I work at KFC and, while I don’t know the secret recipe, I can say that the cooking method was wrong. We use pressure deep fryers at 345 Fahrenheit for 16 minutes. No buttermilk, and the ratio should be about 1/3 herbs and spices to 2/3 flour. Also, I can say for sure that there isn’t paprika. The distinct red color just isn’t in any of the mixes. (Also, we do use MSG, it’s one of the few things on the ingredients list) hope this helps!
@@shahzad1433they marinate using a marinating powder which we find at the back stock. Then, we use ice and marinate. To cook that, we double-dredge the chicken, apparently by squeezing the air out. The flour contains a mix of milk and egg powder, a spice mix (which has black pepper for sure) and salt. Then, we fry them in a pressure cooker for about 10 minutes. However, I find cooking chicken in a regular fryer for about 10 minutes makes them juicier.
I work at a KFC as a second job, they don't train you at all to not say what's in the seasoning. The actual seasoning packets we add to the flour don't even say it. First two ingredients: Spices, MSG
I used to work at KFC, and one thing everyone misses/forgets/doesnt have, is that the chicken is pressure cooked in an oil vat. Makes a huge difference.
i work also at KFC in the Netherlands and we also use the same methode but like the KFC franchise is like much bigger in America then in the Netherlands for example you guys have also the spicy KFC original we only have the Regular one
Everyone talking bout working at kfc etc. I worked at McCormicks and they had a small team working on the KFC mix that worked separate hours to everyone else. I made McDs sauces whilst never getting close to the holy grail of KFC special mixture
I worked at KFC. they used rapeseed oil, water for wet batter, and the seasoning was in one packet, no ingredients mentioned. people at the KFC stores won't know at all
People just use tonnes of black pepper and msg salt. Dip it twice into milk and egg before applying batter mix of flour, black pepper and msg salt. Dont need any other crap. Try it with few pieces. Use lard and oil mix if you can. Write back to thank me. If you use a small pressure cooker, it tastes exactly like the olden days kfc. Mmmmm
fun fact: the 11 herbs and spices isnt the colonel's original recipe and actually hated it. His original recipe was more like 25 herbs and spices but it was too complex or something
this guy is just such a great chef. i would pay good money just to eat what he cooks Thanks so much for all the likes, I never thought this would blow up 🙂
When Colonel Sanders sold KFC in the US, he continued to sell KFC chicken in Canada under a different franchise. There is a man that worked with him that he gave the recipe to that are the spices he used in Canada. That man now has a company in Europe that makes the seasoning in bulk and sells it to KFC in Europe. A guy investigating the seasonings was given the ingredients from that man , but not the measurements. The man that makes it in bulk is not sure if this is the same as the recipe they use in the USA. But this is apparently the ingredients in the seasoning in Europe. They use pressurized deep fryers. salt regular pepper coarsley ground pepper and finely ground white pepper allspice garlic powder summer savory coriander seed ginger msg thyme sage marjoram
ty for sharing, but there is an important ingredient that i KNOW i can taste in it when i burp, and it's not included in your list, makes me think the list isn't legit.
As an ex KFC employee, I can tell you that even actual workers aren't given the recipe. It all comes in bags thar are literally labeled "Original" or "Extra Crispy", and trust me one of the first things I did working there was look at it to see if I could find the recipe
Ah well since you never knew when you where an employee how about you know when you aren't an employee 2/3 tablespoon salt 1/2 tablespoon thyme 1/2 tablespoon basil 1/3 tablespoon oregano 1 tablespoon celery salt 1 tablespoon black pepper 1 tablespoon dried mustard 4 tablespoons paprika 2 tablespoons garlic salt 1 tablespoon ground ginger 3 tablespoons white pepper Other non kfc spice ingredients 140 grams monosodium glutamate 5 tablespoons dried egg yolks 280 grams plain flour Chicken (any cut) 280 millilitres white vinegar 280 millilitres water Some salt 500 millilitres Canola oil 500 millilitres Peanut oil 500 millilitres Vegetable oil Instructions Create chicken breading mix Place flour in a bowl along with your 11 herbs and spices a tablespoon of monosodium glutamate and 5 tablespoons of dried egg yolks Next create your brine with 280 millilitres white vinegar 280 millilitres water 140 grams monosodium glutamate and a pinch of salt boil Then make your deep frying oil first in your deep pan add all of your peanut canola and vegetable oil (500 millilitres each) And turn on the heat Then make your kfc get your chicken cuts and place them in your brine for 10 second and place on a separate tray After doing this with all your chicken place your chicken in Your chicken breading mix make sure you coat it completely In the mix Then place in the oil fry for 6-9 minutes or until golden brown
@@IlIlllIlIIlIIIllI All I was told is it was EXTREEEEMELY against policy to take pictures or any ingredients from the kitchen. The way they treated me there I damn well should've
I was a manager at KFC when I was a teenager. I can confirm, no buttermilk is used. The cooks would take the kitchen, dip it in fresh water, then seasoning.
Hahahaha he'll never get the real secret formula 2/3 tablespoon salt 1/2 tablespoon thyme 1/2 tablespoon basil 1/3 tablespoon oregano 1 tablespoon celery salt 1 tablespoon black pepper 1 tablespoon dried mustard 4 tablespoons paprika 2 tablespoons garlic salt 1 tablespoon ground ginger 3 tablespoons white pepper Other non kfc spice ingredients 140 grams monosodium glutamate 5 tablespoons dried egg yolks 280 grams plain flour Chicken (any cut) 280 millilitres white vinegar 280 millilitres water Some salt 500 millilitres Canola oil 500 millilitres Peanut oil 500 millilitres Vegetable oil Instructions Create chicken breading mix Place flour in a bowl along with your 11 herbs and spices a tablespoon of monosodium glutamate and 5 tablespoons of dried egg yolks Next create your brine with 280 millilitres white vinegar 280 millilitres water 140 grams monosodium glutamate and a pinch of salt boil Then make your deep frying oil first in your deep pan add all of your peanut canola and vegetable oil (500 millilitres each) And turn on the heat Then make your kfc get your chicken cuts and place them in your brine for 10 second and place on a separate tray After doing this with all your chicken place your chicken in Your chicken breading mix make sure you coat it completely In the mix Then place in the oil fry for 6-9 minutes or until golden brown Oops
Hi nick, just a tip. Don’t rest the chicken on paper towels, place them on a wire rack, the paper towels will cause condensation which might make the chicken less crispy.
I just wanna say, I’ve been watching your videos for years, and my absolute favorites are when you simply just cook something amazing and give us the recipe, no need to get ranch with it or anything. Videos like this one are the best of the best to me. Keep up the good work, I’ll always be a huge fan
Nailed it but.... . although I didn't work at kfc I noticed There's two mistakes in this one 1, There's no buttermilk it's just straight water for the original and double coats for the extra crispy 2, Kfc uses pressure fryers , which is a knight and day difference compared to the one frying on the ordinary pan.
Many old employees have though.... In my country (I live in Asia).....So when the KFC came here after 5-10 years many copycat Restaurant/fastfood stores popped up all over the country....... (Mostly old employees started those restaurants , Similarly with pizza hut too) This seems too be a common occurrence especially because of Asia's copyright rules (Like the Restaurant was called ( EXAMPLE) : LFC) .....And so I hear the Russians have got their own Copycat Versions too so Russians arent suffering too much after many international Fastfood Restaurants closed in Russia (due to Ukraine-Rus war)
I worked at KFC as a fry cook when I was younger and we were never told anything about what’s in the seasoning. We were to take a bag of flour that literally just said “flour” and mix it with a bag that literally said “salt” and as someone who cooked since I was a kid I would taste the salt and flour and would try my best to call it out and this is what I came up with; So the color of the salt alone gives off an Adoboish yellow color. I remember getting notes of oregano, white pepper, salt, black pepper, and the MSG is a no brainer. Other than that I will also say that KFC’s level of freshness is probably one of the best out of any restaurant I’ve ever worked at. The chicken is always delivered super fresh and we were expected to constantly change the chicken out of the warmer every hour and 30 mins. Also expected to clean our pressure fryers out every day if not every two days depending on how busy we got. That also played a part in the taste of the chicken.
@@ya42069 no, the ingredients are far from correct too. I’ve made this recipe before and it’s good, but so far off from kfc. There is definitely no paprika, onion, garlic, basil, or oregano in kfc chicken. Salt, pepper, white pepper, msg, ginger, allspice, marjoram, coriander, thyme and rosemary is way closer. All of those ingredients need to be finally ground and mixed, then medium ground black pepper added.
KFC employees are not told the ingredients. It’s all prepackaged powdered seasonings. A food scientist could probably do an analysis and tell you however.
I feel like the easiest way to find out the original recipe is too literally just experiment with what was the most common spices during the time of colonel sanders, experiment with flavor mixing etc until you discover thee perfect taste
Hey Nick, even if you used the exactly same spices as the original recipe, you are still not frying it right, because at KFC they use Henny Penny pressure fryers..
Great vid. The key to the taste is two things that make all the difference. The portions of ingredients (which we all know can change results drastically if they are off) and the chicken is pressure fried. I do like the fact you use the starch in the flour mixture. I usually use Cornstarch in mine instead of potato, I like the crunch it creates. Great copy cat! :)
For those who don't know KFC doesn't use the same ingredients as the original recipe. The secret recipe thing is just for marketing, i belive someone debunked this on a tv show by talking to an actual relative of the colonel
2/3 ts salt 1/2 ts thyme 1/2 ts basil 1/3 ts origino 1 ts celary salt 1 ts black pepper 1 ts dried mustard 4 ts paprika 2 ts garlic salt 1 ts ground ginger 3 ts white pepper Was found on the back of a photo with Colonel Sanders
Mustard is NOT an ingredient as it's AN ALLERGEN that has to be declared BY LAW and it does NOT show up as an ALLERGEN on any of their products, therefore MUSTARD IS NOT one of the 11 herbs and spices. CELERY IS LISTED as again CELERY is AN ALLERGEN that HAS TO BE DECLARED BY LAW and it shows up on all the original chicken pieces.
Between the allergens lists, our taste buds and smell receptors being pretty good at telling culinary stuff apart and trained animals covering what we can't, no recipe is immune to being cracked as far as basic ingredients are concerned. However, not only are plants ridiculously plenty in variety, but some of their breeds are proprietary. Meaning that you can't ask for seeds / sapplings (or similars), and getting your hands on one of these without asking and proceeding to plant, harvest and sell them or whatever you make out of them will most likely get you a heavy lawsuit. To top that off, the processes behind turning these plants into spices are all industrial secrets too, and other than telling whatever chemicals may end up in the final product, the owners of these secrets have no further obligations. So while our chemical receptors can tell us the difference between things made in way X and way Y, they aren't retro-engineering machines to tell us how it all arrived there. And since our allergen receptors don't care about such details, FDA won't give a damn either. Not to say that these so-called "secrets" means that they are the best all around to everyone. When things are way too good, we simply cannot evaluate which one is the best. This is specially important when we consider popular, mass-produced food items, such as fast-food spice blends and soft drinks. They aren't made to be deeply appreciated by "sommeliers", but simply appeal to a large amount of people; So not only are people unlikely to judge these items objective, they also have no reason to attempt it. But... While we cannot usually can (or want) to tell which one is better, we certainly can get "attached" to certain flavors, even more so when they bring us nostalgia or, quite the contrary, gives us something new to appreciate. Thus, keeping your exact recipe a secret is less of a way to avoid people attempting to make similar or "better" stuff, and more of a measure to keep a strong grip over said item's identity and all the popular culture that was built over them.
