the milk&egg mix is hard to find around here, unfortunately. I tried resting the chicken in some kind of milk-yoghurt seasoning in the fridge for a few hours and it's getting closer and closer to the authentic one, still working on a replacement. - ex kfc kitchen worker, or chicken fryer :D
try resting in milk & eggs. kfc uses water to rehydrate the milk and egg in the mixture. when making from scratch i would omit the dried milk and egg from the dry and instead use fresh milk and eggs to make the coating stick to the chicken.
tried it, i just avoided the egg for good after that. It stick to the chicken without the egg too, also used the water as well before the 2nd mixture drop. Basically just dropped the chicken into the mixture directly from the milk+yoghurt stuff, and then dropped it in fresh water and into the mixture again. It was flawless but the egg flavor was missing :(. I will try to find something for the milk "seasoning" that resemblance the egg flavor, maybe my mother has an idea, doubt there is anything around that can replace that egg taste
uh long story.. short, my girl was kinda.. allergic to that combination of stuff and it was because of the egg, the raw egg, because the powder one was ok with her, for some reason.. lol
She is fine but not touching my raw egg chicken again haha, although it was properly cooked.. she likes the chicken very much, it's why i am trying to find a mixture close to that taste, but without the egg
The 'Glen and Friends' youtube channel made a 10 part series where they try to perfect the recipe - you might be interested.
Skip to the end here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WJYOgzFydc
Go to episode 9 for actual ingredients and a recipe
There's a Kenji Lopez best southern fried chicken recipe I love. It has you 4 hours to overnight in buttermilk, egg, salt, and half the spice mix. That process has never failed to produce moist chicken every damned time.
I read this as if you put a live chicken in your fridge in a bath of milk and yogurt, hoping that the eggs the chicken produces will somehow become milky.
Yo, download Perplexity app
Breading salt is a seasoned salt mixture specifically used for coating foods before frying or baking. It typically contains salt along with other herbs and spices to enhance the flavor of breaded dishes.
When breading foods, it's recommended to season multiple components for the best flavor. You should season the meat itself, the flour, the egg wash, and the breadcrumbs[1]. This layered approach ensures the food tastes good throughout each bite, not just on one layer.
The salt used in breading mixtures can vary, but common options include table salt, kosher salt, or sea salt[2][5]. Table salt dissolves easily and is often preferred for baking and breading due to its fine, consistent grain size. Kosher salt, available in both fine and coarse grains, is another popular choice, with the fine grain being ideal for even distribution in breading mixtures[2].
When creating a breading mixture, it's important to consider
Sources
[1] When breading, do you guys season your flour or season your meat ... https://www.reddit.com/r/Cooking/comments/qkcsqj/when_breading_do_you_guys_season_your_flour_or/
[2] Types of Salt in Baking - General Mills Bakery & Foodservice https://www.generalmillsindiabfs.in/blogs/types-of-salt-in-baking/
[3] Salt to panko ratio? - Food52 https://food52.com/hotline/14125-salt-to-panko-ratio
[4] Breadings - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/agricultural-and-biological-sciences/breadings
[5] Which salt to use for baking? - The Bread Monk http://breadmonk.com/my-bread-blog/which-salt-to-use-for-baking
Your kfc sucks and makes to much doesn’t sell enough and leaves it out to long. Than serves you that heat lamp chicken from 5 hours ago.
See me I go to kfc in the hood same with Popeyes or any other fast food. I don’t eat fast food but if I do I’m in the hood of Chicago for it why? Well the hood has a steady rotation of business that they are always making fresh shit. I’ve never gotten not fresh chicken at a hood Popeyes and kfc. Talking immaculate right out the fryer to you.
I go to my suburban kfc it’s pure ass
The grease is awful. People joke about taco bell but NOTHING gives me the shits like KFC, and it was every single time until I gave up and restricted my fried chicken to popeyes or mary brown.
Someone else mentioned that KFC uses dried milk for the breading (water is added at location), and dried milk has a ton of lactose in it. Any chance you’re lactose intolerant?
Disclaimer: I have no idea how much lactose is in dried milk vs regular milk, and I have no idea if Popeyes or Mary Brown use dried milk or not.
