Popular Post ChrisL Posted January 8 Popular Post Share #1 Posted January 8 I’m not so much a fried chicken guy but my sister wanted to go to Mrs Knotts Chicken Dinner Restaurant for her bday. Since her fried chicken was what made them famous I got that. And I’m glad I did as I really liked it. The chicken was served with mashed potato & gravy and dipping the chicken in the gravy was the bomb! So much better than KFC or Popeyes. For those not in the know Knotts Berry farm is a popular SoCal amusement park. Not in the scale of Disney but rivals 6 Flags. Anyway it was Knotts Restaurant & Chicken dinners that drew huge lines that led to a western themed displays & shops that eventually led to a full fledged amusement park. Knotts also made the first to commercially grow the boysenberry. https://www.knotts.com/dining/mrs-knotts-chicken-dinner-restaurant 5 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airehead ★ Posted January 8 Share #2 Posted January 8 Sounds delicious. I do like great fried chicken. What did your sister have? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisL Posted January 8 Author Share #3 Posted January 8 1 minute ago, Airehead said: Sounds delicious. I do like great fried chicken. What did your sister have? She got the fried chicken too. Most of us did and CJ had some too. My daughter having a gluten allergy got the roasted chicken. They serve a slice of boysenberry pie for dessert and so CJ (of course in my lap) took a fork and started stabbing at it. I gave him a bite and it was too tart so he spit it out. My gray pants now have a nice purple stain on the knee! 🤦🏽♂️ 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airehead ★ Posted January 8 Share #4 Posted January 8 Sounds like a fun night. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralphie ★ Posted January 8 Share #5 Posted January 8 Mmm. Fried chicken! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2Far Posted January 8 Share #6 Posted January 8 I generally don’t do much fried food other than chicken tenders while traveling. I do like a biannual fish & chips. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheep_herder ★ Posted January 8 Share #7 Posted January 8 Love fried foods, including chicken, as long as it is not too salty. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donkpow Posted January 8 Share #8 Posted January 8 Was it wild chicken or farm raised? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shootingstar Posted January 8 Share #9 Posted January 8 I'm not really a fried chicken person. I'll eat it but it's not my first choice. I tend to skim over the deep fried dishes, and look for other offerings on a restaurant menu. Even tempura, which bores me after eating a few delicate pieces. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kzoo Posted January 8 Share #10 Posted January 8 Not a fan. I’ll eat it but it’s pretty far down on my ‘favorite foods’ list. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parsnip Totin Jack ★ Posted January 8 Share #11 Posted January 8 21 minutes ago, donkpow said: Was it wild chicken or farm raised? The cheap stuff. I like a good fried chicken, but Popeyes and KFC are too greasy for me; I feel dirty after eating there so I don’t. Growing up in SoCal, we visited Knotts Berry Farm several times. It wasn’t Disney but still a good time. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bikeman564™ Posted January 8 Share #12 Posted January 8 yes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoseySusan ★ Posted January 8 Share #13 Posted January 8 I am so over roasted chicken, so YES. Crispy coated and fried is about the only way I’ll eat chicken anymore, but that includes all the saucing and sandwich variations. Chik-FiL-A, Arby’s, Popeye’s. Orange chicken, sweet and sour chicken, buffalo chicken, Nashville spicy, tender, chunk, Dino bite… 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Road Runner Posted January 8 Share #14 Posted January 8 I grew up on fried chicken. When I was little, my father had an egg farm with about 300 chickens. We ate a lot of eggs and chicken. These days, I prefer some really nice chicken tenders. Not a fan of eating around the bones and such, not even wings. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razors Edge ★ Posted January 8 Share #15 Posted January 8 Any chicken "on the bone" is yucky. But fried chicken - off the bone - can be real tasty 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
groupw Posted January 8 Share #16 Posted January 8 I love a good pan-fried chicken. Not a ton of flour with a little spice in the seasoning and crispy skin. Add mashed potatoes and gravy and that’s a great meal! We don’t eat it often, but love it when we do! We grew up with chickens in the country. Mom would order some for friends as well as us. If they helped butcher the chickens, she gave them a much better price than if we did it all. They tasted so much better than most commercially grown chickens. Usually after a day of prepping them, the last thing we wanted to eat that night was chicken. Mom would keep a couple in a bucket of ice water to fry the next day. Those were the best chickens ever! 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrentonMakes Posted January 8 Share #17 Posted January 8 Fried chicken is one of my absolute favorite things to eat. I usually make some for the Super Bowl (but I cheat - boneless thighs) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisL Posted January 8 Author Share #18 Posted January 8 2 hours ago, Parsnip Totin Jack said: The cheap stuff. I like a good fried chicken, but Popeyes and KFC are too greasy for me; I feel dirty after eating there so I don’t. Growing up in SoCal, we visited Knotts Berry Farm several times. It wasn’t Disney but still a good time. Have you ever eaten there? I remember as a child going there as my Dutch family liked the western themed shops & such. We usually ate at Knotts as well. I haven’t eaten there in well over 20 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bikeguy Posted January 8 Share #19 Posted January 8 1 hour ago, Razors Edge said: Any chicken "on the bone" is yucky. And that's why I seldom eat fried chicken on the bone. A chicken sandwich... that's works for me every now and then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parsnip Totin Jack ★ Posted January 8 Share #20 Posted January 8 7 minutes ago, ChrisL said: Have you ever eaten there? I remember as a child going there as my Dutch family liked the western themed shops & such. We usually ate at Knotts as well. I haven’t eaten there in well over 20 years. I don’t recall eating at the restaurant there. We might have, but the memory is lost to the sands of time. