Who makes the best tendies, the meal for good little boys?
y r tendies so euphoric bros?
>>7575517
you.
I've had Popeye's once, they were pretty good. much better than KFC or other fast food chicken. Grocery store deli chicken strips meal plate can be okay and is super cheap.
Personally my favorite is a colorful local place. They'll give you a big plate of hot crispy chicken and fries made fresh in front of you with a cup of coleslaw and tasty as fuck dipping sauce they make in house. It's like $9 but so fucken good.
raising cane's. I spend all my GBP there
the official restaurant of 4chan
CHICK FIL A EASY
I make my own tendies deep fried in pure hog lard.
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>>7575554
>local place
same here
There's a place where it's basically $1/tendie, but each one is half a chicken breast. Brined so it's not dry at all. The breading is just a little spicy (at least here in the South). And they make this really nice honey mustard to go with it.
>>7575562
cane's is fucking garbage. You'd think that since they only have like five things on the menu that they'd do them all perfectly. But every single thing is fucked up in its own way.
>>7575643
Their chicken is so good, and the zax sauce, that glorious zax sauce!
>>7575643
Highest fat content in the game
Pretty sure they're Canadian only, but these are pretty good. Plus all you can eat salad bar for 10$.
Deep fry my own Master Race.
My recipe is:
>Two Chicken breasts cut into fun tendie shapes
>~2 cups of white flour spread in a long pyrex dish, with liberal amounts of Black Papper, Old Bay blackened seasoning, and Seasoned salt mixed throughout.
>3 eggs & a splash of milk whisked until smooth in a smaller pyrex dish
>Frying pan w/ canola oil to ~1/3 of the pan's depth.
Simply place all your strips in the egg wash, put about 6 to 8 in the flour & spice mixture, coating them thoroughly. Then throw into the pan when the oil is thoroughly hot (and keeping the burner on a medium-high heat)
Never disappoints
>>7575554
Popeyes is the only way to go for tendies. and dem biscuits.
Ignoring stupid memes, this is the correct answer.
Guthries, in Alabama.
>>7575771
Can I use ketchup and mayonnaise flakes for the seasoning as I only eat seasonings I make myself.
Mommy of course
>>7575721
people actually like scores? the one near me closed after a couple months. only went once and it was shit compared to swissy c
>>7576217
This. Hands down.
I drive across the city once a week just to get them cane's tendies.
>>7575517
>>7576282
Whatever gets you going, man.
Honestly at the bare minimum use some salt and black pepper.
>>7575517
Only place I know that makes tendies that don't taste like shit is Raising Canes
The thing is that they turn to shit quickly, so you have to eat there.
Even a 5 minute drive home will ruin them
>>7575562
This. Haven't had cane's in so long. That sauce is crack
>>7575643
Was about to post this myself. The toast that comes with the meal makes a nice sop for your leftover Zax sauce too.
>>7575771
You are talking to man children who don't know how to cook so your recipe is wasted. Perls before mothers little good boy piglets.
Last week, I had a craving for tendies and drove over to my local Popeyes. Shit you not, as I was pulling up they drove a backhoe through the thing and demolished it.
ask mummy to buy me some chicken tendies. she said if i emptied my piss jugs out she would give me 10 good boy points which is how much I needed for tendies. I did and she even bought me some sweet and sour sauce. Life as a 35 year old NEET is kick ass.
>>7575517
Ocharleys
>>7575554
canes?
>>7576217
This. No other chain comes close
>>7577442
Goddammit
>>7577442
The sad thing is that there are people like this on this site.
Sysco.
>>7575721
Mon négro!
Scores rotisserie chicken is subpar compared to Benny/St-Hub. But it is less salted and usually cheaper than Benny/St-Hub. Chicken tendies are probably the same supplier in all those restaurants. Best bang for your buck is Coq-au-Bec. Same shit but less pricy.
>>7575517
Canes > Popeye's >> good supermarket brand >> KFC >>>> Shitty supermarket brand
>>7576224
You mean the cane's imitator?
Had one in Mississippi. Sucked shit. Just eat canes.
Cookout is a chain in TN and their tendies and malk shakes are GOAT
Mommy
>>7578753
It's a chain that originated in NC.
Come on, dog.
>>7575554
The problem with Popeye's strips is that they do that shit where it's long, super thin scraps more or less with more breading than chicken.
Personally I'm partial to Church's spicy strips.
>>7575771
I do this but the oil always seems to wash off the flour. How do I prevent this?
>>7579193
And you're using an egg + milk wash? I don't know the minutiae of the science behind it, but as far as I've figured, the egg is a thick kind of glue, and the milk (being a water-based liquid with very well integrated fats) will work to further affix the egg to the chicken, and the flour to the wash.
Oil will always wash off some flour, my suggestion is to make sure the oil is really hot and will begin to harden the flour on contact with the oil.
Also, make sure you're really really thoroughly getting flour everywhere on that chicken. That's why I suggest a long pyrex pan and a pretty even layer of flour+spice throughout. That way you can flip your chicken around and get flour into every nook and cranny. Before you fry them too, if that's not working, you can take a fork or spoon and heap some of the flour mixture on top of that tender, shake any excess off gently, then throw it in.