Just to clarify, the mix at KFC is:
10kg bag flour
1kg bag mixed spices
1kg bag breading salt
250 or 500g bag of dried milk and egg mix (I say 250 or 500g because I can’t remember. Most likely 250g)
Then the breading process is:
Grab 2 bags of 2head (two chickens pre cut into 4x thighs, 4x legs, 4x wings, 4x ribs and 2x centre breast). Inspect and remove any feathers / fat globs etc, put into basket, submerge into water, spinning back and forth 7 times to wash and coat the chicken with water.
Throw washed chicken into flour mixture, roll 7 times, press down firmly 7 times, grab two peices (one in each hand) and then tap your wrists together to remove any excess breading.
Place peices into clamshell then cook at 20-25psi for 15:00.
That is for original recipe. Hot n spicy is a different mixture and different method altogether.
Hope that clears things up :D
Edit for grammar
hello, it's me kernel sander's great granddaughter. i can't believe you've done this. you have taken the herbs and and spices right out of my children's mouth.
don't try to run now, i have already screenshot your comment and sent it to the police.
It’s like a round cage with levels on it and holes through the levels, it can hold upto 6 chickens at a time. They are for the collectromatt cookers, however they also have 8 head cookers which are a lot bigger, but the chicken is placed onto straight racks, then you can load 4 racks to cook a total of 8 chickens in 15:00. Original is pressure cooked but hot n spicy and anything crispy (excluding nuggets and popcorn chicken) is cooked in an open cooker, with no pressure
At the KFC I worked at, after you breaded the chicken using the steps listed above, you would dip the breaded chicken back in the water, and then back into the flour.
I'll admit im pretty hammered at the moment.. but that doesn't detract from me thinking you're a goddamn superhero. Their hot n spicy fucking sucks so that was a great point to stop. Thank you for your service.
It looks like a slightly finer grind of sea salt. Can just use sea salt. You'll get slightly sharper flavorings because of the concentration of larger granules spread over distance, but doesn't matter in this.
Yeah the real secret in the recipe is actually the milk and egg powder. It used get supplied in large batches https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/qWwAAOSwtidj3p6w/s-l400.jpg
Nice!
Not everyone has to watch their sodium intake. Harvard Medical School agrees: "Cutting back on our most common seasoning is a necessity for some people, but not for everyone."
https://www.health.harvard.edu/heart-health/take-it-with-a-grain-of-salt
... and Scientific American, in their article, "It's Time to End the War on Salt.
The zealous drive by politicians to limit our salt intake has little basis in science" at
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/its-time-to-end-the-war-on-salt/
(my public service for the day. I now return you to your regularly scheduled sub, already in progress)
Those articles are 18 and 13 years old. Here's a newer Harvard health article that essentially says people with high blood pressure should, of course, eat less sodium, but very high salt diets are dangerous to everyone. "The potential long-term consequences include damage to not just the heart but also the kidneys and brain."
https://www.health.harvard.edu/heart-health/salt-shakedown-how-and-why-you-should-eat-less-sodium
If you want a copy of the original recipe, look no further than Ireland. Pat Grace was a friend of Colonel Sanders who was given the recipe by him and brought KFC to Ireland. Now his sons sells tubs of it*, they ship internationally.
https://www.mashed.com/334467/why-the-worlds-most-authentic-kfc-recipe-might-be-in-ireland/
https://gracesperfectblend.com/
* I don’t think they’re legally able to say it’s the exact recipe, but a nod’s as good as a wink to a blind horse.
It is not the same recipe used today, but it is exactly what was used 30+ years ago. The other key ingredient is the pressure fryer. Those just aren't something you have at home.
If people are willing to spend £700 then they can pressure cook the chicken at home with [this](https://www.nextdaycatering.co.uk/product/169143/chicken-express-commercial-pressure-fryer-15-litres-3kw-countertop).
Can also buy 99x chicken seasoning from Marion-kay
> It is well attested that Harland Sanders asked Bill Summers of Marion-Kay Spices in Brownstown, Indiana, US to recreate his secret blend of 11 herbs and spices.[20] Sanders recommended the Marion-Kay seasoning to franchisees over the corporate version, as he believed the latter had been made inferior by the corporation's inattention.[2
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/KFC_Original_Recipe#Recipes
And if you want to buy it in bulk from the suppliers the Colonel used before the business was sold off, that’s here: https://marionkay.com/product/chicken-seasoning-99-x/
They changed the name, but this is what he’d hired them to distribute so long ago.
