Recreating Nashville Hot Chicken

spicy food doesn't kill me immediately oh I don't know why do we didn't get so I've never been to Nashville before everybody it's like really nice start to an iconic Nashville dish Josh really nice how about this we'll go there and then then we'll make it sound good okay [Music] [Music] we're in Nashville what is that and if government with some sort of like futuristic Cyclops mask we're gonna let's just see how a however so we decided to start this all up at one of the most iconic Nashville hot chicken places in the world and then I realized that they were closed so I'm very sorry that's the end of the video thank you so much for know we're gonna go we're gonna get going next to the list is another icon Hattie B's couldn't exactly film inside and we were getting a lot of weird look so we decided to go ahead and just grab our chicken and go yeah it smells great I mean I'm I'm pretty stoked about it this wow that actually looks pretty ballin I will say there's one medium in here there's one hot and then there's one ultra hot that's probably the ultra hot one is that that seemed right when I start here that's a really good these are just tenders right this is medium super juicy natural just a chicken right this is what I'm imagining the hot looks like it really good right so how it is cleanse this that's that's hot this is extra hot you know what I'll just do over the thingy I'm gonna start tongue down this is the first stop we haven't even gotten started yet this is down first time oh there's a water come what is this is this [Music] well that doesn't work so [Music] I didn't think about it at all no it's all good okay I did this for you no don't let this flop how do you smile see really good it's crispy it's salty button the spikes he's actually not that bad now the extra hot medium is like okay that's a little spicy spicy is like it's a little spicier and then when you go to X naught it just goes you so just to get a better idea I decided to visit two more places you know for science the next one being at least barbecue I know what you're thinking barbecue what is that sis Nashville every single restaurant isms mandatory I serve hot chicken oh wow my body needs a break and this is the break that I needed it's like a loving hug from your mom I think we need to try one more and we'll be there despite the fact that the original princess was closed in the beginning we had to see if there was one of them that was open but the reason why all these restaurants are so messed up right now is because the tornado that went through Nashville there are a lot of relief funds and if you want to donate they really need the help there'll be a link in the description so if you'd like to help you can go there cheers to you and this is the hot version but they put this on top of a slice of bread this is where the flavor is all the like salty heavily spiced flavor it's all condensed this little snow piece of bread obviously insane I think we're in a good spot to go back home inevitably recreate the hot chicken okay so thanks to movie magic we're back in town I wish that it was like glazed with some sort of like sweet whatever cuz it's shiny and like red it's not so stop assuming the secret is the oil by the way you can text me at eight one eight four five two two six four zero its new sort of content thing I'm trying out but anyway with all that said let's do this shall we sure that's all the comics are saying the recipe starts at four minutes just so you know okay so let's first adjust our chicken as you can see I'm firmly addressing mine in all seriousness we've got to keep this classic okay I don't want to see me just plain old chicken breasts you can do four chicken leg quarters or you can just do a whole chicken that's been cut into eight pieces of course you can have your butcher do this I personally like to do this myself because it's you know got a keep in practice bra the point is the chicken needs to have skin and ideally a bone now the next thing is instead of brining our chicken we're actually just gonna give it a light cure so season all of your chicken on both sides pretty generously with salt if you want to get real fancy you can add a little bit of MSG you know mizune then just let that sit in the fridge for 24 hours of course you can skip that part but it makes a big flavor difference now when you're ready to fry fill a medium-sized have you bottom pot with oil you need enough to submerge the chicken but not overflowing cause a grease fire please be careful then go ahead and preheat that birther to 325 Fahrenheit or 160 degrees Celsius now we're gonna make our dip and rage so to make the buttermilk dip you're gonna need two large eggs whisked together then whisk in two cups or 475 milliliters of buttermilk then whisk in two tablespoons or 30 milliliters of hot sauce I use Louisiana two tablespoons or 30 milliliters of pickle juice optionally and an