Making chicken transparent using Dorito dust chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com

Science writer CasualPhysicsEnjoyer reports a home experiment in which raw chicken soaked in roughly 0.19 M tartrazine solution became slightly translucent, though far less than in a 2024 study that used stronger dye, heat and shaking. The writer explains the proposed mechanism—dye may raise water’s refractive index toward that of tissue components—and says they plan a more ambitious replication.