Would fried chicken taste any different if fried in a pressure cooker?

[Taverner]

Would that even work?

I hear tell of someone who made fried chicken in a pressure cooker...

[Dash87]

1. Would it become "pressured chicken" then?

:)

[JitterbugPerfume]

2. my mom used to make it

and it was delicious

[trof]

3. Was he a Col.?

:rofl:

[jmowreader]

4. A lot of foodservice operations pressure fry their chicken

This is Harlan Sanders' patent on the process:

http://home.hiwaay.net/~tomorkim/images/kfc_disclosure_canada.pdf

and a picture of what it looks like...

http://home.hiwaay.net/~tomorkim/images/kfc_drawing_canada.pdf

[ornotna]

5. You might not get to taste it at all

"Ordinary pressure cookers are not suitable for pressure frying. Attempting to pressure fry using an ordinary pressure cooker is very dangerous."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pressure_frying

[Taverner]

10. Is there a way to get a home pressure fryer?

[ornotna]

24. Found some on ebay

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=140549165289+&clk_rvr_id=233870596315&item=140549165289

[bluesbassman]

6. No, it's actually very bad for the chicken.

I prefer to gently persuade them rather than apply too much pressure. A happy chicken is a tasty chicken.

[jberryhill]

7. That sounds like a monumentally bad idea /nt

[murielm99]

8. Years ago, I worked at a place that made

broasted chicken. It is actually chicken deep fried under pressure. It tastes very good.

[Kali]

23. oh yeah!

there was a broasted place in our little town for a year or two - DROOOOOOLLLLL

[RSillsbee]

9. That's how KFC does it NT

[Incitatus]

11. oh

:puke:

[Amerigo Vespucci]

13. That's how Colonel Sanders made his nut...

...he drove all over the place with pressure cookers and his "recipe"...he'd make chicken for the restaurant owner, and if they signed up, they became a franchise.

If he came back later and found out that the restaurant had stepped outside of nay of his guidelines, he'd pack up all his stuff and the relationship would be over.

That stayed in place until he sold the brand and his likeness. After that, no one cared if he didn't approve of "changes"...he'd sold his voice on the matter.

[Taverner]

16. I've heard Harlan was 10x the marketing genius Ray Kroc was

And that he saw the business as a way to support his fried chicken, not the other way around

[Amerigo Vespucci]

17. Yep...until he sold his interest, he kept an iron hand on "consistency"...

...if you went to any KFC, you had assurance of the same product.

[RSillsbee]

19. One of my first jobs was KFC

And that was still the standard. We do it the same in every store so you get the same chicken in Boise as you do in Boston.

The store I worked at also had a standing policy that if a person showed up and said "I'm hungry " they were fed regardless of ability to pay. The boss would ask them to take out the trash in the parking lot or something like that so they at least had the pride of not taking a hand out, but they were fed

[CBGLuthier]

21. They said if a franchisee displeased the Colonel

he would take their pressure cooker into the parking lot and pummel it with a baseball bat. No pressure cooker no chicken.

He was a tough old man.

[Duer 157099]

12. You would be a brave soul to try it

I'm terrified of the pressure cooker with just water in it!

I think it's because I learned to use it as a child, and the hissing scared the crap out of me.

But with hot oil? Yikes!

[Taverner]

20. So I assume uranium and plutonium is a definite 'no'

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

14. With enough pressure, you end up with a Guinea Hen, nt

[KamaAina]

15. The drumsticks might

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=439&topic_id=1136958&mesg_id=1136958

:evilgrin:

[Dreamer Tatum]

18. Thatt's KFC's method, done mainly to speed cooking time nt

[Philippine expat]

22. It would taste like KFC

because thats the way they cook theirs (at least did 40 years ago)