11 spices - Mix with 2 cups white fl 1) 2/3 Ts salt 2) 1/2 Ts thyme 3) 1/2 Ts basil 4) 1/3 Ts oregano 5) 1 Ts celery salt 6) 1 Ts black pepper 7) 1 Ts dried mustard 8) 4 Ts paprika 9) 2 Ts garlic salt 10) 1 Ts ground ginger 11) 3 Ts white pepper Your welcome! This is it the original didn't have msg
WRONG it does NOT HAVE MUSTARD IN THE RECIPE as it's AN ALLERGEN that has to be declared BY LAW and it does NOT show up as an ALLERGEN on any of their products, therefore MUSTARD IS NOT one of the 11 herbs and spices. CELERY IS LISTED as again CELERY is AN ALLERGEN that HAS TO BE DECLARED BY LAW and it shows up on all the original chicken pieces.
I don’t know about in the US, but here in England you can ask for a full ingredients break down for any commercially sold food due to allergies. It has to be provided. How this recipe still remains ‘officially’ a secret is therefore strange
@@MrTONY2297 sure! Im not sure how KFC legally couldn’t provide a full breakdown of ingredients as it’s now law (UK) to provide that information if requested due to allergies and intolerances - wonder how they’d get around that one? That said, I can’t be the only one to have thought of this over here!
@@AlexM-sg8fn just found the uk website with all the ingredients but Im not able to access the website. Probably because i live in Canada very weird lol
this dude is so good at cooking! i'd pay very good money for one meal. also btw the 11 spices i used were: paprika, onion salt, celery salt, rubbed sage, garlic powder, ground allspice, ground oregano, chili powder, black pepper, basil leaves, and marjoram leaves and its exactly like it!
Gaschromatographing some product. Is a darned good idea! Many other ingredients in the oil will be identified. And antibiotics and and in the meat. But. Certainly also the ingredients in the seasoning. (Moreover. Will a teaspoonful of the herb mix can eliminate a huge amount of unnecessary ans ancillary porholes to success..... Then the ratios must be determined. But at least the ingredients will be known. Look for the simple answers! For here. And now. You made a brilliant call. Very well done!
Fun fact: Colonel Sanders actually married into my family as my grandpa's uncle I was never alive to meet him but there's plenty of pictures of my dad anyways keep up the good work nick your an inspiration to us all
There are things that we don't want to happen but have to accept, things we don't want to know but have to learn, and people we can't live without but have to let go. Keep moving…🙏🏽
Hey Nick, hope this helps: Right after senior year of highschool my mom passed away. She was the main provider for my family, leaving me, my older sister (who worked as a paid intern at an IT company), my younger brother (who didnt work at all cuz he was 13), and my grandmother to have to make up for her role. I decided to, out of necessity, work at the nearby KFC/Taco Bell which was in a shopping plaza pretty close to my house. I wasnt sure if they would hire me or not, seeing as I was still 17 years old, but the recruiting manager gave me a break and was really nice throughout. I started working there 6 days a week, 8 hour shifts, every week for the entire summer before I had to leave for college just to raise money for the house. At first, I was just a kitchen aid (someone who doesn't prepare any of the actual food, but instead is responsible for smaller tasks such as packaging, putting lids on cups and bowls, making sure every order matched the ticket, replacing sauce dispensers, cleaning the drink machine and routinely replacing the concentrate bladders, cleaning the deep frier trays, stocking the utensils, wiping down the counters, and of course; sweeping the floors). I would also manage drive through, mobile pickup, and phone orders. Basically, my job was to make the restaurant specialists' job as easy as possible. Eventually, however, my manager saw how consistent a worker I was and how thorough I was in everything that I was tasked to do that she promoted me to restaurant specialist a little after I turned 18. There, I was given a pamphlet of all of the proper food preparation protocol--how to make sure item sizes are always consistent so as not to increase costs, how to properly lay chicken into the friers to avoid splash or uneven cooking, how to maintain oil temperature, how to store some of the foods with longer shelf lives that we could sell the next day--quite literally each and every minute, negligible thing. This pamphlet also, naturally, included the recipes in a box on the top right corner for us to know for situations akin to the exact ones you portrayed in your video; if someone has an allergy or other type of food restriction. The section broke the recipes down to a simple foot soldier level--that is, what we ourselves had to do in the store such as coating the chicken, shaking it off, frying it, etc.--as well as the components already completed prior from the factory production side of things just for us to be in the know-how. In this little subsection, the pamphlet laid out the proportions and, you betcha, the NAMES of the exact herbs and spice compounds that were preblend into the coating we would get shipped weekly from our distribution center. And because of that, because of the pamphlet which I kept and is in front of me today, I can happily say that Colonel Sanders' original 12 spices and herbs are *gunshot*
I go to Kentucky quite a lot, and the closest to the original recipe is Lee’s famous chicken, which is only in Kentucky, but also everywhere in Kentucky. We get it all the time when in Kentucky, but if you want the originial recipe, go to Claudia Sanders dinner house, it is said to have the original recipe, but the restaurant is only in one county. Edit: apparently there are actually multiple versions of the chicken that Sanders created
I work there and i would say to get the most accurate chicken would be to use water not buttermilk and double bread it for extra crispy, add msg and definitly pepper.
