Paula Pattons Viral Unseasoned Fried Chicken Recipe Gets Roasted

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.

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.

TheTrackQueen called out Patton for some cooking cardinal sins, including seasoning the chicken while it was already frying in the oil. (The video also shows Patton cleaning raw chicken in her sink, which was long believed to be a valid safety precaution. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, however, strongly advises against it .) 

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:

Patton took to Instagram to respond to critics in a video. “I get it. It might look crazy. It’s the way we do it. My mom taught me. It’s my mom’s recipe. I do believe in washing the chicken and maybe the way the video was edited, it looked like I didn’t wash it long enough, but I definitely do because I feed it to my son,” she said.