Don’t Tell The Colonel! Man Duplicates KFC Recipe. Maybe.

1. The Manticore
   July 22nd, 2009 at 7:54 pm

   and he's selling it, right? probably. It'd be one thing if he were just giving it away, but if he's selling it, that's lame.

2. jack-Booted EULA
   July 22nd, 2009 at 8:33 pm

   Clicky msnbc linky Manticore, it's there:

   — 1 teaspoon ground oregano
   — 1 teaspoon chili powder
   — 1 teaspoon ground sage
   — 1 teaspoon dried basil
   — 1 teaspoon dried marjoram
   — 1 teaspoon pepper
   — 2 teaspoons salt
   — 2 tablespoons paprika
   — 1 teaspoon onion salt
   — 1 teaspoon garlic powder
   — 2 tablespoons Accent

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3. atanguay
   July 22nd, 2009 at 8:37 pm

   You know, I think part of it too is how they cook their chicken. I had heard it was pressure cooked or something. So it stays as juicy as it usually is. Anyone else heard that?

4. Mike390430499
   July 22nd, 2009 at 8:45 pm

   Accent = MSG.. the Colonel's true secret ingredient

5. Miss Cellania
   July 22nd, 2009 at 8:51 pm

   Yeah, KFC is pressure-cooked. That's the real secret to the way it turns out.

6. atanguay
   July 22nd, 2009 at 9:17 pm

   I bet there's also a secret ingredient that the public can't buy because the Colonel was part of the Pentavarete.

   As this clip explains...

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctEDHm0OKms

7. Josh
   July 22nd, 2009 at 9:40 pm

   Their chicken is not that great imo. Publix Hot & Spicy Breaded Wings FTW.

8. LisaL
   July 22nd, 2009 at 10:18 pm

   KFC= food poisoning. Nasty gross, I hate it. I dunno why it's so damn popular. Every single time I've had it in the past, I ALWAYS ended up with food poisoning which is why I haven't been to one in over 10 years.

   Now if he could tell me how Chick-fil-A makes their chicken.. I'd be all over that in a heartbeat! I heard they pressure cook theirs as well. Sigh.. so good.. so dang expensive!

9. Gary
   July 22nd, 2009 at 10:26 pm

   Pressure cooking is how a lot of restaurants cook their chicken. I should know I was a "Happy Chef".

10. DaveL
    July 22nd, 2009 at 11:07 pm

    It probably can't be duplicated because at least three of the ingredients were most likely created by chemists and not nature.

11. Geekazoid
    July 22nd, 2009 at 11:28 pm

    I've been reading and it appears KFC and other places actually use a pressure FRYER and not pressure cooker. The fryers are apparently more 'robust' to handle oil. Only two companies sell a form of pressure fryer for use by the general public in their homes.

    Since I doubt a lot of us want to spend extra money for an appliance that would be used sparingly (I hope, for health's sake), an alternate method of cooking it like KFC is to first fry it like conventional fried chicken in a skillet, then transfer to an oven to bake the rest of the way.

12. Jezebel
    July 23rd, 2009 at 1:24 am

    Reverse engineering is actually illegal!

13. Wes
    July 23rd, 2009 at 3:22 am

    Except, Jesebel, like a smell, recipes cannot be protected by copyright or trademark.

14. Video Game Dork
    July 23rd, 2009 at 3:30 am

    Chick-fil-a is awesome. I know how they make their chicken (but not necessarily the ingredients of the milk-wash or breading, but i know paprika is in it). But they do pressure cook it, specifically in peanut oil. They also marinate it overnight in a marinade made up of mostly pickle juice, and some other stuff I don't know.

    Oh, and they also always used 100% white breast meat. For ALL their chicken products.

    I once tried recreating some chick-fil-a this way, an it came out quite similar. (I have to... there's no Chick-fil-a's in Washington, and THATS A CRIME!!!!! :C )

15. Tim Giachetti
    July 23rd, 2009 at 8:22 am

    KFC hasn't pressure cooked for several years now.

    The breaded chicken is sent in that way and then baked to temperature.

16. Kev
    July 23rd, 2009 at 8:46 am

    I thought the eleventh spice was Colonel Sanders' tears!
    At least in the Mel Gibson version it is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1nluSJfxCg

    I'm still not sure why anyone would want to emulate chain restaurant food; I mean, it's not bad, but its not great either.

    You can get much better food by taking a bit of time to experiment and learn in your own kitchen. It's not that hard. Anyone can cook tolerably well with a little thought.

    Your family will be far more impressed when you produce something really tasty of your own devising, than they would be if you plunked down a plate of chicken and said "check it out, it's just like KFC!"

17. andiscandis
    July 23rd, 2009 at 9:29 am

    I wonder which is the addictive chemical that makes you crave it fortnightly? Oh, the MSG.

18. Jessie
    July 23rd, 2009 at 9:58 am

    There was an article in LiveScience a couple weeks ago about William Poundstone's book Big Secrets. He performed a lab analysis and found KFC chicken to have just 4 ingredients: salt, pepper, msg, and flour.

19. ByrdBrain
    July 23rd, 2009 at 10:17 am

    I love these topics where so many people have definitive (but conflicting) knowledge about something that nobody is supposed to know about. I love the internet.

20. Geekazoid
    July 23rd, 2009 at 2:08 pm

    Now I gotta try this recipe, but deep fry in a skillet first and then bake in an oven.

21. Video Game Dork
    July 23rd, 2009 at 2:46 pm

    Kev, have you ever *had* Chick-fil-a? It's worth emulating!

22. Dr. Lao
    July 23rd, 2009 at 5:13 pm

    Gee, that's great! Is it as greasy as KFC's, too?

    Who cares? Popeye's rocks.

23. LisaL
    July 23rd, 2009 at 9:53 pm

    I personally like Rush's and Bojangles' the best.. fried chicken wise heh.
    I am totally going to get a pressure cooker though, just so I can make homemade chick-fil-a. Drooling just thinking about it!

24. Carl
    July 24th, 2009 at 5:39 am

    It's also water impregnated crappy fake chicken. Tender, yes, but disgusting.

25. Guest
    July 25th, 2009 at 10:33 pm

    What? Spices? Herbs? WTF? There's actually real food in them?

    Come on, real herbs and spices, you know that can't be right.

26. Rob
    August 18th, 2009 at 8:01 pm

    The best way to keep this secret would not tell the truth. I don't think there is is 11 herbs and spices. if there isn't 11 then no one will ever discover the secret. All these people trying for years can't get it because there are not 11.

27. B-tucker
    October 3rd, 2009 at 11:15 am

    They use Henny-Penny Pressure fryers with digital sms controls to cook the chicken, no baking. The only baking of chicken is there new grilled. It is laid on black cast iron racks seasoned then put into a convection combi oven and baked,There are no grills for it. How do I know? Because I work on KFC equipment doing repairs daily.

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