Food Theory: I SOLVED KFC's Secret Recipe! (KFC Chicken)

so has anyone actually ever figured out colonel sanders's secret recipe blend of 11 herbs and spices dozens upon dozens of individuals claim to have solved the world-renowned mystery but which of them if any should we believe should we believe the colonel's own nephew who used to mix the spices himself when he was a child the scientist who chemically analyzed kfc's ingredients in a laboratory or should we believe kfc the multinational corporation that has nothing to gain and everything to lose by the recipe becoming public knowledge who claims to this very day quote no one's ever been right well never fear theorists because today's food theory will answer it all we're putting the most legitimate contenders to the test as well as our own spoiler alert i think we've got it [Music] hey guys welcome to food theory where today we're doing something very scary actually cooking cooking food oh my gosh and not just cooking any food we are cooking perhaps one of the best kept secret foods in all of history colonel sanders secret recipe what do you think the secret is matthew i think the secret the secret is love oh man and i hear i was thinking it was just like little clippings of his beard that had fallen into the chicken batter so i think everyone can agree that kfc's 11 infamous herbs and spices are one of the most renowned secret recipes in food history and we've found a lot of different recipes that say that they've cracked the code and today we're going to put them to the test yeah so we have five different dupe recipes that we're going to be trying today um some of them are crowdsourced some of them come from food scientists and some of them even come from colonel sanders himself question mark let's get going yeah there's a lot to cover today and a lot of chicken that needs to be fried so let's stop throwing our bowls around and start cooking as we throw our bowls in the ring it's important to keep in mind that recreating kfc's original recipe is a bit like hitting a moving target people have been trying to get the recipe right since before i was born and during that time the taste of kfc's chicken has changed to a certain degree the secret 11 herbs and spices almost certainly haven't but we know for a fact that kfc has tweaked other aspects of the recipe and preparation process like adopting new frying oils that contain fewer trans fats even the late colonel sanders believed his recipe was altered to a noticeable degree during his own lifetime shortly after selling kentucky fried chicken in 1964 he began voicing displeasure about perceived recipe changes being made under kfc's new ownership as a result some of the recipe contenders we're looking at today seek to recreate the colonel's true original recipe before kfc corporate took over other recipe contenders seek to recreate the taste of kfc's original recipe the way we've come to know and love it in more recent decades in recent years kfc has adopted soybean oil as its frying oil of choice in many locations especially here in the u.s since we'll be comparing our recipe contenders against contemporary kfc chicken fried and soybean oil we're gonna fry all of our contender recipes in soybean oil too last thing i'll mention it's well known that kfc fries their chicken in pressure fryers which not only fry the chicken faster but also give kfc's fried chicken its distinct extra crispy texture sadly i didn't have one of those in the kitchen so today's contender recipes are gonna have to settle for the deep fryer steph and i promise to judge them not on texture but taste and taste alone and also to be fair our chicken totally turned out crispier just saying now without further ado let's put our first contender to the test this recipe was developed by author and tv host todd wilbur so todd wilbur for those who don't know is actually famous for recreating famous recipes he's done the big mac he's done wendy's chili he's done a whole bunch of secret famous recipes that you shouldn't technically be able to make at home including the kfc original recipe do you really need someone to recreate the big mac the commercials tell you what's in it special sausage cheese pickles onions and a sesame seed butter well there's two patties special sauce special sauce what's that isn't it just thousand island dressing i don't what he's also done mrs fields cookies anyway i thought that was interesting that doesn't sound delicious i know i love this man why can we hire him i feel like this is a person who should be on this channel he's already a best-selling author who's been on like every major talk show he doesn't need us but has he been on youtube before we can poorly animate a stick figure of him for years that does sound like a high value proposition we should call him we should call us up todd wilbur well let's see how his recipe works out first and then all right yeah okay good point now the reason we're starting with this recipe is because todd wilbur on top of being a guy who's talented enough to have made a career out of hacking recipes really seems to have done the leg work to get the recipe right in 2011 wilbur's tv show top secret recipes visited kfc's pressure fryer supplier and wilbur spoke with a friend and business associate who knew the colonel personally tell the cherry what's a telecherry tldcg tell a cherry pepper that gives it the aftertaste this of course was on top of wilbur's own research and trial and error efforts but perhaps the most useful thing of all is the fact that wilbur's findings were adapted into a full-blown step-by-step recipe the same cannot be said for certain other contender recipes in today's episode seriously some of them are basically a list of ingredients