welcome friends welcome back to the kitchen and continuation of the KFC
series it's been a long hiatus I had a lot going on but since I now find myself
with a little bit time on my hands and I got a great deal on some chicken legs at
the grocery store the last time I went to the grocery store I thought I would
finish the series so we're gonna go all out we're gonna finish it completely
over the next few weeks and I'm gonna concentrate on a few recipes that people
have sent me since I started this a lot of people started sending me in their
recipes that they thought nailed the KFC they wanted me to try them they wanted
me to do them on camera so today we're gonna do one from a guy named Earl
so like any of the recipes so far that have been good they all start out with
majority of white pepper and then black pepper
this one has garlic salt I'm not too sure about that but we're gonna give it
a go then some sage coriander ginger
clove allspice oregano and cayenne and I'm just gonna grind these now for those
of you counting along at home I put 10 things into this spice grinder or coffee
grinder Earl counts number 11 as MSG and his
recipe calls for the salt to be added when you put a little bit of the spice
mix into the flour so he doesn't count the salt as part of the eleven herbs and
spices but the MSG is so put that end give it a shake and I'm gonna come right
back and we'll put this in some flour and cook up some chicken first thing in
is the flour then Earl's spice mix and Earl doesn't put the salt in with the
spice mix so I add that separately and then we give this a really good mix
to get it fully incorporated I've got an egg wash here so for every cup of milk
there's one egg now that this is fully incorporated we just dip the chicken
into the milk and egg mixture you're just wetting the outside so that
the coating will stick it's not a marinade it's really just a dunk and at
this point KFC doesn't even use milk and egg wash
anymore they put powdered milk and powdered egg in with the flour and it
just gets a dip into some water so this is this is the old-school way now we put
them into the flour and coat them completely and you toss them around KFC
has a pattern in a way that they do it that has changed over the years quite a
bit depending on where you are and when you worked there so just get it on there
as best we can knock as much flour off as we can because that just gums up at
the bottom of the fryer can lead to burning now into the oil very carefully
dip them in about 3/4 of the way and then let go same with the next two put
the lid on tighten it down
hey lend time for the chicken tasting more chicken tasting so this is the
spice mix from Earl okay again the color is very similar very similar color ah
yeah so let's start with let's start with that one on the right yeah okay
tastes really good juicy same as always yeah and the other
one completely different I'm gonna say completely different sorry I shouldn't
have said that so quick but that was the first thought that came to my mind there
is something in it that doesn't make it distinctly different yeah um that being
said I think if you mix them all in a bucket together no one would be able to
tell you that one was different than the other all right
I would beg to differ on that I was like what's wrong with this one no yeah maybe
I see to me if if I had this and then I had this or I had this and then I had
this I would say this one is is more flavorful they're both good chicken I
don't think he could go wrong with this with this chicken but I would say this
one is more flavorful now I all I can tell you is that they're distinctly
different they are distinctly different okay so this is the KFC and this is
Earl's okay not bad and in the jar it's got all of the KFC smells now when you
say it more flavorful do you think it would just like if you had like two more
scoops of spice in the in the mix it I don't think so cuz I don't think this
has the to me my my palate it just doesn't have the flavor profile of of
the KFC no it's not quite the same okay not a failure it's not a really good not
a success but yes it's still really good and you know you could take this spice
mix and it would be amazing anyway it is amazing it is yeah so I
think we're going to continue all right in that case thanks for stopping by see
you again soon
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