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisL Posted January 8 Author Share #21 Posted January 8 16 minutes ago, Parsnip Totin Jack said: I don’t recall eating at the restaurant there. We might have, but the memory is lost to the sands of time. It’s completely different & much larger now than I remember it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shootingstar Posted January 8 Share #22 Posted January 8 2 hours ago, Road Runner said: I grew up on fried chicken. When I was little, my father had an egg farm with about 300 chickens. We ate a lot of eggs and chicken. These days, I prefer some really nice chicken tenders. Not a fan of eating around the bones and such, not even wings. Interesting RR, that background thing. Did you ever get tired eating chicken as a kid? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Road Runner Posted January 8 Share #23 Posted January 8 55 minutes ago, shootingstar said: Interesting RR, that background thing. Did you ever get tired eating chicken as a kid? It was fine with me. Always fried. I liked meat and pasta, but wasn't a fan of vegetables, which we also ate a lot. We raised more than just chickens. I always got the legs. My older brother got the thighs. My mother ate the wings and my father got the breast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airehead ★ Posted January 8 Share #24 Posted January 8 4 hours ago, MoseySusan said: I am so over roasted chicken, so YES. Crispy coated and fried is about the only way I’ll eat chicken anymore, but that includes all the saucing and sandwich variations. Chik-FiL-A, Arby’s, Popeye’s. Orange chicken, sweet and sour chicken, buffalo chicken, Nashville spicy, tender, chunk, Dino bite… We had chicken fried baked tofu tonight. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MickinMD ★ Posted January 9 Share #25 Posted January 9 I love fried chicken, but I don't eat it too often because of the added carbs and oil calories. I often buy a frozen 42 oz. box of Banquet Crispy Fried Chicken (about 14 pieces, $14.48 at Walmart) and nuke 3 pieces at a time when I have the urge for fried chicken. If you nuke it on HIGH like the instructions insanely say, it tastes dry. If you nuke it at 50% as you should for poultry products, it's very moist and delicious. In my teens, I pressure cooked KFC Chicken in the back of the store when the Gino's restaurant chain had the franchise for it in MD. We teenagers working the night shift could eat anything we wanted when we were on break or things were slow, and we got tired of the burgers, the Big Mac equivalent, and the fries, but we always wanted the fried chicken. There were 18 pieces per pot and when I dumped one on the screen over the cooking oil recycler, a few guys and girls working the counter or grill would rush back to grab a fresh piece - it's most incredible then. Some nights, the guys working up front would say to me, "Hey Mick, were going to Dunkin' after work," and I knew that meant to sneak in an extra pot of chicken when the manager wasn't looking. We'd take the chicken to Dunkin' Donuts after closing and trade it to the ladies working there for free coffee and donuts. On rare occasions, I pan fry chicken and make a breading similar to KFC (below), dipping the chicken piece in an "egg wash" of egg and milk before putting the piece in a plastic bag with the breading and giving it one shake. Then I fry it in about 1/4" deep oil about 13 min. on each side on medium heat until a quick-read thermometer inserted says 165°F. This breading gives you approx. KFC chicken taste and includes the typical ingredients of online copycats except mustard and paprika which I doesn't do much for me. Online "copycats" vary wildly and go out of their way to make sure they have "11 herbs and spices" that KFC says it has and allegedly are: salt, thyme, basil, oregano, celery salt, black pepper, dried mustard, paprika, garlic salt, ground ginger, and white pepper. I've also tried baked variations that turned out not-great where spray oil is sprayed on the breaded pieces then it's baked. I've also used Kellogg's Corn Flakes as the main breading ingredient for baked "fried" chicken and it's great THAT day, but gets soggy overnight. INGREDIENTS Cooking oil 4-5 lb chicken pieces or 1 whole chicken cut up (usually 9-12 pieces) EGGWASH: 1 Egg 1/2 to 1 cup of milk (or enough milk to cover half of your larger pieces) BATTER: 1 gallon-sized closable clean plastic bag (preferably zip-lock, for shaking batter onto chicken) 2 cups flour 1 tablespoon salt (McCormick “lite salt” if low-sodium is desired, if a more authentic, saltier taste is desired, use 1.5 to 2 tablespoons of salt). 1 tablespoon McCormick Dry Italian Seasoning (or 1 tsp. each: Oregano, Thyme, Basil) 1 teaspoon garlic powder 2 teaspoon ground pepper (white or black) 1 teaspoon onion powder Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheep_herder ★ Posted January 9 Share #26 Posted January 9 My wife ate there many years ago. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Further Posted January 9 Share #27 Posted January 9 I love fried chicken. A thigh an wing, spicy, with coleslaw on the side An a biscuit, gotta have a biscuit. With butter an honey. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisL Posted January 9 Author Share #28 Posted January 9 11 minutes ago, Further said: I love fried chicken. A thigh an wing, spicy, with coleslaw on the side An a biscuit, gotta have a biscuit. With butter an honey. They served the chicken with these little rolls that my son & SIL devoured. I abstained as I ate mashed potato but they said they were delicious. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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