I STOPPED Buying KFC — These Mountain Tricks Get You Twice The Meat For Half The Price

🔗 Grandma never wrote hers down, so I finally did. All 118 plus much more. Get em before they're gone: https://www.opalrowe.com Opal Rowe counts down the old mountain way with a bucket — forty-five tricks that put twice the chicken on the table for half of what the company charges, a whole family supper, fried bird and every side, off the same two chickens. From the ten-pound bag of leg quarters that beats the eight-piece bucket, to the two-stage dredge for that thick company coat, to shucky beans simmered all day with a ham hock, real mashed potatoes that never came from a powder, vinegar slaw, cast-iron mac and cheese, and corn cut off the cob — it is how the holler fed a whole table for next to nothing and left nobody hungry, and ate better than any drive-through sack besides. And the whole time there is a jar settin on her counter, ten pieces of chicken soakin down in a cloudy gold liquid she has never once named — not to the folks at her church who have asked for years, not in near eighty years at that stove. It is not buttermilk, and it does not come from a packet nor a bottle. She holds it clear back to number two, next to the last, and finally tells what it is at the very end. Her mama and her mawmaw carried all of it behind their eyes and never wrote a word of it down. Until now. In this one, Opal covers: • Why the ten-pound bag of leg quarters beats the eight-piece bucket — twice the chicken, half the money, every single time • The one thing the company injects into that chicken that you pay for by the pound — and how to beat it for free • Frying and draining so the crust stays crisp instead of steaming soft the way it does in the box • The sides that leave the bucket in the dust — shucky beans with a ham hock, real mashed potatoes, vinegar slaw, cast-iron mac and cheese, corn off the cob • How two whole chickens turn into four meals in the same week, with nothing thrown away • The cloudy gold liquid in the jar on her counter — never named to a living soul, held back to number two and finally revealed at the very end These are the real mountain-kitchen secrets the old folks knew by heart — and now they are finally written down. Tell us down in the comments where you are watchin from, and what your people called their Sunday chicken, and who it was that taught you to fry it — Opal reads every last one. CHAPTERS 0:00 The Jar on the Counter and Half a Bucket 1:22 Leg Quarters vs the Eight-Piece Bucket 2:16 The Colonel Was One of Ours 3:04 Cut Two Whole Fryers Yourself 3:48 Dark Meat Holds the Mountain Flavor 4:38 The Salt Water They Charge You For 5:35 The Two-Stage Company-Style Dredge 6:24 Drain on a Rack, Never Cardboard 7:09 Bone-In, Skin-On, the Only Way 8:05 Egg and Milk, the Flour's Glue 8:48 The Mashed Potatoes From a Powder 9:45 Gravy From the Drippins, Not a Packet 10:31 Vinegar Slaw, No Tub of Mayonnaise 11:19 Let the Slaw Set Overnight 12:05 Cold Lard and Cold Buttermilk Biscuits 13:03 Don't Overwork the Biscuit Dough 13:45 Shucky Beans With a Ham Hock 14:45 No Water in the Green Beans 15:30 Cast-Iron Mac and Cheese 16:20 Corn Cut Off the Cob in Butter 17:01 Half Lard, Half Butter Biscuit 17:47 The Little Red Box of Accent 18:48 Salt and Cider Vinegar Brine 19:43 Small Batches, Let the Grease Recover 20:34 Fry the Dark and White Separately 21:23 Read the Heat With a Pinch of Flour 22:13 Drain on a Brown Paper Sack 23:12 Hold It Hot in a Dutch Oven 24:01 Render the Fat While It Soaks 24:51 Save the Cracklins, Salt Them Warm 25:42 Stock From the Backs and Necks 26:44 Two Chickens, Four Meals a Week 27:37 Season the Flour in a Paper Sack 28:28 Rest the Dredged Pieces on a Rack 29:15 Canned Evaporated Milk in the Wash 30:11 Pot Likker Poured Over Cornbread 31:02 Cold Chicken and a Biscuit 32:00 Morning Biscuits With Chicken Gravy 32:56 Chicken Salad With Chow-Chow 33:50 Cornbread With the Shucky Beans 34:45 The Corn Cob Stock 35:38 Pot Beans in the Chicken Stock 36:34 Roast the Corn in the Husk 37:25 The Cold Chicken of Decoration Day 38:16 The Jar on the Counter — Finally Revealed 39:21 The Whole Family at One Table