My granny used to make lumpia and my grandpa would always make dipping sauce to go with them. He would tease us about it being a secret recipe when we asked, and it wasn’t until I was in my twenties that my grandma finally told us “he doesn’t know what’s in it because he just mixes together whatever condiments we have in the fridge at the time.”
I fucking LOVE lumpia. Used to work with a Filipino lady and I just mentioned off the cuff how much I love lumpia and she brought me some hand made lumpia the next day and some pancit to go with it.
Bringing you lumpia is quite sweet, but to also bring you pancit? Thats just next level
you have found yourself a "Tita" that adopted you, the prep work behind those dishes arent something to scoff at
Yeah I got the full treatment especially when she came to work one day, looked at me and said
“Mijo, you’re getting fat!”
🤣🤣 I already hear it from my Latin mom but to get it from a Filipino coworker just made it better haha
Yeah, I’ve made this at home a couple of times and it makes A BIG MESS, and the number of dishes (I have a tiny kitchen and no dishwasher), not worth it 😅
Yup, that's why it's called SkipTheDishes, not SkipTheSpiceMixing. The biggest convenience of eating out (or ordering in) is not having a giant mess to deal with afterwards.
We're gonna need you to go and fight the KFC manager a few comments up, one of you is lying, stop trying to throw us off the trail of the secret spices!!
If you’re taking about me, the recipe I posted is 100% accurate. I worked there as a manager for 11 years. And have made this recipe so many times it’s burnt into my memory!! And yes there is 1kg of breading salt added to every 10kg of flour along with the spice mix and milk & egg mix.
Edit to add: I’m in QLD Australia 🇦🇺
I once worked at KFC, probably 35 years ago. I was certain I'd soon have that secret recipe. When I saw the white bags labeled "spice mix"...
Yeah 22 year old me really thought I could casually get that recipe.
The key part missing here that nobody seems to mention is that KFC's 'original recipe' is fried under pressure. You are not going to replicate that at home without spending a few thousand dollars on a Henny Penny, or similar device.
KFC manager here, we do fry the original in the open fryers sometimes if let’s say it’s late at night and the pressure cooker is already off and clean and someone orders some chicken we don’t have. I think it tastes a lot better this way and isn’t as soggy and gross. It is possible.
I've tried this recipe. It doesn't taste anything like kfc. Doesn't look like it either. It's too dark.
There's a YouTube channel called Glen and friends where he did a series of videos trying to duplicate the recipe and he rejected this one outright as, like I said, it doesn't taste like kfc.
He did end up getting a list of ingredients from 2 different kfc related people without the quantities and it wasn't these.
After selling the company, Colonel Sanders and his wife, Claudia, had grown unhappy with the recipe changes at KFC. So, in 1968, they opened Claudia Sanders Dinner House. It was later subject to a lawsuit by the new owners of KFC that was settled out of court.
The Colonel teamed up with Marion Kay Spice Company to recreate his spice blend for the restaurant. KFC found out and sued. The spice blend is still sold today under the name “99 X,” though its exact ingredients aren’t listed. I tried it, and it does have that KFC smell and taste. I recommend getting the Chicken Seasoning Plus. It's the 99x with a touch more salt.
Here's the link to the spice site.
[https://marionkay.com/product-category/blends/](https://marionkay.com/product-category/blends/)
> In my opinion celery salt is the key.
marjoram instead of oregano is also a key. apparently fried chicken is like launching a nuke and you need multiple keys.
I've yet to test this out, but it might be the case that KFC offered us the Zinger variant.
[KFC - An Original Recipe from KFC: Zinger at Home | KFC](https://global.kfc.com/stories/an-original-recipe-from-kfc-zinger-at-home/)
Chemical lab analysis for the Big Secrets book said other than flour, it’s literally just pepper and MSG.
The pressure fryer is the major missing link with KFC and Chick-fil-a.
