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The KFC secret recipe of 11 herbs and spices should be no problem for an organic chemistry lab. Would need both qualitative and quantitative analysis.
What piece of equipment could do both types of analysis simultaneously? Perhaps a gas chromatograph. Maybe a graduate student at a big university has access to the appropriate type of equipment and could do it for far less than a commercial lab.
I actually have another secret recipe in mind, not the KFC recipe, but it is a good analog for discussion purposes.
Eh. The Colonel used to do the training for the KFC managers, even after Heublin bought his company. If he liked the manager, he would sometimes go to a store with them, buy a pressure cooker, and cook chicken in it to show how it SHOULD be done. One of my friends had this experience, and the only spices the Colonel used was salt and pepper. The chicken, according to him, was exactly like the best tasting KFC chicken he had ever had. Like so many advertising gimmicks, the real secret is in the head of the consumer.
Ingredients are only part of it, the preparation and cooking are just as important. Duplicating KFC chicken probably wouldn't be that hard but more complicated dishes would be.
Harry ^ some of what your saying makes sense, but seriously, go to KFC and look at the color of the breading when they are breading it and tell yourself it only has salt and pepper then give it a smell, you will know there is more to it.
Chains guard their recipes so others can't say theirs is the same, and ride on the backs of another's fortune. It's not that they are that much more amazing than you can get anywhere else. Making good food is easy, making it good, and exactly same every time, then marketing it for the masses is the challenge.
If someone wants to copy/steal from anothers fortune, then my opinion of them, is well.....
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