KFC question.

notbob said:

At least there's a sliver. It would be impossible for BK to make
their chicken fries "less" than a McD's chicken nugget. For the first
couple decades of the Chicken McNugget, there was no chicken meat
whatsoever. Seriously. I looked. My daughter loved them and we'd
occasionally buy them for her. One day I was bored and started
wondering about them. I disected half an order. No meat. They were
just some sort of breaded and fried fat absorbing sponge matrix
thingie.

Mostly chicken skin, if I recall, with some cartilage and filler.
What grossed me out the most was that McNuggets require an "anti foaming
agent" ingredient. I wish I could go back in time and uneat those
McNuggets I ate when I was a kid.

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This all-breading and little meat is not new.

One of the local Chinese restaurants has all breading and no meat in
half their pieces of sweet and sour and similar dishes. I'm sure it's
to save money. It's also really gross tasting. It's hard to find
non-battered and non-fried dishes around here, because it's Kansas, and
everything has to be either deep fried or steak.

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Sizzler was the master of these trick eat-till-you-puke gimmicks. They
did another with all-you-can-eat ribs. We tried it ...again, once!

All you can eat meat is beyond imagination. There's a lot of steak
buffets here in Kansas and they just boggle my mind. I refuse to go to
them so I don't know if they're decent or not, but the simple idea of a
steak buffet makes me feel kind of ill.

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restaurants (chains), but I'm sure places like Olive Garden and Red
Lobster still pull the same [censored] with their never ending gluttony
promos.

I just said this on LJ but I never understood why Olive Garden and Red
Lobster are the two restaurants singled out for complaints. They're no
worse than any chain restaurant. I'm not saying I'm a big fan of chain
restaurants but I will occasionally go to an Olive Garden or Red
Lobster, as well as Ruby Tuesday's or Applebee's or Chili's or whatever.
Is it because OG and RL are sometimes thought of as high class
restaurants by people who don't know better?

Stacia

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Some italian people who have tasted KFC abroad, told me that in the KFC
dough there are also cornflakes.
Is it true? What do you think?
Searching with Google, I have seen a photo on the web and pieces of
chicken seam to have cornflakes over!

No corn flakes. KFC does chicken with two different coatings; what they
call "original" and " extra-crispy." They are only seasoned flour.

Original-style has a thin coating. Extra crispy has a thicker coating that
forms shapes, when fried, that look like corn flakes have been added to
the coating.

No corn flakes in the chicken coating.

Thank you Bob. If you find a recipe for extra -crispy tell me, please.

The real KFC chicken recipes need to be cooked under pressure, not in an
open pot or deep fryer. Most pressure cooker makers say not to fry in
their cookers, but if you do, use no more than 1/4 or 1/2 cup of oil.
But here are some ways to approximate KFC extra-crispy.

<http://www.recipezaar.com/58948>
<http://www.recipezaar.com/4859>

Several more recipes for regular, not extra-crispy:
<http://www.hungrybrowser.com/phaedrus/m091902.htm>

Extra-crispy:
<http://www.russkatz.com/recipes/index.asp>

This is one way to do it at home, but I don't recommend it. I'm just
passing it along.
<http://www.themediadrome.com/content/recipes/chicken_broasted.htm>

Pastorio

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Pandora wrote:
I don't know about KFC and the cornflakes but I used to make a very
good "oven fried" chicken which is seasoned and then coated with
crushed cornflake crumbs. It turns out as if it had been fried but
is not.

This is a great new!

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Off the top of my head: the pieces of chicken (usually chicken
breasts and thighs, on the bone) were dipped in an egg wash. Then
rolled in cornflake crumbs seasoned with garlic powder, salt &
pepper to taste, maybe some dried
marjoram. Coat the chicken well and let sit so the coating dries and
adheres to the chicken well.

Do you break cornflakes, or do you use them whole?

In the U.S. they sell boxes of crushed cornflake crumbs specifically for
baking with. If you can't find this, use a rolling pin and place
cornflakes
between two sheets of waxed paper and crush them. You don't want a powder
but you don't want big pieces of corn flakes, either.

I understand!

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Another thing. Why don't you put spices inside eggs, rather then in
cornflakes breadcrumb?

No reason; it's just the way my mom taught me to do it.

Ah! Ok! Mother's advices are always precious🙂

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To a baking dish of adequate size for the chicken pieces, add a
little cooking oil, about 3-4 Tablespoonfuls (not olive oil, too
strong! canola or
corn oil). Heat it up in a hot oven (about 400F degrees). Quickly
arrange
the chicken in the dish with the hot oil. Bake at a very high
temperature;
if I remember correctly (and I may not) it was 400F or maybe 425F for
about
20 minutes. No need to cover or turn the chicken; it turned out
crispy. And very tasty!

