Getting this recipe wasn't easy! Toss a like on the vid :)

“I stole Colonel Sander’s secret recipe” Plankton: *“You and I are not so different”*

Imagine if this was the actual recipe. KFC would be sweating buckets

I work at KFC and, while I don’t know the secret recipe, I can say that the cooking method was wrong. We use pressure deep fryers at 345 Fahrenheit for 16 minutes. No buttermilk, and the ratio should be about 1/3 herbs and spices to 2/3 flour. Also, I can say for sure that there isn’t paprika. The distinct red color just isn’t in any of the mixes. (Also, we do use MSG, it’s one of the few things on the ingredients list) hope this helps!

I worked at KFC. they used rapeseed oil, water for wet batter, and the seasoning was in one packet, no ingredients mentioned. people at the KFC stores won't know at all

Remember that giant chicken that beat Peter Griffin relentlessly? I hope you’re ready bruh lmao

I work at a KFC as a second job, they don't train you at all to not say what's in the seasoning. The actual seasoning packets we add to the flour don't even say it. First two ingredients: Spices, MSG

Bro turned in to plankton💀

Great vid. The key to the taste is two things that make all the difference. The portions of ingredients (which we all know can change results drastically if they are off) and the chicken is pressure fried. I do like the fact you use the starch in the flour mixture. I usually use Cornstarch in mine instead of potato, I like the crunch it creates. Great copy cat! :)

If this video suddenly gets taken down and Nick goes missing, it's our duty to tell his tale

fun fact: the 11 herbs and spices isnt the colonel's original recipe and actually hated it. His original recipe was more like 25 herbs and spices but it was too complex or something

My personal favourite video of yours. Great stuff, Nick!

Victoria's Secret and the Dutch Oven 😂, i love how Nick's video's are so put up together and filled with good quality humour 🤌🏻🤫😂

As a kfc worker we literally don't know what's in it. Everything is prepackaged and we just mix them to marinate and bread the chicken.

I used to work at KFC, and one thing everyone misses/forgets/doesnt have, is that the chicken is pressure cooked in an oil vat. Makes a huge difference.

I was a manager at KFC when I was a teenager. I can confirm, no buttermilk is used. The cooks would take the kitchen, dip it in fresh water, then seasoning.

This is amazing, the fact that you got this close is brilloent even if its not exact its proberly better just because you know the oils fresh an its not been sitting there for hours 🤣

this guy is just such a great chef. i would pay good money just to eat what he cooks Thanks so much for all the likes, I never thought this would blow up 🙂

Damn, Nick went and performed a Plankton and stole the secret formula 💀

😮You actually got the recipe right I think because I have a picture on my phone of similar ingredients but it does not consist MSG Osmo salt Onion Powder

Victoria’s Secret is right up there with “why is water wet?” Great video nick!!

As an ex KFC employee, I can tell you that even actual workers aren't given the recipe. It all comes in bags thar are literally labeled "Original" or "Extra Crispy", and trust me one of the first things I did working there was look at it to see if I could find the recipe

Try this way too! I honestly think the MSG in the brine is the key. Brine: 1 gallon water 1/3 cup kosher salt 1 Tbls. MSG Brine In fridge for 3 hours drain and rinse. Pat chicken dry. Dredge: 1 C AP flour 4 tsp kosher salt 1 Tbls MSG 2 tsp sugar 2 tsp pepper 1/2 tsp white pepper 1/2 tsp paprika 1/2 tsp ground savory 1/2 tsp sage (ground) 1/4 tsp ginger (ground) 1/4 tsp marjoram (ground) 1/4 tsp onion powder 1/8 tsp garlic powder 1/8 tsp cayenne pepper (ground) You can soak the chicken in some buttermilk and go right into the dredge or for Xtra crispy you can go into egg wash and back into the dredge!

I worked at KFC on tje 90's and the packets used listed 14 items in the spice mix packet. I can't recall all of them but one was msg and another was some numbers. It was corn starch as well as plain flower and I don't recall butter milk etc. Just wet chicken tossed through the entire breading mix.

I don’t know about in the US, but here in England you can ask for a full ingredients break down for any commercially sold food due to allergies. It has to be provided. How this recipe still remains ‘officially’ a secret is therefore strange

Didn't Matpat at Food theory do a pretty accurate KFC recipe. You and Matpat should work together to make the perfect recipe.

always a good day when Nick uploads

You completely bombed out.

How long do you marinate the chicken buttermilk for?

“They are extremely well trained” Reality: “Sir, we just work here.”

