Fav fried chicken place

[iceberg]

Soak chicken in buttermilk with an entire bottle of Texas Pete yada mixed in then flour or bread your usual way. I'm not certain why you need so much hot sauce for it to work. The other way is use cayenne or hot asian dried peppers finely minced in the breading or flour. Takes a lot less to get it hot this way. Let me know and I'll come over for a taste.

BTW, Popeyes does the hot stuff best.

yea, i tend to spice up the flour a ton when i fry chicken fried steak finders.

 

[jobberone]

BBGun the 2nd?

It won't work dude!

:laugh2:

:laugh2: WG knows I'm hung up on my bride. But I still get to look and she's often the first one to notice. Not a jealous bone in her body.

 

[jobberone]

Try brining the chicken first too(like doing a turkey), that makes it real juicy and tender. I brine my turkey for 24 hours, I imagine chicken can be done in 6 hours or so.

Never thought of doing that. That's a great idea. But I don't get to eat a lot of fried foods (read none) at my house and Chinese chicken ain't fried chicken no matter what else you do to it. :O

 

[Tabascocat]

Never thought of doing that. That's a great idea. But I don't get to eat a lot of fried foods (read none) at my house and Chinese chicken ain't fried chicken no matter what else you do to it. :O

Yea, my wife being an OR nurse tries to limit me also. However, my cholesterol is fine and I am not even close to being overweight so I sneak out twice a week for some lunch that is fried in some way

 

[CF74]

Babes in Roanoke, TX

NTL Chain: Bojangles...

 

[Cajuncowboy]

Best I ever had I can't get anymore because my Grandma made it and now she is cooking it in Heaven.

However the best fast food chicken is Popeye's.

The best I have had other than my grandma's is the Loveless cafe here in Nashville. If you ever get up here you have to try it.

http://www.lovelesscafe.com/

 

[iceberg]

Babes in Roanoke, TX

NTL Chain: Bojangles...

carrollton.

 

[TheDallasDon]

Try brining the chicken first too(like doing a turkey), that makes it real juicy and tender. I brine my turkey for 24 hours, I imagine chicken can be done in 6 hours or so.

Excuse my incompetence if I'm wrong but wouldn't u just pull out all the moisture if u fry it and be left with the same product?

 

[Tabascocat]

Excuse my incompetence if I'm wrong but wouldn't u just pull out all the moisture if u fry it and be left with the same product?

Very good question. Brining works like osmosis, water (mixed with dissolved substances) flows from a lesser to a greater concentration. The liquid in the tissue cells are going to be more concentrated than any brining solution; so the brine is drawn into the meat. Once this process is done, frying or grilling will not effect the juicyness as long as you don't overcook the meat.

The opposite effect of rubbing salt on a meat will draw the liquid out because the outside is more concentrated than the inner tissue. This process is know as curing.

 

[Cowboys&LakersFan]

Popeyes.

 

[johnny utah]

Popeyes

 

[YosemiteSam]

I used to really like KFC, but haven't eaten there double digit years. Today, I just avoid fried chicken due to how bad it is for you.

I lived in New Orleans around 1985 before Popeyes spread it's wings and became more of a national brand. I promise you, it was 100x better when it was only a local brand in LA and surrounding areas.

The crap they sell now isn't anywhere near as good as what they sold in New Orleans back in the 80s. I'm guessing there is someone here from that area and era that can vouch for my claim.

 

[tupperware]

Best I have ever had:
http://www.heritage-village.org/pickett-house.htm
10 bucks all you can eat. Comes with greens biscuits, taters, the works. And Peach cobbler for desert. Not a chain though.

Comes with green biscuits? Remind me to never go there.

 

[Signals]

I'm a really big fan of Popeyes. Actually headed there right now... thanks to this thread.

 

[trickblue]

Babes.

Babes in Roanoke, TX

NTL Chain: Bojangles...

Babe's is AMAZING... and the franchise is run by wonderful people... GREAT stuff...

Chain: Popeyes...

 

[Payton34Smith22]

Church's for me.

 

[Tusan_Homichi]

For local to this area, Ezell's is really good:

http://www.ezellschicken.com/index.html

For national chain? Can't beat Popeye's.

 

[WPBCowboysFan]

Popeyes. I wish they still had the strips in spicy. Cannot understand why they dont do spicy strips anymore. For fast food they have good mashed potatoes and gravy. Love that gravy.

KFC is really bad compared to what it used to be. Something is just lacking.

 

[Lonestar94]

Popeyes. I wish they still had the strips in spicy. Cannot understand why they dont do spicy strips anymore. For fast food they have good mashed potatoes and gravy. Love that gravy.

KFC is really bad compared to what it used to be. Something is just lacking.

Unless they just removed the spicy strips recently, I had them a few weeks ago..

 

[Kilyin]

This place has some really good fried chicken.

http://leesfamousrecipe.com/