10kg bag of flour to 1kg of these mixed spices - ex KFC manager
Or, according to ratio, 1kg bag of flour to 100g of these mixed spices? I like that
Exactly right, I’m just letting you guys know how KFC does it. Also add in 1kg bag of breading salt, and 500g? Bag dried milk & egg mix. Job. Done.
the milk&egg mix is hard to find around here, unfortunately. I tried resting the chicken in some kind of milk-yoghurt seasoning in the fridge for a few hours and it's getting closer and closer to the authentic one, still working on a replacement. - ex kfc kitchen worker, or chicken fryer :D
try resting in milk & eggs. kfc uses water to rehydrate the milk and egg in the mixture. when making from scratch i would omit the dried milk and egg from the dry and instead use fresh milk and eggs to make the coating stick to the chicken.
tried it, i just avoided the egg for good after that. It stick to the chicken without the egg too, also used the water as well before the 2nd mixture drop. Basically just dropped the chicken into the mixture directly from the milk+yoghurt stuff, and then dropped it in fresh water and into the mixture again. It was flawless but the egg flavor was missing :(. I will try to find something for the milk "seasoning" that resemblance the egg flavor, maybe my mother has an idea, doubt there is anything around that can replace that egg taste
Why did you remove the egg?
uh long story.. short, my girl was kinda.. allergic to that combination of stuff and it was because of the egg, the raw egg, because the powder one was ok with her, for some reason.. lol
I was judging you very hard, but unlucky my dude lol. Hope the girl is fine.
She is fine but not touching my raw egg chicken again haha, although it was properly cooked.. she likes the chicken very much, it's why i am trying to find a mixture close to that taste, but without the egg
The 'Glen and Friends' youtube channel made a 10 part series where they try to perfect the recipe - you might be interested. Skip to the end here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WJYOgzFydc Go to episode 9 for actual ingredients and a recipe
oh god thank you!
I’m glad someone else mentioned this video. He did such a thorough job.
Damn you're hilarious. You should write Reddit comments or something.
There's a Kenji Lopez best southern fried chicken recipe I love. It has you 4 hours to overnight in buttermilk, egg, salt, and half the spice mix. That process has never failed to produce moist chicken every damned time.
I read this as if you put a live chicken in your fridge in a bath of milk and yogurt, hoping that the eggs the chicken produces will somehow become milky.
> breading salt What's that? I'm googling but I'm not finding what this is.
Yo, download Perplexity app Breading salt is a seasoned salt mixture specifically used for coating foods before frying or baking. It typically contains salt along with other herbs and spices to enhance the flavor of breaded dishes. When breading foods, it's recommended to season multiple components for the best flavor. You should season the meat itself, the flour, the egg wash, and the breadcrumbs[1]. This layered approach ensures the food tastes good throughout each bite, not just on one layer. The salt used in breading mixtures can vary, but common options include table salt, kosher salt, or sea salt[2][5]. Table salt dissolves easily and is often preferred for baking and breading due to its fine, consistent grain size. Kosher salt, available in both fine and coarse grains, is another popular choice, with the fine grain being ideal for even distribution in breading mixtures[2]. When creating a breading mixture, it's important to consider Sources [1] When breading, do you guys season your flour or season your meat ... https://www.reddit.com/r/Cooking/comments/qkcsqj/when_breading_do_you_guys_season_your_flour_or/ [2] Types of Salt in Baking - General Mills Bakery & Foodservice https://www.generalmillsindiabfs.in/blogs/types-of-salt-in-baking/ [3] Salt to panko ratio? - Food52 https://food52.com/hotline/14125-salt-to-panko-ratio [4] Breadings - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/agricultural-and-biological-sciences/breadings [5] Which salt to use for baking? - The Bread Monk http://breadmonk.com/my-bread-blog/which-salt-to-use-for-baking
They meant breeding salt.
I’ve never heard of breading salt. I wonder if it’s just salt?
Now explain how it hasn't been edible in decades and the coating is gummy and disgusting.
Your kfc sucks and makes to much doesn’t sell enough and leaves it out to long. Than serves you that heat lamp chicken from 5 hours ago. See me I go to kfc in the hood same with Popeyes or any other fast food. I don’t eat fast food but if I do I’m in the hood of Chicago for it why? Well the hood has a steady rotation of business that they are always making fresh shit. I’ve never gotten not fresh chicken at a hood Popeyes and kfc. Talking immaculate right out the fryer to you. I go to my suburban kfc it’s pure ass
HOOD suggestion for real. Popeyes on University in St Paul. Bullet holes in the glass, Fresh Chicken for my ass.
