KFC SECRET Recipe Revealed? - Deep Fried vs. AIR FRIED - KFC's 11 herbs & spices

Greetings my beautiful loves, I'm Emmy, welcome back today. I'm going to try to make Kentucky

fried

chicken with what might be the real 11

herbs

and

spices

recipe

, like the real thing, like the top

secret

one that no one knows about. Yes, this

recipe

could be the one. Now there's a little backstory to this, the recipe I'm going to use actually came from the Chicago Tribune and a reporter went to meet Joe Ledington, who is Colonel Sanders' nephew like Colonel Sanders, yeah, the nephew and apparently in a scrapbook. from his aunt Claudia, who was Colonel Sanders' second wife, there was written a list of 11

herbs

and

spices

and the quantities of the jackpot, so, like a good reporter, the quantities and ingredients of the recipe were published and They were also tested, so I'm going to follow them.

The Chicago Tribune recipe also has a small video. I'll put all the links below in the description on how to make this chicken, so it's the new year and a lot of people are making resolutions that involve eating healthy and making good choices, so I thought this might be a good opportunity to try a

deep

fryer, so not only am I going to try KFC's

secret

recipe, but I'm also going to compare a

deep

fryer to a deep fryer, so I honestly don't see how air

fried

chicken will taste as good as fried chicken, but We can make a comparison and say it's pretty good or not so good, but I will never be the fried KFC because it's a completely different method and it doesn't use the right method. amount of oil, but maybe close.

I've never cooked with an air fryer before, so let's find out, let me catch you up on what I've already done, so what I have here is six chicken thighs that have been marinating in a cup of buttermilk and an egg and they whisked together and I put my chicken in there and it says to let it sit for 20 to 30 minutes so what we're doing here is tenderizing the chicken, buttermilk has a little bit of acid in it. and that breaks down the meat a little to make it more juicy and succulent. This will also create the dough for our chicken.

After we have soaked it well, we will dredge it in flour and in combination with that flour that is. I'm going to make our crust now in this bowl I have two cups of all-purpose flour, so two-thirds of a tablespoon of salt half a tablespoon of thyme half a tablespoon of basil one-third of a tablespoon of oregano one tablespoon of celery salt one tablespoon of black salt pepper one tablespoon of dry mustard four tablespoons of paprika two tablespoons of garlic salt oh my goodness one tablespoon of dried ginger here's another one I would never have imagined three tablespoons of white pepper this is a Thai version, isn't it amazing?

I love this three tablespoons oh my goodness that's one two three don't breathe this as my brother can test it will make you sneeze now there are 11 herbs and spices but the Chicago Tribune said they didn't know very good until they added. a special ingredient and it's this and this is monosodium glutamate, it's used in a lot of cuisines, it's delicious, it has that really great flavor, what people often say, umami flavor, which is just this delicious sweet and salty flavor, I would say further. salty so I feel like msg has gotten a bad rap, it's often associated with bad chinese takeaway but in fact it's everywhere.

If you look at the ingredients list on most chips and crackers, you'll see monosodium glutamate. The message that appears is sometimes disguised as natural yeast extract, it makes things taste delicious because glutamates, which are found naturally in things like mushrooms, cheeses and soy sauce, that mysterious and lovely salty taste is delicious in our taste buds in our minds, so scientists were able to extract it. refine it and then we can sprinkle it like we do salt, so just like the food industry does, I'm going to add a little bit of that. I'm going to add half a teaspoon and now I'm going to stir this carefully.

There's a lot of seasoning in this, so now what we're going to do is take our chicken pieces, dredge them in the seasoned flour so it's well coated. Now we're going to put this on a rack and we're going to let it rest for 20 minutes, do that for all of these pieces, let's talk a little bit about deep fryers, from what I understand, deep fryers have become popular in recent years, but I remember a model a long time ago, I think it was called the new wave. it had a kind of glass bell around it and you could cook a whole chicken inside and basically what a deep fryer does is it uses air to fry the food, the air is heated to a very high temperature, there is a fan similar to an oven convection that circulates air around the food and then allows the heat to crisp it up without using a ton of fat.

I'm curious to see how well the chicken will do because the chicken hasn't been pre-fried or cooked. This does not freeze or reheat any items, it just cooks a raw chicken that has been lightly battered, so the model I chose was this one. Look at this big big box. Can you believe this? OMG it's huge, it's the new cuisinart feel. way to fry fryer toaster oven I chose this particular model because I like the flexibility of using it not only as a fryer but as a toaster oven for reheating things and cooking small things. I like that idea, it takes up more counter space since you can see and the thing is pretty heavy at about 25 pounds.

