I haven’t had fried chicken in a while now mind you, but both when I was a kid and my family would have leftover KFC, and as an adult in the rare occasion I do get fried chicken, I have always loved it more after it’s been sitting overnight in the fridge.

Won’t heat that shit in the microwave or nuthin, just eat it straight cold and love it like that.

  • RandomStickman
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    343 months ago

    For me fresh fried chicken is better than cold, but cold fried chicken is better than microwaved. In the rare event that I have left overs sometime I put it in friend rice lol

  • Golfnbrew
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    183 months ago

    I don’t know if it’s better, but it’s definitely good! Like cold pizza is good. It’s just a different food.

  • @normanwall
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    133 months ago

    Do I upvote you because it’s an unpopular opinion, or downvote you because it’s wrong? 😂

    • HubertManne
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      23 months ago

      How voting works: Vote the opposite of the norm.

      If you agree that the opinion is unpopular give it an arrow up. If it’s something that’s widely accepted, give it an arrow down.

  • @yesman
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    113 months ago

    Chicken is almost always best not reheated. You risk drying it out, and ruining the texture.

    I’ve not tried it, but a couple of min in the air fryer might crisp up the breading without overcooking the meat.

    • @wjrii
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      43 months ago

      I’ve done that often, and it’s pretty good. French fries too, you can get one adequate reheat in an air fryer, but it’s touchy… a couple of minutes at the temp that works best in your fryer, and nothing more, or they turn into garbage twigs. Still don’t finish them and try it again? Garbage twigs. The line between ever so slightly overcrisped, yet still solid, leftover fries and garbage twigs is rather thin.

      • @Futtyklam
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        33 months ago

        Re-oil and you will be fine for both.

  • @[email protected]
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    93 months ago

    If you’re sticking with “better” then I think you’ve got an unpopular opinion there.

    Still, it’s good though.

  • @[email protected]
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    73 months ago

    Cold fried chicken alone is not my preferred way of eating it; I love to use it in a salad! As it hits the spot only then for me, otherwise I gently reheat before eating. Cold pizza, that rates way higher for me.

  • Bear
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    63 months ago

    Have to disagree. Good cold, but better warmed up, just like your mother.

  • @Mostly_Gristle
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    43 months ago

    I think how good cold fried chicken tastes depends very much on the type of oil it was fried in, and whether it’s been overcooked and/or has sat under a heat lamp for too long. Under the right circumstances cold fried chicken can be fantastic. But it’s pretty easy to make it bad.

  • HubertManne
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    43 months ago

    Your last sentence makes it a bit tough. I want to upvote as I think the fresh hot chicken is better but cold is not bad to the point I would rather do cold than microwave it.

  • Lvxferre
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    33 months ago

    I personally don’t like it cold but I’m not surprised that you do - it gives seasoning more time to penetrate into the meat, and the texture gets really different.

  • @Nostalgia
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    Dude. Core memory unlocked. I’ve been vegetarian for 20 years and vegan for 5ish…but cold fried chicken was the shit of my childhood. Maybe that explains a lot lol. But I’m with you brother/sister/other