foodpreparationtechniques
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You’re Frying Your Chicken in the Wrong Oil
Many foods can be fried to excellent results — pickles, potatoes, little nuggets of cheese — but nothing fries quite like chicken. When it’s at its best, fried chicken is hot and juicy on the inside and craggy and crunchy on the outside. It’s not hard to fry chicken, but it is time consuming, and…
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How to Drain Greasy Food When You’re Out of Paper Towels
Fried foods are comfort foods. But holding onto that just-fried crunch is a precarious dance of wicking off oil and allowing the food to cool on a rack without steaming itself soggy before dinnertime. The conventional method is to use half a roll of paper towels to absorb excess oil, but what if your roll…