Hi nick, just a tip. Don’t rest the chicken on paper towels, place them on a wire rack, the paper towels will cause condensation which might make the chicken less crispy.

Chicken tenderloin. Breaded in: wheat flour, salt, monosodium glutamate, spices, dehydrated garlic, modified milk ingredients, dried egg white (egg white, baker’s yeast, citric acid). Cooked in: canola oil (dimethylpolysiloxane (antifoaming agent), TBHQ). Contains wheat, milk and egg.

Hey Nick, I am a sub, and upon watching your videos, I would always appreciate the entertaining aspects of your videos that make them stand out from other cooking channels. However, in regards to this video I am not sure if you would want to leak something that's been keeping KFC going for so many years. KFC is known for Colonel Sander's recipe, and there is a reason why it is kept secret; it is a signature dish on the menu and is one of the most iconic foods of the 20-21st Century.

Love the vids, keep up the great work

Thank you for making these videos! I've had a tough past couple of years, and I'm sure everyone has. You really make everyone's day! We love you!

Colonel Sanders bout to make a new recipe when Nick Founds the actual and proper Chicken recipe😅

7:22 “✨ShES aN OlD mAN WhO lIvES In OhIO MaKInG MOnEy of GoRLs LiKE mE✨”

Well it’s been nice knowing you buddy gonna miss your food videos😂😂

I just wanna say, I’ve been watching your videos for years, and my absolute favorites are when you simply just cook something amazing and give us the recipe, no need to get ranch with it or anything. Videos like this one are the best of the best to me. Keep up the good work, I’ll always be a huge fan

It kinda looks like the original by the way u did a good job nick 👍🏻

that was the prodigy win sound

An old employee of kfc recently quit and decided to start his own gig in my town that man has definitely cracked the recipe and it’s pretty accurate

What's rotisserie gold chicken recipe??

Hey yo nick have a blessed day and enjoy yourself and keep smiling and keep up the great work.

Amazing. I wonder how close it is to the actual recipe. Both the ingredients and the ratios between them

You're a genius, Nick, for trying to figure out Colonel Sanders' secret recipe.

Hi nick if u r reading this may i ask the amount u listed above, how many grams of chicken meat will that seasoning cover?

i love the fact that he added osmo to the list that will make it 10x better

KFC employees are not told the ingredients. It’s all prepackaged powdered seasonings. A food scientist could probably do an analysis and tell you however.

Bros out here committing federal offenses

I worked at KFC as a fry cook when I was younger and we were never told anything about what’s in the seasoning. We were to take a bag of flour that literally just said “flour” and mix it with a bag that literally said “salt” and as someone who cooked since I was a kid I would taste the salt and flour and would try my best to call it out and this is what I came up with; So the color of the salt alone gives off an Adoboish yellow color. I remember getting notes of oregano, white pepper, salt, black pepper, and the MSG is a no brainer. Other than that I will also say that KFC’s level of freshness is probably one of the best out of any restaurant I’ve ever worked at. The chicken is always delivered super fresh and we were expected to constantly change the chicken out of the warmer every hour and 30 mins. Also expected to clean our pressure fryers out every day if not every two days depending on how busy we got. That also played a part in the taste of the chicken.

Nick boutta catch Gordon at the end of this year calling it

He did so much to make this video for us, and I hope you hit 6M soon 🥹🫶🏻

I work there and i would say to get the most accurate chicken would be to use water not buttermilk and double bread it for extra crispy, add msg and definitly pepper.

they can shove the msg but everyting else makes the recipe I hope! Gonna try it now, awesome thanks

Really thank you Nick for the dedication hard work you put into making this video and reality I loved every moment of it

After all these years, finally, mom can actually say we have KFC at home

1:35 when the nick and Manny thing happened That sound affect is when you beat a battle in prodigy math game

It's crazy how the only thing you could say beyond a shadow of a doubt about what's different between the herb & spice blends is the MSG, which isn't even an herb or a spice. That had to have been some damn good research and testing.