At the state the world is in right now, I’m surprised a giant swarm of people haven’t already infiltrated the places to get the recipe by any means they think is necessary.
I worked at KFC on tje 90's and the packets used listed 14 items in the spice mix packet. I can't recall all of them but one was msg and another was some numbers. It was corn starch as well as plain flower and I don't recall butter milk etc. Just wet chicken tossed through the entire breading mix.
Getting this recipe wasn't easy! Toss a like on the vid :)
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@@user-uh5zp8xx7i no tortured animals will be used only humanely killed so halal is OUT!!!
“I stole Colonel Sander’s secret recipe”
Plankton: *“You and I are not so different”*
They should form an alliance
Difference between Nick and Plankton
One is looking for 11 Herbs and Spices and other one is looking for a something called 'Secret Formula'
@Josh the Joshey Boii Stop Spamming
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What if Mr. Krabs tried to steal planktons secret recipe?
Remember that giant chicken that beat Peter Griffin relentlessly? I hope you’re ready bruh lmao
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Imagine if this was the actual recipe. KFC would be sweating buckets
maybe it is
@@denis45k1 that's exactly my point haha
Just work at kfc if they would tell you the reciepe then tada
i see what u did there
I'm pretty sure the original recipe doesn't have osmo salt ;-;
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I work at KFC and, while I don’t know the secret recipe, I can say that the cooking method was wrong. We use pressure deep fryers at 345 Fahrenheit for 16 minutes. No buttermilk, and the ratio should be about 1/3 herbs and spices to 2/3 flour. Also, I can say for sure that there isn’t paprika. The distinct red color just isn’t in any of the mixes. (Also, we do use MSG, it’s one of the few things on the ingredients list) hope this helps!
What about chicken marination, if not butter milk then?
@@shahzad1433they marinate using a marinating powder which we find at the back stock. Then, we use ice and marinate.
To cook that, we double-dredge the chicken, apparently by squeezing the air out. The flour contains a mix of milk and egg powder, a spice mix (which has black pepper for sure) and salt. Then, we fry them in a pressure cooker for about 10 minutes.
However, I find cooking chicken in a regular fryer for about 10 minutes makes them juicier.
@@i_am_the_eggman thanks bro
@@i_am_the_eggmancouldn’t it be that the marinating powder is dehydrated butter milk?
@@Orangecatenergy possible.
I work at a KFC as a second job, they don't train you at all to not say what's in the seasoning. The actual seasoning packets we add to the flour don't even say it.
First two ingredients: Spices, MSG
ah yes, MSG is uncle roger's girlfriend
@@chesed_yt1 Definitely! MSG is hiding everywhere.
"Spices" but what ARE those spices?
Msg fyuiooo
@@GreenBoy9000 That is the question
I used to work at KFC, and one thing everyone misses/forgets/doesnt have, is that the chicken is pressure cooked in an oil vat. Makes a huge difference.
That's done to speed up the cookng process I thought?
i work also at KFC in the Netherlands and we also use the same methode but like the KFC franchise is like much bigger in America then in the Netherlands for example you guys have also the spicy KFC original we only have the Regular one
Everyone talking bout working at kfc etc. I worked at McCormicks and they had a small team working on the KFC mix that worked separate hours to everyone else. I made McDs sauces whilst never getting close to the holy grail of KFC special mixture
The original the colonel fried it,
then when pressure cookers came out he used it just to cut down on the cooking time from 40 mins to 20..
I remember as youth in the 70s driving up to a KFC and smelling the Chicken before entering the building.
I worked at KFC. they used rapeseed oil, water for wet batter, and the seasoning was in one packet, no ingredients mentioned. people at the KFC stores won't know at all
Rapeseed you say?……holy shit there is such a thing as rapeseed. I thought you had misspelled “grape seed”.
@@Manhandle730 ahaha yes rapeseed oil is its name. Pretty common well here in the UK if it's not just generic vegetable oil.
KFC is tracking you down now, you revealed half of the secret ingredients
Untender chicken
That seed better be okay from all that graping
People just use tonnes of black pepper and msg salt. Dip it twice into milk and egg before applying batter mix of flour, black pepper and msg salt. Dont need any other crap. Try it with few pieces. Use lard and oil mix if you can. Write back to thank me. If you use a small pressure cooker, it tastes exactly like the olden days kfc. Mmmmm
If this video suddenly gets taken down and Nick goes missing, it's our duty to tell his tale
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Im writing a paper copy down of this. KFC CANT STOP ME
Thank you, Cherry.
i shall save it on my phone just incase it does happen
@@NickDiGiovanni Yo its the man, the myth, the legend. we shall protect you.
fun fact: the 11 herbs and spices isnt the colonel's original recipe and actually hated it. His original recipe was more like 25 herbs and spices but it was too complex or something
How can you be sure about that?
@@PeterJamesVillegas he’s the colonel himself lmao
Mr Kernel told his grandmother
Sources?
source: trust me bro
this guy is just such a great chef. i would pay good money just to eat what he cooks
Thanks so much for all the likes, I never thought this would blow up 🙂
That is what everyone would pay a chef for.
