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Cooking & Baking

sir pball

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1. It's just not right without modified starches

Reply to trof (Original post)

Fri Nov 8, 2019, 09:29 PM

Nov 2019

Wife and I are also both chefs, and I have a chem degree - we've tried tons of ways to make commercial (Popeyes/KFC/Tyson) fried chicken and just can't do it.

You need the engineered stuff like Pure-Cote, Ultra-Crisp, or Crisp Coat. Even 50-50 rice flour and cornstarch, while the best breading we've found yet, doesn't get loosely craggy yet super crunchy like the commercial stuff. Thankfully, it's all available online, we just haven't the time to experiment with it.

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Popeye's chicken sandwich recipe [View all] trof Nov 2019 OP

It's just not right without modified starches sir pball Nov 2019 #1

Kenji Lopez-Alt's recipe in The Food Lab works great IMO tishaLA Nov 2019 #2

Oh, I've tried that sir pball Nov 2019 #3

I'll try the rice flour/cornstarch trof Nov 2019 #5

I love Popeye's Chicken. dware Nov 2019 #4