We Freeze Dried The KFC Menu (Taste Test)

What happens if you freeze dry the KFC menu? Let's talk about that. Goood mythical morning. We've tried a lot of KFC on this show. But we've never had it. freeze dried. You think it's gonna be any good? Let's try it. I... I don't know. Okay, boys, we're gonna kick it off with the... classic. KFC fried chicken. So, go ahead and try the...

regular version. Just to remind yourselves of how delicious it is. Do we have to? Well, if this wasn't here, you could have fooled me. I mean, I don't want to touch this yet. And it's certainly smaller. But. I mean, to the naked eye, it might just look like normal chicken. It does look like normal chicken. That's good. I mean, it'd be hard to improve on that. You know, the thing is,

it's too soft in the right places. Right. Only crunchy in the right places. Yep! Little too moist for me. I'm wondering if it can be drier. And crunchy in the wrong places. What'd you do, Nicole? Why'd you look at me when you said dry and crunchy? So, freeze drying. The art of freeze drying. It's basically dehydration. But the method we use is you put it in this crazy machine, uh, of freeze drying machine. And. That sounds crazy! And it freezes it to negative 40 degrees.

And then it sublimates, Wow. which basically turns all of the ice and water into vapor. And then it dries it at a super high heat, too. Wow. How long does that take for a chicken leg? Good! Two days? Whoa! Two whole days. Also, I've never freeze dried. I've never freeze dried a bone before, so. good luck. Okay. It's very light. Sublimated. It's, um. Now sublimated. Can you see that on a sign at. KFC?

Sublimated chicken? Yeah. All right, let's try it. Sublime... could. Sublimated Kentucky sublimated chicken? Keep performing in a parking lot. Doesn't have the same ring to it. You little dinky. My bone fell off. That was the bone tip. You don't want to eat that anyway. Yeah, the bone tip. And.. Whoa! Okay. Well? It's crunchy. I mean,

extra crunchy. Let's see if I can break the bone. They already have extra crunchy. No, the bone held up. I mean, I could break it. I like chicken that's leftover. This is very leftover. Fried chicken left on the counter. This is so. I mean, look at that. Could definitely. My dogs would love this. Sometimes. We'll go out into the desert, do a little camping, a little dispersed camping. And you'd be amazed at how many little shacks and crevices there are out there.

You can just walk into old houses with no windows. With no window panes. No doors. Completely abandoned. Did you just. This is what that chicken would taste like. Just sitting down their counter. I'm surprise that you're . I'm surprised that you are. Like when I got just the chicken, it was abhorrent. It doesn't taste bad! It does taste bad. What's the texture of just the meat. part? It's. It's, um, look at that. It's just straw.

Have you. Have you given, um. It's straw coming on. It's. Your dog freeze dried chicken? Like that stu. Yeeess. That stuff right there. It's that as if it wasn't cubed. This is dog food. My dog food. Love it. Which is explain. why I like it. Yeah. Dude. It is so bad to. compare. I could be a. Compare to this. a chef. I'm a fan of dog food. Like, I could. That's what. If I started cooking, I think it would be dog food. Well, that would be a good place for you to start. Um. Remind me why you took all the chicken off and put it beside the plate?

Because I was showing. I was answering your question. See how. See how flaky that is? I think there's gonna be.. A. My theory is that there's gonna be some items that are gonna. be good =-- freeze dried. I don't think an actual chicken leg is a great place to start. I am gonna go back to this. I'm. Yeah, those flakes. to erase that from my. Yeah, dude, that's... that's so good. The, the regular chicken. is so... good. Like it's not even comparable. Short term memory. When I. When. But if you're backpacking. I'll just take.

a granola bar. There's a lot of other options other than sublimated chicken. I'm gonna go with him even though I'm a little bit split on. Okay, fried chicken, kf-see-ya! See-ya!! Let's move on to the famous bowl, shall we? It's not famous enough that I don't know what's in it. Well, basically everything on the KFC menu. I would say, you got mashed potatoes, you got corn, you got cheese, That is put to a bowl. That I do know. you got gravy, and you've got chicken. This feels like the kind of thing that you would have really gotten into. You like bowls and you like mushy stuff. I know. Tastes great.

Well, I'd rather have the chicken outside. But. We can take this outside. But the everything else nice and warm. It's pretty dang good. I kind of like it all together. How easy was this to do? This also took approximately two and a half days for me to. sublimate. Cause it's full of liquids. Yeah! I'm pretty sure KFC uses. the dried mashed potatoes, anyways.

