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KFC 16 pc. Chicken Bucket - Standard

$36.99 2040-4800 cal

Includes 16 pieces of fried chicken, including 4 drums, 4 thighs, 4 breasts and 4 wings, in the KFC recipe of your choice.

Checked across 21 restaurants, $31.99 and $42.59.

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The KFC 16 pc. Chicken Bucket costs $36.99 and carries 2040-4800 cal, which makes it the largest single order of chicken KFC sells and the best per-piece price on the Fried Chicken menu. Sixteen pieces is four birds' worth of the popular cuts and it feeds six to eight people as a main. Chicken only, again: everything else on the table comes from the Sides menu at its own price.

The per-piece maths is the reason this exists. Every step up in bucket size lowers the cost of each piece, and the 16 is where that curve flattens out. Against the 12 pc. Chicken Bucket the extra four pieces cost less than four a la carte ones would, which is the same argument as before, just larger. KFC has no catering menu in the US, so for a party this bucket and the Family Meals menu are what the chain actually offers. Cost it per head in the meal planner.

Pairs Well Together

Mac & Cheese is carried by 21 of the restaurants we sampled, which makes it the safest thing to add.

$36.99 16 pc. Chicken Bucket - Standard $2.99 Mac & Cheese

Combo Total

$39.98 2,180 cal

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KFC 16 pc. Chicken Bucket - Standard Recipe

Sixteen pieces at home is a genuine undertaking, six or seven batches deep, and the honest advice is to fry it in two sessions rather than one. What follows is the same method as the smaller buckets with the quantities scaled and the batch discipline made explicit.

Prep45 min
Cook75 min
Total120 min
DifficultyHard
Servings
8

Ingredients

Chicken

Brine

The seasoned flour

To fry

Method

0 of 6 steps

Tips

  • White pepper carries the Original Recipe flavour more than any other single spice in the blend. Black pepper is not a substitute; it tastes of something else entirely.
  • Rub 3 tbsp of the brine through the dry flour before you coat anything. The lumps it makes are what give the crust its craggy surface.
  • Use a thermometer in the oil and one in the chicken. Colour tells you nothing useful about how done bone-in chicken is.
  • Strain or change the oil partway through. Sixteen pieces is more than one pot of oil can cook cleanly, and the last batch is where that shows.

Variations

  • Fry eight and roast eight. The oven pieces are lighter and free the pan.
  • All dark meat for a much simpler cook.
  • Half the flour made hot, so one bucket serves both preferences.

Serve it with

  • Six sides minimum for sixteen pieces.
  • This is a bucket for a table, not for a fridge.
  • The ingredients cost well under $36.99, but budget two hours.

A home version of 16 pc. Chicken Bucket - Standard. It is our own recipe, not KFC's, and the Original Recipe blend stays a trade secret.

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  • 2300-4800 cal

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Add sides and a drink, then see what the whole tray costs and what it carries.

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16 pc. Chicken Bucket - Standard Questions

$36.99, which is the largest chicken-only order on the menu and the cheapest per piece.

Six to eight as a main course with sides on the table. Fewer if the sides are light, more if there are children.

Per piece, yes. Each step up from the 8 pc. Chicken Bucket to the 12 pc. Chicken Bucket to this one lowers the cost of each piece, and this is where that curve flattens.

2040-4800 cal for all sixteen pieces, which is a wide band because a wing and a breast are nothing alike as portions.

Not as a menu in the US. For a group this bucket and the Family Meals menu are the options, and around 45 percent of restaurants list catering as a service without publishing a separate menu for it. Call the restaurant directly for anything larger.

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