without quantities or anything fun fact this ingredient is completely verboten in our household stephanie had a traumatic experience as a kid with black pepper completely banned so this is actually the first black pepper that i've had in over a decade because i've been married to stuff it's true pretty much not even on salad or pasta nothing not even in soup we just don't use black pepper here nothing sir say when [Music] remember sir you can say when when the brining dredging breading and frying were finally complete it was time to put todd wilbur's recipe head to head against kfc's original you should do kfc first it's delicious vertigo i definitely get some of the pepperiness i definitely get some sort of aromatic something in there but i don't really know what it is and soft it's funny for 11 herbs and spices in there not getting a lot i'm mostly just tasting pepper to be honest yes i'm getting pepper i get the pepper on the back end but i'm not getting a big spice mix interesting let's taste todd todd shall we here we go all right here we go this is the man who literally wrote the book on secret recipes counting on you oh we made great fried chicken wow wow so yeah first impression our fried chicken is great good job so good it's so good i'm so happy this is right wow the flavor is the thing that matters i actually am not getting as much pepper in this one as i did from kfc i like it a bit better to be honest but i i think that kfc has a different flavor than this yes i'm not getting any of that like black pepperiness that i'm feeling at the back end of the kfc in a scale of one to ten matching kfc what would you rate todd wilbur's i would actually only rate this about a six sorry todd real sick that's pretty high i would rate it at probably about a four wow okay you're really different in there i i gotta have somewhere to go this is my first one maybe i'm artificially braiding it too well i tried to aim for the middle so i had room on either side now on to recipe contender number two which isn't exactly a recipe per se it's actually a lab result published by author william poundstone in his 1983 book big secrets that's right this guy had a laboratory conduct a qualitative analysis on a sample of kfc coding mix in order to identify every ingredient that's present what's noteworthy about poundstone's findings was that the lab didn't find 11 herbs and spices not even close in fact the lab results identified just four ingredients total flour salt black pepper and msg yeah houndstone verified that the seasoning mixture he tested was the only seasoning involved in the preparation process no there was no additional substance found in the entire sample not a single grain and yes the lab was able to identify every single ingredient present in the sample so according to big secrets there are just three seasoning ingredients mixed into kfc's breading flour that is a far cry from the 11 herbs and spices especially considering that salt and msg aren't technically herbs or spices at all steph i know that one of the things that you and i've always talked about with food theory is that we've wanted the ability to analyze recipes in a lab setting oh my gosh i want to send everything through a mass spectrometer yeah if any of you have access to a mass spectrometer hit us up we want to actually tap into the secret recipe of diet coke and other things yes we promise we'll give your institution a shout out so if there are any universities out there that need some shameless self-promotion we are here to be shameless for you she knows how to use a mass spectrometer i can use it safely i promise now preparing fried chicken all up houndstone was way more challenging than preparing todd wilbur's recipe what the laboratory's qualitative analysis and big secrets didn't supply were proportions the lab was asked to identify all ingredients present in the sample but they were not asked to determine the quantities of those ingredients so steph and i were kind of on our own to determine the correct amounts of each seasoning ingredient we made an educated guess by borrowing ideas from similar recipes but still pound stone really left us hanging here this is how much i love stephanie i'm not making her touch the black pepper at all that is nice this is this is my gift to you stephanie i appreciate you today is the day food theory graduates into becoming a chef oh food theory you're growing up into a legitimate recipe channel andrew from binging with babbage we're coming for you binging with babish not at all watch out here comes food theory he's not afraid no not even not even i'm afraid just thinking of him eventually i got over my fear and got back to work after re-familiarizing ourselves with kfc's original recipe steph and i bit into our william poundstone-inspired fried chicken and you see the rest from an accuracy standpoint yeah from an accuracy standpoint one to ten accuracy rating mine is a four or five on this one wow less yeah i think it's less i was gonna say mine is still a four it is about the same level of accurate you got that saltiness in there but congratulations you got flour which is how you make fried chicken yeah but yeah all right all right next now to be fair poundstone's laboratory test was performed nearly 40 years ago kfc's original recipe may have changed slightly since then also steph and i probably guessed a bit wrong on the ingredient proportions but hey that's kind of on old pound stone next up the fried chicken seasoning that sounds like it was someone's handle and a game of laser tag 99x this one's actually really fascinating so colonel sanders apparently was so disappointed with the kfc corporation watering down his recipe or the instructions that they were giving out