Cloning KFC Secret Recipe - Episode #4 - How To Make KFC Secret Recipe Chicken - Glen And Friends

Welcome Friends! Welcome back to our exploration of cloning the KFC secret recipe our clone kfc 11 herbs and spices mix getting closer. Our secret KFC spice recipe is still not there yet but one of the variables that I need to test is the change in the way the chicken gets into the pressure fryer the breading process working in television commercials I did a lot of ads for KFC and every time I did an ad the method changed and when I say the method changed the breading process changed dipped in milk dipped in water put into a tumbler and tumbled sometimes it was breaded put on a tray and stuck in the fridge before freezing other times it was breaded and put right into the fryer and they sort of swung back and forth and things that went away came back and things that came back again went away and so it seemed like it was a process that was constantly in flux today we're gonna do two methods and I want to see if either of these methods affects the crunch or the crust on the outside of the chicken but more importantly will it affect the flavor of the chicken the first one we're gonna do is this version from the 1950s late 1950s early 1960s there is a very famous clip of the kernel on the Tennessee Ernie Ford Show making chicken and he talks about the process that he does now the mixture that the chicken was in what is that milk and milk and egg wash so it first went into a milk wash with eggs and he says in some other articles that he only used whole milk or skim milk or partly skim milk and he says all three of those at various points so I'm just gonna go with our regular 3.25 milk he uses cake flour the spice mix goes into the cake flour and salt goes into the cake flour it gets mixed up and then fried and I'm gonna compare that to a version that I'm just going to call mm at some point they went to dipping the chicken in water instead of a milk and egg wash still cake flour still has the spice still has the salt but the milk and the egg are replaced with dried milk and dried egg and those go into the flour and get mixed in I'm gonna do the 2000s version first so I'm just put chicken in this basket I've got cold water in this tub and I will do five pieces let's do five pieces and so it just goes in and you want to get it wet you want to get the chicken wet you want to get it coated with water it's really not a whole big deal over the water and shake it and there's a number of times you're supposed to shake it that to me is just a training mantra to make sure that you get people doing it the right way across all restaurants and into the flour and once it's in the flour you have to use your hands that's the best way to make sure that it's fully coated so you turn it and you turn it and you make sure that everything gets flour and spice mix all over and then we pull it out and just knock off any excess okay into the fryer basket and into the oil give it a couple shakes just to make sure that nothing sticking on with the lid okay I hate keep frying that whatever told you that I hate deep-fried okay into the oven while we fry the next batch so we're gonna call this the 1950's version which is milk and egg for the initial wash I'm gonna finish that bag and put in three eggs and see how that goes there's no mention in any of the literature what the amount of egg to milk was so I think three for this amount of milk should be fine and if it works it really well and that's something else I need to tinker with and another five pieces of chicken right it's not a marinade you're just trying to get the chicken wet so that the breading sticks okay out of the milk and the egg and into the flour toss and into the fryer basket and same as before the oil give it a bit of a shake so nothing sticking tighten down the lid okay one last test I'm going to do a hybrid between the two methods so we're gonna dip it into a milk and egg wash and then we're going to put it into the 2000s breading that contains the egg and the powdered milk and just see what happens Oh Glenn it is hot in here it is a lot of pressure frying hey Glenn hey friends so we've got four four examples what each of them are is written on this little piece of paper upside down so we can't see okay two of them like I know what they are just cuz I was here all day working yeah two of them look distinctly different like these do you kind of like the thing those two look the same and so what we're looking for is just a taste test of the coating okay three of them have exactly the same spicing and one of them one of them is KFC okay so it's it's do anything tastes the same compare and contrast okay gonna start with this one sure okay they're still nice and hot that was pretty good no coding yeah taste tastes pretty good Cody's nice and crunchy um here's the thing about that pressure fryer that chicken is juicy yeah I like it really does lock everything yeah I leaned over in fear of dripping yeah um so try this one next sure that one seems like it's still really hot mm-hmm am I gonna