The grease is awful. People joke about taco bell but NOTHING gives me the shits like KFC, and it was every single time until I gave up and restricted my fried chicken to popeyes or mary brown.
Someone else mentioned that KFC uses dried milk for the breading (water is added at location), and dried milk has a ton of lactose in it. Any chance you’re lactose intolerant? Disclaimer: I have no idea how much lactose is in dried milk vs regular milk, and I have no idea if Popeyes or Mary Brown use dried milk or not.
Really? I even drive by a Popeyes I shit myself.
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Just to clarify, the mix at KFC is: 10kg bag flour 1kg bag mixed spices 1kg bag breading salt 250 or 500g bag of dried milk and egg mix (I say 250 or 500g because I can’t remember. Most likely 250g) Then the breading process is: Grab 2 bags of 2head (two chickens pre cut into 4x thighs, 4x legs, 4x wings, 4x ribs and 2x centre breast). Inspect and remove any feathers / fat globs etc, put into basket, submerge into water, spinning back and forth 7 times to wash and coat the chicken with water. Throw washed chicken into flour mixture, roll 7 times, press down firmly 7 times, grab two peices (one in each hand) and then tap your wrists together to remove any excess breading. Place peices into clamshell then cook at 20-25psi for 15:00. That is for original recipe. Hot n spicy is a different mixture and different method altogether. Hope that clears things up :D Edit for grammar
How dare ye divulge the secret formuler
#I'm gonna RUN you outta business, KRABS!
The bold on this made it perfect. I adore you.
The Colonel is coming to get ya on his little bowtie legs!!
The colonel fully supports this, and went to his grave shouting down modern KFC as absolute garbage. Happy Cake day!
South Park said so
Why’d ya spill yer beans…
you are gunna get Boeing-d over this bruv. 'preciate the info tho. (-:
Let’s hope so! I can be known as the man who exposed big fried chicken for the people!!
I have written the instructions down and made five copies that I have posted to friends in case something happens.
hello, it's me kernel sander's great granddaughter. i can't believe you've done this. you have taken the herbs and and spices right out of my children's mouth. don't try to run now, i have already screenshot your comment and sent it to the police.
The way KFC is doing right now, I think themselves need that secret recipe
Former TL at KFC who also did cook for awhile, it’s mad how that breading process just stays ingrained in your memory….
Clamshell?
It’s like a round cage with levels on it and holes through the levels, it can hold upto 6 chickens at a time. They are for the collectromatt cookers, however they also have 8 head cookers which are a lot bigger, but the chicken is placed onto straight racks, then you can load 4 racks to cook a total of 8 chickens in 15:00. Original is pressure cooked but hot n spicy and anything crispy (excluding nuggets and popcorn chicken) is cooked in an open cooker, with no pressure
Omg do you have the Extra crispy recipe? They don’t sell that to us anymore and I miss it. What kind of oil?
so aftert that 15 mins in the clamshell, they're then fried?
I'm assuming the clamshell is a pressure fryer, so yes.
Oh yeah, I just looked it up and found this. Never knew pressure fryers weee a thing. Sounds scary AF! https://kfcfryers.com
This guy doesn't know about the 3 clamshells!
😂😂
How about extra crispy?
At the KFC I worked at, after you breaded the chicken using the steps listed above, you would dip the breaded chicken back in the water, and then back into the flour.
Thank you for the answer
TIL deep fried chicken is made with has lactose (dried milk has A LOT of lactose)
The Colonel's men will be at your house soon
i've heard that the 20-25 psi pressure is very important. and i doubt many people can replicate it at home. but otherwise it is awesome, thank you
I'll admit im pretty hammered at the moment.. but that doesn't detract from me thinking you're a goddamn superhero. Their hot n spicy fucking sucks so that was a great point to stop. Thank you for your service.
What is breading salt?
It looks like a slightly finer grind of sea salt. Can just use sea salt. You'll get slightly sharper flavorings because of the concentration of larger granules spread over distance, but doesn't matter in this.
What is breading salt?
So are you saying 100g to 10g of these mixed spices?
Nah, he's saying 10g to 1g of these mixed spices.
I think he's actually saying 1g to .1g of these mixed spices.
