Thread: Fried Chicken.

I insist that my wife uses lard to fry my chicken!YUMMMM!!!!!!

The truth about any fried chicken made by an old southern woman is that, even if there was a recipe, it wouldn't taste the same. The ingredients could be exactly the same, but the lack of the southern female touch will make it taste different. I promise.

Typically though, a good place to start is flour, butter, milk, spices, and crisco. Mix it up so you can put a solid coat of the batter on it. Drop it in a frying pan and hope for the best Google could be very helpful here.

Fried chicken, like anything else fried, is something I have to stay away from. I absolutely love the stuff. I'm entirely addicted to anything fried, and once I start, I have a hard time stopping. It's easier to just not eat it sadly.

Fried Chicken and waffles!!!!!!! it just doesn't get any better!!!

Originally Posted by sicboater

I can feel my arteries slowly turning into candles.


-Rob

That's fantastic! gonna use that quote next time somebody gives me grief about eating bacon.

Originally Posted by sicboater

First: @ chady: No one here means any disrespect. I hope to introduce you to real fried chicken one day. It would be my honor.

@ Del1r1um: there was no recipe. I stood and watched ingredients fly into the dredge at random, the chicken it self soaked in egg and milk was thus introduced to the ambrosia this woman's skilled senses had created. I can say this, it was fried in melted crisco with butter added. Salt and pepper were surely part of the mix, but, even having witnessed the proceeding, all I can say for certain is that the "recipe," should it actually be written, would simply say: "Fry chicken, to taste". A beautiful improvisation the likes of which I will be lucky to witness twice in my life.

I can feel my arteries slowly turning into candles.


-Rob

No recipe!... now I know that it was legit fried chicken for sure.. I can never get a recipe from any of the southern experts because none of them ever use one! man, now I am really jealous.

While I like to crunch into whole pieces of fried chicken, if I could find a place that would just sell me a box of fried chichen skins I'd be a happy man. With a thick crunchy batter like Williams Chicken makes.
Better yet would be a box of fried chicken skins and a side of corn fritters.
Ernest

This may sound like sacrilege to some here (my 'pologies to y'all) but, like a great many things, I feel the Japanese took something good (i.e. Fried Chicken) and made it PERFECT. (Japanese Potato chips, BTW, put the rest of the world to FREAKING SHAME. Bacon and egg flavor? Garlic Fried Chicken? Korean Barbecue??? I mean COME ON!!!)

The Fried chicken in Japan is just amazing. Subtle spicing (maybe some ginger, maybe some soy, maybe some sesame...) and, like always, the attention to detail (make sure the chicken has some fat on it to prevent drying, make sure the oil is high quality and fresh, etc.) make for fried chicken that I could happily eat every day for the rest of my life.

And chalk me down for a KFC fan...love it, in occasional doses. Though again, that might be a Japanese thing, cause the last time I had it in the states it was cold and stale and dry.

But big...boy was it big.

I celebrated my Independance Day independantly becaue the boss isattending a family reunion way down in Cairo, Georgia: http://www.mapquest.com/maps?city=Cairo&state=GA I can only imagine that southern food just rollin' out. Chicken, mac n' cheese, collards, fried okra, rice and sausage, white gravy. Damn, now I'm wishing I went with her.