be okay I'm a little worried fuck Mike someone's very similar yeah very similar in texture yeah there okay this one looks completely different yeah I got this spicing more on this one like I can taste I can taste more flavor from from the coating mm-hmm but it's not I wouldn't say it's any more or less crunchy or any of those things no it's okay it's it for you from a coating level it's as crunchy or not as crunchy all very similar but this one I get I get more flavor coming through than I did with either of those two and then this one okay I feel like I'm gonna guess this is the KFC only because it everything else has like big chunky spicy bits sticking out and they would have a more refined mm-hmm I guess but let's see how it tastes No I think if you threw any of them in front of me I would totally buy into what you're selling me oh yeah yeah I can tell them apart because they're Stan I'm I can tell them apart because I'm right here looking at them tasting them you're tasting them one after the other but if but if even if I close my eyes and you gave me one I don't think I could tell you which one it was I really don't and that's good so blindfolded they would all pretty much taste the same very very similar although one of them to me tastes better than the others but I think if you were blindfolded if I wouldn't be able to say oh no no it's very subtle yeah if I was blindfolded and didn't know which one you were handing me they would all be almost the same but if I had to rank them oh these two would be lowest on my list there's something about the coating that masked the flavor of the spicing to me okay this one would be top of my list okay because I did get more spicy okay and I know that this one's KFC I kind of guessed that one now I'd have to go you know to really tell it I'd have to go head to head and go back and back and forth back and forth between the two just to know the spicing really is the same yeah mm-hmm we're getting close mm-hmm okay so what keeps nagging let's let's take a look so the ones that I rated lowest this is the 1950s coating so dipped in milk and egg wash and then into flour and spicing mm-hmm this is the hybrid so milk and egg wash and then dipped into the spicing mixture that had the powdered milk in the powdered egg okay the one that I liked the most is the one that was only dipped in water and then mixed in and then dipped into the breading that had the powdered milk in the powdered egg so there's something about the simplified simplified it's just not it's water versus milk so there's still milk and there's still egg they're just added in a different way and you get a different coating the color is the color is closer to the KFC it is but I think most people would do Philly eight with you know this is this is a homemade yeah oh maybe fried chicken and then of course this is the kernels so I'm really surprised I'm actually totally blown away that I liked the one from mm or the one that we're calling sort of the contemporary the current version because it's more processed I would say that I would be happy with any of them yeah I would eat any of them and I think I think in so in our next in our next video the next iteration I think we're getting really close with the spicing yes yeah I think you're going on with the spicing I think there's there's one component that I'm gonna bump up to see if it brings out the other flavors and that's a little bit more msg I know they're using a lot of MSG I'm using a little bit of MSG I think if I bump that up all of the flavors will like adding a little bit more salt a little bit more salt it'll bloom but I am gonna go with this breading method against all of my willpower because I thought that it was going to be horrible but it actually isn't you can't you know when I picked up the egg whites they were 75% off apparently because no one buys them no one buys them for home use so they were like 75% off and I thought oh my what am I getting into but so um the next KFC video won't be as far away as this one was but it'll be a little ways off cuz it takes a while for testing I will say though I will add though that although this is your favorite because they're all really good you could pump up the spicing and knees just by bumping up the spicy yes and you could make that you know and so if you don't have all of those things and what you have is milk and egg you this is great yes and so and that might be a road that I go down because I'm like actually at some point take out the pressure fryer because always gonna have a pressure fryer and and I know that frying in a pan or pot is different is a different challenge and so the spicing and the breading needs to be different to meet that challenge and that's even farther down the line so thanks for stopping by see you again soon take care you

Channel: Glen And Friends Cooking

Views: 341,117

Rating: 4.8966866 out of 5

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Id: g6RPP_9Lwbc

Length: 16min 3sec (963 seconds)

Published: Sat Sep 28 2019

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