>>21558330 (OP)
my favorite fried chicken comes from chick-fil-a and chinese restaurants and they both use peanut oil but it doesn't really matter as long as it's neutral. My favorite southern fried chicken is from Winn Dixie and they use a corn and sunflower blend allegedly.
>>21558330 (OP)
Haven't used lard. Tallow can heat to higher temperature than seed oils so cooks faster and things spend less time absorbing oil. The oil itself doesn't specifically taste any better.
Otherwise I use corn oil.
>>21558467
I always have a 10lb pork lard container in my freezer. Pork lard is by far the best choice and is what grandmama used for everything. Seed oils were not even a thought to her.
>>21558387
I think I would need to have a second bowl of dredging mixture intentionally made clumpy because no amount of flour layers is going to be thick and clumps aren't going to form just making a couple pieces.
>>21558476
Based
Lard is king. It's for some reason by far the cheapest option here too, even cheaper than seed oils and I can buy it in smaller quantities