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Originally Posted by mikeycereal
Totally get you OP on that woody rubbery chicken breast. Growing up I don't ever remember dealing with this. But for me it started around 2018. Rubbery and gross. And it wasn't from overcooking. And there are some packages that will have one good breast and another bad like that, but you don't know until they're cooked. I can tell when either cutting the cooked breast or with the first bite. Yuck!!! Spit it out and into the garbage. Back then when I first experienced this a few times I searched the interwebz for an answer for that and read many theories. From too much muscle to additives, maybe both. I have since stopped buying chicken breasts because I end up wasting money. After the 3rd time I was done playing Chicken Breast Roulette. I ended up getting the tenders for a while with no rubbery issues. Now I just eat out for Chicken. Weird that I have never experienced this with chicken breasts when eating out. Only store bought and it was mostly Walmart. I even got a bad rubber breast rotisserie one from Costco back then. It was totally weird tasting.
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This was exactly my experience, right down to switching to tenders. Same internet search for answers. It does seem the larger breasts are more affected, and darn the breasts that you see for $2/lb are gigantic. They were never like that when I was a kid. I have had better luck these days. I buy better chicken and the industry seems to have figured out how to identify and remove a lot of the woody stuff.
But man, when you get one it is disgusting. It almost seems like it's not cooked, no matter how much you cook it. Completely inedible. I also haven't had the issue at restaurants.