The KFC Double Down with grilled chicken
The New KFC Double Down Chicken Sandwich
A few of my low-carb blogger friends have been talking about the new KFC Double Down this week, so I have chosen it for my Festival Friday topic!
The KFC Double Down is a chicken sandwich without bread, which explains why it is creating such a stir in the low-carb community.
The reason it is creating such a stir in the rest of the world is supposed to be the fat content, but the Double Down doesn’t seem to have any more fat that a typical bacon cheeseburger. So, I’m not sure what the big deal is.
Many fast food places have jumped on the “protein style” bandwagon and are offering burgers and sandwiches in lettuce leaves and flat-bread wraps (tortillas, pitas, lavosh, etc.). And I can remember eating a low-carb breakfast bowl at Carl’s Jr. a few years ago… but
The KFC Double Down might be the first mainstream, fast food sandwich that is breadless!
The sandwich features two boneless (solid-meat) chicken breast filets (Original Recipe or Grilled), two pieces of bacon, two melted slices of Monterey Jack and pepper jack cheese and Colonel’s Sauce (a spicy mayonnaise).
Here are the nutrition stats (in grams, except for calories)
Original Recipe
Calories: 540
Fat: 32
Saturated Fat: 10
Carbohydrate: 11
Protein: 53
Grilled
Calories: 460
Fat: 23
Saturated Fat: 9
Carbohydrate: 3
Protein: 61
KFC nutritional information can be found here.
If you compare the Double Down to other fast food sandwiches, it is not that much different. It has a twice the protein and one-fourth (one-tenth, if you get grilled) of the carbs of the…
McDonald’s Quarter Pounder with Cheese
Calories: 510
Fat: 26
Saturated Fat: 12
Carbohydrate: 40
Protein: 29
McDonalds nutritional information can be found here.
My Double Down
I finally caught up with a Double Down on Tuesday afternoon, for an early dinner. I ordered it grilled, but got Original Recipe, so I ended up tasting the breaded one. oh well. There was hardly any breading on it anyway!
I liked it. It was juicy. A little salty. The filling was bacony and cheesy and yummy. The chicken was chickeny. The bacon was…
I guess the spicy mayo was good, but I don’t really remember it specifically. I do remember the sandwich had more zip than boring white meat chicken flavor… so maybe that was the mayo.
One thing that I was looking for is if the chicken would be hot enough to burn my fingers. That’s what the bun is for right, to keep me from burning my fingers? It wasn’t. It was fine. My cheese was still melty and creamy.
Overall, I’m thumbs up.
I ate the grilled version of the KFC-DD for lunch today, and liked it even better than the original recipe. Still a little salty.
I reviewed it on Examiner.com, which you can check out here. There are photos… Check it out if you feel so inclined
Blogger Survives Double Down… film at eleven
On his Fat Head blog, Tom Naughton made a great comparison between the Double Down and…
A “heart-healthy” breakfast: 1 cup Grape-Nuts + 1 cup skim milk
Calories: 507
Fat: 2
Saturated Fat: 0
Carbohydrate: 107
Protein: 21
Same number of calories, ten times the carbs of the Double Down (grilled=30X), and a little more than one-third the protein.
No thanks! I’ll take the Double Down over Grape Nuts any day! yuk.
And the Best Double Down I saw all week…
Cleochatra’s Real Double Down on the Double on The Lighter Side of Low Carb blog.
Here’s her take on The KFC Double Down:
Maybe I over thought the moment. Maybe the corporate advertising world doesn’t care so long as I paid to take a taste. What I got instead– as I stood in anticipation– was what every teen boy experiences when he gets to second base: a mediocre, awkward moment with a couple of breasts.
Double Downs should be made with real ingredients, the kind you can find yourself, and the type where you can pronounce all of the ingredients without college level chemistry courses.
Be sure to look at the pictures of her homemade Real Double Down on the Double, to which she added lettuce and tomato. She also shares her recipe! It looks double delicious.
If you love to laugh, you really should check out The Lighter Side of Low Carb blog! You’ll love it.
Have a great weekend!
Lovin’ It Low Carb
Ramona Denton
I hope they bring this to T&T, I really want to try it and I am happily surprised that the breaded one is only 11g carbs….KFC’s ‘test kitchen chef’ must be a low carber ha ha
I thought they both tasted pretty good. I hope you get a chance to taste one!
Your pictures are tremendous! Who needs bread anyway with chicken breasts and cheese
although I think I’d need to opt for the grilled style.
Thanks! I’ll probably only get the grilled one from now on. I’m pretty much tuned in to eating thing that are *supposed* to have bread without the bread, so I prefer that now.