How many of the old TCK regulars are still here?

[dogamondo]

Had a bit of nostalgia reading through this new forum over the last few days.

I first registered on the old TCK forum in 2010 after googling "how to cook KFC at home" back in my 20's and became part of the fun for a very short while (albeit under a different username).

Life kinda happened after that and I fell off the journey around the time of the "Vanilla Bean Breakthrough" from the vials photo. I lost the gasket on my Fagor Duo while moving house not long after and couldn't find a replacement part anywhere so that was that. (I never actually pressure fried with that cooker after nerves got the better of me, freaking out about blowing up the kitchen!)

I was compelled to check in on the old forumup.co.uk site a week ago when my wife and I were arguing about Star Anise vs Chines 5 spice (she swore it was in KFC when I was hunting for Tahitian vanilla beans all those years ago - which we found in a moving box along with some very expired imported Marion Kay spices!). But alas, the site was long gone.

Anyway, it's great to see Dustin and TheTaxiDermist here on this forum still going strong (kudos). So sad to hear about Lumpy. (I lurked on Lumpy's Larder before registering on TCK back then) We had some fun on that old forum, lighting up Ellsworth whenever possible lol.

Anyone know whatever happened to Mark (The Colonel) or any of the other regulars around that time? 

I was long gone by the time Ken joined, but Ken, your level of research and dedication to the cause is so admirable and I'm very grateful that you've set this place up to keep the dream alive. Very cool to stumble on here after after finding my second wind recently to chase the OR again!

Cheers

[kgp]

I'm from TCK back in 2008. That was 12 years ago! It was a great time! I knew all the gang.

[Ken_Griffiths]

Hi dogamondo,

Yes, I arrived late at TCK in 2012 (or maybe late 2011,🤔?) I forget, but I was on Ellsworth’s ‘KFC Universe’ before that, but got booted off that site, after I made some comment about trying TC34D and stating that it worked much better when the ingredients were each weighed. Ellsworth took exception to my comment and the simple fact that I mentioned clove and vanilla in my own recipe research and so he just decided to delete my account and 6 months worth of posts.

I moved on and joined the TCK forum, where (luckily for me) Dustin took me under his wing and got me hooked on trying to find the answers through weighing ingredients and researching chemical compounds and such like.

The TCK forum then started to regularly go offline. That was a combination of things, not all Marks fault, but it became so intermittent, that I decided to setup this forum (with Mark’s blessing) just as a ‘fallback’, so everyone could still chat and exchange ideas during the times when the TCK forum went offline.

Then one day TCK not only went offline, but it’s server disappeared too. Initially it was thought it was a hardware failure, but it seems the owners packed up and called it a day. Mark kept in touch with Dustin & myself via email for a while, but then he disappeared and I’ve not heard from him for a good while, several years, in fact.

Anyhow Dustin and I carried on some further research on and off the forum here, mostly into herbs/chemical compounds and lots of further work into 99x. As time passed, a few from TCK eventually landed here... I think some others from TCK may have landed at some other sites, but most of those have hidden threads and have chosen to shut their door and protect their research.

The research here is pretty much open & shared and as they say, "the (re)search goes on" to try to find some of the real answers, though it is still a little difficult trying to ‘sort the wood from the trees’ in some of the threads.

Anyhow, a very warm welcome to the kfc11 forum and I hope that some of the past/present research here helps you to find some of the answers you maybe looking for too.👍

Kind regards...

Ken

[dogamondo]

Thanks Ken, great insight. And yeah, Ells lol, he was certainly an interesting character!

[kgp]

Oct 9, 2020 11:16:43 GMT dogamondo said:

Thanks Ken, great insight. And yeah, Ells lol, he was certainly an interesting character!

Actually, Ellsworth was the star of TCK. People would come to the site daily just to see what was he doing.

[willy]

I was a passive member when Ken joined TCK. I mainly just observed the fighting. I watched for a few years before joining. I could be wrong about this, but it doesn't really matter. I jumped ship and went with BruceB and Yves after Ellsworth/DTM rebelled. I was a member of their (Ellsworth/DTM) various endeavors, but bored of the pettiness. I was smallgree during those times, a childhood nickname. I save some of the exchanges which are not available today. I have the various responses made by members when vanilla, and that recipe, was proclaimed as the OR.

[dprovo]

Nice to see you here dog!

The last time I heard from Mark was about 16 months ago congratulating me on the birth or my daughter.

Ells I see post on YouTube from time to time on kfc videos.

Brodie I talk to from time to time, and satman weekly, he is retired from the pharmaceutical industry and now into politics. Both still fry chicken!

Dustin

[ThePieMan]

Hmmmm. "TheTaxidermist," that's the name I used when I first registered here of KFC11 (still noted in my profile), but changed it back to, "ThePieMan" which I first used in Chicken forums on TCK in May, 2011.

I used "The Taxidermist" because, my grandfather trained me in that field when I was young, and my avatar is of 2000 A.D's Jacob Sardini, character, called, "The Taxidermist."

Basically you could say that I'm good at, "stuffing" things.

I wasn't particularly vocal on TCK, and spent much of my time lurking. I was in absentia when the TCK forum first went offline, (in 2013?) and this provoked me to seek out KFC11 in 2016.

[btb]

So . . . as I think was expressed above, someone named Mark was the original TCK or Colonel.  Is he or she still around and active on this site?

[cook83]

Hey everyone, I was originally a member of TCK from way back, might have been roughly around 2006 when joined under the name ColonelBen. I came and went from the site over the years but have continued my quest to crack the code throughout, taking breaks here and there and then I become obsessed with it again haha. My obsession has lead me to actually working as a cook now at KFC.
Anyway,I remember an old KFC manual from the 70s was posted on the old site, I have a few screenshots from it still but I seem to remember a page which listed the recipe for the milk and egg wash which I can't find now. If anyone knows if it's on here please let me know. Thanks.

[kgp]

ColonelBen was TCK member #115 joined on 9/8/2008.

[cook83]

Dec 13, 2023 17:27:03 GMT kgp said:

ColonelBen was TCK member #115 joined on 9/8/2008.

Wow 2008 was it? I'm surprised you still have the records of that

[willy]

I may have shots of that manual, I'm not sure. I saved a lot, particularly recipes. Some I copy and pasted, and some I just wrote down.

[kgp]

Dec 13, 2023 17:38:26 GMT cook83 said:

Dec 13, 2023 17:27:03 GMT kgp said:

ColonelBen was TCK member #115 joined on 9/8/2008.

Wow 2008 was it? I'm surprised you still have the records of that

I have it on backup. I'm within the first 35 members.

[cook83]

Dec 13, 2023 21:05:50 GMT kgp said:

Dec 13, 2023 17:38:26 GMT cook83 said:

Wow 2008 was it? I'm surprised you still have the records of that

I have it on backup. I'm within the first 35 members.

Impressive record keeping. I wonder if you remember that old 70s KFC manual, the one with the cooking instructions, it had the recipe for kfc egg wash didn't it? Or maybe I'm imagining it