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The Food Theorists

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Food Theory: I SOLVED KFC's Secret Recipe! (KFC Chicken)

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What’s never added up to me is if so many different people know the actual recipe in order to obviously make the chicken all over the world how has nobody properly leaked it yet

— @Kit_Katttttttt13

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Where are the recipes at so we can try them all this was pretty much useless without them

— @AlchemiUnlimited

Food Theorists, this is not the first time I've talked about KFC or Colonel Sanders on this channel and I'm sure it won't be the last. However, today just may be the most important day on this channel... if you love fried chicken like I do! You see, I believe I have figured out the SECRET recipe that makes KFC chicken taste so good. Join us as we taste test our way to the best homemade fried chicken EVER! Science has never tasted so good.

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A lot of these recipes look better than kfc

— @kerkare

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HE USES ELBOW GREASE I SAW HIM WITH A CONTAINER IN THE BACK




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KFC marinates their chicken it comes marinated in a solution

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Credits:

If you want KFC‘s secret recipe of 2026 it has only one ingredient 💩 hence the taste.

— @rocstar101

Writers: Matthew Patrick and Luke Barats

Editors: Forrest Lee and Danial "BanditRants" Keristoufi

In kfc batu berendam, Malacca, Malaysia they have a big part of the recipe

— @LimCh-p3y

Assistant Editor: AlyssaBeCrazy  Sound Editor: Yosi Berman 

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how does no one mention that stephanie can use mass spectrometers? girly can do ANYTHING atp

— @EbagsAdvocateAvokado

More User Perspectives

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I think there was no secret recipe i believe it was Colonel Sanders' love for KFC that was the recipe

@obaidulhoquebhuiyan7095
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Ok now I might be loosing it but I swear that they changed the cover of this video

@BrodyKrueger-123
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1:23 steph wth are you ON ABOUT 🙏😭

@Zcorpp
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Kfc is good

@BatmanAdb
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not even close to KFC.
better off saving your money and going with shake n bake

@tazztower44
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Anyone in 2026

@DavidFernance
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27:15 How much is "a little bit MATPAT" 😂😂😂😂😂

@Humblereeps
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Jesus loves 😢❤❤

@Auser-m4z
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99-X with pressure cooker the key

@andylau13
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17:38 I like how steff mocked the bounce that may did 😭

@I_like_French-Frys
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5:52 i’ve gotta know what the traumatic experience is

@vansiyt
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6:16 I DIDN’T SAY YET

@THATQUACKSTER
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Hopefully Santi does a sequel where he combines all these recipes.

@luxrayblast
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OMG Mat! Where are you??? The Coca Cola recipe has been cracked and you are nowhere to be found!!!!!

@genesis_android
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19:29 actually Guatemala is the 1# distributor of cardamom in the world

@Fernando_Alday
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Unless William Poundstone used that one plankton machine to analyze food and determine the exact ingredients, I don't trust it

@Scout_The_Scallywag
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But how much citric acid and from what source?

@kj6446
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Seriously? This video is already 5years old?

@TastefulHistory
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Next channel matpat theory

@thehunter6665
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How is this video already 5 years old?

@marcodiashd1844
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I relate to Steph I grew up in North Carolina and I used to go to like mom and pop places and I tried this recipe tastes almost the exact same lol

@thecrazyguys-s9s
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It matters on the skin is the skin good

@imanmiqhail
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Missed opportunity for the joke:

“We’re putting the most legitimate chic-contenders to the test”

@mannybenitez9231
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Solution: get hired in kfc as the chef and learn the recipe then quit

@MahadiAiyaan
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Kfc these days taste different from branch to branch and country to country

@PAP.3
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Show the same fryer thing that you’re using to make the chicken that’s what I do

@RyleeBread-k9y
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Jack Harlow is a Kentucky Colonel too.

@Becauseimme
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Help please : which citric acid they put in oil ? Is it power citric acid ?

@MariamPeace-c2k
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13:26 For some reason the word "Contender" sounds like the perfect name if KFC makes chicken tendies

@rosa9gotsui_yt
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i want chicken now

@DawoodHussainRiyaz
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But That’s Just A Theory… 😂 4:16

@MilesAnimationz
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I wanna see the new team theorist like post retirement (Amy,ash , ect) doing something like this

@CorgiShark-d3s
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First comment of 2026?

@Tvgirlfan-960
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TC34D sounds like a radioactive chemical that you shouldn’t have and it would be a war crime to have it 😂😂😂😂😂

@David.Thaner
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Come on it cant be thst hard can it?

@kapitansosnowiec8296
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TC34D is from a british website, it's trying to replicate the british recipe. that's why it's so different

@zactaylor7860
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Very cool and fun video :D

@Clippytherevivaltime
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18:33 gd reference

@Ogoiabaroxa
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@FoodTheory can I get the measurements for all the different recipes or like a url

@seanpaul-z2v