I Turned KFC Into Insane Korean Fried Chicken

KFC fried chicken. It is said that Cornel Sanders tested over a thousand recipes before making this right. And in Japan for Christmas instead of roast beef or ham this is their huge holiday tradition. However can we make it even better by doing the least amount of work? That is what we are about to find out today. Because I cannot believe I completely transformed KFC to something else. That it was so good that I'll never have KFC the normal way again. And here's how I did it. First thing to do is to make a sauce a Korean fried chicken style sauce. So into a bowl I threw in some sesame oil followed by ginger paste, garlic paste, some brown sugar, soy sauce, honey and the most important ingredient gochujang. Now mix that up real good and that's your sauce. Now you can even make this ahead of time and leave it in your refrigerator because here's where things gets really interesting. Grab your KFC chicken and throw the sauce right on top of it. It is that simple my friends. I don't recommend you pouring the sauce on top I actually recommend you doing this coat the entire chicken with it. I'm telling you this will upgrade your KFC chicken by a thousand. Now I can be really biased because I love Korean food but you just wait and see until everyone else tastes this. Because if you like spicy chicken this might be the one for you. However you still gotta put a little bit of work by making the sauce. And some people might say that's not worth your time and for the ones that said that let me show you a different take. This is buldak hot sauce. It doesn't taste like Korean fried chicken hot sauce but the name buldak literally translate to fire chicken. Now what's funny about this is that there is a spicy noodle challenge and my friend Matt Stonie went to town on it almost dying. So yeah treat this one with respect. However it does not get any easier than this. You just gotta pour the sauce right on top because I really want to know if it's going to be similar to Korean fried chicken or if this is just gimmicky. I mean you're adding a sauce on top of it how simple and easy it is to make this. If you're lazy this is the hot fried chicken for you. Because even though in the end it looked really good we gotta actually see how it's going to taste. That is the real test. And I know my guys if there's one thing they love is steaks. Especially when you pair it up with delicious noodles. Now the best part is that this is not difficult to make at all. Let me show you. I went ahead and grabbed the queen of all meats, picanha. This one is from riverbend ranch and it was aged for 21 days. You can clearly see it's prime and it's gonna be perfect for this dish. So I season it real simple with only salt and nothing else. Then I vacuum seal that and I'm gonna be cooking it sous vide which is 135 degrees fahrenheit for two hours. It will cook it to perfection. Now buldak also makes this carbonara spicy noodles. We're gonna be using that. I went ahead and opened that up and started to cook the noodles. Then I boiled some eggs and soaked them in soy sauce. The longer you soak the better it's gonna be. But don't do it more than 48 hours they start becoming too salty. Next I went ahead and fried up some mushrooms. I did the same exact thing with some green onions. Then I got a hold of this ingredient, ssamjang. So I went ahead and cooked that up a little bit, threw in the noodles, followed by the sauce that came along with the package, and of course the seasoning. Mix that up real good because by this time my picanha was fully cooked. And as soon as you take it out of the sous vide bag it looks horrible. No one wants to eat that and that's because it's missing a crust. And to get that done I got myself the flamethrower. It's not only great for searing steaks but also starting up your fire and it will put a mean crust on your steak. Because I know my steak don't look that good right now. But watch this. All right everybody and here we got our beautiful feast. Gentlemen what do you guys think huh? A lot of fried chicken today. It's chicken. That's how you know Sebastian's been here for a while. You still get excited about chicken and Sebastian's like yeah it's chicken. I got something exciting though. Believe it or not every single one of them is from KFC. No you're lying. So here's the deal. So we grabbed a regular KFC chicken and we upgraded them different ways to make them nice and spicy to see if we can improve it. All right so here's the deal. In order to have a true real comparison we got our control which is just