Recreate copycat Chick-fil-A nuggets with ChatGPT (it missed the breading)
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- by Amanda Caswell (Tom's Guide)
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What went wrong: The recipe gave no specifics on the breading, the key element, and cited no sources; the nuggets didn't taste right.
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Tom's Guide's Amanda Caswell asked ChatGPT for the closest possible homemade Chick-fil-A nuggets recipe and used ChatGPT Voice to guide her while cooking; it kept saying she was on track. After one bite she realized it had skipped the most important part, the breading: top-rated copycat recipes specify things like Ritz crackers, sugar and baking soda. With no time to restart at about 8:15 p.m., she turned the chicken into a makeshift chicken parmesan.
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Give me the closest possible homemade Chick-fil-A nuggets recipe, including any secret techniques that make it taste authentic.
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Run this task now, exactly as written below. Everything you need is here, so start straight away and only stop if something required is missing or a rule below tells you to. Goal: Give me a reliable copycat recipe for a restaurant dish, based on the best-reviewed versions online. Fill in before running: - Dish: [RESTAURANT + DISH] - Servings: [NUMBER] - Equipment: [fryer / oven / air fryer] - Ingredients I can't use: [ALLERGIES] Rules: - Base the recipe on 2–3 highly rated copycat recipes and link them. - Spell out every element exactly, especially coatings, brines and sauces, with amounts. - Say where the sources disagree and which version you chose. - Flag any step where a small detail makes a big difference to taste. - If a site asks for a login, a CAPTCHA or payment details, stop and hand control back to me. - Ask for my OK before you pay, book, send, submit or cancel anything. - Check facts that can change (prices, opening hours, dates, availability, rules) against the official source, and tell me anything you couldn't verify. - Before I start cooking, list the parts of the recipe you're least sure about so I can check them. Output: Ingredients with amounts, step-by-step method, and the source links. You'll know it worked when: nothing in the method is vague, and the key 'secret' steps match the top-rated versions. Before you finish: re-read my goal and constraints, check your answer against each one, and list anything you assumed or couldn't confirm.
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Run this task now, exactly as written below. Everything you need is here, so start straight away and only stop if something required is missing or a rule below tells you to. Goal: Give me a reliable copycat recipe for a restaurant dish, based on the best-reviewed versions online. Fill in before running: - Dish: [RESTAURANT + DISH] - Servings: [NUMBER] - Equipment: [fryer / oven / air fryer] - Ingredients I can't use: [ALLERGIES] Rules: - Base the recipe on 2–3 highly rated copycat recipes and link them. - Spell out every element exactly, especially coatings, brines and sauces, with amounts. - Say where the sources disagree and which version you chose. - Flag any step where a small detail makes a big difference to taste. - If a site asks for a login, a CAPTCHA or payment details, stop and hand control back to me. - Ask for my OK before you pay, book, send, submit or cancel anything. - Check facts that can change (prices, opening hours, dates, availability, rules) against the official source, and tell me anything you couldn't verify. - Before I start cooking, list the parts of the recipe you're least sure about so I can check them. Output: Ingredients with amounts, step-by-step method, and the source links. You'll know it worked when: nothing in the method is vague, and the key 'secret' steps match the top-rated versions. Before you finish: re-read my goal and constraints, check your answer against each one, and list anything you assumed or couldn't confirm.
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