So I took dried potatoes. that were rehydrated with the KFC stuff. And then dried them again. So I'm very curious to see what that tastes like, Yes. had to make it into like a little disc, you know, so it would fit in my -$2,000 machine. Yes. Feel how light it is. This is like, astronaut stuff. Yes, it is! Light and crumbly. It is like astronaut food. Okay, I'm gonna. I have a feeling I know what the chicken's gonna taste like, If, if. but I'm going straight taste. Feels like a dry biscuit My gosh. It. I mean, what we didn't talk about in the last round,

that. is. With gravy. The expectation is that you would add... water. to and would it go back. Like when you're at the top of the mountain or whether you're at. the International Space Station. Are you just supposed to eat it this way? I'm not adding water to this. But. freeze dried stuff you always add water. Unless it's fruit, right? Not always. Not always. Not ice cream. I recommend welling up some spit in your mouth. Well it up. Okay.

Why did it make it taste bad? It tastes so bad. I don't know. Because. the texture makes you think it's a biscuit. It taste like fish food. And it. It's not far from. the texture of the KFC biscuit. Which is. always, in my opinion, a little too powdery. This is a cheesy corn bite here. Here's a cheesy chicken bite. The cheese helps. Freeze dried cheese is good.

I do not like the chicken. What is this right here? Is that more of the. Yeah, that's more. Let's test your theory. Okay. This is what you want on your camping trip? Well, maybe if it's warm and in a bag. Like, you have to warm it too. Put your hands on it. Squeeze it in my hot hand?

Look. The taters are going right back to normal. That's what you wanted. Look at that, Link. I'm really afraid to taste these taters. We're making a famous bowl. Make it make me famous. The reconstitution of the. taters. is absolutely horrible. The cheese. saves the chicken. But it's not good enough to save the famous bowl. So we say. famous bowl -- Kf-see-ya! Kf-see-ya! As I hope you already know,

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We got some sides, Rhett. Yes. So you have Mac and cheese, coleslaw, and biscuits. Booy, I'm excited about this. The hydrated ones. When I, when I talk about their biscuit, So, you. it's not that it's. bad, but it is kind of powdery. So it seems like it would do a good job of, uh, sublimating. It's a not great effect, right? And we know freeze dried cheese is good. Good, good. It's a good biscuit. It's not a flaky biscuit, but it is a good biscuit.

And I love their slaw. mixed with their gravy. Okay. Anything notable about this process. for you. Um. There was nothing really crazy. I would say that. I like the Mac and cheese the most. Like you said, I think cheese does a good job of freeze drying. Okay, well, we'll save that for last. Yes, we will. Um. This is a hard biscuit. But we expected that. It doesn't. It is lighter, but. Surprised you got yours to break down the middle.

Okay. Still tastes the same. Yeah. But the flavor profile of a biscuit does not change. Once you. So it's not nasty. This is good. I'm a little. nervous about this. It feels... It's not. It's crunchy. It's gummy. Yeah. And, and. And why is it. It turned into a.

like a bad Rice Krispie treat. Like a non Newtonian fluid kind of. Um, I'm not a scientist. So... That's all I want to say about that. Hold on a second. Was like the best chew in the back I've ever had. We like it. Yeah. Pat the lip. Pat the lip. Well, listen, that's good! Hold on, that's weird! It is weird in a good weird way. I think we found something. We like the freeze dried slaw. It's sweet! It's. Yes. It's like chewing tobacco that you can actually eat.

Which I've always wanted to do. Maybe I am a scientist. It's spitless cha. Wow! Nicole, you've done it. Now. this. You know that this is gonna be good. Yeah. The flavor actually got concentrated. Yeah. Cause all the water's gone. It's not as crunchy as I thought it would be. I can go back to the drawing board, boss. Three winners. Three winners in a row.

KFC, I hope you're listening. KFC sides Kf-si! Kf-si! KFC sides. Next up we have chicken pot pie. Yees. This is one of those things at KFC. that I never order because. I'm just gonna get the. chicken. I mean, I haven't even gotten the other bowls. But look at that. But look at that. I'm looking. You got a little dangle chicken. Looks like a tongue. Sorry. That's gross.

This. This gonna be hot. It's real hot. It looks hot. Yeah. I've never ordered this. That's my favorite thing on the menu. Yeah. What I've been. It's good! I've been missing out. That's good. How did you go about. Doing this? Because it's so... juicy inside. So this one gave me a lot of stress and anxiety. Um. I had to redo it like maybe four times to get the...the drying process right.

I learned that taking it out of the container, making a...a circle. of the actual bat, like, center with all the chicken and veggies and stuff. And separating it from the crust. Was the best way to do it. So you... basically have a puck of. chicken pot pie filling that you can pick up. -- And. It takes me back to our frisbee golf days. Yeah, literally, yes. And a... A crust that's also been. freeze dried. So. Remember that phase? See if you can.

With tortillas? Oh, in college? In college. Not the. Not the tortilla Renaissance. Yep. Why don't. Why you try to break that thing? Break it in half. And like, maybe not over the pot pie. Yeah. Well, you want, you want that? I love chicken pot pie. Okay. Yet, chicken pot pie is. goood. Okay. So it actually was pretty easy to break. along. a line. You had to find a little fault line there. Fault line? I think that. I.

