I think it's about time I made some fried chicken

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I have a cast iron skillet, a lid for skillet, some corn oil and a cut-up chicken (he's very funny indeed). What else do I need? I need a plan.

― lawrence kansas (lawrence kansas), Monday, 10 March 2003 16:44 (twenty-one years ago) link

for batter i recommend starting with either corn meal or corn flakes

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 10 March 2003 16:48 (twenty-one years ago) link

You need WAFFLES and MAPLE SYRUP [thinned with chicken stock]

― phil-two (phil-two), Monday, 10 March 2003 17:16 (twenty-one years ago) link

BATTER! This is getting complicated.

― lawrence kansas (lawrence kansas), Monday, 10 March 2003 17:17 (twenty-one years ago) link

Just make sure your entire apartment fills with smoke, if it doesn't you're doing something wrong.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 10 March 2003 18:59 (twenty-one years ago) link

Maybe you should just go buy shake and bake instead.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Monday, 10 March 2003 19:10 (twenty-one years ago) link

I will set a course for KFC. May the wind be at my back.

― lawrence kansas (lawrence kansas), Monday, 10 March 2003 19:13 (twenty-one years ago) link

: (

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 10 March 2003 19:13 (twenty-one years ago) link

gygax! It's not you it's me. It's all for the best. I'm sorry.

― lawrence kansas (lawrence kansas), Monday, 10 March 2003 19:17 (twenty-one years ago) link

KFC = no smoke-filled apartment = you are doing something wrong!!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 10 March 2003 19:20 (twenty-one years ago) link

Usually when I make up my mind I am immovable (like Dom Deluise) but the outpouring of irrefutable logic and sad emoticons has caused me to reconsider.

― lawrence kansas (lawrence kansas), Monday, 10 March 2003 19:28 (twenty-one years ago) link

Dip the chicken first in a wet batter mix of whipped egg & buttermilk, then into a dry batter mix of corn meal, flour, and spices. Make sure your oil is good and hot (approx. 350 degrees) before you put the chicken in. Open a window (if you got one) and turn on a fan (again, if you got one). Good luck!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 10 March 2003 19:38 (twenty-one years ago) link

I'm sorry that's not a proper recipe, I'm at working and just kinda rattling off the steps I go through (I fry chicken about 1nce a week).

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 10 March 2003 19:39 (twenty-one years ago) link

: )

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 10 March 2003 19:40 (twenty-one years ago) link

You need WAFFLES and MAPLE SYRUP [thinned with chicken stock]

Oh YUM, like at Roscoe's Chicken & Waffles with the buckwheat waffles, yum.

― felicity (felicity), Monday, 10 March 2003 20:35 (twenty-one years ago) link

three years pass...

someone next door is eating FRIED CHICKEN and i'm hungry

unfortunately there is NO WHERE TO GET FRIED CHICKEN at this time of day in this town

drat!

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 00:42 (seventeen years ago) link

I eat at the Crown Fried Chicken at least twice per week.

― electro-acoustic lycanthrope (orion), Thursday, 15 June 2006 01:34 (seventeen years ago) link

it's all roast chicken round these parts. which is... OK, but I really could do with some fried chicken option that isn't KFC.

― guns to deal with vodka (haitch), Thursday, 15 June 2006 01:54 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah, roast chicken around here too, with the potatoes sitting at the bottom of the roasters getting flavoured with chicken fat. pretty good. i should eat it more often. tonight i ate chicken curry though!

http://static.flickr.com/64/167438140_fd42ed62f9.jpg

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Thursday, 15 June 2006 02:04 (seventeen years ago) link

unfortunately there is NO WHERE TO GET FRIED CHICKEN ~~at this time of day~~ in this town

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 15 June 2006 02:05 (seventeen years ago) link

fuckin' kfc couldn't even survive here

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 15 June 2006 02:05 (seventeen years ago) link

can taco bell?? time will tell. taco time.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Thursday, 15 June 2006 02:20 (seventeen years ago) link

rrrobyn, i just had chicken curry, too! but it was green curry, and i didn't make it.

they have fried chicken around here that is not breaded. very tender. but it leaves you missing the breading.

― tehresa, who will here remain anonymous (tehresa), Thursday, 15 June 2006 02:26 (seventeen years ago) link

green curry is so good and so hot. i have been making thai red curry lately, but this time it was indian, but i put in some coconut milk. i have no shame in my melding of the "asian foods." it's pretty much all i want and all i eat. seriously. like, i'm enjoying the idea of fried chicken, but would only truly crave/WANT it if the batter were spiced + some kind of hot dipping sauce to dip it in.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Thursday, 15 June 2006 02:36 (seventeen years ago) link

or if there were a bucket of it right in front of me.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Thursday, 15 June 2006 02:48 (seventeen years ago) link

What town are you in, Am.? If it's Madison, I'll give you the fried chicken hook-up.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 15 June 2006 03:01 (seventeen years ago) link

you bastards, now i'm hungry for KFC

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 15 June 2006 08:42 (seventeen years ago) link

I thought this was a Ken C thread.

― marianna lcl (marianna lcl), Thursday, 15 June 2006 08:51 (seventeen years ago) link

haha me too!

