The Giant Chicken Nugget

16. The Giant Chicken Nugget

Nick DiGiovanni and Lynja · Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA · 2022

The record nugget20.96 kilogramsan average six-year-old kid21 kilograms≈ 1× an average six-year-old kid
This single massive chicken nugget weighed exactly as much as a young kid in first grade!

TikTok cooking stars Nick and Lynja loved making ridiculously huge food. To build the ultimate chicken nugget, they mixed 40 pounds of ground chicken, 40 eggs, and half a gallon of milk together in a massive bowl.

The snack was so enormous that they had to use a paintbrush just to spread on the egg wash! Because it would never fit inside a normal kitchen appliance, they carefully drove the raw nugget to a special culinary school oven.

The rules required the meat to reach a safe internal temperature of 165°F. Once fully baked and officially weighed, Nick and Lynja chopped the golden-brown masterpiece up and fed it to their friends and film crew!

How Is That Even Possible?

Baking huge food is a tricky science! A regular oven can't surround a giant mound of meat with enough heat, leaving the deep center dangerously raw. They had to use a commercial culinary school oven to cook the inside perfectly without burning the outside breading.

Wow-o-Meter
No. 16
A joyous, brightly lit kitchen scene featuring two proud chefs, a young man and an older woman, high-fiving over a massive, golden-brown chicken nugget resting on an industrial baking tray. The young man is holding a giant paintbrush dripping with egg wash, while a cheerful judge in a suit clicks a stopwatch. Confetti falls from the ceiling, and a crew of happy friends in the background holds up forks and plates, ready to dig into the colossal feast. There are absolutely no words, numbers, or letters anywhere in the room.

The Giant Chicken Nugget — Nick DiGiovanni and Lynja