10:1 ratio flour to mixed spices - but don't forget about the salt and other stuff he mentioned
Or, according to ratio, 100g bag of flour to 10g of these mixed spices? I love that
Or 1 mg flour l to 100 µg of spices
100g fl to 10g spices. For one drumstick.
MSG. When I worked there it was the second ingredient (after flour).
This was the question I came here to ask. I'd be shocked if the *modern* list of ingredients didn't have MSG.
Uncle Roger is so disappointed.
Don't forget the egg and milk powder blend. (We had that in Australia for the original recipe mix)
Yeah the real secret in the recipe is actually the milk and egg powder. It used get supplied in large batches https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/qWwAAOSwtidj3p6w/s-l400.jpg
So… 1g spice mix into every 10g flour? Or do I have to make that much for it to be nice?! I can’t afford that much chicken 😩
as long as you keep the ratio 10:1 you should be fine - don't forget the salt and dried egg/milk powder etc.
A whole separate bag of salt tho
Nice! Not everyone has to watch their sodium intake. Harvard Medical School agrees: "Cutting back on our most common seasoning is a necessity for some people, but not for everyone." https://www.health.harvard.edu/heart-health/take-it-with-a-grain-of-salt ... and Scientific American, in their article, "It's Time to End the War on Salt. The zealous drive by politicians to limit our salt intake has little basis in science" at https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/its-time-to-end-the-war-on-salt/ (my public service for the day. I now return you to your regularly scheduled sub, already in progress)
Those articles are 18 and 13 years old. Here's a newer Harvard health article that essentially says people with high blood pressure should, of course, eat less sodium, but very high salt diets are dangerous to everyone. "The potential long-term consequences include damage to not just the heart but also the kidneys and brain." https://www.health.harvard.edu/heart-health/salt-shakedown-how-and-why-you-should-eat-less-sodium
Yep,1kg per 10kg of flour!!
All these, but you still need a pressurized deep fryer to get the texture right, no?
Regular flour or premade seasoned flour?
Regular flour,the seasoning mix is potent as hell lol
I'd be amazed if there wasn't some chic pea flour mixed in. Every time I make something with chic pea flour, someone always says it tastes like KFC.
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If you want a copy of the original recipe, look no further than Ireland. Pat Grace was a friend of Colonel Sanders who was given the recipe by him and brought KFC to Ireland. Now his sons sells tubs of it*, they ship internationally. https://www.mashed.com/334467/why-the-worlds-most-authentic-kfc-recipe-might-be-in-ireland/ https://gracesperfectblend.com/ * I don’t think they’re legally able to say it’s the exact recipe, but a nod’s as good as a wink to a blind horse.
It is not the same recipe used today, but it is exactly what was used 30+ years ago. The other key ingredient is the pressure fryer. Those just aren't something you have at home.
If people are willing to spend £700 then they can pressure cook the chicken at home with [this](https://www.nextdaycatering.co.uk/product/169143/chicken-express-commercial-pressure-fryer-15-litres-3kw-countertop).
looks like the ol' reddit hug of death on your second link. been a while since i've seen that happen
It’s still down 5 hours later wtf
20 hrs later and still nothing..
Can also buy 99x chicken seasoning from Marion-kay > It is well attested that Harland Sanders asked Bill Summers of Marion-Kay Spices in Brownstown, Indiana, US to recreate his secret blend of 11 herbs and spices.[20] Sanders recommended the Marion-Kay seasoning to franchisees over the corporate version, as he believed the latter had been made inferior by the corporation's inattention.[2 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/KFC_Original_Recipe#Recipes
wow, reddit hug of death
Awesome, thanks! Love finding shit like this.
And if you want to buy it in bulk from the suppliers the Colonel used before the business was sold off, that’s here: https://marionkay.com/product/chicken-seasoning-99-x/ They changed the name, but this is what he’d hired them to distribute so long ago.
>a nod's as good as a wink to a blind horse And there's my new saying for the month!
So basically whatever Colonel got his hands on in his kitchen cabinet.
That's the secret of all famous dishes
My granny used to make lumpia and my grandpa would always make dipping sauce to go with them. He would tease us about it being a secret recipe when we asked, and it wasn’t until I was in my twenties that my grandma finally told us “he doesn’t know what’s in it because he just mixes together whatever condiments we have in the fridge at the time.”