@@agastya9793 my thoughts exactly.
hone bhi chaiye utne paise xd
No he can't cook
@@agastya9793 I think you just discovered the concept of a restaurant.
When Colonel Sanders sold KFC in the US, he continued to sell KFC chicken in Canada under a different franchise. There is a man that worked with him that he gave the recipe to that are the spices he used in Canada. That man now has a company in Europe that makes the seasoning in bulk and sells it to KFC in Europe. A guy investigating the seasonings was given the ingredients from that man , but not the measurements. The man that makes it in bulk is not sure if this is the same as the recipe they use in the USA. But this is apparently the ingredients in the seasoning in Europe. They use pressurized deep fryers.
salt
regular pepper
coarsley ground pepper
and finely ground white pepper
allspice
garlic powder
summer savory
coriander seed
ginger
msg
thyme
sage
marjoram
ty for sharing, but there is an important ingredient that i KNOW i can taste in it when i burp, and it's not included in your list, makes me think the list isn't legit.
What made them successful originally was their Og gravy, which was like crack
they would use the grease from the chicken that's why
As an ex KFC employee, I can tell you that even actual workers aren't given the recipe. It all comes in bags thar are literally labeled "Original" or "Extra Crispy", and trust me one of the first things I did working there was look at it to see if I could find the recipe
Ah well since you never knew when you where an employee how about you know when you aren't an employee
2/3 tablespoon salt
1/2 tablespoon thyme
1/2 tablespoon basil
1/3 tablespoon oregano
1 tablespoon celery salt
1 tablespoon black pepper
1 tablespoon dried mustard
4 tablespoons paprika
2 tablespoons garlic salt
1 tablespoon ground ginger
3 tablespoons white pepper
Other non kfc spice ingredients
140 grams monosodium glutamate
5 tablespoons dried egg yolks
280 grams plain flour
Chicken (any cut)
280 millilitres white vinegar
280 millilitres water
Some salt
500 millilitres Canola oil
500 millilitres Peanut oil
500 millilitres Vegetable oil
Instructions
Create chicken breading mix
Place flour in a bowl along with your 11 herbs and spices a tablespoon of monosodium glutamate and 5 tablespoons of dried egg yolks
Next create your brine with 280 millilitres white vinegar 280 millilitres water 140 grams monosodium glutamate and a pinch of salt boil
Then make your deep frying oil first in your deep pan add all of your peanut canola and vegetable oil (500 millilitres each)
And turn on the heat
Then make your kfc get your chicken cuts and place them in your brine for 10 second and place on a separate tray
After doing this with all your chicken place your chicken in
Your chicken breading mix make sure you coat it completely
In the mix
Then place in the oil fry for 6-9 minutes or until golden brown
Why can't somebody take a scoop of it and examine it in home
@@IlIlllIlIIlIIIllI All I was told is it was EXTREEEEMELY against policy to take pictures or any ingredients from the kitchen. The way they treated me there I damn well should've
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I was a manager at KFC when I was a teenager. I can confirm, no buttermilk is used. The cooks would take the kitchen, dip it in fresh water, then seasoning.
Really? Just water? What was the temparature of the water? and would they double dip the chicken??
@@AymanWehbi Plain, cold water. Double dip for extra crispy and one rinse for original.
Chewy chicken
Buttermilk powder is in the seasoning.
Victoria’s Secret is right up there with “why is water wet?” Great video nick!!
Chicken tenderloin. Breaded in: wheat flour, salt, monosodium glutamate, spices,
dehydrated garlic, modified milk ingredients, dried egg white (egg white, baker’s yeast,
citric acid). Cooked in: canola oil (dimethylpolysiloxane (antifoaming agent), TBHQ).
Contains wheat, milk and egg.
Damn, Nick went and performed a Plankton and stole the secret formula 💀
I was looking for this
Lol
Hahahaha he'll never get the real secret formula
2/3 tablespoon salt
1/2 tablespoon thyme
1/2 tablespoon basil
1/3 tablespoon oregano
1 tablespoon celery salt
1 tablespoon black pepper
1 tablespoon dried mustard
4 tablespoons paprika
2 tablespoons garlic salt
1 tablespoon ground ginger
3 tablespoons white pepper
Other non kfc spice ingredients
140 grams monosodium glutamate
5 tablespoons dried egg yolks
280 grams plain flour
Chicken (any cut)
280 millilitres white vinegar
280 millilitres water
Some salt
500 millilitres Canola oil
500 millilitres Peanut oil
500 millilitres Vegetable oil
Instructions
Create chicken breading mix
Place flour in a bowl along with your 11 herbs and spices a tablespoon of monosodium glutamate and 5 tablespoons of dried egg yolks
Next create your brine with 280 millilitres white vinegar 280 millilitres water 140 grams monosodium glutamate and a pinch of salt boil
Then make your deep frying oil first in your deep pan add all of your peanut canola and vegetable oil (500 millilitres each)
And turn on the heat
Then make your kfc get your chicken cuts and place them in your brine for 10 second and place on a separate tray
After doing this with all your chicken place your chicken in
Your chicken breading mix make sure you coat it completely
In the mix
Then place in the oil fry for 6-9 minutes or until golden brown
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The comment I was looking for 😂
Hi nick, just a tip. Don’t rest the chicken on paper towels, place them on a wire rack, the paper towels will cause condensation which might make the chicken less crispy.
yup true that
Good tip there. Just bought a wire rack based on your advice! :D
Didn't Matpat at Food theory do a pretty accurate KFC recipe. You and Matpat should work together to make the perfect recipe.
