclipe marathon! Camilla is a social media guru! Her adventures can be followed via her blog, twitter, facebook, google+, and youtube channel.

Chicken Noodle Soup

Egg Shen — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 15:57:36 -0800

The broth is just chicken and onions, with a confetti of vegetables added at the end where their flavor remains bright. The noodles are wide and winding... But, for me, the real triumph was giving the chicken parts and onion a saute... before adding water to make the soup. This deepened flavor base makes for magical soup, with a bronzed color, more robust flavor and significantly reduced prep time. ... With all of the blustery, cold days to go this winter, everyone... deserves to have a homemade, from-scratch chicken noodle soup that can be pulled off in just about an hour in their back pocket. Thanks to Science! we now know that chicken soup, if not able to cure colds, can in fact mitigate upper respiratory tract infections by inhibiting neutrophil migration.

Kung Pao Chicken

Egg Shen — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 16:20:29 -0800

Ding Baozhen (1820-1886) was a governor of Sichuan province during the Qing dynasty. The emperor bestowed upon him the title Gōng Bǎo - "palatial guardian". He supervised the reconstruction of the Dujiangyan Irrigation System. But he achieved immortality through the dish named for him: Kung Pao Chicken. Fuchsia Dunlop, whose recipe was chosen to accompany the NPR story, has a nifty blog. (previously)

Chicken Wings

Egg Shen — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 19:29:00 -0800

Buffalo chicken wings were invented by Teressa Bellissimo at the Anchor Bar in Buffalo, New York in 1964. Americans will eat 25 billion of them this year - not a few of them at the 10th annual National Buffalo Wing Festival. Some people eat nothing else. Alton Brown steams his. But will any of them be more delicious than these Sriracha Garlic Wings?

Chicks In Luxury

The Whelk — Sun, 05 Aug 2012 08:45:29 -0800

Petter Lippmann photographs elegant poultry.

Television: chewy chicken for the eyes

The Whelk — Sat, 12 May 2012 11:25:12 -0800

Canadian food chain Swiss Chalet decided to buy an entire cable channel devoted to 24 hour coverage of rotisserie chicken. That's it. Oh and dancing dipping sauce containers.

Coop Dreams

ambrosia — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 10:45:34 -0800

With the growing popularity of backyard chickens, some people are raising the art of the coop to a new level.

Feeling like a million, cos I got a couple dozen in the Chilly Bin

midnightbarber — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 15:42:39 -0800

Up and coming rapper Home Brew spits the truth about New Zealand. His affinity for Crate beer, a resolve to sit back and let the world's problems unfold, and a penchant for BBQs makes for great Summer music. (hey it's summer over here alright..) Underneath the Shade , Chicken Chow Mein , Same Shit Different Day All four EPs are available to download on their website for free, but be wary, most songs contain either explicit drug references or obscure New Zealand references, or a bit of both.

How to hatch a dinosaur

dhruva — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 09:26:46 -0800

How to hatch a dinosaur: 'So making a chicken egg hatch a baby dinosaur should really just be an issue of erasing what evolution has done to make a chicken. Every cell of a turkey carries the blueprints for making a tyrannosaurus, but the way the plans get read changes over time as the species evolves.' [via]

Nothing gets this girl excited like a good meat sale!

bwg — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 05:46:25 -0800

Freezer Meals on the Cheap.

Chicken Vanishes, Heartbreak Ensues

dirtdirt — Fri, 27 May 2011 09:32:25 -0800

Chicken Vanishes, Heartbreak Ensues: A front-yard chicken in Brooklyn is stolen, and a neighborhood rallies. (SLNYT)

Why buy a cow when milk is cheap?

item — Mon, 02 May 2011 14:48:08 -0800

Here's a story about a nice lady who goes to the farmer's market and buys some fresh produce. Via the Awl, who also say 'Warning: Not really safe for work! Also sort of terrifying and dark!', though I'm not sure if I agree with that or not. Why don't you judge for yourselves?

