I want to make fried chicken tendies like from raising cane's but at home. I tried air frying chicken but it doesn't turn out crispy. How hard is it to deep fry? Is it expensive? What do I need? It's intimidating.

It's cheap, it's easy, getting and getting rid of the oil is a bitch but not complex. And it can get messy.

>heat up oil
>put something in it
Are you retarded or what

Try shallow frying. Just fry it in a pan but with enough oil that there's no dry spots in the pan.
Then let them strain/drain or whatever on a wire rack. You want a thermometer or an actual deep fryer because hot oil can be very dangerous.
Stay safe brother.

>>21426315 (OP)
You need a good hood range most importantly. Otherwise the smell lingers for days.

It's not expensive, don't even have to deep fry, a simple shallow fry would suffice.

You need a big pot and some high smoke oil. You can buy a $5 thermometer if you haven't fried with lots of oil before, although I've never used one.

>dedicated fryer
Easy

>What do I need
Peanut oil, stock pot, wire spider skimmer, gloves, baking sheet with cooling rack, funnel and glass bottle to reuse oil. I use my shitty Ikea pot for frying.

>Cleaning oil
Cornstarch. Will make it easy to filter you're oil

It's fine as long as you keep the oil at the correct temperature. Get a thermometer like other anons have said.
Protip: If your oil gets too close to the smoke point while it's warming up then you can drop an ice cube in to quickly reduce the temperature

>>21426328
>you can drop an ice cube in to quickly reduce the temperature
Wtf is wrong with you?

OP don't do that!!!

>>21426317
Getting rid of the oil?

people say a wok is the best shape but a normal pot will work

however it smells too much and is nasty dealing with the oil. and you have to buy lots of oil and reuse it to not be a waste of money. I would leave it to the professionals desu

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9IsNRpZyEc

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Thanks

>>21426339
>and you have to buy lots of oil and reuse it to not be a waste of money. I would leave it to the professionals desu
You can always shallow fry. This video is fucking terrible.
>people say a wok is the best shape but a normal pot will work
The shape is good but a lot of woks are too thin and the oil burns too quickly.

>>21426338
You can put it in jars and then throw it in the trash.
You can re-use it a few times if you strain it with a mesh strainer or something fine.

it's easier to simply pour the oil down the drain

>>21426315 (OP)
The only shitty part about doing it in the kitchen is that everything gets greasy from the vapor

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>>21426353
Keep in a glass jar, toss it in during your next bonfire.

>>21426315 (OP)
-smells like shit
-cleaning oil is a shit job
-unhealthy

no man, im not from america, i'll skip on the fryer.

>>21426315 (OP)
get a spray bottle for oil (buy your own spray bottle, don't use the spray cans they sell in stores. the oil will smoke). coat the chicken strips generously with oil before air frying and they'll taste like they were deep fried.

We do it often (not in a while, actually; maybe this Friday). Hot oil. Put things in. Take things out. Wick on paper. Epstein didn't kill himself.

>>21426328
>Protip: If your oil gets too close to the smoke point while it's warming up then you can drop an ice cube in to quickly reduce the temperature
GEG

>>21426382
everywhere in the world people fry foods

>>21426382
At least if you are doing it at home it's not the oil from a fast food joint that's been cooked in for a week without changing.

But yes it's unhealthy, if I fry something it's in pork lard or beef tallow, never with seed oils or from a fast food restaurant.

this>>21426320
was lightly shallow fried in pork lard

transfer the panko deep frying chikun technique, I'm ready

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>>21426464
I see the excellence in there, pls gib method

>>21426468
Nothing special, just a 3 step panko breading. First you coat in seasoned flour, then dip in the eggs mixture and then in the panko crumbs, press them and coat them thoroughly in the panko (buy a good quality panko).

Shallow fried on medium heat in a stainless steel pan with pork lard (in this case). When they turn golden to slightly deep golden brown they are ready.

Enjoy ;)

>>21426477
appreciated and saved, good to see some coo/ck/ing advice in here

It's simple, though generally not worth the effort. You could get a dedicated fryer, even a small one like a fry daddy, which are pretty convenient. I've found shallow frying in a high rimmed pan is almost always as good and uses much less oil.

>>21426315 (OP)
It makes your house smell. If you decide to deep fry do not buy a dedicated deep fryer. Dutch ovens are way better, aren't as messy and hold heat. I have both and my dedicated deep fryer just sits in storage

>>21426353
t. plumbing company owner who doesn't have to fix the results of this nigger behavior and only profits from it

>>21426339
This is my experience. Doable but not worth it for most people most of the time. Lots of oil. Lots of mess.

>>21426315 (OP)
>stinks
>messy
>leaves an oily film everywhere
>clean up is a chore
It isn’t worth it

>>21426315 (OP)
Not hard. I use a little pot full of oil and make nuggets with cubed chicken breast. Pretty good. But its a mess.

