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Hank Camacho

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Nashville-style Hot Chicken is a new trend, apparently.

On one hand, it is fried chicken and that is awesome. On the other hand, it ain't as good as KFC or Chik-Fil-A in my eyes and I'm not really a fan.

What say you?
 
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Hankshaker said:
Nashville-style Hot Chicken is a new trend, apparently.

On one hand, it is fried chicken and that is awesome. On the other hand, it ain't as good as KFC or Chik-Fil-A in my eyes and I'm not really a fan.

What say you?
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Weird post. Lots of places have Nashville hot chicken. Where did you try it? Makes a big difference.
 
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Hank Camacho

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KSR is at Joella's today, thus my bringing it up.

The hot chicken thing just seemed to come out of nowhere. I'm not sure if it is something that's going to stick around or is the Dippin' Dots of chicken.
 
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Fast food hot chicken is a poor imitation of the real thing which has been around for decades. In Louisville, Joella's and Royal's have it right and are packed all the time. This is more than a fad.
 
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It's basically just Buffalo chicken with less, but hotter sauce and full size fried chicken. It's not like it's some fancy new invention.
 
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I've never had it, but it sounds dumb as hell.

I'm going to start a "hot burrito" stand to compete. I'll make normal burritos, but they'll all get hot sauce ( a little to a lot - but definitely enough to differentiate a food type).

You are all suckers, btw.
 
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I am guilty of sampling kfcs version first. I love that ****. It's a guilty pleasure. That being said I've sampled others. I had ocharleys which isn't bad either. Of course I'd like to try the real thing
 
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JasonSpear said:
basically fry the chicken as you normally would, add a little spice to the flour mix if you want with come chili powder, crused cayenne, whatever.

  1. Whisk cayenne, brown sugar, chili powder, garlic powder, and paprika in a medium bowl; carefully whisk in 1 cup frying oil. Brush fried chicken with spicy oil. Serve with bread and pickles.
^ that's the main thing for the sauce you pour on at the end. Everything before that is just basically frying chicken. Some people melt butter and put in the sauce you pour on top as well... gives it a little creamy/smooth flavor to go along with the spice.

A good full recipe I've used before is here: http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/nashville-style-hot-chicken-51236260
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I make it at home, and I've yet to find it anywhere else that I like as good. The key though is I use Benton's bacon grease for the oil. If one is unfamiliar, it's arguably some of the best bacon made. Have to order it from Tennessee. Very strong hickory smoke flavor. So if you don't like hickory or strong smoke flavor it's not for you, but I always save the grease in a mason jar, and it's the best stuff for making all kinds of things. I've actually stopped using sausage for my gravy, because just by using that Benton's grease it gets a nice hickory flavor and doesn't need anything else.

But the Benton's bacon grease just gives the chicken a smoky flavor that I haven't found anywhere else, and it goes perfect with the spice.

This is my rough measurements. Don't really measure so that's a touch of guesswork.

2c flour
3 tsp cayenne
3 tsp salt
2 tsp dried mustard
1 tsp sugar
1 tsp paprika
1 tsp pepper
3/4 tsp garlic powder

Put about 3 Tbs of mix in flour. Add bacon grease to rest to make a the paste. Brush that on the cooked chicken.
 
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