Many of the air fryer models I have seen are much smaller. You can see they're this big, but it also has a very small camera, so you can just. Cook a few things at once. I'm basing my cooking times on the little booklet and they have a recipe for beer battered chicken wings. This is the frying basket that came with the fryer and this little frying pan, so it says place the basket. in the pan and I'm going to put two in the basket this close, set my knobs to 400 degrees in air fry 20 minutes ooh, there it goes, can you hear it?

Wow, while it cooks for 20 minutes, I'll move on. and fry the remaining thighs in my cast iron skillet here I have about two and a half inches of vegetable oil that has been heated to 350 degrees here we go oh yeah that's a beautiful sound that's a beautiful sound oh yeah that's really important when frying to make sure the fat is very hot and that's where a thermometer comes in handy about halfway through cooking my air fried chicken. I noticed this started to happen, yes the chicken started to burn so at 10 minutes I reduced the temperature from 400 to 350 and put a new one in there so this one is not fully cooked.

I'm going to remove them because they're ready. Left some of the crust at 350 degrees, but it still did the same thing. Now let's compare that to my fried version and look at how dark and mahogany this crust is, look at that and listen to that crust, this one is pretty crispy too, the air fryer not a drop of oil just the fat that's on the skin of the chicken, so here's my two piece kentucky fried chicken meal, here we go, as you can see from the beginning, the homemade version is a much darker color than the original, the recipe called for 350 degrees, which is a pretty typical frying temperature .

I should also mention if you are frying chicken, it is important to make sure the chicken is fully cooked. I recommend that you get an instant read thermometer. Make sure it is at 165 degrees. Let's give it a taste. I haven't eaten KFC in a long time. look how small the thigh is, I remember they were already much bigger, I was much smaller too, here we go, itadakimasu, that's some good chicken, omg I haven't had that in a long time, now I understand I grew up eating kentucky fried. chicken so I'm probably partial to these particular flavors but this is just how I remember it, the skin isn't as crispy because I usually get the taste extra crispy but still tasty, it's a little spicier than I remember because I think Now that I made this recipe and I was like, oh yeah, there's a lot of white pepper in there, but it's delicious.

Now let's try the homemade version, so I'm impressed with the air fryer in the sense that it made it pretty crispy if you can hear that. very crispy but it was burnt and cooked unevenly, I see all these kinds of flower patches and it's just not very attractive, it cooked it all the way through in the 20 minutes which impressed me as well, let's see how it tastes, here we go, mmm. I have to say that the homemade version is a little more delicious than the store bought version because it is freshly fried, the meat is very succulent, juicy and spicy and like all fried foods, they are best when fried fresh, there is no rancid oil flavors no french fry flavors just freshly cooked fried chicken is really good what's wrong with the taste?

I have to say that it tastes very similar to the original version, except that it is a little spicier and has a bit more heat in this part. It doesn't taste as wrinkled as I thought, this is black so I thought it was going to taste tarry but it doesn't, it's quite tasty and by not adding any additional oil I'm impressed with the amount of crunchy texture here but not with the burning, but I suspect this is not the recipe for a deep fryer, perhaps if you made more wet dough instead of doing this type of dry dredging you would get less of this type of uneven cooking.

Ok, let's try the fried version of Daddy Mac. Here we go hmm, that's pretty good, did you hear that crunchy one? It's a pretty tasty fried chicken. Look how juicy and succulent it is. The crust is crispy. It has an excellent caramelized flavor. Very well fried and that seasoning is excellent. It worried me. it would be a little too salty because we added celery salt, garlic salt and regular salt, but it's not because we didn't season the buttermilk because we didn't season the chicken, it actually works very well, there's just a light layer of that. it's actually powder, but it's a really very good recipe, I really recommend adding msg to this recipe, it really makes it taste processed, it makes it taste like kfc, don't be afraid of msg, it's already in everything, you just don't know it .

Look on the back of a package of Hidden Valley ranch mix and you'll see what I'm talking about, so there's KFC's homemade recipe. I would say it's pretty stinky and in terms of airfryer I'm not going to give it. I think it just requires a different recipe. I like its ease. I like the convenience. I like the capacity of the airfryer. I just need to cook some other recipes so help me out. Let me know in the comments if there are recipes. what should i try in the air fryer this is my first attempt at cooking anything so i am ready to try other things too and i hope you enjoy it i hope you learned something please share this video with your friends follow me on social media and let us know See you next time too, take care, bye, I think I had chicken in my mouth the whole time I was doing that, right there, attractive.