optional splash of cold smoked matsutake show you for fancy now for the flower church all you need is three cups our 450 grams of all-purpose flour and three teaspoons or 10 grams of kosher salt if that some whiskey business slop that boy around till everything's nice and incorporated okay so we've got our dip and dredge what we need to do one more thing we got to mix our spices for the welt spicy oil so you gonna start with a quarter cup or 25 grams of cayenne powder yes it's hot chicken not mild chicken it's a six and a half out of ten on the spicy scale add that to a medium-sized bowl along with one tablespoon or 11 grams of garlic powder 1 tablespoon or 8 grams of smoked paprika or you can use regular paprika 2 teaspoons or six grams of kosher salt and 2 tablespoons or 25 grams of dark brown sugar give that a little whiskey Judah that was a weird that's weird until thoroughly combined okay breading good chicken is an art to do this first toss a piece of chicken in the flour make sure to thoroughly coated shaking off the excess then dunk it in your buttermilk mixture thoroughly coat make sure there's no flowery patches and then back in your flour make sure pressing aggressively to get that coating all over the chicken you want to get every little nook and cranny it should look something like this now as you do it all get flakier and flakier because you have little clumps in there and that's great rents are people with all pieces of chicken gold that's it and now you're ready to eat I like it medium rare bone Apple tea that's a joke that's a joke please dear God nobody actually do that once your chicken is spreaded in your oil is at 325 Fahrenheit or 160 degrees Celsius you can go ahead and drop your chicken in in batches make sure not to overfill this I did like two to three pieces of chicken at a time and every time you fry you're gonna fry for 15 to 18 minutes or until the internal temperature reads 165 degrees Fahrenheit and if it's browning too fast just turn the temp down and touch anyway once your chickens down are nice and golden quiz B transfer to a baking sheet with a wire rack attached to it so can drain and then just repeat with the rest of the chicken we need to take another look at that chicken [Music] now once your chickens done take one cup or 240 milliliters of your hot fry oil and whisk that into your spices they might bubble a little bit that's totally okay once everything's nice and thoroughly mixed immediately toss all of your chicken in the hot oil the oil must be hot so the chicken stays quiff beat of course you can also brush this on but come on let's let's let's be real here also should mention it's a good idea to have some good white bread on you even better if you've made it yourself and you can slice it anything yes you want then gently lay your chicken on to a piece of bread that's some pickles and enjoy you know I gotta say this I'm really excited about this this looks really good pretty much the same - the fact that I added some smoked paprika my mouth is watering is whenever I said that I was like smoke back ikonics Oprah with that spicy boy oil I don't even know what to say eating this is like going into a wispy dreamy State this is pretty damn close I mean what do you want me to say I think we freaking did it [Music] that is a goodness so we get it the chickens good try the bread here it is whoo Nashville anyway Nashville I hope I made you proud hugs and kisses but do you want to know what else gets hugs and kisses b-roll [Music] [Music] we're guys and that is it so we made hot chicken it's hot but not too hot I tried to keep the spice level rather medium high ish but it should be spicy if you're gonna make hot chicken make it as spicy as you can tolerate it's called hot chicken okay come on come on let's I mean it's like right over here so it's hard for me no I gotta be honest with you guys the merch store is live you can purchase now but I'm not gonna release it I'm not gonna say anything about it because just to be completely honest given the circumstances of everything everybody's all stressed out about this stuff going on I'm not gonna say what it is you know what I'm talking about and I just don't feel like asking people to pull out their wallets quite yet you know I just want to wait a little bit wait for things to kind of mellow out a little I'm just trying to be respectful to everybody involved and yeah so you know if you guys feel differently better than you want you're like totally cool just comment let me know communicate it with you guys and not because I know that it's it's always me being like it's coming it's coming in now that it's finally here now I'm like I know release with all that said if you enjoyed this video where you learn something leave a like subscribe and I will see you next time kiss you [Music] [Music]

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Length: 10min 1sec (601 seconds)

Published: Sun Mar 22 2020