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Fallow's chicken tenders get their crunch from a serious tumble

The recipe uses scored thigh meat, potato starch and repeated tossing to build a rugged crust before a hot-honey finish.

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Probably The Best Chicken Tenders in the World

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1:13Score the thigh meat to create texture, then soak it overnight in a salt-and-sriracha brine.
3:25The hot honey combines honey, vinegar, sriracha, spices and grated garlic.
4:48Potato starch joins all-purpose flour, baking powder and seasonings in the dry dredge.
9:44Toss chicken repeatedly in dry dredge, dip in the buttermilk mixture, then toss again to build crags.
11:15The coated strips fry in hot rapeseed oil; the chef checks them with a digital meat thermometer.
13:03Mix the blue cheese ranch, then glaze the fried tenders in hot honey before serving.

Fallow says its chicken tender recipe took four years to develop. The result involves rather more than dipping a strip of chicken in flour: the chef scores the meat, builds several layers of coating and gives it a remarkably thorough tumble.

First comes a departure from the familiar cut. "Important, but maybe unconventional, we're starting with thighs," he says. He cuts into the surface to create extra texture, then marinates the chicken overnight in a salty, sriracha-spiked brine.

The central lesson in "Probably The Best Chicken Tenders in the World" is how to build those protruding, crunchy crags. Potato starch joins all-purpose flour in the seasoned dry dredge. A little dredge and leftover marinade go directly onto the meat before a wet coating of cornstarch, buttermilk and water enters the process.

Then comes the tumbling method, credited to Keith and a food scientist: roughly sixty tosses through the dry mixture, a dip in the wet dredge, then more tossing. This is not a quick dusting. The repeated movement builds the uneven coating that becomes the fried crust.

The finish is equally specific. Hot honey gets acidity from rice vinegar and spice from sriracha, chili flakes and Sichuan peppercorns. A blue cheese ranch supplies the accompanying dip. The video delivers the method behind its ambitious title; whether it earns that superlative is for the cook eating it to decide.

In the comments, viewers propose a cookbook with QR codes linking to the demonstrations, compare family dredging methods and joke about how quickly all that work could disappear in a couple of mouthfuls.

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What viewers say

You guys should do a cookbook. Have the recipe but also have a QR code which will take you to the videos.
Best of both worlds.
@murdogordon3091See it on YouTube
A lot of effort for something im demolishing in 2 mouthfuls. Respect
@thenameofxavierSee it on YouTube
My mother's dry-wet-dry dredge method used a brown paper grocery bag to shake the chicken in the flour. She got pretty decent crags 50 years ago with that method.
@carolmelanconSee it on YouTube

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Stalagmites and stalactites are the two most unexpected words I've ever heard in a cooking video.😂 Bit of an achievement in its own right.
@dixonpinfold2582See it on YouTube
Took me 3 hours and my entire kitchen is dirty now. Thanks for the recipe
@marcgold4649See it on YouTube
Great method lads. I’ve learned more from this channel and Chinese Cooking Demystified over the last couple years than anywhere else in the online food world.
@CamStLouisSee it on YouTube
Just love these guys. "We spent 4 years of recipe development to make a key product for our restaurant. Here's how we do it" brilliant
@jayispaintingSee it on YouTube
merry crispness!
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The facts

Channel: Fallow
Subscribers: 2,500,000 ▲ 10,000 this week
Channel views, last 7 days: 14,067,664
Channel views, pace per day: 1,286,600 (on a normal day: 2,047,159)
Video published: October 21, 2026
Video views so far: 1,543,058 (4 days online)
Video views, pace per day: 262,227 (on a normal day: 564,569)

The numbers

The tutorial has passed 1.5 million views in four days. Here is how it sits alongside Fallow's wider viewing activity.

subscribers

2,500,000

▲ 10,000 in the last 7 days

total views

1,449,874,139

views per day

1,286,600

typical day: 2,047,159

the video

views

1,543,058

likes

20,509

comments

1,126

days online

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

2,570,000

2,520,000

2,510,000

2,500,000

2,480,000

2,440,000

As of October 25, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.

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