YES
SCIENCE AND COOKING SHALL DESTORY KFC
@@orangelake2268 cooking is science wym
no,matpat only used the 99x recipe which is still hidden the spices so yea
@@jhermryder21 Culinary Arts don't count as Science
Colonel Sanders bout to make a new recipe when Nick Founds the actual and proper Chicken recipe😅
I worked at KFC they don't use buttermilk it's rinsed off in plain water then put in the flour mixture which contains powdered egg
I just wanna say, I’ve been watching your videos for years, and my absolute favorites are when you simply just cook something amazing and give us the recipe, no need to get ranch with it or anything. Videos like this one are the best of the best to me. Keep up the good work, I’ll always be a huge fan
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Nailed it but.... . although I didn't work at kfc I noticed There's two mistakes in this one
1, There's no buttermilk it's just straight water for the original and double coats for the extra crispy
2, Kfc uses pressure fryers , which is a knight and day difference compared to the one frying on the ordinary pan.
Buttermilk power IS in the KFC flour mixture ;)
Has Manny been fired yet?
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KFC is too canny
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I see too many KFC’s
Thank you for making these videos! I've had a tough past couple of years, and I'm sure everyone has. You really make everyone's day! We love you!
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I agree with you also thank you for leaking the recipe
An old employee of kfc recently quit and decided to start his own gig in my town that man has definitely cracked the recipe and it’s pretty accurate
Let me guess, it is also secret?
Many old employees have though.... In my country (I live in Asia).....So when the KFC came here after 5-10 years many copycat Restaurant/fastfood stores popped up all over the country....... (Mostly old employees started those restaurants , Similarly with pizza hut too)
This seems too be a common occurrence especially because of Asia's copyright rules (Like the Restaurant was called ( EXAMPLE) : LFC) .....And so I hear the Russians have got their own Copycat Versions too so Russians arent suffering too much after many international Fastfood Restaurants closed in Russia (due to Ukraine-Rus war)
I worked at KFC as a fry cook when I was younger and we were never told anything about what’s in the seasoning. We were to take a bag of flour that literally just said “flour” and mix it with a bag that literally said “salt” and as someone who cooked since I was a kid I would taste the salt and flour and would try my best to call it out and this is what I came up with;
So the color of the salt alone gives off an Adoboish yellow color. I remember getting notes of oregano, white pepper, salt, black pepper, and the MSG is a no brainer. Other than that I will also say that KFC’s level of freshness is probably one of the best out of any restaurant I’ve ever worked at. The chicken is always delivered super fresh and we were expected to constantly change the chicken out of the warmer every hour and 30 mins. Also expected to clean our pressure fryers out every day if not every two days depending on how busy we got. That also played a part in the taste of the chicken.
ty for this
Amazing. I wonder how close it is to the actual recipe. Both the ingredients and the ratios between them
Not even the slightest.
@@yasserhussaini2104 id say the ingredients are probably close to accurate. The amounts are what is probably different
@@ya42069 no, the ingredients are far from correct too. I’ve made this recipe before and it’s good, but so far off from kfc. There is definitely no paprika, onion, garlic, basil, or oregano in kfc chicken. Salt, pepper, white pepper, msg, ginger, allspice, marjoram, coriander, thyme and rosemary is way closer. All of those ingredients need to be finally ground and mixed, then medium ground black pepper added.
KFC employees are not told the ingredients. It’s all prepackaged powdered seasonings. A food scientist could probably do an analysis and tell you however.
Do they sell spicy chicken in USA KFC or it’s the original chicken? Cuz some countries sell both or just original
@@QazRiyami both in the US
I feel like the easiest way to find out the original recipe is too literally just experiment with what was the most common spices during the time of colonel sanders, experiment with flavor mixing etc until you discover thee perfect taste
Exactly!
Made this as per your instructions and ended up throwing it out. I did exactly as you said and it was terrible. What a waste of money! 😡
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Hey Nick, even if you used the exactly same spices as the original recipe, you are still not frying it right, because at KFC they use Henny Penny pressure fryers..
also kfc doesn't use batter its just flower with spices
Yeah I heard about the pressure cooking chicken and that’s pretty cool
@@christiantoasterXD flower? Which flowers do they use?
@@willyharris4199 mb I meant flour lol
@@christiantoasterXD That's what gives it a cruchy yet easy to slide off crust
I know one of his Secret spice that's salt lol.
Salt is not a spice.. same with MSG. That's why he had a total of 13 ingredients. 11 herbs and spices and salt and msg.
I bet KFC will be mad
Great vid. The key to the taste is two things that make all the difference. The portions of ingredients (which we all know can change results drastically if they are off) and the chicken is pressure fried. I do like the fact you use the starch in the flour mixture. I usually use Cornstarch in mine instead of potato, I like the crunch it creates. Great copy cat! :)
For those who don't know KFC doesn't use the same ingredients as the original recipe. The secret recipe thing is just for marketing, i belive someone debunked this on a tv show by talking to an actual relative of the colonel
i love the fact that he added osmo to the list
that will make it 10x better
I work at kfc and there is not msg in the original seasoning and our chicken is not soaked in buttermilk either
MSG is on the bag's label, and the Buttermilk is powder mixed in with the flour mixture
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Nick is the master at cracking the secret recipe code 😯😯😯
Plankton would try so hard to get it
I can already feel this is going to be a great video!
it was ❤❤
2/3 ts salt
1/2 ts thyme
1/2 ts basil
1/3 ts origino
1 ts celary salt
1 ts black pepper
1 ts dried mustard
4 ts paprika
2 ts garlic salt
1 ts ground ginger
3 ts white pepper
Was found on the back of a photo with Colonel Sanders
Salt n pepper don't count as the 11 herbs n spices
Way of the mark😂
Mustard is NOT an ingredient as it's AN ALLERGEN that has to be declared BY LAW and it does NOT show up as an ALLERGEN on any of their products, therefore MUSTARD IS NOT one of the 11 herbs and spices. CELERY IS LISTED as again CELERY is AN ALLERGEN that HAS TO BE DECLARED BY LAW and it shows up on all the original chicken pieces.
