Making Chicken Transparent Using Dorito Dust
The gist
Hobbyist physics blogger Casual Physics Enjoyer soaked chicken breast in tartrazine dye and got partial transparency.
The dye is the same yellowish-orange colorant used on Doritos.
How it unfolded
- date unknownThe blogger publishes a replication attempt, soaking a roughly 2mm-thick raw chicken breast cut from a 5mm slice in about 0.19 M tartrazine solution for 6 hours at room temperature, and reports partial transparency.
- Oct 17, 2026A Hacker News submission of the post is posted by user crescit_eundo.
- Oct 17, 2026A Hacker News comment thread discusses whether E102 (tartrazine) is banned, with a commenter saying it is not banned but used to be in some places.