KFC reveals exactly how the fried chicken is made

KFC is making some major changes after losing customers' trust.

With a new "Re-Colonelization" program, employees are being retrained on how to correctly prepare KFC chicken.

"Customers were saying, 'Your food doesn't taste the same,'" Jason Marker, KFC's US president, said on Monday in a press event. "We're not making the food the same way the Colonel had, and we're not making food in what he described as 'the hard way.' Today marks the end of that."

At the event, KFC head chef Bob Das and comedian Rachel Dratch — continuing KFC's commitment to employing former "Saturday Night Live" cast members — gave a step-by-step look at how KFC chicken is made.

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Step 1: Prepare the breading mixture, which includes flour, salt, milk, egg powder, and all of the Colonel's original secret seasoning. According to Das, even he doesn't know what spices are in the original recipe.

To ensure a proper distribution of the dry breading mix, KFC employees are instructed to "twist and fold" the dry ingredients 20 times, then sift the mixture.

Step 2: Dump out the chicken and inspect for defects. For example, any chicken that has part of a bone broken off or that looks bruised in some way would be discarded.