Good luck! Here’s a little description of how tough it is to get to the original recipe of KFC:
“We fortified the ceiling and the floor around here with concrete bricks two feet thick,” Dietl said. “We put in motion sensors also CCTV that’s hooked up to security downstairs. They have 24/7 armed guys downstairs, so in the amount of 30 seconds you’ll have somebody up here. Once in here, you have to have two people with two keys and two different PIN numbers, and that’s what you have to have. This safe is bolted down and there is no way anybody can get in here unauthorized without us knowing about it.”
Holy. Crap.
But will this be enough to thwart the hordes of people who are trying to steal the secret recipe? Just in case it’s not, half of the ingredients are mixed at one location, half at another, and they are combined at a third.
This is chicken we’re talking about. CHICKEN! Fast food chicken. See, we’re going to share a little secret with you guys who’re risking your lives to protect that recipe: no one eats at KFC because they have the best chicken in the world. People eat it because it’s a pain in the ass to make at home and the line was too long at Popeye’s.
It’s salt, people. The secret ingredient is salt.
That leaves 10 other herbs and spices!
Nah Roadside, the secret is salt + oil.
Now I want some KFC. …fried chickennnnn
I think that’s bull. Are you telling me that a reputable lab can’t take a sample of the spices mix, analyze it, and come up with everything that’s in it?
Come on!
Ingredient 11: It’s that tiny bit of cocaine… that’s why all the bills have trace amounts of cocaine.
some people did some analisis on it and it was flour,salt, peper, and msg.
http://blog.taragana.com/n/coke-kfcs-secret-recipe-myth-busted-99335/
how would it be true?
I heard that KFC chicken had some funky cold medina…
It’s advertising, every time their sales drop they put out crap about the 11 herbs and spices. So every numb-nutz out there looks for the “secret recipe” and tests it against the real thing. The lazy ones just go buy it.
LOL @ Richard. I even got that one.
whatever it is its DAYUM good
Come on!!! It is the best dirty bird in the world! 🙂
All i can taste is fat,salt,pepper and more fat…
KFC, original recipe, is my kryptonite. When I was much younger, I worked at a Pizza Hut that was across the street from a KFC. We swapped food with them all the time. I was eating KFC 5 days a week at one point. Too bad (or good depending on how you look at it)the closest KFC is about 25 miles away.
@chef biatch
Damn we should have thought of that! I worked at a cater company next door to a gourmet coffee shop, we should have done that.
Chef – I once worked at a McDonalds that was in a shopping center with a Dunkin Donuts and a KFC. All of the employees ate for free from everyone else.
Why would anyone want the recipe?
Popeye’s spicy rules!
I thought the Taco Bell where I worked was the only one that traded food with other restaurants (Pizza Hut – they even delivered it). I appear to be deeply mistaken.
Glad to hear it happens elsewhere.
For good chicken, try Claudia Sanders Dinner House in Shelbyville, Kentucky. http://www.claudiasanders.com/aboutus.htm
secret recipe here folks….chickengreasesalt
wish i could be one among them oh well i enjoy eating
1 tablespoon rosemary
1 tablespoon oregano
1 tablespoon sage
1 teaspoon powdered ginger
1 teaspoon marjoram
1 1/2 teaspoons thyme
3 tablespoons packed brown sugar
3 tablespoons minced parsley
1 teaspoon pepper
1 tablespoon paprika
2 tablespoons garlic salt
2 tablespoons onion salt
2 tablespoons chicken bouillon powder
1 package Lipton tomato cup-a-soup mix