Chickam 2011

Iteki — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 08:24:17 -0800

Chickam 2011 has begun. Live cam of a chicken-egg incubator run by a Something Awful regular. So far five chicks have hatched, please welcome Rambo, Spaghetti, Weedcat, Pompadour and Duck. As previously the event was announced with a thread on SA where members could pick a number and pre-name the chicks. Some won't ever hatch though, so it's a bit of a gamble. The chicks hang out in the incubator for up to 24 hours after hatching, but once they are pretty dry and fluffy they will be moved to the brooding box, where they will mill around being adorable en masse. The attached chatroom can also be accessed by registered users of ustream using an IRC client if you prefer it to the inline chat. A lot of kids tune in to watch this, so the chat is G-rated. To cover the first two most common questions, the purpley thing in the picture is a water-weasel with a thermometer in it, to gauge the temperature within the eggs and pipped means that a small hole has been made in the egg. It is not uncommon for there to be a little blood in the egg when they hatch, don't worry. It is not uncommon for them to be trampled by the other chicks after they hatch, don't worry. The narcoleptic tendencies displayed by the fuzzy little newbies is also very normal, don't worry, be happy.

Wampa

puny human — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 12:54:26 -0800

Wampa at the gas station

CHICKEN POWERED STEADICAM

Sticherbeast — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 22:33:33 -0800

Chicken Powered Steadicam. Backdriving a chicken's head stability reflex. Chicken head tracking.

Act 1: Dinner. Act 2: Pie. Act 3: Grousing.

l33tpolicywonk — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 20:23:11 -0800

Since the very beginning, PRI's This American Life has (every few years) commemorated Thanksgiving in the US with episodes about the exotic mysteries of turkeys, chicken and other fowl. They call it Poultry Slam and episodes from 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2003, 2007 and 2008 are all available for your turkey day and I-refuse-to-even-look-at-a-Walmart day enjoyment.

To nom or not to nom: that is the question.

bayani — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 09:06:03 -0800

"What's scary is that we've brainwashed our kids so brilliantly -- so even though they know something is disgusting and gross, they'll still eat it if it's in that friendly little shape." Jamie Oliver shows children how chicken nuggets are made [SLYT].

Scientists prove that lunch came before breakfast

educatedslacker — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 07:00:12 -0800

Scientists in Edinburgh have determined that the chicken came before the egg. More scientific explanation here.

Surely you can't be serious?

crossoverman — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 04:24:15 -0800

“There is one line in ‘Zero Hour!’ where a stewardess says, completely seriously, ‘The life of everyone on board depends upon just one thing: finding someone back there who can not only fly this plane, but who didn’t have fish for dinner,’ ” Mr. Abrahams said. “That was the essence of the movie. We just repeated the line. We didn’t have to change a thing.”

Airplane! (known in Australia as Flying High!) turns 30 - What is it? - It's a parody film made by the Zucker Brothers who would go on to make Police Squad, Top Secret! and the Naked Gun trilogy. But that's not important right now! "A lot of comedies in the last 30 years have wanted to be ‘Airplane!,’ ” said Patton Oswalt. “But most of those movies took the wrong message from ‘Airplane!’ They were gag, gag, gag, gag, where ‘Airplane!’ is really structured, driving the story along all the time."

Balls-out Cuisine

Greg Nog — Sun, 30 May 2010 08:55:50 -0800

A newspaper story about cooking testicles, featuring Chris Onstad, writer of Achewood. Also featuring an excerpt from his new Achewood cookbook, in which everyone's favorite Appalachian serial killer teaches us how to easily cook fried chicken. (Perfect fried chicken, previously on metafilter)

Beer Cooler Sous Vide

AceRock — Fri, 07 May 2010 07:33:38 -0800

Beer Cooler Sous-Vide can produce restaurant quality results, without expensive lab equipment. All you need is a beer cooler and an accurate thermometer and you can make perfectly medium rare steak with a great sear, moist and tender chicken breast , and flavorful salmon. If you want to really get into it, here are some handy sous-vide charts, here is a clever way to vacuum seal a Ziploc bag without a vacuum appliance, and here is an in-depth discussion on the topic.

Stupid Pet Tricks

Blazecock Pileon — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 17:36:02 -0800

How to hypnotize a chicken (and for advanced hypnotizers only: the shark) (YT, annoying new age music)

He'll never be the head of a major corporation

Blazecock Pileon — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:05:56 -0800

Snapshots of Mike the Headless Chicken (NSFW, NSFV, previously)