Not familiar with the advice given in Cooks Illustrated over the last 20 years is it related to sport's illustrated where they show you cooks wearing swimsuits.

Brining if you can call it that is only step 2. Here's the steps they use to prepare.

https://gizmodo.com/this-is-how-kfc-actually-makes-their-fri...

Are those the steps Cooking illustrated gave you? Are you cooking your own kfc at home now?

You seem like the guy who went to the coke/pepsi taste test challenge and said they both taste the same.. they taste like 7up.

Those are generally the steps for deep frying chicken, yes. Obviously you'd use home utensils and appliances, but brine -> bread -> fry is basically the only way you're going to get fried chicken.

I'm not exactly sure what you were trying to do with that link, but I'm pretty sure your intended outcome wasn't to show that KFC fried chicken is just like any other fried chicken, but with stricter recipes and industrial machines.

So, from the very first paragraph of the article you linked to: "It's basically like how your grandma would do it—except they use an infernal magic machine called a 'pressure frier.'"

Thanks! I feel a lot better about KFC chicken now!

And the extra fat/salt/antibiotics.. and 26 questionable substances out of 29 for the spices.

Just like grandma.

Several things to unpack here:

- Unless you are in the SLT of KFC, you have absolutely no way to know what's in their spice blend. It is one of the most closely guarded recipes in the world.

- There's famously 11 spices in the original recipe. So not only could you not possibly know what's in it (and therefore what's questionable), but you didn't even get the number of ingredients right to criticize.

- Based on all the various copycat recipes out there, I highly doubt that 10 out of the 11 ingredients (same proportion that you used, just adjusted for accuracy) are questionable. You know, unless "salt", "flour", "thyme", "garlic salt", etc. are all questionable. There's only so much that can go in a spice blend after all.

Read the original link for details on the 29 ingredients not to be confused with spices.

Let's address the mystery of the 11 spices. Here they are..

2/3 Ts Salt 1/2 Ts Thyme 1/2 Ts Basil 1/3 Ts Oregano 1 Ts Celery salt 1 Ts Black pepper 1 Ts Dried mustard 4 Ts Paprika 2 Ts Garlic salt 1 Ts Ground ginger 3 Ts White pepper

Have fun frying tonight.

> on the 29 ingredients not to be confused with spices.

> and 26 questionable substances out of 29 for the spices.

Maybe you should take your own advice there, buddy. I was specifically replying to what you said in your comment.

Furthermore, you can very well guess what's in the spice blend, but you still have no way to actually confirm it, nor any way to confirm it's the current recipe, or if the recipe diverged from the first one used (which was indeed leaked).

Link to the mainstream pub posting the recipe.

https://www.chatelaine.com/food/trends/kfc-secret-recipe-rev...

Secrets like this need to be out in the open.