>>21426326
no, you are oil

Protip
Do it outside where it wont stink up your house and it doeznt matter if it catches fire

i got one of those basket fryers from my brother for free (he didnt even use it once) and while its cool to deep fry stuff its so much work
breaded chicken and fries for example, you prepare the batter, coat it and then you have to wait for 15min for 1-2 pieces that fit in there
want some fries with that? fuck you, decent fries need to be fried twice
so just for chicken + fries youre looking at ~25min cooking time alone for a small batch, meaning for you its ok but if you got any more people youll need another 25min in between batches
cleaning everything is a bitch, if you set the fryer up outside you only need to clean the thing itself, if you fry inside EVERYTHING will smell of what you fried for a long time
then you need to let the oil cool down, filter it, funnel it back and store it somewhere it doesnt go bad

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this thread is a perfect example of how gay and bad at cooking the board is. these posters make it sound like cooking with nuclear waste. how can you call yourself a cook if you don't have the ability to deep fry something?

>>21427669
start with a deep, tall, stovetop vessel with a glass lid with a metal centralized handle
fill with oil. i don't care what oil as long as you have a lid on it

>>21426315 (OP)
There's generally no need to get out a huge heavy pot and waste a gallon of oil to make small batches of boneless fried chicken

Butterfly some chicken breasts, pound them out, put maybe an inch of oil in a cast iron, and shallow fry.

I do a buttermilk brine -> spiced flour -> brine -> panko -> shallow fry every week, takes maybe 2 minutes a side

I do all my frying outside on my back porch with a portable induction plate and a cast iron dutch oven. That way I don't get grease mist all over my kitchen.

>>21427669
>decent fries need to be fried twice
Blanch-fry them first and set them aside, fry your chicken then finish the fries while the chicken rests. EZ

Just use a pot with a smaller diameter, then you get the needed depth with less oil.
>>21426339
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9IsNRpZyEc [Embed]

>>21428052
I do this if weather permits. It's nice.

>>21426315 (OP)
It’s easy but also easy to fuck up hard. Learn what a grease fire is, how it’s caused, and how to put it out. The easiest safest way to extinguish an oil fire is to blast it with piss

>>21426315 (OP)
get a little electric deep fryer and set it up on your back porch on a little table and fry.
All the stink and spatter stay out side that way.

>>21428070
>click link
>it's THAT guy, the child molester
lol of course it is

>>21426315 (OP)
Watch King Cobra’s French Fry Incident video to see why you shouldn’t deep fry at home.

>>21429978
>>it's THAT guy, the child molester
Explain?

>>21426315 (OP)
Alton Brown did a fried chicken episode, and it was in a slightly deeper cast iron pan known as a "fryer" and he used an oil splatter screen, as well. If you aren't using a electric fryer with a thermostat, a thick bottom le crueset or cast iron helps you manage the heat changes in the oil when food goes in and out. Another bonus of a dark cast iron is there is more browning as you turn the chicken pieces over. I often shallow fry items in cast iron for this reason. Want delicious fried green tomatoes, okra, or latke, cast iron is the secret. Perfect chicken fried steaks, cast iron.

>>21426328
Lmao

>>21426353
Yeah, you think that's clever because it's bad for plumbing but liquid oil doesn't matter. It's only lard or tallow or bacon grease that solidifies when cooled that's a problem. And none of you retarded troll faggots have that and wouldn't dump it down a drain.
So fuck off.

>>21427802
Back in ye olde medieval times, defenders of a castle would sometimes pour boiling hot oil on attackers to great effect. Granted, probably weren't using peanut oil tho LOL

>>21426478
What's with the image? Crying, stuttering... I don't understand why you people represent yourselves as timid, antisocial people who can't handle speaking assertively without losing control of your emotions.
Almost as bad as the frogposting incel you're replying to. What a strange collective we have here.

>>21430050
Oil doesn't boil or bubble when heated. It remains still until moisture is added. Oil may be liquid but it's not moisture. There's no water to become agitated with heat.
Therefore 'boiling oil' is an oxymoron only employed by the dimmest of anons.
But now you've been educated, so one less person out there making that mistake. Pass it on.

>>21426326
What's the corn starch for exactly? Rubbing off cooked oil? Most annoying part is the crevices in the frying basket.

>>21430047
I have $80 worth of tallow.
It's not really a flavor improvement. Not worse though. It does get to 190C which is higher than seed oils so that means it cooks faster and absorbs less.
Don't be a rent seeking parasite and it won't be a problem.

>>21426315 (OP)
Don't waste your time. Making any sort of crumbed chicken at home isn't worth it. There's a lot of wastage. There is just too much egg flour and oil left over. And the end product is not as good as most fast food places

>>21430134
>Don't cook. Just buy more fast food!

Kill yourself, faggot.

>>21430147
Don't be a single brain-celled organism. I didn't say Don't cook. I said that it's a waste of time and money making crumbed chicken at home

>>21429921
Homemade potato chips tastes 10x's better that store bought, btw.

>>21427674

not very, you don't even need much oil
>>>/wsg/5909581

>>21430308
How is the stargazer cast iron? I've been interested in purchasing one.

>>21430360
it's great, never had to season it or anything, just rinse, wipe it out, dry, and put on heat for 2-3 mins to make sure it's dry-dry
easy to get a beautiful sear too

>>21426315 (OP)
its really not worth it, it stinks up the place, oil stains, getting rid of oil etc
thats why i switched to airfry its not as perfect but good enough and better than anything not deep fried