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It does look indeed similar! Thanks for the recipe, I'll try it out someday.
Between the allergens lists, our taste buds and smell receptors being pretty good at telling culinary stuff apart and trained animals covering what we can't, no recipe is immune to being cracked as far as basic ingredients are concerned.
However, not only are plants ridiculously plenty in variety, but some of their breeds are proprietary. Meaning that you can't ask for seeds / sapplings (or similars), and getting your hands on one of these without asking and proceeding to plant, harvest and sell them or whatever you make out of them will most likely get you a heavy lawsuit.
To top that off, the processes behind turning these plants into spices are all industrial secrets too, and other than telling whatever chemicals may end up in the final product, the owners of these secrets have no further obligations. So while our chemical receptors can tell us the difference between things made in way X and way Y, they aren't retro-engineering machines to tell us how it all arrived there. And since our allergen receptors don't care about such details, FDA won't give a damn either.
Not to say that these so-called "secrets" means that they are the best all around to everyone. When things are way too good, we simply cannot evaluate which one is the best. This is specially important when we consider popular, mass-produced food items, such as fast-food spice blends and soft drinks. They aren't made to be deeply appreciated by "sommeliers", but simply appeal to a large amount of people; So not only are people unlikely to judge these items objective, they also have no reason to attempt it.
But... While we cannot usually can (or want) to tell which one is better, we certainly can get "attached" to certain flavors, even more so when they bring us nostalgia or, quite the contrary, gives us something new to appreciate.
Thus, keeping your exact recipe a secret is less of a way to avoid people attempting to make similar or "better" stuff, and more of a measure to keep a strong grip over said item's identity and all the popular culture that was built over them.
11 spices - Mix with 2 cups white fl 1) 2/3 Ts salt 2) 1/2 Ts thyme 3) 1/2 Ts basil 4) 1/3 Ts oregano 5) 1 Ts celery salt 6) 1 Ts black pepper 7) 1 Ts dried mustard 8) 4 Ts paprika 9) 2 Ts garlic salt 10) 1 Ts ground ginger 11) 3 Ts white pepper
Your welcome! This is it the original didn't have msg
WRONG it does NOT HAVE MUSTARD IN THE RECIPE as it's AN ALLERGEN that has to be declared BY LAW and it does NOT show up as an ALLERGEN on any of their products, therefore MUSTARD IS NOT one of the 11 herbs and spices. CELERY IS LISTED as again CELERY is AN ALLERGEN that HAS TO BE DECLARED BY LAW and it shows up on all the original chicken pieces.
Love the vids, keep up the great work
I worked at McKormicks in Oz. We made the chocolate and strawberry syrup for Maccas as well.
The Ceo of KCF must me shaking right now
After all these years, finally, mom can actually say we have KFC at home
Thanks for helping me cook tons of recipes and not burning food
WOOOOW This guy has no limits!! that motivates me a lot, one of the best videos
We can all agree you spam comments it annoying
@@King_Tyler99 true words
There literally was a KFC ad when I clicked on the video 😂
That looks really good for you not to have used a pressure fryer!!!!😄😋😋😋🍽🍴🍽🥄
Really thank you Nick for the dedication hard work you put into making this video and reality I loved every moment of it
You should’ve fried it in a pressure cooker!!! Just like how they do it 😄
I don’t know about in the US, but here in England you can ask for a full ingredients break down for any commercially sold food due to allergies. It has to be provided. How this recipe still remains ‘officially’ a secret is therefore strange
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@AlexM-sg8fn Try to ask them and post it here bro! are you down?
@@MrTONY2297 sure! Im not sure how KFC legally couldn’t provide a full breakdown of ingredients as it’s now law (UK) to provide that information if requested due to allergies and intolerances - wonder how they’d get around that one? That said, I can’t be the only one to have thought of this over here!
@@AlexM-sg8fn just found the uk website with all the ingredients but Im not able to access the website. Probably because i live in Canada very weird lol
A MSDS. Material Safety Data Sheet.
this dude is so good at cooking! i'd pay very good money for one meal. also btw the 11 spices i used were: paprika, onion salt, celery salt, rubbed sage, garlic powder, ground allspice, ground oregano, chili powder, black pepper, basil leaves, and marjoram leaves and its exactly like it!
its how i made mine!
they dont use chili pepper
MSG!
Uncle Rogers be thirsty for KFC now
wouldnt it be easier to take a piece of it and bring it to a scientist so they could analyze it and so?
Gaschromatographing some product. Is a darned good idea! Many other ingredients in the oil will be identified. And antibiotics and and in the meat. But. Certainly also the ingredients in the seasoning. (Moreover. Will a teaspoonful of the herb mix can eliminate a huge amount of unnecessary ans ancillary porholes to success..... Then the ratios must be determined. But at least the ingredients will be known.
Look for the simple answers! For here. And now. You made a brilliant call. Very well done!