to franchisees of the name that he went to an external company marion k spices and said hey make me this spice recipe and then he encouraged all the people who were doing kfc restaurants to go with this spice recipe yeah it's actually here it's bottled you can buy it to this day yeah you can buy it but it has to go by the name 99x because the kfc corporation got into a lawsuit with these guys to basically be like hey stop it no get out of here which maybe like meant that they were on the right track no i i feel like this is has promised personally i think that this is the one that is going to knock it out of the ballpark it also just solidifies harlan's reputation as like a difficult guy to work with here i'm gonna sell my company to this larger company but i'm gonna try to undermine them because i'm not happy with the work they're doing fascinating so the story behind 99x seems really promising but it comes with a catch we don't know the recipe of 99x all we know are the ingredients that they've listed on the packaging as required by the fda so we know that this spice blend contains quote monosodium glutamate white and black pepper fine flake salt sage coriander and other natural spices but that's it it means if 99x winds up being the perfect taste match the colonel's secret is still pretty safe marion k includes a brief borderline cryptic recipe on their site and that is what we're going gonna be testing today i gotta say i just love the fact that one of the spices we're using today is called 99x it's like the hardest core kitchen spice ever right so clearly you can see a lot of black pepper in there smells really good it's actually super fragrant i'm shocked at how little spice that you actually need in fried chicken to make it taste good that's probably been the biggest shock to me as we've been working on this so far it's look at there's like nothing in here nothing it's all just much flour mary and kay's recipe was a cinch to make and we are ready to put 99x to the test in no time as always we tasted kfc's original recipe chicken first then the contender this one is actually much closer and there it's not like two anything it's not too salty it's not too peppery this one is a really close actually it's really really close so on the accuracy scale of one to ten i would give this one like an eight like maybe i can taste the difference but i'm not entirely sure all the time which says to me that it's like up there it's like an eight yeah i think if you gave me this in a blind taste test i would have a really hard time knowing it was different from kfc yeah i think the 99x without question is the closest that we've done so far it also might be my favorite so far it is my favorite so far yeah i really like this one i would recommend that recipe above the other two partially because it's so much easier there's just you buy one ingredient and you're kind of done and then it came out great this one is also super crispy just throwing it out there so the one thing that i would love to have seen with this actually is this mixture but with the 99x cranked up a little bit with the ratio a little bit higher in the spice category with just a little bit more i feel like it would be like a 10. yeah i feel like you could get it right there because right now it's just a little bit more subtle than what i'm getting out of the kfc you know what though i'm not sure i would like it better if you did i like this one a lot it's really good like better than the kfc oh really i like the first one better than the kfc too i just i really like fried chicken stuff is throwing kfc under the bus i know sorry man now the story behind our next recipe contender also seems really promising in 2016 the food world got rocked by an article in the chicago tribune joe leddington the nephew of colonel sanders himself came forward with this handwritten recipe found in an old scrap book passed down to him from his aunt claudia price who was harlan sanders's second wife while the note is not written in the colonel's handwriting joe claims it contains the correct ingredients and proportions for the colonel's secret blend and joe should know he actually worked at harlan's diner when he was a kid and claims to have even mixed the blend of herbs and spices himself now the chicago tribune tested this recipe themselves and determined that the capital t's on the recipe refer to tablespoons not teaspoons they claimed the recipe tasted quite similar to kfc's original recipe as written but when they took the liberty of adding msg the recipe became quote virtually indistinguishable so we took their word for it on both fronts we went with tablespoons and we added msg the chicago tribune also prepared their chicken with a buttermilk egg bath instead of the skim milk egg bath that we've been using thus far since their results wound up being virtually indistinguishable we followed their steps to the letter this is a lot of seasoning relative to all the other recipes that you've done this is a lot the ratio of flour to seasoning is much different four wow four tablespoons of paprika this is gonna be a really spicy chicken right wow it's gonna be a really intense recipe this is so vastly different from all the other recipes we've done so far it's literally a completely different color than all of the other chicken it's wild it's red it's yellow it's brown you can actually see the seasoning in there i'm most excited about this one me too this one's gonna be good i think the recipe calls for four tablespoons of paprika which makes for a much darker breading than we found in the previous recipes i promised that color's not from staying in the fryer too long it stayed in the fryer the exact same length as every other one of these tested