Paula Patton’s Viral ‘Unseasoned’ Fried Chicken Recipe Gets Roasted

The actor showed off her mother’s fried chicken recipe — and the internet is absolutely horrified with her cooking skills.

Paula Patton showed the world how she makes fried chicken, and the internet is fired up about it.

The “Deja Vu” actor, who was formerly married to singer Robin Thicke, has found herself at the center of jokes and memes after uploading a five-minute video tutorial on how to make her mother’s fried chicken.

Paula Patton attends the 2021 Soul Train Awards at the Apollo Theater on Nov. 20, 2021, in New York City.
Paula Patton attends the 2021 Soul Train Awards at the Apollo Theater on Nov. 20, 2021, in New York City.
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Patton posted the clip in March, but the video resurfaced on Monday after a TikTok user bashed her cooking missteps.

It’s not unheard of for celebrities to use their social media pages to share clips of themselves cooking, like E-40 and Snoop Dogg, but people weren’t loving Patton’s culinary repertoire.

The TikTok user TheTrackQueen dissected a video of Patton cooking fried chicken the way her mother apparently did, and it wasn’t pretty.

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y’all come watch paula make chicken 🤦🏾‍♀️

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TheTrackQueen called Patton out for several cooking cardinal sins, including improperly cleaning the chicken and seasoning it while it was already frying in the oil.

The video didn’t take long to reach viral status because of how outraged people were by Patton’s technique. Here’s what Twitter is saying about her mom’s chicken recipe: