Making Chicken Transparent Using Dorito Dust

https://chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com/p/making-chicken-transparent-using

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mbStavola•57m ago

This is why we must fund the sciences. How else would we get transparent Dorito tendies?

comrade1234•50m ago

I once found a Cheeto-shaped thing in a Cheetos bag that was nothing but Cheeto-coating. It was wonderful. Can't imagine what it did to my insides.

nozzlegear•49m ago

Imagine the damage you could've wrought to your friends' xbox/playstation controllers.

poly2it•48m ago

Does this colouring apply to and persist in live tissue?

Barbing•45m ago

Chester could Oops! All Coating for you

waltbosz•40m ago

I'm trying to imagine the origin story for this science, and I feel like the most fun one is that somebody wanted to make Doritos flavored chicken and accidentally discovered that the marinade turned the chicken breast transparent.

MitPitt•32m ago

Some exotic fish and frog species are completely transparent. So one might wonder what makes meat opaque. Then wonder how to get the opaque out of other meat. I don't know where doritos comes in.

gus_massa•8m ago

They use tartrazine that is a common dye for food, not crushed Doritos. They need a lot of dye to change the internal refraction index and make the meat transparent. So they choose it. From the research article https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11931656/

> It is a hygroscopic compound with a high solubility in water and minimal reactivity. The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has concluded that this molecule exhibits no adverse effects or systemic toxicity at doses up to 2 g per kilogram of body weight (14). As a result, it is widely used as an artificial food dye in products such as flavored chips (for example, Doritos).

ricardobeat•28m ago

How about a sous vide bath? Could go as long as 72 hours before it turns into complete mush.

casualphysics•13m ago

author here - this is a great idea thanks

dghughes•22m ago

What does it do to people? Do I get a transparent anus if I eat a family size bag of Doritos?

JSR_FDED•14m ago

This is a lighthearted topic and a well-written article.

But what it reveals about our relationship with food is a little unsettling. The intensely chemical nature of Doritos and the whole notion of turning flesh into something alien - it’s all very far removed from food as a source of nourishment and of natural origin.

casualphysics•12m ago

author here - i have no view on the toxicity of tartrazine other than its declared food safe.

its important to note though that there is no mystery or chemical nastiness behind the transparency effect - it's just changing the refractive index of water!

greyface-•4m ago

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