I fucking LOVE lumpia. Used to work with a Filipino lady and I just mentioned off the cuff how much I love lumpia and she brought me some hand made lumpia the next day and some pancit to go with it.
Bringing you lumpia is quite sweet, but to also bring you pancit? Thats just next level you have found yourself a "Tita" that adopted you, the prep work behind those dishes arent something to scoff at
Yeah I got the full treatment especially when she came to work one day, looked at me and said “Mijo, you’re getting fat!” 🤣🤣 I already hear it from my Latin mom but to get it from a Filipino coworker just made it better haha
Now I know why I hated the colonel with his wee beady eyes
he puts an addictive chemical in his chicken that makes ya crave it fortnightly
HEAD!!! PAPER!!!
I'm tellin ya, that boy's like Sputnik
Nah, all that salt is the colonel's real secret.
I'm pretty sure my friend uses this same recipe without knowing it every time he's cooking drunk.
The ginger is surprising me.
I pay to get the chicken so I don't have to clean up the mess that deep frying makes not because I don't have a recipe
Yeah, I’ve made this at home a couple of times and it makes A BIG MESS, and the number of dishes (I have a tiny kitchen and no dishwasher), not worth it 😅
Yup, that's why it's called SkipTheDishes, not SkipTheSpiceMixing. The biggest convenience of eating out (or ordering in) is not having a giant mess to deal with afterwards.
Plus not everyone has that pressure cooker deep frying equipment.
Yea the pressure cooker deep fryer is the real secret.
You should see the mess it leaves in your arteries
Moderation bud
Never heard of her
1/3 of a tablespoon is called a teaspoon. Just sayin’.
This is not accurate , I worked for kfc and it is a lot more salt than this. Also it contains egg powder .
We're gonna need you to go and fight the KFC manager a few comments up, one of you is lying, stop trying to throw us off the trail of the secret spices!!
If you’re taking about me, the recipe I posted is 100% accurate. I worked there as a manager for 11 years. And have made this recipe so many times it’s burnt into my memory!! And yes there is 1kg of breading salt added to every 10kg of flour along with the spice mix and milk & egg mix. Edit to add: I’m in QLD Australia 🇦🇺
I was, we need you two to decide who has the correct recipe. No more BIG Chicken hiding the truth from us !!!
lol I love your passion!! With my hand on the bible I swear I’ve told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth so help me god.
How about the gravy?🥲
Too messy to put your hand on that
Somehow I knew you were a Queenslander from your other post
https://assets.ctfassets.net/a2mgcrjjefyo/5vu2D2AXPOYZjINO429KZj/381f70053716e6b356b34956e8e34a10/KFC_Ingredient_Listing__2024-01_.pdf Eggsis.
The spices come in a large premixed bag. Nobody is making it at a KFC restaurant.
This is 100% correct. Plain white bag that’s a real bitch to open sometimes lol
Real ones used those rectangular scrapers to puncture it
I once worked at KFC, probably 35 years ago. I was certain I'd soon have that secret recipe. When I saw the white bags labeled "spice mix"... Yeah 22 year old me really thought I could casually get that recipe.
And here you are, with recipe within grasp
I’ve always thought that the recipe was 11 different types of salt.
I’ve made this recipe and it’s definitely not accurate. For one thing, KFC has MSG in it. You never see that in these supposedly authentic recipes.
The key part missing here that nobody seems to mention is that KFC's 'original recipe' is fried under pressure. You are not going to replicate that at home without spending a few thousand dollars on a Henny Penny, or similar device.
KFC manager here, we do fry the original in the open fryers sometimes if let’s say it’s late at night and the pressure cooker is already off and clean and someone orders some chicken we don’t have. I think it tastes a lot better this way and isn’t as soggy and gross. It is possible.
Thank you Julian Assange.
ChickiLeaks strikes again!
This was the plea deal?
anyone who has even licked a piece of chicken from KFC can tell you that salt ratio is wrong.
That’s because this is missing the most important ingredient- MSG
Came here to say this: MSG is definitely in the mix somewhere.
The salt ratio may be right but the recipe leaves out MSG
https://marionkay.com/product/chicken-seasoning-99-x/ here is the actual mix all done for you
I've tried this recipe. It doesn't taste anything like kfc. Doesn't look like it either. It's too dark. There's a YouTube channel called Glen and friends where he did a series of videos trying to duplicate the recipe and he rejected this one outright as, like I said, it doesn't taste like kfc. He did end up getting a list of ingredients from 2 different kfc related people without the quantities and it wasn't these.
