Extra Crispy Tender (each): Chicken Breast Tenderloins Or Chicken Breast Strips with Rib Meat Marinated With: Seasoning (Modified Potato Starch, Salt, Onion Powder, Natural Chicken Flavor [With Maltodextrin, Autolyzed Yeast Extract, Chicken Fat, Dehydrated Cooked Chicken], Spice Extractive), Potassium and Sodium ...

Original Recipe® Tender Chicken tenderloin. Breaded in: wheat flour, salt, monosodium glutamate, spices, dehydrated garlic, modified milk ingredients, dried egg white (egg white, baker's yeast, citric acid). Cooked in: canola oil (dimethylpolysiloxane (antifoaming agent), TBHQ). Contains wheat, milk and egg.

KFC introduced its own "Extra Crispy Chicken" in 1972.

The Regular chicken is breaded with a standard flour-based coating and has a traditional fried chicken taste, while the Extra Crispy chicken is breaded with a thicker coating that contains a blend of different seasonings and has a crunchier texture.

To get their Extra Crispy Chicken so crispy, KFC breads the chicken two times. This double breading gives the chicken its ultra craggy exterior and extra crunch, which is a different texture than the less crispy original recipe fried chicken that's breaded just once and pressure fried.

KFC swears by high-temperature, industrial-strength pressure fryers for their extra-crispy skin. While you won't be able to deep fry with your at-home pressure cooker, you can still recreate the KFC crunch with a deep fryer, a Dutch oven, or a heavy-bottomed pot.

A chicken tenderloin, or chicken tender, is a thin muscle that's loosely attached to the underside of the breast. The tenderloin is generally removed from the breast and sold separately. Chicken tenders are quite, well, tender compared to other parts of the bird.

Chicken tenders or chicken tenderloins are the little strips of meat that are tenuously attached to the underside of each breast (and thus sometimes called “hanging tenders”), so every chicken has two tenders.

Extra Crispy is double breaded by hand with a unique mix of herbs and spices then it is open fried. By comparison, Original Recipe uses the 11 herbs and spices, is hand breaded once and pressure fried in Colonel's unique method. 6.

But then at a certain point I ordered original and say hold on I think original is better than extra crispy. So I have no idea actually.

The extra crispy cooking method adds to the calories and sodium, but still remains a more nutritious option than other chicken menu items.

The secret recipe used to marinate the chicken at KFC remains a closely guarded secret. It is known that the recipe includes a combination of 11 herbs and spices, which give the chicken its unique and flavorful taste.

All of our Original Recipe chicken on the bone is from farms in the UK and Ireland.

(If you see something referred to as “chicken strips,” they are probably chicken fingers.) These are not to be confused with chicken tenders, which are made from an actual cut of meat: the pectoralis minor, a small muscle that runs directly under the chicken breast. This is also called the “inner filet.”

When executed just right, chicken tenders become a seriously tasty meal, complete with crispy breading, savory flavors, and tons of dipping sauce possibilities. They have nearly all the best qualities of bone-in fried chicken, but come with a fraction of the mess.

The whole or half of the breast deboned. Also known as chicken fingers, chicken goujons, chicken strips or chicken fillets, tenders are chicken meat prepared from the pectoralis minor muscles. These strips of white meat are located on either side of the breastbone, under the breast meat (pectoralis major).