Most interesting detective adventure for a food recipe
For this , giving a like to this video is 👌🏽👌🏽
Fun fact: Colonel Sanders actually married into my family as my grandpa's uncle I was never alive to meet him but there's plenty of pictures of my dad anyways keep up the good work nick your an inspiration to us all
they actually use water as the wash and bind
1:39 I thought mannny quited?
This video is from 2 years ago…..
@@KnightlyFinance and you replied 2 years later...
@@KnightlyFinancewhen he commented it was 2 years ago
It's a very good idea if people get to setup some stuffs aside for themselves that could be bringing them money apart from there businesses
You're right, that's why I invested into assets like cryptocurrency and some stocks
Stocks are good to invest on, but crypto is more profitable
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Love the video and love the food 🍲
Kernel Sanders been real quiet since this dropped...
2 cups all-purpose flour
⅔ tablespoon salt
½ tablespoon ground thyme
½ tablespoon basil
⅓ tablespoon oregano
1 tablespoon celery salt
1 tablespoon black pepper
1 tablespoon dry mustard powder
4 tablespoon paprika
2 tablespoons garlic salt
1 tablespoon ground ginger
3 tablespoons ground white pepper
½ teaspoon Accent flavor enhancer (MSG) optional
1 whole chicken
1 egg beaten
1 cup full-fat buttermilk
vegetable oil for frying
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@@devhannialgiftsonamalan3205 man is so desperate for subscribe till he out here posting motivational quotes at a video related to KFC recipes😂💀
I feel like Nick almost had the recipe in his hand and everyone would be crowding asking to give it to them
Good try though!
I think that if he has a little more msg he would have gotten it
You have to do a blind taste test to determine if you actually 'stole the recipe' we can't just take your word for it Nick 🤣
It gave me an idea for an KFC clone! It would be called Texas Fired Chicken, or TFC
When later KFC changed the recipe. The founder opened a new restaurant called Claudia Sanders Dinner House.
Give this man a Medal of Honor for his bravery
1:05 "If you can read this subscribe"
As an ex KFC worker, this IS the recipe basically the recipe. It's not really a secret...
The "secret" is just sucker bait........
Someone is getting fired from KFC.
Nick is gonna go missing after kfc corporate finds this video
Hey Nick, hope this helps:
Right after senior year of highschool my mom passed away. She was the main provider for my family, leaving me, my older sister (who worked as a paid intern at an IT company), my younger brother (who didnt work at all cuz he was 13), and my grandmother to have to make up for her role. I decided to, out of necessity, work at the nearby KFC/Taco Bell which was in a shopping plaza pretty close to my house. I wasnt sure if they would hire me or not, seeing as I was still 17 years old, but the recruiting manager gave me a break and was really nice throughout. I started working there 6 days a week, 8 hour shifts, every week for the entire summer before I had to leave for college just to raise money for the house. At first, I was just a kitchen aid (someone who doesn't prepare any of the actual food, but instead is responsible for smaller tasks such as packaging, putting lids on cups and bowls, making sure every order matched the ticket, replacing sauce dispensers, cleaning the drink machine and routinely replacing the concentrate bladders, cleaning the deep frier trays, stocking the utensils, wiping down the counters, and of course; sweeping the floors). I would also manage drive through, mobile pickup, and phone orders. Basically, my job was to make the restaurant specialists' job as easy as possible. Eventually, however, my manager saw how consistent a worker I was and how thorough I was in everything that I was tasked to do that she promoted me to restaurant specialist a little after I turned 18. There, I was given a pamphlet of all of the proper food preparation protocol--how to make sure item sizes are always consistent so as not to increase costs, how to properly lay chicken into the friers to avoid splash or uneven cooking, how to maintain oil temperature, how to store some of the foods with longer shelf lives that we could sell the next day--quite literally each and every minute, negligible thing. This pamphlet also, naturally, included the recipes in a box on the top right corner for us to know for situations akin to the exact ones you portrayed in your video; if someone has an allergy or other type of food restriction. The section broke the recipes down to a simple foot soldier level--that is, what we ourselves had to do in the store such as coating the chicken, shaking it off, frying it, etc.--as well as the components already completed prior from the factory production side of things just for us to be in the know-how. In this little subsection, the pamphlet laid out the proportions and, you betcha, the NAMES of the exact herbs and spice compounds that were preblend into the coating we would get shipped weekly from our distribution center. And because of that, because of the pamphlet which I kept and is in front of me today, I can happily say that Colonel Sanders' original 12 spices and herbs are
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Is that the failed buzzer i hear.😂
when nicks Harvard degree comes into good use
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I go to Kentucky quite a lot, and the closest to the original recipe is Lee’s famous chicken, which is only in Kentucky, but also everywhere in Kentucky. We get it all the time when in Kentucky, but if you want the originial recipe, go to Claudia Sanders dinner house, it is said to have the original recipe, but the restaurant is only in one county.
Edit: apparently there are actually multiple versions of the chicken that Sanders created
The FBI is coming nick, you just spilled the TOP-SECRET recipe for KFC
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Shudda gone to KFC
I’m legit craving kfc rn
I work there and i would say to get the most accurate chicken would be to use water not buttermilk and double bread it for extra crispy, add msg and definitly pepper.
Yes, is a Mr. Krabs secret Krabby patty formula versus plankton situation
At the state the world is in right now, I’m surprised a giant swarm of people haven’t already infiltrated the places to get the recipe by any means they think is necessary.
I worked at KFC on tje 90's and the packets used listed 14 items in the spice mix packet. I can't recall all of them but one was msg and another was some numbers. It was corn starch as well as plain flower and I don't recall butter milk etc. Just wet chicken tossed through the entire breading mix.