Gnam gnam! I like this recipe! I will eat KFC till summer because I
must try almost all 🙂))
Cheers and thank you
Pandora
(hoping your father stay better then the last time I have heard of
him)

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Thank you... we'll know more about his condition after his trip to the
doctor on February 2nd.

The day after tomorrow, then! Let us know and good luck!
Thank you
Pandora

Thank you Bob, for these links, there are many recipe. But now I wonder if I
must use a skinless chicken for KFC!?!
What do you think?
Is the original KFC with or without skin?
TIA
Pandora
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Pandora wrote:

Thank you Bob. If you find a recipe for extra -crispy tell me, please.

The real KFC chicken recipes need to be cooked under pressure, not in an
open pot or deep fryer. Most pressure cooker makers say not to fry in
their cookers, but if you do, use no more than 1/4 or 1/2 cup of oil. But
here are some ways to approximate KFC extra-crispy.

<http://www.recipezaar.com/58948>
<http://www.recipezaar.com/4859>

Several more recipes for regular, not extra-crispy:
<http://www.hungrybrowser.com/phaedrus/m091902.htm>

Extra-crispy:
<http://www.russkatz.com/recipes/index.asp>

This is one way to do it at home, but I don't recommend it. I'm just
passing it along.
<http://www.themediadrome.com/content/recipes/chicken_broasted.htm>

Pastorio

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Ninja) said:

I just said this on LJ but I never understood why Olive Garden and Red
Lobster are the two restaurants singled out for complaints. They're no
worse than any chain restaurant. I'm not saying I'm a big fan of chain
restaurants but I will occasionally go to an Olive Garden or Red
Lobster, as well as Ruby Tuesday's or Applebee's or Chili's or whatever.
Is it because OG and RL are sometimes thought of as high class
restaurants by people who don't know better?

I believe they have common ownership--that may be why. Personally, I
think a LOT more highly of OG than of RL. Never been happy with what
I got at RL--I don't go there any more. Olive Garden's food has been,
imo, FAR better than Red Lobster's.
Obviously, of course, YMMV.

--
-denny-
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"It's come as you are, baby."

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KFC comes in (at least) two varieties: Original Recipe (cooked in the
pressure fryers) and Extra Crispy--that kind does rather look like it
has cornflake breading (and for all I know, it does). I don't think
the Extra Crispy is cooked the same way as Original Recipe--and I
don't think much of it at all, actually.

Oh! It's a pity! this friend of mine told me he liked very much Extra
Crispy.

A lot of people do. I don't much like it. I do like Original quite a
bit.

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BTW
Thank you

You're most welcome, Pandora.

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"Do your thoughts call ahead or do they just arrive at your mouth unannounced?"

"It's come as you are, baby."

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On Mon, 30 Jan 2006 15:21:55 +0100, "Pandora" <[email hidden]>

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KFC comes in (at least) two varieties: Original Recipe (cooked in the
pressure fryers) and Extra Crispy--that kind does rather look like it
has cornflake breading (and for all I know, it does). I don't think
the Extra Crispy is cooked the same way as Original Recipe--and I
don't think much of it at all, actually.

Oh! It's a pity! this friend of mine told me he liked very much Extra
Crispy.

A lot of people do. I don't much like it. I do like Original quite a
bit.

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BTW
Thank you

You're most welcome, Pandora.

Personally, I think all of the chicken at KFC is disgusting. But, then,
I've always had real southern fried chicken at home. There's absolutely no
comparison.

--
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Personally, I think all of the chicken at KFC is disgusting. But, then,
I've always had real southern fried chicken at home. There's absolutely

no

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comparison.

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Not only can you make fried chicken better at home, but the cost difference
is enough reason right there! We buy a whole chicken at WalMart for $.67 US
per pound, cut it up, fry it, and the entire breaded and fried chicken costs
us about $3.00. KFC would charge about $12 for that.

kili

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Personally, I think all of the chicken at KFC is disgusting. But, then,
I've always had real southern fried chicken at home. There's absolutely
no
comparison.

To me it's one of those things I do not expect to be like what you
make at home, the texture is different (whether you like it or not),
hence all the discussion on broasters and pressure fryers, etc.

I love homemade fried chicken, of course, but I have room for
the occasional kentucky fried as well. Can't really make that at
home.

nancy

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Personally, I think all of the chicken at KFC is disgusting. But, then,
I've always had real southern fried chicken at home. There's absolutely
no comparison.

To me it's one of those things I do not expect to be like what you
make at home, the texture is different (whether you like it or not),
hence all the discussion on broasters and pressure fryers, etc.

I love homemade fried chicken, of course, but I have room for
the occasional kentucky fried as well. Can't really make that at
home.

LOL! I wouldn't want to. :-)

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Wayne Boatwright Õ¿Õ¬
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Young?

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I love homemade fried chicken, of course, but I have room for
the occasional kentucky fried as well. Can't really make that at
home.