>>7580501
Also, as an addendum, you could also try double-coating it. This would be where you go
Egg wash -> Flour -> Let the Tenders Sit for a minute -> Egg wash -> Flour -> Fry
And this should make your tenders extra crispy
My personal preference is a single coating, but try it out if you're interested anon
>>7577272
True, desu. I like your rephrasing of the old adage. Made me laugh, anon
>>7579193
>How do I prevent this?
1) Flour first.
2) Then egg wash.
3) Then flour again (or breadcrumbs, panko, whatever else you might want for breading)
It's important that the first thing contacting the chicken is flour.
Also, make sure your oil is hot enough. I highly suggest getting a thermometer. 350F.
>>7580537
I'll have to try this out, my go-to is the other way that I posted, but I'm always up for experimentation and improvement.
Any reason for the flour first, anon?
>>7580564
>Any reason for the flour first, anon?
I don''t know the exact scientfiic reason for it but suposedly it helps the breading to adhere. It's also the process documented in every cookbook that I have ever read. Standard breading is flour first, then egg wash, then the breading itself (which may be flour again, but could be other things like panko, crushed potato chips, breadcrumbs, etc.)
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>>7580611
The dry layer helps the wet layer adhere to the chicken
>>7575771
>no cayenne
Step it up
But yea, there's no reason not to make your own. Ridiculously easy and I'm a garbage cook
>>7577071
I am. Got some Cane's earlier tbqh.
I only ordered the 3 finger box but I got 4 (count em) 4 pieces.
>>7576217
Also reiterating
Moving back to new York from baton rouge sucks because I can't have canes
Also better than zaxbys cause the owner owns all the stores and makes sure the quality stays top notch
Cook out in NC/SC/GA is the same way, albeit the quality is not the same but the milkshakes are OD
>>7575517
O'Charley's chicken tenders with their honey mustard is honestly pretty god-tier. I've never had better, but then again I don't eat chicken tenders these days
I never understood the meme until I remenbered I used to eat tendies all the time when I was a toddler. There are better ways to eat chicken now, but I still indulge in it when I have to eat with my little sister.
Tully's for us Syracuse fags.
>>7578794
The breading is the tasty part. More surface area exposed to frying is more tasty.
DQ has the best fast food tendies
>>7577155
that's a bad opinion and i hope you die alone and scared
I started the tendies meme on /r9k/ BTW
>>7583394
I started the wizard meme. nice to meet you
>>7577155
can confirm, that and the buttery af toast is the only thing they have going for them
>>7575771
those aren't tenders, those are cut up chicken breast strips. tenders are the tenderloin.
>>7575643
This place is ace
>>7582630
315 represent
>>7584509
>tenders are the tenderloin.
Sometimes. But quite often breast meat is used instead.
>>7575517
Arby's
>>7575643
We had one that came to my town 6 months ago. 3 weeks after they opened me and the wife tried their chicken sandwich. They didn't put any chicken on the chicken sandwichs and we have never been back
Fuck this thread, I'm going to Canes
>>7575654
>poo
>>7575517
The nips
>>7575517
Cane's chicken fingers. It's not even a contest.
So fuck you west coast, you don't have the best of everything.
>>7584804
I don't remember this scene from madoka
>tfw just spent my GBP
>>7584808
But we have a few Raising Cane's places in California. I live literally 5 minutes away from one in Laguna Niguel.
>>7582599
My family went to O'Charley's a lot when I was younger, always got these and the cheddar potato soup. So fucking good.
>>7575517
>sweet honey maple
Are those the fucking waffle tenders? Hot fucking goddamn, that shit was insane.
>>7584827
Damn. I would if all of the damn Cane's weren't located in the most traffic heavy areas.
>>7584808
>So fuck you west coast, you don't have the best of everything.
is cane's chicken fingers the same as raising canes?
if so, one just literally opened right near me a while ago.
its not even that great and a bit overpriced.
Can someone post the tendies song / poem whatever it is
>>7576217
another vote for Canes..
1. Raising Canes
2. Chik Fil A
3. Bojangles
4. Popeyes
5. KFC
6. Zaxbys
7. Hardees
Zaxby's went downhill when they started using frozen tendies.
>>7575517
they are serving chicken tendies and mac and cheese at my brothers wedding because the girl is a picky eater
>>7575517
i never had tenders since its not really served in my country. What exactly makes them special? how can i cook them at home?
>>7585171
>Feeding a dog chocolate
>>7585216
>What exactly makes them special?
They are the stereotypical food of a picky child. Parents take child to restaurant, child thinks the food is icky, parents order tenders for child. That's why they're called "tendies"--it's a childlish mispronunciation of "tenders".
>>how can i cook them at home?
Take boneless chicken meat, coat with flour, then with egg wash, then with breading. Deep-fry until crispy.
>>7585226
oh we do that except we cut the chicken really thin, sometimes after its done we put tomato sauce, cheese and ham and bake it for a bit.
Its really tasty, i wish i could buy some but its too expensive. I cant cook it either because its raining pretty hard
>>7578680
>they are older
> obviously cant steal ideas from new blood doing it better
Stay cucked