and also the breading had a really nice consistency when it hit our mouths okay so matthew here's what i'm gonna say about this yeah which you will probably not find relatable okay but growing up here in north carolina yeah i used to occasionally go to like mom and pop places where they would serve like mom and pop fried chicken sure it looked darker sure it tasted spicier and it was more similar to this than any of the other ones we've tried interesting so this feels to me like a southern style mom and pop recipe the weird thing about this one is and the thing that i don't quite understand i feel like it should have more flavor than it does it looks like it's saturated with spice and flavor and you saw the amount of spice and flavor that went into that mix and i bite it and there's not a whole lot of flavor there the buttermilk has made it super juicy i will say yeah it's super juicy the the meat is actually delicious but definitely not kfc on a scale of one to ten does it match kfc it's like this is like a three like two yeah because i was rating it at four before the other ones do it much much better i can't believe these results actually i'm like i'm shocked now it's important to keep in mind that if this recipe is indeed authentic it could very well date back to the 1950s or even 40s when the colonel was still developing the recipe it could be an example of the colonel's true og recipe the way he intended it before kfc corporate got their finger licking fingers in the mix so the fact that it doesn't match the look or taste of contemporary kfc chicken should be taken with a grain of msg something similar could also be said for our next recipe known as tc34d it also seeks to recreate the colonel's og recipe as opposed to the fried chicken sold by kfc corporate today but what you need to understand about tc34d is that it's a recipe meticulously and i do mean meticulously crafted by the internet hive mind if there is a secret the internet will find it and tear it apart and solve it and so you had a group of devoted kfc fans trying to actually solve the kernel secret recipe and these guys weren't just content in solving it they were getting down to the level of finding where in the world geographically these ingredients were coming from i mean just take a look at this recipe it's not enough to add 5 16 teaspoons of ginger they're asking you to find ginger specifically from jamaica because the flavor profile is ever so slightly more accurate ready to add .020 grams of cardamom better make sure it's guatemalan first definitely wasn't easy to find all these ingredients even with google's help couldn't help but wonder if colonel sanders really gave a hoot whether or not his white pepper was from malaysia back when he was crafting his recipe out of a gas station but hey i'm not gonna knock it until i've tried this amazingly detailed recipe for myself tc34d is believed to be a product of a now defunct internet forum kfc.forumup.co.uk which is inactive today because members believed that they'd cracked the recipe a while ago for years this dedicated group of internet sleuths used any and all information available to him to crack the colonel's recipe that meant adjusting the recipes through trial and error in their home kitchens and soaking up every scrap of information available to them for instance this photo released by kfc shows the 11 herbs and spices kept in the vault at kfc's headquarters in louisville kentucky the forum members absolutely picked this photo apart and made sure that their 11 herbs and spices match the coloring of the vials in the picture notice those letters next to each ingredient in the tc34d recipe those refer to the corresponding lettered vials finally as you might deduce from the titling method used for these recipes tc34d is hardly the only one that these forum members came up with it just happens to be the one that's the most famous but there's certainly not unanimous consent that it's the most accurate there are dozens of other recipes worthy of consideration developed in these forums and otherwise that we simply don't have the time to test in today's episode now then how excited are we to try the crowdsourced recipe that harnesses the power of the entire internet approximately this excited [Music] terrible i'm so sorry folks this recipe calls for tahitian vanilla bean how could you not be excited about this so after tasting kfc's original recipe we took a bite out of tc34d nope nope no that does not taste the same at all not even close there's like more ginger not even close there's more paprika which i can taste those things first of all which means they're not accurate but no right all right i feel like it's tasty actually but it's a very different fried chicken oh yeah team internet super wacky what you doing you guys you are so they're like it's gotta be jamaican white pepper maybe you should have just focused on getting the 12 verbs by the lemonade almost like people who do analysis on the internet over complicate things they ask you how you are you just have to say that you're fine so stephanie when it comes to crowdsource on a scale of one to ten what's the matching for kfc it's like one sorry guys right like it wasn't sorry i swear we followed your recipe we wanted it like we are on team internet we we root for team internet yeah this was just not this is just not our day yeah the group think was not really working i would say yeah maybe it's a maybe it's a two maybe it's a one it's low right the sweetness is the thing that the vanilla what are you doing in there the vanilla really threw it off now it bears repeating that tc34d's aim was attempting to recreate the colonel's personal pre-corporate version of the secret recipe so the goal of the