with fried chicken for dinner if you
love fried chicken then you've probably
enjoyed a bucket of Kentucky Fried
Chicken now and again KFC is clearly
delicious but is it simply all those
secret herbs and spices well let's find
out with the top ten reasons KFC's fried
chicken is so delicious
they say you're looking for some KFC
chicken licken good
finger-licking good beef is not quite as
popular as it used to be and chicken has
helped to fill the boy vegans and
vegetarians are out of luck but if you
eat any meat you probably enjoy the
versatility of chicken this popular
poultry is perfect for so many recipes
from enchiladas to salads to barbeque
and the list just goes on chicken is
such a versatile food and the culinary
possibilities are nearly endless of
course for many chicken lovers crispy
fried chicken is the ultimate treat take
it enough of it and Kentucky Fried
Chicken has long been the most visible
and convenient chicken place around the
popularity of chicken is great news for
the fast-food giant and as of 2018 the
company had opened 22,000 stores around
the world the growth has been so quick
the chain had recently been opening
several stores a day to keep up with the
growing demand what goes together better
than some fried chicken and warm buttery
biscuits this delicious pairing sounds
like a no-brainer and KFC has your fix
there's no way around it chicken is just
delicious and this fact isn't going to
change anytime soon and KFC is perfectly
willing to sell us as much as we can
handle I love KFC it's science
full of science they got it figured out
many thousands of years ago when our
distant ancestors were foraging for food
a decent meal could be days away or more
in this intense feast or famine
environment humans understandably
developed a preference for high-calorie
foods this makes a lot of sense for the
survival of the species because it's
hard to pass on your genes to the next
raishin if you're starving this is where
Kentucky Fried Chicken comes in although
most of us eat too much as it is we all
still have a preference for high-calorie
items like fried chicken in addition to
the tasty fried chicken we shouldn't
underestimate the appeal of KFC's
delicious comfort food sides such as
mashed potatoes with gravy
mac and cheese and biscuits our bodies
often crave these carbohydrate-rich
foods as tasty ways to get plenty of
calories these excess calories would
suit us better if we were still living
outdoors and hunting for our next meal
alas KFC has saved us the trouble of
chasing down delicious chickens and
making appetizing meals out of them when
your willpower seems to be faltering as
you're driving up to the nearest KFC you
can take solace in the fact that you are
going up against your own biological
history good chicken with your salt
garnish a million meals with the soul
from popcorn to steak it is generally
accepted that salt makes a lot of foods
taste better
anyone who frequents fast food
restaurants knows that salt is featured
prominently in many menu items KFC's
fried chicken has its famous eleven
herbs and spices and it also has
tried-and-true salt sodium chloride or
table salt is a necessary ingredient in
our bodies for regulating fluid levels
we would die without salt but we've all
been told to watch salt intake because
too much salt can be harmful to watch is
not good a diet high in salt can open us
up to unhealthy conditions like high
blood pressure and strokes
but the colonel wasn't thinking about
our heart health or our waste wines when
he introduced us to his delicious and
yes
salty Chicken KFC can't hide the truth
about the high levels of salt in its
chicken a published nutritional chart
reveals that a standard piece of chicken
sold at the popular chain contains more
than 1000 milligrams of sodium enjoying
this single piece of chicken would give
you about half your daily recommended
intake it's easy to see why most
Americans far exceed the recommended
levels
often consume more than 3000 milligrams
a day people are going to continue to
enjoy KFC but they should be mindful of
the potential impact on their health if
they over indulge it's just so good
coated with flavor so many flavors one
of the joys of eating KFC's fried
chicken is sinking your teeth into the
deliciously crunchy coating many people
would say that the crust makes or breaks
fried chicken it turns out that this
coating really does play an important
role in making KFC is chicken so good
it's semi emulsified which means there's
a mixture of water and fat in the
coating the interaction of these two
substances on the KFC chicken skin
coating is very good at transmitting
maximum flavor to your taste buds as
soon as you bite into it this is like a
supercharged effect that further
heightens the flavors of the salt and
MSG in the coating this combination of
heightened flavors makes it difficult
for chicken lovers to resist this is
more evidence that KFC does not leave
its menu to chance but is working hard
to make its fried chicken as enticing as
possible all of this work is done so a
lot of people will want to buy the
chicken and then go back for more
just about any chicken crust would be
plenty delicious anyway but using a semi
emulsified crust takes a tasty food to
another level this makes sense in the
highly competitive fast food industry
where little can be left to chance
insanely competitive flavor enhancement
they've got more flavors you have likely
heard of msg and the fact that it is
added to a lot of foods there has been
some controversy over this food additive
whose full name is monosodium glutamate
this might sound like an exotic chemical
but it is actually just a combination of
salt and a substance called glutamate
glutamate is a naturally occurring amino
acid that is found in many foods your
body processes MSG and the naturally
occurring amino acids
way very interesting these facts have
gone a long way towards easing people's
fears about this common flavor enhancer
msg was getting a bad reputation through
scare tactics so many companies
discontinue using it however when the
facts came out regarding msg it seems to
have been rehabilitated somewhat in the
eyes of the public this is a good thing
for KFC because MSG is part of the
recipe that makes the chains fried
