re: What is the Popeyes secret spice?

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She informed me that the original recipe does not contain all of the spices that KFC claims it has. I had a hard time believing this but she showed me the results when an employee took a sample of the original flour recipe to a lab to see what the flour contained. I couldn't believe the results of the test.

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It still contains trace amounts of the other spices so they can say so in the ads and the ingredients list, but today's KFC Original coating is just flour, salt, MSG and black pepper. It is also pressure fried.

Home pressure fryers, particularly the Wearever "Chicken Bucket", carried too much liabilty to stay commecially viable. You cant buy them anymore in the US.

I happen to have 2 never used heavy-duty 8-quart pressure fryers that I picked up at garage sales years ago. They used to sell them at boat shows for close to $400 each. Boat shows, because the lids were so secure that if they fell because the boat rocked, the lids would stay on, even if under pressure. You could also distill water from them if you were stranded for a time without fresh water. Mine are different, but look something like this one on Ebay:



I have used mine, using just flour, salt MSG and black pepper on the chicken, and it came out, to my taste, just like the original recipe chicken I remember.

Here is a KFC Forum that will give you more information than you probably want:

Cracking KFC's Original Recipe

There is also a story out there that having sold the business in the early 70s, the Colonel was unhappy with the way the chicken tasted. He supposedly gave someone hints as to what was in his recipe. When he tasted it, he said it was 99% the same.

Today you can buy this mixture at Marion Kay Spices. It's called "99-X". You also need a 3 lb bag of fine flake salt you can buy there, too.

Marion Kay Spices

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