[Sca-cooks] KFC

[Siegfried Heydrich]

    I worked for KFC (back when it was still Col. Sanders) when I was in
high school. They fried the chicken in pressure cookers, and used the
cracklin's that fell into catch pots on the bottom of the cookers for gravy.
The coating was a bag o' spices that you mixed with a specified amount of
flour. As I remember, it was a fairly complex mixture. The contents of the
bag would settle into layers during shipping, and you could see the
different spices flowing out when you emptied it.
    I don't think the mix had MSG, as I get a very pronounced reaction to
it. And I certainly ate enough of it when I worked there . . .

    Sieggy

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> The big secret book IIRC said specifically it didn't know if that was the
> exact recipe it's just how he/she figured out how to make the thing so it
> tasted like the product it was trying to duplicate.
>
> Also, IIRC one of the ingredients in the KFC was MSG.  Meaning that was an
> ingredient the author used to make it taste like regular KFC.
>
> Also, the author cooked it in a pressure cooker.
>
> Don't remember what I did with my copy of the book, but I remember the KFC
> chicken I tried to make tasted really good.
>
> Also, I was at KFC lately and I remember thinking the chicken didn't taste
> the same as it used to.
>
>     Angeline
>
> >Greetings,
> >Actually it doesn not. The spices that make Kentucky Fried Chicken so
> >delectable are not to be found in the breading but in the marinade. I
> >believe the joke was on the author of the book you read.
> >
> >-Serena
> > >
> > > I bought a book, years ago, called "Big Secrets". I recall one of the
> > > chapters, where the author got his hands on a sample of the breading
> > > mixture that KFC sells its franchisees, and had it tested in a lab. It
> > > was basically flour, salt, and a minimal amount of black pepper. No
> > > other herbs, spices or even volatile oils or flavor compounds were
> > > present in any detectable amounts.
> > >
> > > Kinda bursts the bubble, don't it?
> > >
> > > Avraham