Watch the video, he explains it.
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5 Guys Burgers and Fries FTW! Potato, slicer, fryer, eat. Funny, I have never had a consistency problem with 5 Guys that McDonalds claims to have resolved.
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I havenāt watched the video, but itās also marketed as Dimethicone, and given to babies for colic. Itās an anti-foaming agent.
āGrant Imahara Reads a List McDonalds Gave Himā
Yeah. Probably wonāt get the clicks of a āreverse engineerā article in these parts.
Since this is nothing more than a McDonalds commercial (with absolutely no reverse engineering mind you), I donāt know why BB would run it virtually un-notated or expanded upon.
I guess I hope BB is getting some cash for clicks to this nothing-but-commercial via their targeted and totally misleading headline - because I otherwise donāt know why theyād accept it being so blatantly mis-headlined.
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polydimethylsiloxane is french for nomnomnom, non?
Come on over, early May. Bumper crop guaranteed.
Come on over, anytime.
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MMM
I do basically the same thing, except without soy sauce or vinegar, and with curry powder. Iām going to have to try the soy sauce and vinegar though. Time for a trip to the asian market for chinkiang vinegar 
It sounds lovely.
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You canāt spell deliciously scrumptious without PDMS.
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Itās social reverse engineering.
McD processes a lot of meat, so it would probably be cost effective to use any waste to create flavor.
Iāve never understood this weird pleasure some meat-eaters take in being rude to or upsetting vegetarians.
Yeah. Itās really strange.
Doesnāt there being more vegetarians mean that thereās more beef and bacon left to accumulate in your arteries and gut?
Oh. Wait. Now I remember why.
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Grant - Thanks for confirming what Iāve been hearing for years about the beef fat!
As a vegetarian, this is one of the big reasons I donāt eat lunch or dinner at McDās. (Thereās also no veggie burger, the salads are boring, and no onion rings. Good breakfast, though.)
For many years, they fried their fries in beef fat at the stores. Then they switched to frying mostly in oil (but with trans-fats.) Then a few years ago they switched to āhealthierā oil (no trans-fats.) If I remember correctly, the scandal with Hindus discovering the beef fat was during the last transition, as opposed to early on when āYes, itās beef fat. Tasty!ā and McDās wasnāt widespread in India anyway.
There yāgo.
BTW, Iām not knowingly rude to vegetarians (such as my gf). I have to admit to pleasure at smugness being punctured, though, and a fair few vegetarians quality.
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I dunno, Iāve had a lot of badly made home fries.
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Yeah, many babies have some serious foaming problems.
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Sure they can. They just wonāt be very happy when they find out.
Unfortunately, duck-fat fries have become trendy at some restaurants I go to, where Iād like to have fries along with my meal. (Typically itās places that my non-vegetarian wife wants to go to, so Iām having salad and beer there.)
It would be fun to ask all the employees at a local supermarket which aisle they stock the dimethylpolysiloxane in. āItās OK if you donāt have name-brand. Iām just making some french fries.ā
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