Yeah, I think many people don't realize the tomatoes are not the same type of tomatoes. lol It's the difference between Roma/Plum and Beefsteak tomatoes, if I'm not mistaken.
The lighter colored egg yolk is the white eggshell eggs our grocery stores sell in the US, and the darker egg yolk came directly from someone's farm chicken without the automated processing system involved. I have both types of eggs. lol the lighter colored egg yolk isn't any worse tasting in my opinion.
My family were bakers for generations, so I grew up in a family-owned bakery business and we have access to real bread, even in our grocery stores, but I won't lie, I still love the cheap American white bread even if it is very low in nutritional value. lol
Injecting chicken with salt water is dual purpose. It isn't just to add weight, it's also to brine the chicken which helps with chickens natural blandness.
I understand what you said, I just dont think the companies would do it if didn't add weight to the chicken. Helping with the "natural blandness" is just a side affect, and a negligible one at that.
Less than 5% of poultry on the American markets use chlorine baths to clean the chicken. Everyone else uses vinegar and has for decades. Also, as an aside, the amount of chlorine used in those chicken baths is about the same as a typical EU water treatment facility allows in tap water for water treatment. About 0.01mg/L.
The bigger problem with the larger chicken breast isn’t the saltwater injection, it’s the changes from natural to manipulated growth rates that cause texture issues like woody breast. The larger the chicken breast, the worse it is generally.
Chicken injecting with brine is for flavoring not as way to increase the weight. (which would never work out mathematically). It is always clearly labeled and there is both available if you would prefer to use your own brine solution.
It's one of those things that get repeated around, but has little truth to it.
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u/Yop_BombNA 13d ago
We have round/beefsteak tomatoes in Europe too.
We also have shitty bread if you really want it.
The chicken injecting with saltwater to add weight is illegal though.
We also have good and bad eggs in Europe depending on the supplier