recipe wasn't so much to match the taste of the contemporary kfc chicken but i gotta say the taste of tc34d was just so so different not bad it was really tasty but to me it just didn't seem related to kfc's original recipe fried chicken in any discernible way tahitian vanilla is really sweet and that sweetness really came through in the recipe in a way that didn't really match my expectation of what southern fried chicken usually tastes like so it leaves us with a very clear winner in terms of the matching potential the 99x very clearly took it by a wide margin so does that actually solve the problem because the whole problem here right is that it is a secret recipe and we've solved that secret recipe using a secret spice so okay it solves the it doesn't solve it in actuality but it does solve the problem which is that you can't recreate kfc original recipe at your house actually you can get very close where you take it you run with it and you can recreate kfc at home however there is one final ingredient that we have to test recently kfc and all their marketing craziness decided hey why don't we release a telenovela style romance called a recipe for seduction starring mario lopez as colonel sanders we actually cover this over on film theory today so if you haven't seen that episode check it out there's an icon there's another there's an icard in one of the corners probably this corner yeah probably probably this corner and in a recipe for seduction there was something that we thought might be a hidden code alluding to a secret ingredient that none of these recipes cover every time that colonel sanders is cooking in the kitchen or whatever he is associated with citrus some sort of magical bowl of citric fruit out there it's very odd again we go much deeper in depth in this on the film theory episode but we wanted to test it out we're like is citrus the secret ingredient that kfc is trying to communicate to us via their telenovela made for tv special starring mario lopez you never know we just leave no stone unturned and wanted some more fried chicken okay i know this sounds outrageous like is matpat honestly expecting you to believe that the colonel sanders put fruit in his recipe no but kfc corporate did long after they purchased the company from the kernel remember how kfc started using soybean oil in order to cut down on the trans fat while citric acid the chemical that gives citrus fruits their distinct sour taste can be added to soybean oil to make it last longer and that's exactly what kfc has started to do in recent years they even say so on their website now citric acid has a strong taste is it possible that it affects the flavor of contemporary kfc chicken even though it's just an additive to the oil and not an explicit ingredient in the recipe was a recipe for seduction trying to tell us something by jamming over 70 fruit cameos into a 16 minute mini movie there's only one way to find out friends so here we go friends this is our final batch of fried chicken this is the 99x recipe plus the secret ingredient of citric acid from the telenovela a recipe for seduction first we tasted kfc's original recipe one final time before moving on to the grand finale this is it with citric acid wow is that the secret ingredient am i imagining that it tastes a little bit closer it does taste a little bit closer it tastes like is it a nine now i think i think this bumps it up to a nine i think this is it that can't be really mario lopez wouldn't why because it does taste just a little bit closer it does it is slightly closer are we making it up no i don't think we are no it's got i don't know what it's weird it is very strange but i thought this was gonna be such an anticlimactic episode we were gonna get there and be like nope no difference but i swear it's a little closer it is yeah yep [Laughter] wow no way there it is huh that's fascinating i think that we've stumbled across it i think if you take the 99x recipe you crank it up just a little bit add a little bit more then yeah a little bit more than the ratios in the recipe that we got online plus a little bit of citric acid from recipe for seduction in the oil i think you got it this is kfc i think you have made kfc it's real good guys it's great i really recommend trying it at home if you don't have a deep fryer i think you could achieve very similar results with the pan fryer i think that we have probably gotten as close as humanly possible to the kfc secret recipe without actually getting access to the kfc secret recipe i'm i'm pretty convinced too i think this is it guys what a successful episode this was great successful in many ways so there you have it friends the kfc secret recipe 99x plus a little bit of citric acid who knew who knew we did yeah or at least we just found out that's just a theory a food theory bon appetit oh gross we didn't plan that we are the same thanks for watching theorists if you're hungry for more kentucky fried content be sure to check out the other kfc themed episodes that we uploaded today at the same time as this episode no kfc didn't sponsor us but if they wanted to we'd totally be open for it the film theory episode rips into that made for tv romance movie starring the colonel himself and gives you more detail as to how we landed on citric acid as the secret ingredient and the game theory episode looks at kfc's uh let's call it interesting foray into gaming consoles you're welcome kfc the least you could do is send us just a high-powered computer powered by chicken that is no joke that is what that thing is and we're talking about it over on game theory now if you'll excuse me i have to go play some ring fit adventure to try and burn off the bajillion fried chicken calories i just ingested

