Thread: Fried Chicken.

Gentlemen. I type before you a man humbled. My wife's mother (a woman of the old south in Atlanta) has just made fried chicken for me.


Now I may die.


That is all I can say.


-Rob

What, no pics? E-smells? Inquiring orifices have to know!

Mac

Southern fried chicken ? I should have eaten before getting on the forum. Now, can you send a wing or two over to Jersey !

Die because of the deep fired fat or due to the taste? =)

We don't really have a tradition for deepfried food here in Denmark other than fries. But I have had KFC once over in London and I think we have a one store that sells deep fried chicken here in Århus (just over 300k population) but I haven't tried them.

The KFC stuff was nice enough, so I can imagine that with the added attention food often get when done on a non-commercial level it would be quite alright

Chady,

Proper fried chicken is to KFC what a fine steak is to McDonalds "meat" or fine properly aged bordeaux is to "wine" made from fruit juice in a garbage bag in a prison toilet. It is a thing of beauty.
Interesting that this is mentioned today, as I had my first fried chicken today in a number of years. It was dissapointing, but not too awful. I must find some acceptable fried chicken one of these days.

Yes, Smokelaw is correct. KFC is about the most vile tasting version of fried chicken I have ever tasted. I flat refuse to eat it. It tastes like a combination of acid reflux and rancid grease. I can't understand how they can wreck it so completly, actually. I mean, it's fried chicken for cryin' out loud.

Originally Posted by joesixpack

Yes, Smokelaw is correct. KFC is about the most vile tasting version of fried chicken I have ever tasted. I flat refuse to eat it. It tastes like a combination of acid reflux and rancid grease. I can't understand how they can wreck it so completly, actually. I mean, it's fried chicken for cryin' out loud.

I also agree with smokelaw but I think you are over stating the case a bit there Joe.

I was raised on KFC. It's edible...somewhat, but I much prefer the home made variety!!!

Anyone here ever have smothered chicken? MMMmmm Heavenly!

Few things are as great as properly done fried chicken. Sicboater, do you think you could get your hands on a recipe? I've been chasing the perfect recipe for some time, and so far I am not satisfied.

I too will eat KFC, I miss the days though when the mashed potatoes and gravy were available in the big size.

I 3rd or 4th what smokelaw said. for Chady, fried chicken isn't just about the frying, which is actually important in itself (type of grease, deep or pan etc) but about what its breaded in. is egg wash used, with milk? buttermilk? corn meal and flour or just flour. sald and pepper only or other seasonings also?

And that's just the fried chicken!!! now you've got to have the right sidekicks. either really good bisquits, (I have a killer buttermilk biscuit recipe around here somewhere) or homemade cornbread (I make my cornbread sweet, and very buttery, but other like it non sweet). and if you do that cornbread in a cast iron skillet, WHOA! now we're in business. personally I like honey butter with my bisquit or cornbread. my dad growing up they always had fresh bisquits with a pat of butter and then caro syrup on top. he was half italian half okie (1/2 irish 1/2 cherokee, his mom's family came from oklahoma during the dustbowl era). every other sunday was fried chicken with the maternal side. alternates were pasta with paternal.

OH, and mashed potatoes with gravy or beans, gotta have something like that with it too. damn.

it's been a while since I had proper fried chicken, I'm so glad I already ate before reading this. I can't wait for the chicken fried steak thread.

Red

Originally Posted by Del1r1um

Few things are as great as properly done fried chicken. Sicboater, do you think you could get your hands on a recipe? I've been chasing the perfect recipe for some time, and so far I am not satisfied.

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