Winston Foodservice Products

[Ken_Griffiths]

This site is worth a read:

www.kfcfryers.com/

[willy]

Excellent find Ken. It sets his involvement with CHS, after 1964, when CHS sold out. Which means the recipe he was given could have been either CHS's, or the Corporation's. Thanks. I had already headed another direction, and now I can feel a little more secure. I am one who never believed that CHS seriously bit the hand that fed him. I am about to settle on 16 ingredients, including MSG.

[Ken_Griffiths]

Willy,

Not sure if this helps your research, or not, but I can say the 100g recipe was handed to Shelton in 1975.

It was slightly unusual in that CHS gave it to him in metric grams/milligrams, rather than in imperial weights and it should have weighed 100g, but initially it only weighed 87g, as I’m sure we all know ...and then Shelton was given the final 13g ingredient by the Colonels secretary.

I’d be surprised if the Colonel would remember a corporate sized scaled-up recipe, but it might have been a recipe perhaps that was used for taste-testing behind the scenes with exactly 2kg flour. Note also that Shelton says there was also something in the recipe that weighed 10 & 20 grams (which would obviously be 10lb & 20lb in a corresponding 100lb Barrel recipe), but perhaps we cannot rule-out that Shelton may have been speaking in more ‘general terms’ when he mentions those other weights, albeit my 711 series of recipes do try to take those weights into account aswell.

My own personal thoughts have been that the recipe was a metric representation of his 100lb Barrel recipe and that he simply switched things from whole/part pounds to whole/part grams ... but that’s because both total exactly ‘one hundred’.

However, I cannot rule out it was a different recipe to the one in the 100lb Barrel.

[willy]

I believe it was just the special 11 hs&ss, in percentages. The other ingredients were givens. I don't believe CHS actually gave out the original recipe. Like I indicated, he did not seriously bite the hand that fed him. The Corporate recipe at that time was simply.......the recipe at that time, given out of anger because he had little respect for it.

[Ken_Griffiths]

Aug 25, 2020 14:22:46 GMT willy said:

I believe it was just the special 11 hs&ss, in percentages. The other ingredients were givens. I don't believe CHS actually gave out the original recipe. Like I indicated, he did not seriously bite the hand that fed him. The Corporate recipe at that time was simply.......the recipe at that time, given out of anger because he had little respect for it.

Shelton did say it was ‘grams’ ...so weights, rather than percentages. See here:

www.louisville.com/content/winston-shelton-colonels-corporal-food-dining

...or, in fairness to your ongoing research, that’s at least how the reporter, reported it.

[willy]

Just a metaphor. 100g/100%/100parts. All base 10 nunbers. 8th grade math.