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Length: 29min 4sec (1744 seconds)

Published: Sun Jan 24 2021

Reddit Comments

[u/antagonizerz]

I worked at KFC in the mid 80's. It was my first job. There's a few secrets that I learned that people should know. First, the oil isn't oil. It came in boxes, as in it was lard, not oil. Said so right on the side. We shoveled it in to the fryers with a scoop. Second, we used Henny Penny fryers and would cook the chicken for 8 minutes under pressure. If you were swamped you made what was called 5 minute chicken which was pressure for 3 minutes, and open frying for 2. This is how crispy chicken came to be. Third, the secret recipe came in one bag. It was plain but when you poured it out into the bin, you could see that it was pretty much a 50/50 mix of spices to flour...like it was rich. LOTS of pepper. I don't mean black pepper either. White pepper which, I found out early that I'm allergic to. Every time I poured a bag, I had trouble breathing for hours. I brought a lot of the spice home. My manager didn't really care and so I used to give it away to people. There were attempts to copy it too. One ingredient that mom used was celery salt. You wouldn't believe how much is in there but that distinct salty fresh taste you get, that's what it is. Finally...and this part will gross you out, is the gravy. After you fried a few batches in the Henny Penny fryer, it got pretty polluted with bits of batter, so you would drain it down into a pan, then pump it back up through a filter. Every morning, we would scrape some of that batter from the bottom pan and put it into a pot with water. Then we'd add a scoop or two more of the secret recipe and cook it all day. Yup...that was how the gravy was made in the 80's.

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The TLDR of it is there is a shit ton of white pepper in it and celery salt, and honestly, if you made your chicken with just those two ingredients, you'd be 90% of the way to KFC chicken. Mom also thought there was allspice in it, but I can't confirm that.

[u/Dragonchild108]

Try looking up the spice 99x the website is down. I personally can’t get on to order this spice. Is it pure coincidence. Try it yourself, maybe it’s my end

Edit: failed at hiding the spice used, got it right now

[u/Radar1112345]

Does anyone know the actual recipe for the final recipe? I want to make it

[u/Jackie_Elle]

I grew up with KFC, my father was a manager in 70s and 80s, it was even my first job - at the age of 8 lol, so I am finding this interesting. I met him when I was young and had my pic taken with him a year before he died.

As far as the 11 "herbs and spices" - that was a marketing thing to keep people guessing, originally perhaps, but it has been watered down since - mainly for profit reasons. The Internet sourced one is too complex, remember the Colonel was poor, bankrupted a few times ... he has no access to exoticly sourced vanilla beans.

One problem is - depending on where you go, even restaurants in same city, but different franchises - the taste changes - which really upset Harland.

A few places use the "approved" spice pack, but add extra Paparika or other spices to kick it up, meeting their local populations tastebuds.

Canada and a few international holders of the original Kentucky Fried Chicken name (not KFC) do it the old fashioned way, during the heyday of popularity - 60s to 80s.

So finding "the ONE recipe" is near impossible. Sadly, when PepsiCo purchased the rights and started tweaking things ... they lost the spark.

Remember, the chicken was part of a meal, not the main thing. The taste flavours of the Grecian bread, the potatoes with spiced gravy (the fries are not OG), even the coleslaw "mayo" were all selected to work with each other to create an experience.

Sadly it is no longer the family event it once was.

And yes, I remember lugging the large boxes of solid fat from storage in the morning ... I wonder why I have a bad back now lol (thanks /u/antagonizerz for that memory reminder lol.)

[u/RPDRNick]

It looks like they may've crashed MarionKay's servers.

[u/Missed_high5]

What temp is he frying it at? I always burn my chicken or it comes out to greasy.