And here we have today's special ingredient Kraft mac and cheese. Now I don't have to tell you what
this tastes like, it's delicious, especially when you make it right. However that's not what we're
going to be doing today. All I really want is this the powder of mac and cheese because I'm going to
be doing something I've never seen done before and here's how it's gonna work; The first thing I need
is the real star of today's show chicken. The first thing to do was to get it seasoned, so for that I
first started with a good amount of salt, then I used Guga's rub. One of the most important
things on making your chicken taste really good is to season it properly, and another thing is to give
it time so that the salt can penetrate deeply into the meat. So for today I'll be dry brining
this chicken with the rub. Now if that sounds like a fancy word to you uh-uh it's not all you have to
do is to let it sit on your refrigerator overnight, this will allow the meat to season it all the way ,
through. Now to get a mac and cheese flavor on my fried chicken I'm gonna be doing it two different
ways and here's the first one. We're gonna be creating a batter so into a container I threw in
all-purpose flour, followed by that magical yellow stuff, and a good amount of Buttermilk. Mixed
everything well and combine it together to see how yellow it was gonna be, and as you can clearly
see the amount of mac and cheese powder was not enough so I had to go in with a second package.
Mixed everything well and now we got it this is, exactly what I was looking for. And after 12 hours
of brining this is what the chicken looks like. Notice that there's no longer any salt,
that's because it's nicely and deeply into the meat, which tells me that this chicken is gonna
taste fantastic. As the next thing to do is to go ahead and soak everything into the batter. I'm also
going to be letting it rest for an additional 12 hours in the refrigerator. Marinating the chicken
with buttermilk is better because once all of the chickens were in there I covered it up and into
the refrigerator it went to rest overnight. Now for the remaining of the chicken I'm gonna treat
it even more simpler. Into a separate Bowl I added buttermilk, threw all of the chicken in there, cover
everything up with more buttermilk, and into the refrigerator it went to rest overnight as well. As
the next thing to prepare was the seasoned flour. For that I just used all-purpose flour, followed by
Guga's rub, mix everything together and that was ready. As now I have to prepare this oh yes we're
talking about mac and cheese seasoning! And here's how to make it. I first started with one full
package of mac and cheese, followed by a little bit of onion powder, garlic powder and a tiny bit of
parsley, mix everything well and that's it. Now I'll be using this to sprinkle over the chicken once
it's fully fried and hopefully it's gonna taste incredible, but I don't know which one is going to
be better. We're about to find out real shortly, because if you've been watching my channel for
a while you know I love to make side dishes. And to go along with the theme this is an incredible
mac and cheese for you to give it a try, and to make it it is ridiculously easy, and here's how.
you can use any noodles you like but I chose these. All you have to do is to throw it in boiling water
and follow the instructions in the packaging. As that was happening it allowed me to go ahead and
make the cheese sauce. Into a skillet I throw in some butter, followed by all-purpose flour,
mix everything well and let the flour cook up for about 5 minutes. As soon as it starts smelling like
pie dough I threw in some milk. Turn up the heat on high and whisk it because it's gonna thicken
up on you real quick. Once it has done so go ahead and throw in some nutmeg and your favorite types
of cheese. For today I chose two monterey jack and sharp cheddar. Mix it all together to ensure that
the cheese is fully melted, as you can see this is the consistency I got with my sauce. To finish it
up throw the pasta into the sauce, mix everything well and combine, transfer it to a baking dish, add
a little bit of cayenne and parsley right on top, and my mac and cheese is done. And come on now is
there any way that this is not gonna be incredible? I don't think so. And hopefully it's gonna pair
up perfectly with our Fried Chicken. Talking about that the only thing left to do is to go ahead and
fry them up. And I first started with this one here, the batter. Now my goal is not to have too much
batter so I try to remove it a little bit then into the oil it went at 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
The goal here is to fry them up without burning. Now this is batter for whatever reason since it
has cheese it cooks up really quickly, so make sure to flip it as many times as necessary and
ensure that it does not get burned. As you can see I was able to get a nice golden brown color
quite quickly. At the same time these are not fully cooked yet. I'm gonna be finishing them in the oven
which was set to also 350 degrees Fahrenheit. That was good because it gave me time to go ahead and
make the regular chicken. For that one I removed a little bit of the buttermilk and the all-purpose
flour as much as possible, shake the excess which is extremely important, then into the oil it went
at 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Also the goal here is exactly the same thing, try to get a nice
golden brown color without getting it too burnt. Now since my chickens are extremely thick it's
gonna take a while to cook, so for that once it was golden brown it also went into the oven. Once the
temperature was reached I threw in some of that mac and cheese seasoning right on top because now
both of my chicken experiments were fully cooked. Which one tastes better? Will it even be better
than a regular deep fried chicken? Well I have no idea but we're about to find out right now which
one is best. It is enough talking and it is time to eat, so let's do it! All right everybody here we got
our beautiful chickens gentlemen. What do you guys? -That's good -I think it looks really good.
