I heard KFC secret spice and other recipes are among the most top secrets in the world. Is it really impossible to reverse engineer a secret sauce, or spice like the KFC secret spice?
Or is it just not worth doing, because of patents or something?
>>8316094
>just not worth doing
This. >muh secret recipe is just a marketing tool.
You could come up with something just as, if not more, tasty within a day experimenting with different flavours
>>8316110
>You could come up with something just as, if not more, tasty within a day experimenting with different flavours
Tasty enough to start a franchise off?
>>8316115
>Tasty enough to start a franchise off?
If it was cost effective enough to scale up, and you had the capital to invest in the property, marketing and labour required to start a franchise, sure why not?
"secret"
>>8316094
No, because most commercial sauce/spice blends include those little ingredients at the end of the list: "natural flavors" or "artificial flavors."
These are often flavor chemicals specifically engineered for an application that you wouldn't be able to produce at home. For example, Froot Loops use (–)-(S)-citronellal as a primary flavoring component, and good luck producing that if you don't have access to a kaffir lime tree in your yard.
>>8316213
This isn't true at all, the only significant flavoring in KFC's breading anymore is salt and MSG.
>>8317031
>"artificial flavors."
Not sure what you're trying to say there, you can buy artificial flavors easily and cheaper than real spices (that's the whole point) eg:
http://www.shanks.com/product-category/extracts-flavors/