regular KFC and we're gonna go see if these are an improvement or not. So please pick one. Give me your true honest opinion. Cheers. Cheers. Normal KFC. KFC chicken traditional. You know what it tastes like. It's good. I like it. You like? Classic KFC chicken. Crispy, juicy, good. Yes I agree. So this is the control. You know exactly what it tastes like. Let's go for this one. Okay let's see. It's a little bit different huh? I mean that one looks a lot darker. This one looks like it means business. I have a feeling it's going to be actually tasty but I do feel like it's going to be a little bit of a spicy. You know what I'm saying? All right let's dig in. Make sure you grab a little bit of that crust and don't cheat and don't go without crust. Let's go for it. Cheers everybody. Cheers. It's good. It has a great flavor. It's spicy as hell. That was a fast-kicking heat. Took me a second though. You didn't feel anything? Are you fine? No I'm good. I mean I've been, I like spicy so. This man is not human. He's never like nothing. Me and you are starting to tear up. Yeah. I'm starting to tear up a little bit everybody. But you feel nothing? No it's really good. I mean it's kind of like their Nashville hot chicken sometimes in the spiciness and it's really good but it's got like an Asian flair to it. I really like it. It's pretty good. It's super crispy, super juicy. Do you think it's an upgrade from the Kontrol? Oh 100%. Yeah I agree it's more flavor. It has a lot of a lot of flavor but it is very spicy so I would stick with the Kontrol for myself for a little bit of barbecue sauce. Keep it simple you know sweet. I don't know why I agree with you. I actually like this one. I think this one is such an easy upgrade to do. By the way I use Bulldog sauce. Oh okay yeah that's really good. I like it slightly on the very spicy side. All right so let's jump on to the side dish to make Sebastian happy. Yes. Because Sebastian is a chicken hater. Cheers! Cheers! I said it before I'll say it again. Nothing beats steak everybody. That's picanha right there. Wow! Eat yourself some picanha everybody. What do you think sir? Everything together it's really good. I mean you really can never go wrong with a sous vide steak and on top of it it's picanha. I mean we have the edge to edge perfection. I mean you can't go wrong here. With everything together the noodles the egg is delicious. I agree and also the creaminess from the egg is so nice and delicious you know what I mean. Even the noodles are super creamy as well and it's not that spicy. Oh spicy enough for me bro. For real? Yeah spicy enough for me. You think I'm feeling the other one still? Yeah for sure because I'm still feeling that one but what an amazing dish. Very good side dish easy to make and by the way that's the noodles from the Bulldog. All right very last one. This one is a little bit harder to make. It takes more work and effort. Yes it's going to be spicy but I think it's going to taste a lot better because Korean style fried chicken. Oh okay. That's what that is okay so it's not going to be as spicy as the other one. So let's dig in. Cheers. Cheers. Oh yeah. Oh wow. No this yeah. You approve this one. I approve that one for sure. That's amazing. What do you think sir? I really like it. I mean you really outdid yourself with this and you basically transformed KFC. I feel like I'm in Korea right now. It's that good. The sauce you have on top of it's really good. I mean with the green onions it's delicious. I cannot even tell that is a KFC chicken. It not even close everybody. You like it completely deleted KFC from my mouth. It is so good, so delicious. The sauce is incredible. Slightly spicy not too much right? No and to be honest I feel a little more sweet than spicy. Yeah it has a little bit of sweetness yeah. I enjoy sweet. That's an amazing chicken. I agree. That's for sure hands down that's my favorite chicken. Yeah mine as well. That is by far the best one. What about you? I have to go with the spicier one. Oh my god you out of here man this man just like to die everybody. The extra spiciness I really like. But it goes to show you you know you can put a little bit more effort and you won't be as spicy and you can control the amount of spice but if you're feeling lazy and you just want to die like this one right here put on some bulldog sauce in there and you'll be just fine. But those are the results. I hope you guys enjoyed this video. If you did hit that thumbs up. If you're not a subscriber be sure to subscribe and we'll see you guys on the next one. Take care everybody. Bye-bye.