chicken as flavorful as it can be msg
has a proven track record of bringing
out the flavor of many foods and the
fast food chain is intent on making the
chicken as irresistible as possible a
dish best served cold
I think it's revenge is a dish best
served cold the line revenge is a dish
best served cold which came to us from
17th century France is a bit grim KFC
chicken on the other hand might be best
served hot but this doesn't mean it
isn't also quite delicious when served
cold eating cold chicken as leftovers
out of the refrigerator used to be
almost a cliche on television programs
for characters who had arrived home too
late for dinner if you are lucky enough
to have KFC leftovers in your
refrigerator then they probably won't go
to waste because you know there is
something about cold chicken that just
works it sounds like something that
might work the reasons why it works has
been studied so we know it's not just
our imaginations the first thing is that
as the chicken cools the skin contracts
and comes into contact with the meat and
separates from the crust this helps to
keep the crust crunchy when you get
around to eating it the next day the
second thing that happens is that the
cooling chicken loses moisture in the
form of steam this loss of moisture
increases the density of the chicken and
helps make the chicken taste even more
flavorful than when you originally
bought it so if you're one of those
people who swears that KFC is
better the next day you might just be
right maybe order extra chicken the next
time you're grabbing dinner at KFC so
you can enjoy it again for tomorrow's
lunch I'm figuring out how much KFC to
pick up on my way home fresh is best
what it's fresh this might seem like a
no-brainer but using fresh chicken
instead of meat that has been hanging
around long enough to be frozen makes
for a better tasting meal you probably
know that many fast food items are made
from frozen food because it is so much
cheaper and more convenient than dealing
with fresh ingredients but in the face
of this pressure to cut corners KFC
remains committed to offering its
customers fresh chicken and other
ingredients the fast food chain is able
to provide fresh meat wheat fresh milk
to all of its far-flung stores around
the world by partnering with local
poultry farmers instead of relying on
big commercial companies that mass
processed chicken chicken from local
farms is cut into thighs legs wings and
breasts and chilled but never frozen KFC
has cultivated a reputation for being
somewhat choosy about the quality of
their chicken it will accept from its
various suppliers and this is good news
for KFC customers the extra effort it
takes to use fresh chicken plays a big
part in delivering and sustaining the
quality we expect under pressure just so
much pressure one of the things many KFC
customers may not know about their
beloved chicken is that it isn't cooked
in a traditional deep fryer although
this is the way you'd probably expect
southern fried chicken to get its crispy
golden goodness KFC has mastered a
different approach somewhere along the
way toward KFC immortality Colonel
Sanders himself developed a method of
using cooking oil in pressure cookers
even though these were not designed to
be used with oil doing it wrong so
however the colonel was determined to go
his own way on this and despite the
risks his method makes a delicious fried
chicken pressure cooking is a fast and
efficient way to keep chicken moist
without sacrificing a crispy coating the
two hallmarks of good fried chicken
eventually the food industry
up with the man who was destined to
become a fast-food icon and started
selling a pressure cooker that was in
fact designed to use oil as the
innovative kernel had already been doing
for years following the introduction of
this new design use of pressure cookers
became more common in fast food
preparation and we all have the kernel
to thank for it thank you
tapering any one and a half teaspoon of
fresh ground pepper both black and white
pepper are common ingredients but do you
know what pepper mean is it's okay if
you don't because the folks at KFC
certainly do and they are making very
good use of it the Perrine is a chemical
found in pepper that gives it its
famously strong flavor and odor and
makes pepper such a popular spice it is
pepper een that is responsible for
making your mouth tingle and burn a bit
when you eat foods heavily seasoned with
white or black pepper the new pit marine
in large quantities has even been shown
to help with depression in some cases
this versatile chemical has also been
shown to aid in digestion which makes
your body wanted that much more although
KFC doesn't like to reveal precise
details about its famous recipes it is
safe to say that the chicken is prepared
using generous amounts of both black and
white pepper although a variety of other
spices help complete KFC's popular
flavor it is good to know that basic
ingredients like pepper can play such a
prominent role in making the chicken so
tasty
it will make sense now the secret recipe
secret Kentucky Fried Chicken guards the
specifics of the secret recipe behind
its famous fried chicken Harland Sanders
better known to us as Colonel Sanders
developed a recipe with 11 herbs and
spices which has been a closely guarded
trade secret since the 1940s some people
wonder if this supposed secret recipe
has just been a clever marketing ploy to
distinguish itself from the very real
competition fast food chain space will
never know will we a nephew of the
colonel may
let the recipe out of the bag in 2016
when he showed a reporter the following
list of ingredients that was to be mixed
with flour salt thyme basil oregano
celery salt black pepper dried mustard
paprika garlic salt ground ginger and
white pepper KFC has never publicly
confirmed that this is in fact the
coveted secret recipe that helps make
the chicken so popular while it is
certainly a plausible list of
ingredients for a fried chicken recipe
why are we better off with a little
mystery of course
KFC's competitors would want to know
what makes the chicken special but fans
of the chicken can still enjoy it if the
secret remains intact
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