So I Tried Fried Chicken Tonight

[telleutelleme]

I watched my wife. over the years and thought its time I tried it. Had her recipe, did everything I was supposed to do. I thought. Apparently you are supposed to thaw frozen chicken all the way through. The pieces came out golden brown and the initial test bite was good. Cut into the next piece and raw. Ugh. In the oven cooking the rest of the way through.

Lesson learned. It wasn't in her recipe, but probably can't claim foul. BTW Frozen TV dinners tell you not too thaw it out first. Also not helping my case.

 

[Masmus]

Microwaves cook from the inside by vibrating hydrogen atoms in water so frozen food works. Frying cooks from the outside in so to get the frozen center to cook you would burn the outside.

If you really want to see a cooking fail youtube deep fry frozen turkey.

 

[boneyguy]

BTW Frozen TV dinners tell you not too thaw it out first. Also not helping my case.

Because the food is already cooked and then frozen....lol.

 

[Telekarster]

My wife wanted an air fryer for Christmas last year, so I bought her one and man does that thing cook good chicken, and fast too! It also does a lot of other things really well too. If you don't have one, you might try one if you plan to do some cooking. They're not that expensive. I think I paid 60-70 for hers and, so far, everything she's cooked in it has turned out great.

 

[scrapyardblue]

There are several places around here that make fabulous fried chicken. I only eat it about once a month, see no point in trying to make it. For $11, you can go to the VFW and eat perfect fried chicken til your belly explodes.

 

[Tarkus60]

I would burn the house down trying to fry chicken........

 

[Sparky472]

Microwaves cook from the inside by vibrating hydrogen atoms in water so frozen food works. Frying cooks from the outside in so to get the frozen center to cook you would burn the outside.

If you really want to see a cooking fail youtube deep fry frozen turkey.

This isn’t true. Microwave ovens cook food outside-in, just like any other type of oven. Most of the heating of the inside of foods is done by conduction of heat from the outside of the food that is heated by the microwave, with some exceptions.

 

[stxrus]

I laughed reading this. Yeah, frozen takes longer (if at all) to cook

A funny story. When deep frying turkeys began to catch on, a fiend of mine in Dallas decided “how hard can it be?”

Long story short, a frozen turkey dropped into a few gallons of 375 degree peanut oil erupts very violently. The oil overflowed the cooking pot like a volcano. The ensuing fire was impressive. Luckily someone’s wife had enough sense to bring the three fire extinguishers they had to the ”manly cooking zone” before the “cooking” began.

The fire damage was kept to a minimum. About a 10’x10’ area of back yard, a propane burner, a big stainless pot, and a 25# bird were laid to waste.

Frank learned a very valuable culinary life lesson that afternoon. It also wasn’t a turkey centered holiday meal so there was a lot of laughter and pizza ordered

 

[CCK1]

Hardly anyone fries chicken at home these days. Fried chicken at home is much easier to get wrong, than it is to get it right. Truthfully, it's not that easy to make good fried chicken, it takes a lot of feel, and senses to know when to turn it, when it's done, etc. Not to mention the mess it makes.
I pretty much leave chicken frying to the chains that specialize in it. If you're lucky enough to be at the counter at Popeye's, KFC, etc. and get your chicken hot and fresh out of the fryer, it's a glorious thing.
To me, however, the absolute best is Prince's Hot Chicken in Nashville, and a very, very, very close second to Prince's is Bolton's Spicy Chicken & Fish. That's some good chicken.

 

[cometazzi]

My wife wanted an air fryer for Christmas last year, so I bought her one and man does that thing cook good chicken, and fast too! It also does a lot of other things really well too. If you don't have one, you might try one if you plan to do some cooking. They're not that expensive. I think I paid 60-70 for hers and, so far, everything she's cooked in it has turned out great.

Good to know, as I've been eyeballing the instapot+air fryer lid thing for some time now.

 

[StoneH]

My wife will still fry chicken occasionally, but the rotisserie chicken (whole chicken) from our Sam's is awesome!

 

[Telekarster]

Good to know, as I've been eyeballing the instapot+air fryer lid thing for some time now.

Yep! There's a lot of brands out there but I think they all work pretty much the same, more or less. My wife's friends were all raving about theirs, so she asked me for one for Christmas to see what the hub hub was all about. Suffice it to say, the darn thing is pretty amazing I have to say. It makes about the best grilled cheese sandwiches I've ever had! LOL!!! Go figure She's cooked steak, chicken, fish, French fries, Brussel sprouts, etc. etc. in the thing. All good, and fast too. The brand I got her was "Cosori", which I bought largely on reviews since I didn't really know anything at all about air fryers.

 

[Rocky058]

Apparently you did better than I did.

 

[dented]

Any meat I cook I bring it down to room temp first. Before skillet, oven or grill.

 

[StoneH]

Any meat I cook I bring it down to room temp first. Before skillet, oven or grill.

+1

 

[stxrus]

Any meat I cook I bring it down to room temp first. Before skillet, oven or grill.

+2

We very seldom fry anything. Pan seared or pan fried is as far as we go

Less than 2 miles away is a restaurant that makes some of the best fried chicken outside of Henderson’s in Dallas.

For less than we can buy chicken, prep it, cook it, and clean up Bluewater does it better and for less money

 

[ping-ping-clicka]

My wife wanted an air fryer for Christmas last year, so I bought her one and man does that thing cook good chicken, and fast too! It also does a lot of other things really well too. If you don't have one, you might try one if you plan to do some cooking. They're not that expensive. I think I paid 60-70 for hers and, so far, everything she's cooked in it has turned out great.

I'm bake here in the time when fire was the bold new thing, so I had never heard of and air fryer I looked air fryer up on Google and was impressed. As the crown prince of the microwave , it seemed like a Kitchen Device that the Jetsons would have , Judy Jetson was really a modern gal.

 

[bgmacaw]

It's RAW!!!

 

[Telekarster]

I'm bake here in the time when fire was the bold new thing, so I had never heard of and air fryer I looked air fryer up on Google and was impressed. As the crown prince of the microwave , it seemed like a Kitchen Device that the Jetsons would have , Judy Jetson was really a modern gal.

Yeppers Ping! Well put

 

[kuch]

When I do fry chicken, I always use skinless/boneless chicken, batter it, coat it in panko, then fry. Oh yeah, defrost first! Sometimes I do the same recipe with pork chops and fish filets too. My wife loves it with gravy (not fish) and tonkatsu sauce.