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Sept 27, 2022 11:58:50 GMT 1
Post by Silver on Sept 27, 2022 11:58:50 GMT 1
Of the memory you do have of tasting it, how would you describe the overall taste? I can't describe it to myself, let alone to anyone else. That's the point. |
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Post by flg on Sept 27, 2022 13:08:49 GMT 1
I think the tough part for anyone who "cracks" the OR will be in proving it. And by that I am more in line with the taste test. Go grab a piece of KFC from the local joint around the corner. And blind taste yours against it. Well that should fail as those of us that have been around. Know that the new OR is not as full of flavor as the greasy, salt, pepper mess today. So yours should taste different, in a good way. But it will stand out as different. Smell may be the bigger determining factor. But it appears artificial scent enhancers may be in play today. Think eating your KFC fire log. LOL.
Next tier in proof would be either showing it solves one or more of the riddles, vials, napkins, stories. Or, you can refute these with evidence based on your discoveries. Obviously within reason.
I don't doubt for a minute that Silver's, 11serbs, Chickenman and myself. All of us have great recipes. 100%, probably not but way better than I can buy via a drive thru window today. And lets not forget. We know there are multiple paths to build each profile block in the recipe. So a slightly different line up of ingredients doesn't make a person right or wrong. Anise Seed vs Star Anise won't be a factor if the amounts are controlled properly.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 27, 2022 13:57:58 GMT 1
We should rename the forum though when cracking the recipe is not the goal but a capital sin persecuted by doubting Thomases. Why would I even want to share anything with you from now on or waste my time on GIMP. Like, honestly. I'd go somewhere else if I had masochistic inclinations. I have always said that some folks here have no interest in solving the recipe. With different intentions. Anyway, I want to thank everyone for the good times and chats. I will have to loose weight now. This quest ruined my health  |
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Sept 27, 2022 14:26:47 GMT 1
Post by Silver on Sept 27, 2022 14:26:47 GMT 1
We should rename the forum though when cracking the recipe is not the goal but a capital sin persecuted by doubting Thomases. Why would I even want to share anything with you from now on or waste my time on GIMP. Like, honestly. I'd go somewhere else if I had masochistic inclinations. I have always said that some folks here have no interest in solving the recipe. With different intentions. Anyway, I want to thank everyone for the good times and chats. I will have to loose weight now. This quest ruined my health The easiest way to get persecuted is to crack the recipe. That said I believe several of us have already done so, and what remains is to evolve better recipes. My wife told me to stop at Recipe #17 because it accomplished the goal and meant game over. But I've posted multiple recipes since then. The one thing that I learned long ago, but has been almost impossibly hard to convey to others, is that certified standards are by their very design and intent minimums. And thus any standard can be exceeded. So if CHS set the standard, all he did was to establish a minimum set of criteria whereby to impart a certain flavor note. Since I once worked in the oil additives arena, let me give you an example using gasoline and/or diesel engine motor oil. A cursory read of any can of such will reveal a plethora of certified standards of excellence that the oil meets. If such is the case that excellence is thereby fully established, why do we not purchase the lowest priced no name oil on the shelf provided that when compared with the highest priced premium oil both cans list the exact same certified standards as being met. The reason can only be that intrinsically we understand that standards must be and in fact are minimums. But somehow this entire concept is lost to the KFC aficionado, who instead believes that the CHS standard is a maximum. |
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Sept 27, 2022 16:33:33 GMT 1
Post by smallgree on Sept 27, 2022 16:33:33 GMT 1
I ate it in 1959. I grew up in a full scale bakery and have a well trained sniffer. LOL. I have previously posted this story. I went to a family gathering after my cousin's death in the early 2010s. People had brought Churches and KFC. I tasted both side by side, and the KFC was delicious, just as I remembered in 1959. That is why I have concentrated on the "process", because the lack of it is what has degraded the product. I remember what the Yum manager told me in 1998 about the different KFCs. She said that there where two types. The original, private franchises, and the later created Corporate franchises. She didn't elaborate, but did hint that they developed differently and often produced different tasting chicken. I took this to mean that they used different equipment, old vs new. I read later that the Corporation fought a long and difficult campaign to bring the original franchises into the fold. I'm assuming that was newer equipment and techniques, as in cookers, and preparation procedures. To me, this opened up the possibility of brining. In the last 10 years, or so, especially since they changed the oil again, the OR has simply gone to the dogs.
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Sept 27, 2022 16:38:56 GMT 1
Post by Silver on Sept 27, 2022 16:38:56 GMT 1
I have 4 KFC's within reasonable (by some measure) driving distance, and I contend that the chicken tastes somewhat different at each location. I've narrowed it down to one favorite.
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