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 15 June 2006 08:59 (seventeen years ago) link

Robyn, Indian curries can have coconut milk in them too - and on the other side, don't forget the Thai Massaman (Muslim) curries with potato and thick yellow sauce.

I almost bought one of those boxes of Marks and Spencer fried chicken that you bake at home. Needs corn on the cob with lots of butter and a dusting of sweet paprika/salt/pepper on the buttered corn.

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 15 June 2006 09:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Aw, now I want fried chicken too, but I've already defrosted tonight's dinner :(

― melton mowbray's APOCALYPTO! (adr), Thursday, 15 June 2006 10:19 (seventeen years ago) link

update: i just ate a KFC and it was awesome. and the lady there was smiley and nice. yay!

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 15 June 2006 11:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Ok, I'm getting Popeye's for lunch. Popeye's is only good in south Louisiana--anywhere else it's like Long John Silver's or something.

― adam (adam), Thursday, 15 June 2006 11:19 (seventeen years ago) link

― Offisa Pump (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 15 June 2006 11:58 (seventeen years ago) link

I was just thinking of frying some chicken the other night.

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Thursday, 15 June 2006 12:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Anywhere else it's like KFC or something.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 15 June 2006 12:09 (seventeen years ago) link

I had so much fried chicken when i was in los angeles a few months ago. i ate at some fast food restaurant called pollo campero which was TOTALLY AMAZING! and roscoe's fried chicken and waffles, too! i gained like 9 pounds in 3 days.

i could go for some fried chicken SKIN.

― i've dreamt of rubies! (Mandee), Thursday, 15 June 2006 12:15 (seventeen years ago) link

skin is the best bit!

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 15 June 2006 12:18 (seventeen years ago) link

Yesterday the supermarket near my house had chicken legs on sale for like 24 for $5, I am totally marinating them in soy sauce & molasses & garlic for 12 hours and then frying them tonight.

― mummy wrapped in bacon (nickalicious), Thursday, 15 June 2006 12:30 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm STARVING now. Somehow I've only managed to eat a few cherries and a nectarine today. I might go get Perfect Chicken tonight.

― marianna lcl (marianna lcl), Thursday, 15 June 2006 14:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Well this is timely as I made chicken last night. Saute thighs in oil until brown, remove oil, add coconut milk and curry, simmer.

― laurence kansas (lawrence kansas), Thursday, 15 June 2006 15:53 (seventeen years ago) link

You can make some decentish fried-type chicken without doing hardly anything, actually -- just fill a nice deep pan with even a half inch of oil, plop some bits in, and roll them over and around for a while. (Drumsticks obviously best.) Roll the suckers in cornmeal and yr chosen spices if you want to step it up a little. But just quick and easy pan-frying some chicken parts -- that's kind of the basic kitchen quick-dinner classic here, surely. The process isn't so elegant, but the results are totally tasty, and a bit cleaner and lighter than the batter-shelled super-fried chicken you usually get -- more like a batter-dipped mega-chicken crossbred with a regular roasted chicken.

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 15 June 2006 16:05 (seventeen years ago) link

This isn't very authentic, but I find I get very good results by baking my "fried" chicken. There's more than enough fat in the skin - just pierce each piece about 30 times, and the fat will come out and be absorbed by your coating.

I usually make a coating using a lot of flower, some salt, pepper, onion powder, garlic powder and whatever dried herbs I have lying around (which I can crush up in a morter), maybe some dried paprika for extra colour and put in into a very large bowl.

Next step, pierce the skin about 30 times, and put the chicken into water. Take a piece of chicken and put it into the coating mixture and shake around until covered. Next - and this is the important pit - put it back into the water for a split second, and then put it back into the mixture before finally putting it onto your baking tray. This will ensure you get a nice thick coating . After you've done about 10 prices your hands will be completetly gunged up with goo, but the results will be worth it! Bake for about 40 minutes at 200 degrees (celsius), make some homemade coleslaw, and have some rice with it to pretend it's a healthy dish.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Friday, 16 June 2006 11:51 (seventeen years ago) link

Use one hand for wet dipping and a different for flour dipping and you can avoid the goo. breadcrumbs are also good for oven-fried chicken.

Real fried-chicken should be dipped in egg/milk mix then dredged in flour/spice mix. yum.

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Friday, 16 June 2006 11:54 (seventeen years ago) link

KFC sued in US over cooking fats

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Friday, 16 June 2006 11:57 (seventeen years ago) link

And I thought it was the Colonel's love that made my hands and face shiny!

― A Giant Mechanical Ant (The Giant Mechanical Ant), Friday, 16 June 2006 12:18 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm sure Popeye's is better in S. LA than elsewhere, but regardless here in Austin at least it's still preferable to KFC.

Course, with all the Katrina Fugees around, there are better options all over the place anyhoo.

― 100% CHAMPS with a Yes! Attitude. (Austin, Still), Friday, 16 June 2006 18:37 (seventeen years ago) link

fourteen years pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YR9BRDRSXQ

― the burrito that defined a generation, Friday, 23 October 2020 02:40 (three years ago) link

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