welcome friends welcome friends um a whole lot of frying today Glenn's had a
very busy day with the fryer yes yes pressure frying not a whole lot of fun
but all in the name of pseudoscience so this is episode 3 of our Kentucky Fried
Chicken journey yes and in front of us we have Kentucky Fried Chicken and then
these three are recipes that are out there in the wild that people claim to
be the original recipe KFC recipe so this one is the Marion Kay spices which
allegedly I'm only going to say allegedly because I don't want to be at
the end of a lawsuit but allegedly Colonel Sanders internet suggests
suggest that Colonel Sanders went to Marion Kay and said I want you to make
my spice mix because I don't like the spice mix the KFC is making and at that
point Colonel Sanders still owned the Canadian restaurants so he had the right
to make his own spice mix for the Canadian restaurants and apparently
that's what they made but you know every time you talk to someone else
this story is different well that's right we spoke to someone at the Claudia
Saunders Claudia Sanders who knew Colonel Sanders he was at the Claudia
Sanders restaurant he owns the Claudia Sanders restaurant he bought the Claudia
Sanders restaurant he used to work there at all and he contradicted everything
I'd ever read about Colonel Sanders which is great because it just makes him
more of an enigma yes the mysterious mysterious Colonel so
that's that's recipe number two recipe number three is sort of the the gray web
there's a whole bunch of noticeboards where people talk about the KFC original
recipe and so some guy named Ken and Ken if you're watching thank you very much
for putting in so much time has come up with this recipe that he thinks is very
close and he's done a lot of research and this third one
is from the Chicago Tribune I think about 2016 they were doing a story and
they suggested that they had found if they had they suggested that they had
found the og KFC recipe so we're gonna try them I didn't want to do a blind
tasting because I I think we need to taste the KFC and then compare and
contrast the irony of course is that anything tastes changed over time
well yes and this and any one of these could be the original but we don't but
the original is no longer what's made in the restaurant yeah right because I
taste change marketing changes it's just you know life my friend life we've got a
palate cleanser for those of you that are worried about our palate cleansing
okay so we'll start with the the actual KFC I'm only gonna take a couple bites
hmm mm-hmm tastes like KFC mm-hmm peppery yeah white pepper mm-hmm
everything good mhm
now to Marian Kay uh-huh hot No Julie okay it was always a Brady's if
it's still too hot and I was gonna you know it's not hot juicy um I've been
playing around with this pressure fryer for a little while now and I am amazed
at how juicy the chicken is after you fry it in this thing so a similar flavor
but not as peppery yes I don't get that it's it's almost in the ballpark but
there's not as much white pepper I'm gonna say okay okay on two cans oh yeah
palak wins
conscious God is a little closer I think own cleanses a little close to this
still not as peppery okay so I know it's in these there's one spice in here that
I think is too too much too much there's a person to this one are in comparison
to both of these there is a spice in here that I don't taste in either of
those okay can you pick it out I know what it is cuz it jumped to my brain
immediately no clove okay Kenz has clove in it a very small
amount of clove and a very small amount of allspice and I think those two are
jumping out at me and I don't get that in either of those onto the Chicago
Tribune
okay
do you get that um I still wouldn't identify it as close but I think it's
something that is stronger in this than in this okay but I think it still might
be here but I don't know okay I don't know what do I know
we're just tasting I'm just I'm just an ordinary person so Chicago Tribune
mm-hmm well I Melina have the skin did you cook that one differently at all
nope to me to my mind not even close
no not even close so and the here's the thing so the spice mix for these two and
as I've watched a lot of behind the scenes KFC videos over the last little
while the spice mix that I see being poured into the flour with the KFC as
well it's all gray black this one was decidedly red because it's got a ton of
paprika in it and I said that's there and that's the there's a there's an
overwhelming flavor of paprika in this Chicago Tribune one and I would say
that's not part of this canon are known yeah so Chicago Tribune leaked KFC
recipe that was all over the internet a couple years ago that hundreds of
YouTube channels tried and said oh it's exactly the same no we don't think it's
exactly the same not even close I'm not the same as this
particular nope version that is today's version so of
the two that are left
you know it's funny I almost want to make both of them but with more white
pepper just to to pull that flavor in and to see how it balances out mmm
because I just it's like because they're both missing missing that distinct
flavor I can't I'm having a hard time I gave they're at this had that kind of
level of pepper flavor would it mask the clove Laver a little bit more maybe I'm
balance that out so maybe it is maybe it is adding more white pepper so the Mary
Ann K we can't do anything with because it is a spice mix you could still add
more pepper if you had more reference but I can see how they're related though
okay I can see how they're similar oh boy yeah that's um it's really really
juicy there Glen okay so I get it all dome no no you did okay here's the thing
I'm gonna put these recipes and the Chicago Tribune recipe down below both
of these and the Chicago Tribune mm-hmm our good fried chicken recipes oh yeah
that's yes these are all tasty fried chicken and I would eat any of these and
say thanks for bringing that thanks for bringing the chicken but I think I'm
gonna play with Ken's I think this is the starting point for
me take Ken's bring up the white pepper yes definitely
bring up the white pepper maybe take down the clove in the allspice a little
bit I don't know it's hard to say um you may want to just do one I may just want
to play with one for a little while at a time will tell you how it works out I'm
sure we'll eat four or five versions before and the other thing is sharing a
lot of people get hung up on this 11 herbs and spices did Colonel Sanders
mistakenly believe that salt was an herb or spice because a lot of people do well
that doesn't mean oh it depends on your defining it's a seasoning and and it is
a seasoning and he may have lumped that in and so this this drive to put 11
actual herbs and spices maybe theory may be filling in somewhere with something
that isn't necessary there were eleven things and they just called them herbs
because it was easy to there's 11 things in this it's marketing happening it's
all marketing and the other thing is this is called 99x and so for all of you
chemists out there who are saying oh you're supposed to put so much of that
the X just like the 7x in our coke video is just a marketing thing only about
marketing what it's not no MX plus B or anything like that no just marketing so
I think we've got a good starting point now to refine the rest of this recipe
I'm looking forward to it it's summer season it's a great time to eat a lot of
fried chicken yeah make it up take it out go for a picnic okay so come on back
and we're going to refine this further and we're going to nail this recipe okay
yes yeah