I think that this is gonna be good. How could this not be good? Let's get. Top. Right. Well, this is a cracker. Oh, that's good! With a little bit of gravy on it. I like it. I don't know. It got worse for me. Way worse than the crust I just tasted. This? I haven't eaten this yet. Yeah, that. It's. No, this. The crust I just tasted. The. The crust done in the right way. Don't. When. Don't compare it to that. Well, that's what I'm here for. That's not fair. Because I want to know if I need to start freeze drying everything. Only slaw.

It's mushy! I will say. This is the best chicken. so far. Because.. It's already, like, lean and cubed. And it's just ready to freeze dry. My teeth sink into this. It doesn't. It doesn't pop apart like, um the previous round stuff. I actually like this. It's not bad!

I'm not loving it. The thing that makes a Pot pie. A pot pie. Is the pine-ness of it. The pinus? The pine-ness. Your pinus. That sounds a little close to something else. The pine ness. The.... the. The. Dig in there, see if you can find the pine ness. The wetness. The wetness of a pie. The wetness of the pinus? Um. It's better. You know, it's something that we've. We've basically taken the best part of a pie and we've taken it away. And I feel like that's a little bit sacrilegious. Yeah. And this.

So I'm not on. Carrot is like. Ting. Yes. Eating a pool... toy. tube. What are the pool tubes called? Noodle. -- Yup! Noodle. This is like eating a pool noodle. Pot pie. kf-see-ya! Kf-see-ya! And last but not least, we've got the spicy chicken sandwich. How spicy. and chickeny. is it? Let's. I don't remember. Let's get refreshed. So a good amount of sauce, top and bottom,

three pickles. Some extraneous chicken there. It's their Popeye. Contingent. Contender? Contender. Emphasis on the tender. That's good. That's a good sandwich. If you're hankering for a Popeyes chicken sandwich and you're next to a kfc, I have to recommend it. And. It's very soft. That's a soft bun. I think that's something we're gonna lose. Oh, that's hard!

So you took it apart and then put it back together or just did it like it was? I took it apart and I put it back together. The buns, they were covered in sauce, so I couldn't really get rid of the sauce. But the buns were separate, the chicken was separate, the pickles were separate. And now you have a sandwich. But you want. I mean, you want some crunch on a sandwich. But do you want only crunch? I think. I mean, there's no. Absolutely no compression. that's gonna happen here. With. I assume that if you left this out, stuff would still grow on it.

I mean. Just less. Less quickly. Maybe. You think I can get my mouth around that whole thing? I don't know. Watch out for your teeth, dude. If you have them. Okay. Heey. You'll, you'll find out right now. You could. You could pop a. No, no. I'm going to hurt my jaw. Could pop a molar. Trying to figure how make. It has quite a crunch.

I call that pretty crispy. I would say I was a little bit scared while I was taking a bite of it. I was scared that my jaw was gonna get locked in an open position. Yeah. The flavor's not bad. This is like, if I didn't brush my teeth and you. And you could brush them for me. Even trick. This would trick me into like, this is how dogs.

that won't get their teeth brushed. It's how you brush your teeth. By chewing on stuff. Those little dental bones. They have all that type of stuff now. It's like, just give your dog this. And somehow the act of chewing. Crispy stuff. Cleans your teeth. Boy. So. Get the. The hand feeling. What I'm trying to tell you is. When you get come back to this? You may now have to brush your teeth again if you eat this. Every day.

I don't think it's worth it. Put that in your hand again. Nothing tastes gross. The pillow softness of that. Did you eat a pickle by itself? For you to try? Should try one of those first. It's. Very chewy. It's gummy. Why'd you make me do that? I. I actually like it. I don't. I don't. It's horrible! I had a wonderful taste in my mouth. I, I. It's not fair to compare it. I'm just saying. You don't have to brush your teeth. Come on, man.

We've only liked one of these rounds. Yeah, but. it was so much better than everything else. Like, I actually think that the freeze dried. Biscuits, slaw, and Mac and cheese. could literally be something that you would, like, do at a pop up. You do this at a pop up. and it's immediately popped down. People are gonna hate it. But you do that other stuff and it's like, it's a legitimate discovery. Chewing tobacco that you can eat. Everybody's been asking for that for years! Edible chewing tobacco. That's true. That's true. Let's focus on the positive.

Right. After seeing this negative thing. Yes. Spicy chicken sandwich. Kf-see-ya! See-ya! Hey, you can't win them all. But we did win. a really. Really impressively. with those sides. Great job, Nicole. Nicole, you won too. I had so much fun experimenting. Thanks, guys. I really did! Thanks for commenting and sharing this video. You know what time it is? Hi, I'm Ava and I'm with my family in Iceland. Can you spot my dad in the background?

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