-It's funny. -It does look a little bit funny but overall it looks like some good chicken. -Why you have to curse Leo? -Stop cursing bro!
-It it even really a curse word? -He went for it again. -It looks pretty good pretty interesting as you guys
can see I got some fried chicken. It's a little experiment as obviously you could tell. This one is
a little bit orange, this one is a little bit more orange and then we got this one right here which
is a nice little mac and cheese for us to cleanse our palates. With that being said we're gonna go
this direction today, give me your honest opinion. It sounds like a plan? -Sounds good. -All right let's
do it go please dig in. I gotta say this Fried Chicken is definitely crispy. You see I told you
it's crispy. Let's give this one a try and let you know, enough talking. Cheers everybody! -Cheers.
-Some good chicken. This doesn't feel like an experiment though. -I know right we don't say
this very often everybody but the chicken is good. I let the Chicken dry brine overnight
so you can see that the entire meat is extremely flavorful, it's just amazing highly recommend. -I'm
glad you said that because it's true you know most of the time we bite into fried chicken
the flavor is all on the crust of the chicken, but this one the actual chicken itself the meat
has a very nice flavor and just adds to the overall deliciousness of this. -Thats a nice
and juicy. -Nice and juicy and also extremely flavorful. That's our control by the way now
we're gonna go for our second please guys dig in, let's go. -Oh man. -How does it smell first of
all I would love to know? -Can I curse? -Again? -Leo no cursing chill bro. -Leo's in a bad mood today.
-Okay fine it smells really good. -Well I'm being lucky because I got another breast over here
and I don't like breasts so I'm much more of a thigh and uh leg kind of guy. -Amen brother! -I'm
tired of breasts. -Let's try this one and give them an honest opinion enough talking cheers everybody. -Cheers!
-Oh my God. -That's more juicy too! -That's delicious! What is that? -Dang that flavor is like
wow. -I never thought that it was gonna be so tasty like that. How do you describe it
Leo? -It's it's very different than the last one because the crust of it is not as dry and
crispy it's more a little bit more wet, so it sticks to the meat more, but it almost
kind of makes it a cheese instead of a crust. -Exactly. So just to make sure I got that right
you like it more wet than dry? -Absolutely. How about you Angel? What do you think?
Yo wet's better bro. I'm sure everyone will agree with me in the comment section. -Always
wet never dry. -This chicken is very moist. -That's worse! -How is that worse? -That word nobody likes
to use that word. Put in the comments down below and let me know. -It makes me uncomfortable to
hear that word. -The chicken is very moist, it's a very savory, cheesy and it feels like maybe more
flavor than the last one. -Exactly actually you keep going in you definitely liked it. -I feel
a little bit bad because I feel like I'm not doing as much describing as I normally do and
I'm doing a lot more eating, but guys that just shows that this chicken is really good. -So that
was delicious let's clean our palates a little bit with some incredible mac and cheese, yeah. Now this
mac and cheese here has real cheese instead of the fake cheese. -Nice! That's always a plus. -Cheers
everybody. -Cheers. -Oh that's good. -Dang, dang. -If you don't like this I don't know what's wrong
with you everybody this is delicious. -One million percent agree. -So good. -Now I'm really excited for
this one here so enough talking let's dig in all right. I'm hoping I don't get another breast.
I got another breast, come on man. -I'm so excited for this one. -I know right? Me too I'm gonna
actually put a little bit of extra cheesiness. Enough talking let's give this a go. You ready? -I'm
getting some extra goodness. -Okay, all right. -Oh no! -Enough talking let's give it a go cheers everybody.
-Cheers. -Dang that's the winner. That's it! -Oh my God. -That is amazing. -Oh my God! -That is a 10 out of 10
we'll highly recommend right there. What do you think Leo? -That is perfect. -Leo stop cursing!
This is a family channel. -I saw the opportunity I had to go for it. -You get the best of both worlds
with this chicken because the crust is crispy but it's also because of the powder so flavorful you
bite into it it just gets punched with a mountain of flavor on it. Really good, super cheesy very
delicious! -That is very delicious and it makes me so happy. You know why? Because this is the easiest
one to make. -Oh really? -Yeah this is so easy. By the way are you seeing right here is mac and
cheese powder, the mac and cheese I just use the packets. -Of course it is. -Absolutely delicious. So is this unanimous
is this the winner? -That's the winner 100%. -That is the winner, this one is good as well but putting
the mac and cheese seasoning powder on top is the winner everybody. Absolutely highly recommend it.
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