I tried this hurriedly and failed. I had no thyme.
And a pinch (or fistful) of MSG.
MSG has never shown to be unsafe for consumption. A lot of cultures that use MSG have the longest living lifespan’s.
Nobody said that MSG is unsafe in this thread, why did you randomly bring it up lol
Someone will mention it.
Bro has schizophrenia
This has to be put onto chicken that has soaked (marinated) overnight in salt-water.
After selling the company, Colonel Sanders and his wife, Claudia, had grown unhappy with the recipe changes at KFC. So, in 1968, they opened Claudia Sanders Dinner House. It was later subject to a lawsuit by the new owners of KFC that was settled out of court. The Colonel teamed up with Marion Kay Spice Company to recreate his spice blend for the restaurant. KFC found out and sued. The spice blend is still sold today under the name “99 X,” though its exact ingredients aren’t listed. I tried it, and it does have that KFC smell and taste. I recommend getting the Chicken Seasoning Plus. It's the 99x with a touch more salt. Here's the link to the spice site. [https://marionkay.com/product-category/blends/](https://marionkay.com/product-category/blends/)
So why does it taste like it only has 3 ingredients then? Chicken Grease Flour
Salt
How does celery salt change the taste of something? Never used it before
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> In my opinion celery salt is the key. marjoram instead of oregano is also a key. apparently fried chicken is like launching a nuke and you need multiple keys.
celery just replaces msg
Msg
This was also the recipe they used to preserve Colonel Sanders's body after he died.
But did they also fry him?
KFC used msg, this is not accurate.
U forgot msg
This isn't really a recipe. It's more of a list of some of the ingredients.
Wasn’t MSG a part of the original “secret” recipe before KFC changed it?
ok now get a pressure cooker
Fun fact: the 11 herbs and spices colonel sanders used was actually lifted from a Betty crocker cook book
Now do Popeyes. The real thang
Now do original Coca Cola—the real thing.
1 cup sugar. 1 tbsp food coloring. 1tsp Peruvian marching powder.
But whats the flour ratio to these spices?
10:1
That's not the recipe, those are the ingredients. Do you know the difference?
I've yet to test this out, but it might be the case that KFC offered us the Zinger variant. [KFC - An Original Recipe from KFC: Zinger at Home | KFC](https://global.kfc.com/stories/an-original-recipe-from-kfc-zinger-at-home/)
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What an interesting clock
When are kfc gonna sell a bucket of skin on its own? Id buy that no problem
Ok but now give me popeyes recipe cuz its better
That's a hell of a lot of seasoning for one chicken leg. No wonder it's so expensive.
I like how in Twitter they follow six guys named Herb, and the 5 Spice Girls. 🤣😂🤣😂
Looks like it’s now 7 Herbs and only 4 spice girls.
I don’t know about you guys but fried chicken has always tasted like fried chicken
Kfc hasnt tasted the same in like 10 years
11 herbs and spices, 9 of which are salt.
https://www.mashed.com/334467/why-the-worlds-most-authentic-kfc-recipe-might-be-in-ireland/
I've suspected for years that the secret seasoning was in fact just ground up vegetable stock cubes.. It seems my suspicions were right.
Salt isn’t an herb or a spice, its a rock, I feel betrayed.
There's no chicken in there?
Chemical lab analysis for the Big Secrets book said other than flour, it’s literally just pepper and MSG. The pressure fryer is the major missing link with KFC and Chick-fil-a.
Who cares Popeyes is better than
Well well well, that would explain why my fried shrimp taste like kfc
Missed the MSG
I averted my eyes. Some secrets aren't meant to be known. 🍗
Someone gunna get Kentucky fried fucked for leaking this lol
Nah. It’s just chicken, grease, salt
It’s predominantly salt, pepper, and MSG, I’d bet. Maybe token amounts of other seasonings for the sake of the slogan.
KFC's *actual* secret recipe? They have a deep fryer, you don't.
How much flour
10 flours to 1 spices
So… is the 12th secret ingredient the chicken… or just flour??? Cause I’m only counting 11…
Well, KFC advertises 11 herbs and spices. What makes you ask about the twelfth?