Thanks for helping me cook tons of recipes and not burning food

Between the allergens lists, our taste buds and smell receptors being pretty good at telling culinary stuff apart and trained animals covering what we can't, no recipe is immune to being cracked as far as basic ingredients are concerned. However, not only are plants ridiculously plenty in variety, but some of their breeds are proprietary. Meaning that you can't ask for seeds / sapplings (or similars), and getting your hands on one of these without asking and proceeding to plant, harvest and sell them or whatever you make out of them will most likely get you a heavy lawsuit. To top that off, the processes behind turning these plants into spices are all industrial secrets too, and other than telling whatever chemicals may end up in the final product, the owners of these secrets have no further obligations. So while our chemical receptors can tell us the difference between things made in way X and way Y, they aren't retro-engineering machines to tell us how it all arrived there. And since our allergen receptors don't care about such details, FDA won't give a damn either. Not to say that these so-called "secrets" means that they are the best all around to everyone. When things are way too good, we simply cannot evaluate which one is the best. This is specially important when we consider popular, mass-produced food items, such as fast-food spice blends and soft drinks. They aren't made to be deeply appreciated by "sommeliers", but simply appeal to a large amount of people; So not only are people unlikely to judge these items objective, they also have no reason to attempt it. But... While we cannot usually can (or want) to tell which one is better, we certainly can get "attached" to certain flavors, even more so when they bring us nostalgia or, quite the contrary, gives us something new to appreciate. Thus, keeping your exact recipe a secret is less of a way to avoid people attempting to make similar or "better" stuff, and more of a measure to keep a strong grip over said item's identity and all the popular culture that was built over them.

I feel like the easiest way to find out the original recipe is too literally just experiment with what was the most common spices during the time of colonel sanders, experiment with flavor mixing etc until you discover thee perfect taste

2/3 ts salt 1/2 ts thyme 1/2 ts basil 1/3 ts origino 1 ts celary salt 1 ts black pepper 1 ts dried mustard 4 ts paprika 2 ts garlic salt 1 ts ground ginger 3 ts white pepper Was found on the back of a photo with Colonel Sanders

1:39 I thought mannny quited?

5:10 Manny, you’re fired. Get out. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Yes, is a Mr. Krabs secret Krabby patty formula versus plankton situation

What I've been trying to figure out is getting the texture right. I wanna get that thin breading texture of the original recipe instead of that crispy texture.

Nick you need todo a vid where you make a god leave grilled cheese

Love the videos Nick keep it up!!

It gave me an idea for an KFC clone! It would be called Texas Fired Chicken, or TFC

That looks really good for you not to have used a pressure fryer!!!!😄😋😋😋🍽🍴🍽🥄

Has Manny been fired yet?

Hey Nick, even if you used the exactly same spices as the original recipe, you are still not frying it right, because at KFC they use Henny Penny pressure fryers..

i used to work at kfc and that seasoning does look very similar to the stuff we used

MSG! Uncle Rogers be thirsty for KFC now

Love the video and love the food 🍲

You should’ve fried it in a pressure cooker!!! Just like how they do it 😄

this dude is so good at cooking! i'd pay very good money for one meal. also btw the 11 spices i used were: paprika, onion salt, celery salt, rubbed sage, garlic powder, ground allspice, ground oregano, chili powder, black pepper, basil leaves, and marjoram leaves and its exactly like it!

Hi there, how many cups of flour do you mix your recipe with? Thanks in advance ❤

Can we all agree that when They upload our days get better!

I can already feel this is going to be a great video!

I usually ask for gravy on the side to put on my busquets

For those who don't know KFC doesn't use the same ingredients as the original recipe. The secret recipe thing is just for marketing, i belive someone debunked this on a tv show by talking to an actual relative of the colonel

wouldnt it be easier to take a piece of it and bring it to a scientist so they could analyze it and so?

That is amzing that you fou d that actually herbs and spices! So Cool😁

Gordon : "I will get that lamb sauce." Nick : "I will get that secret recipe."

Give this man a Medal of Honor for his bravery

You have to do a blind taste test to determine if you actually 'stole the recipe' we can't just take your word for it Nick 🤣

2 questions… did you use skinless chicken and how long did you did you keep the chicken in the buttermilk? Thanks!

Now the chef is a detective

I know one of his Secret spice that's salt lol.

Most interesting detective adventure for a food recipe For this , giving a like to this video is 👌🏽👌🏽

first step to take wouldve been to find most common seasonings when he was alive cuse certain seasoning may not have been as used back then as they are now

Some small fast food chain after seeing this: Ok, we'll use this recipe.

WOOOOW This guy has no limits!! that motivates me a lot, one of the best videos

There are things that we don't want to happen but have to accept, things we don't want to know but have to learn, and people we can't live without but have to let go. Keep moving…🙏🏽

Bless that lady she was like no I no put any seasoning.

This be the real life krabby patty formula seeing how rare it is

Can we just appreciate the hard work and dedication nick put in this video.

What's Next??? Nick Building His Own KFC!!!!????