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How to Make Fried Chicken, the Thomas Keller Way

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How to Make Fried Chicken, the Thomas Keller Way

Learn how to make world-famous chef Thomas Keller’s buttermilk fried chicken. Click here for the complete recipe and a Southern-inspired dinner party menu to match: http://www.20somethingcupcakes.com/2012/05/how-to-video-thomas-kellers-buttermilk-fried-chicken/

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  1. Ramell Thornton

    You published this on my birthday Im stoked right now. and you seem to like to get your drink on. A man could appreciate that!

  2. 1621ification

    Cool thanx.

  3. LumberjackPa

    Thanks for sharing.

  4. Curtis Ngo

    Your gorgeous!!!!!

  5. ptinio2

    u r hot

  6. BigredApril1951

    So what time should I be there???

  7. Alex av

    It seems burned at the end. Although seeing as you've done the work, I think this result is predictable and should be the frying gives the end of cooking. Looks tasty apparently really hope it is. In any case, entertaining and informative video editing and operational.

  8. Joe Harris

    very good job SARAH, ur chicken looks golden and crispy, just the way I like it, keep up the good work, oh and nice dancing, pretty good moves I see, did ur guest enjoy ur food?

  9. B. Shaff

    hang on…I'm jerkin some oil off

  10. Carol Napolitano

    What do you think is better, chicken in a brine, or chicken  that you let sit in buttermilk overnight, I'm not sure which one is better, the buttermilk makes the chicken juicy, when it sits all night, but the salt in the brine does a good job. Did you ever put chicken in yogurt? That's something like the buttermilk. I've done chicken breast in yogurt, but I added some salt to make it do what a salt brine does and it turned out really juicy.  I always do that when I make chicken parm. The chicken breast are so flavorful that way and have that little tang from the yogurt. I don't have to add the egg wash just the yogurt  to the breadcrumbs,I would drain the yogurt first so it's thick.Some of the yogurt is under the breadcrumbs after you fry the chicken and it's so good.I Fry it in a little EVOO, sometimes I mix the EVOO and veg. oil together so  it dosen't smoke as much. I'm sure you have use buttermilk  as a marinate before, but I'm wondering which one comes out better, that or the salt brine. I guess its up to what a person likes. The lactic  acid in the dairy is what makes the chicken juicy, but does it work as good as what the salt can do? Thanks,

  11. Carol Napolitano

    Sarah, I made the mistake of buying some of Popeye's Chicken, when I was at the mall with my son, well I could not believe how tiny the drumsticks were, where did they find ones so small, it's like they cut the part of the wing that looks like a drumstick, When they say how many pieces you get they forget to tell you the drumsticks are like one bite small. The chicken was bad anyway, everything tasted like the oil it was cooked in, the biscuits tasted like that flavor too, it was really bad, but I don't know how they can get away with selling those tiny things they call drumsticks.  I guess they don't have to say how big they are  when you order, but that just wrong. KFC would of not been as big as they are if they did that. In a weird way it's a smart way to make money because you buy the chicken by the piece not the size of the piece, and they can give you tiny pieces and get away with it. Still people seem to love that crap, and don't seem to know their getting ripped off, plus unhealthy food.