LOL! I wouldn't want to. :-)

(laugh!) YES, WAYNE, we got that! Was saying, when people
are looking for kentucky fried chicken, they aren't looking for
what you call fried chicken at home. Apples and oranges, whether
you think that is good or bad. We know, you think good. As
in, you don't want them to be alike.

nancy

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On Tue 31 Jan 2006 06:45:29a, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it Nancy
Young?

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I love homemade fried chicken, of course, but I have room for
the occasional kentucky fried as well. Can't really make that at
home.

LOL! I wouldn't want to. :-)

(laugh!) YES, WAYNE, we got that! Was saying, when people
are looking for kentucky fried chicken, they aren't looking for
what you call fried chicken at home. Apples and oranges, whether
you think that is good or bad. We know, you think good. As
in, you don't want them to be alike.

hehehe! Such a sad demise for a chicken. :-)

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On Mon, 30 Jan 2006 15:21:55 +0100, "Pandora" <[email hidden]>

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> KFC comes in (at least) two varieties: Original Recipe (cooked in the
> pressure fryers) and Extra Crispy--that kind does rather look like it
> has cornflake breading (and for all I know, it does). I don't think
> the Extra Crispy is cooked the same way as Original Recipe--and I
> don't think much of it at all, actually.

Oh! It's a pity! this friend of mine told me he liked very much Extra
Crispy.

A lot of people do. I don't much like it. I do like Original quite a
bit.

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BTW
Thank you

You're most welcome, Pandora.

Personally, I think all of the chicken at KFC is disgusting. But, then,
I've always had real southern fried chicken at home. There's absolutely
no
comparison.

I just wanted to ask what was the difference! Only pressure fryer?
Chhers
Pandora

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Pandora said:

Thank you Bob, for these links, there are many recipe. But now I wonder if I
must use a skinless chicken for KFC!?!
What do you think?
Is the original KFC with or without skin?
TIA

With skin. And the chicken used to be - I don't know if they still do it
- cut into 9 pieces rather than the normal 8. They cut the breast into
three pieces vertically so there were two "side breasts" and a "center
breast" that included the keel bone and a bit of meat on either side.

I cut mine into 8.

Pastorio

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Pandora said:

Thank you Bob, for these links, there are many recipe. But now I wonder
if I must use a skinless chicken for KFC!?!
What do you think?
Is the original KFC with or without skin?
TIA

With skin. And the chicken used to be - I don't know if they still do it -
cut into 9 pieces rather than the normal 8. They cut the breast into three
pieces vertically so there were two "side breasts" and a "center breast"
that included the keel bone and a bit of meat on either side.

Very interesting. Perhpas the number 9 give the recipe a sort of
magic...like the secret in which it is wrapped 🙂

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I cut mine into 8.

More simple..yes 🙂
Thank you Bob!
Pandora

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Oh! It's a pity! this friend of mine told me he liked very much
Extra Crispy.

A lot of people do. I don't much like it. I do like Original quite a
bit.

I've never been a big fan of KFC, either variety. When I get fried
chicken (and that's increasing rare these days) I go for Popeye's.

Brian
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won't shut up.
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Wayne Boatwright wayneboatwright_at_gmail.com said:

Personally, I think all of the chicken at KFC is disgusting.

I have to agree. I never buy the stuff. I remember eating it
occasionally when friends would bring a bucket over, but never could
eat more than about one piece. I used to joke KFC was good for
motorcycles. I imagined wiring a chicken leg to the frame just above
the rear drive chain, the dripping grease keeping the chain well
lubed. My brother came up with a good approach to eating KFC. Take
the meat off the bone and stick it between one of the biscuits to soak
up the excess grease, then dose with black pepper and a good Louisiana
hot sauce.

nb

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motorcycles. I imagined wiring a chicken leg to the frame just above
the rear drive chain, the dripping grease keeping the chain well
lubed. >
nb

I suppose you've seen the TV stories about the guys traveling across the US
with just used-grease from the fast food place(s) for their vehicle. I
don't know if they get their free grease exclusively from one fast-food
restaurant or not.
Dee Dee

Dee Randall said:

don't know if they get their free grease exclusively from one fast-food
restaurant or not.

I don't know. It's my understanding deep fryer fat is a waste
product that's a real pain for any restaurant using it. I think they
have to pay for its disposal. I could be wrong on this.

nb

Excuse me the English question. Why, sometimes, do you write "fried" and why
do you write sometimes "fryer" when there is a consonant before the "Y"?
Sorry if I would like to understand 🙂
cheers
Pandora
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Dee Randall said:

don't know if they get their free grease exclusively from one fast-food
restaurant or not.

I don't know. It's my understanding deep fryer fat is a waste
product that's a real pain for any restaurant using it. I think they
have to pay for its disposal. I could be wrong on this.

nb