Here's How Chick-fil-A Makes A Perfectly Crispy Chicken Sandwich _ Southern Living

We hand bread all of our chicken in the restaurant every single day .

So we start with this seasoned chicken breast filets .

We use this one step .

We kind of run our finger through and we flatten out this chicken .

And what this does for us is it makes this nice flat filet .

This is going to cook easier for us .

It's going to cook more evenly and it's going to make sure that we're covering that bun or the biscuit , whatever we're putting the chicken on , this is just eggs and milk that we use just to make sure that this flour really adheres to the chicken and gets that nice crispy coating that we love .

So we just do a nice little dip in here .

Give it a little shake .

This part is easy , but this is where the muscle comes in .

We say that you want to lift your heels off the floor because you want to get even more muscle into this product .

So what we're gonna do is we're just going to get our seasoned flour .

This is just a seasoned flour that we're going to put on top of our filets and we want to press this flour in , we want to press it pretty firmly .

And so that's one of those heels coming off the floor .

You're using some cave muzzles and we flip this over and we're gonna do that on each side of the chicken .

So think about doing this for an entire shift .

Our team members get their workout in .

So the most important part is frying the chicken .

So we're going to use this pressure fryer here .

And one of the most important things to do when you're putting this into the fryer is to make sure the rough side of the chicken is down .

This is going to ensure that we don't get a little pocket of oil because these like to curl up a little when they're frying another step we like to take before I put them in the oil is we kind of do a little dip first and kind of pick them up and then put them in the oil .

This is a great way for us to make sure that those don't stick to the fryer basket .

And then we tighten this as tight as we can .

This is where the pressure comes in .

And thankfully , we have timers on these .

So all of this is automatic for us and then they go into our pan and that is our beautiful fried chicken filets .