I have KFCs secret recipe!!

[fly girl]

I Love KFC chicken, Hate their sides
I Hate Popeyes chicken, Love their sides

You can give it to me! I love Popeyes chicken. KFC is a soggy bland outer coated mess.

 

[The WDW 3]

You can give it to me! I love Popeyes chicken. KFC is a soggy bland outer coated mess.

bland? No way!

soggy? Sounds like you left it in the bucket for too long!

 

[fly girl]

bland? No way!

soggy? Sounds like you left it in the bucket for too long!

Yes way!

Nope, I eat it immediately when it is supposed to be hot and crispy.

 

[_19disnA]

That story about KFC's secret recipe surfaces every so often on the net, not sure if its true or yet another of those 'urban legends' that tend to circulate. In recipes, a capital "T" = tablespoon, while the small letter 't' = teaspoon.

One of the prior posters listed a link that showed a similar story from 2016.

 

[bcla]

The secret ingredient:
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There's a book called "Big Secrets" where the author tries to determine certain secret things including whether or not Walt Disney's cryogenically frozen head is stored in New Orleans Square. His follow-up book ("Bigger Secrets") included a report on a visit to Club 33. But the one that was the toughest was KFC's secret recipe. He apparently got someone working at a KFC to smuggle out some of the mix. A bunch of food labs wouldn't touch it when they found out what it was, since they didn't want to get sued. But all the found in the mix was flour, salt, pepper, and MSG. But there's skepticism that they had the exact mix.

 

[MillauFr]

Using MSG on food is an abomination.

 

[NannyBeBe]

I could not care less about the secret recipe or KFC chicken. Their restaurants here are dirty and the food is gross. I have gotten underdone chicken on more than one occasion. I can't remember the last time I ate fried chicken. If I do, it would be a couple of wings from the grocery store.

 

[The WDW 3]

I could not care less about the secret recipe or KFC chicken. Their restaurants here are dirty and the food is gross. I have gotten underdone chicken on more than one occasion. I can't remember the last time I ate fried chicken. If I do, it would be a couple of wings from the grocery store.

their restaurants everywhere are dirty.

 

[_19disnA]

^^ I agree, KFC ownership has changed several times after Colonel Sanders sold it and frankly they have lost control of their quality & operations. Some locations do a good job, while others are terrible. We stopped eating there since they were so inconsistent in how they operated. Had no idea they have bounced around with so many different owners. When owned by some company with zero restaurant/food service experience doesn't surprise me they have issues..........found this online............

KFC was one of the first fast-food chains to expand internationally, opening outlets in England, Mexico, and Jamaica by the mid-1960s. Throughout the 1970s and 80s, KFC experienced mixed success domestically, as it went through a series of changes in corporate ownership with little or no experience in the restaurant business. In the early 1970s, KFC was sold to the spirits distributor Heublein, which was taken over by the R. J. Reynolds food and tobacco conglomerate, which later sold the chain to PepsiCo. The chain continued to expand overseas, and in 1987 KFC became the first Western restaurant chain to open in China.

In 1997, PepsiCo spun off its restaurants division as Tricon Global Restaurants, which changed its name to Yum! Brands in 2002. Yum! has proven to be a more focused owner than Pepsi, and although KFC's number of outlets has declined in the US, the company has continued to grow in Asia, South America, and Africa.

 

[FlightlessDuck]

 

[FlightlessDuck]

Here's the one I got:

(this is per 2.5 cups of flour)

2.5 tablespoons salt
1.25 tablespoons MSG
3.5 tablespoons paprika
3 tablespoons white pepper
1 tablespoon mustard powder
2 teaspoons celery powder or celery salt
1 tablespoon garlic powder
1 tablespoon (Tellicherry?) black pepper
1 tablespoon ground ginger
2 teaspoons dried thyme
2 teaspoons dried oregano

 

[BrianL]

I do like the Famous Bowls, but the homemade one looks awesome!

 

[Silver saucer]

Growing up KFC and church picnics went hand in hand. Havent had any since though.

 

[TippyThomas]

I had to run and grab a bucket because I started craving KFC.

 

[DLgal]

Using MSG on food is an abomination.

It's really not,though. There is a fascinating Stuff You Should Know podcast about MSG. It's seriously not the evil that it has been made out to be. It's quite an interesting compound and not at all problematic.

 

[bcla]

It's really not,though. There is a fascinating Stuff You Should Know podcast about MSG. It's seriously not the evil that it has been made out to be. It's quite an interesting compound and not at all problematic.

I don't get the hate for MSG either. While it may be artificially created/fermented, it's treated by the human body just like any other glutamates are in soy sauce or other natural glutamate sources like mushrooms. Now I don't necessarily like eating something that's an absolute umami bomb, but I don't see the problem in reasonable quantities.

 

[DLgal]

I don't get the hate for MSG either. While it may be artificially created/fermented, it's treated by the human body just like any other glutamates are in soy sauce or other natural glutamate sources like mushrooms. Now I don't necessarily like eating something that's an absolute umami bomb, but I don't see the problem in reasonable quantities.

I mean, the body produces tons of it every day. Way more than is "added" to food. When you are talking about chemistry, it doesn't matter where it was created, at the end of the day, it's the same chemical compound.

 

[MillauFr]

It's really not,though. There is a fascinating Stuff You Should Know podcast about MSG. It's seriously not the evil that it has been made out to be. It's quite an interesting compound and not at all problematic.

Why not just use naturally grown herbs and spices to add flavor to food? Why eat something that was produced in a chemical factory?

 

[Mrs. Ciz]

I had to run and grab a bucket because I started craving KFC.

The last time I was craving KFC, I sent my college kids to pick it up. They came home with extra crispy, which has no taste at all. I was so disappointed!! Original is the best!

 

[WorldOfPooh]

What’s it worth to you?

Nothing.

It's basically just a donut type ingredient. Been revealed in plenty of books.