Cafeteria at work is usually pretty good but today I had macaroni and cheese and fried chicken and they managed to **** both up. How the hell do you **** up fried chicken?

Boil it.

It actually kinda seemed that way.

What was wrong with the chicken?

Hard to tell. It just sucked.

Actually it's pretty damn easy to **** it up.

- using the wrong type of oil - or using old oil
- not letting the chicken come to room temperature before breading and cooking it
- not having the oil at the right temperature
- overcrowding the pan/pot/deep fryer
- letting it drain on paper towels
- not starting with good quality bird
- cooking the various parts (drums, breasts, thighs) the same amount of time

Quite a few more.

Some of these are not fuck ups imo.

You are using new oil every time you do fried chicken?

EDIT: I agree it's easy to mess up though. It's going to take anyone a few goes before getting it right.

Forgot to include accidentally frying pork chops instead of chicken. Happens to me all the time.

Which ones? Nah you don't have to change the oil each batch but if you are a cafeteria pretty much cooking the **** all day long you have to change it out once in a while. Costs money so some places will hold off until the chicken tastes like ****.

Re: The Bird

Depending on where you buy, there's some pretty sad chickens out there. KFC uses **** bird but they cover it up with so much salt and spices it masks the meat flavor quite a bit.

The bolded but I have also drained on tissue paper before. I can't be bothered to use a rack all the time and a plate with tissue is quicker.

Thought you meant you needed to use clean oil every time. I use it several times, just keep it in a bottle. Wait for it to cool then use one of them plastic cones and pour it in and store for next time.

Oh yeah pretty much anywhere that sells fried chicken here is going to be using poor quality stuff. I just use supermarket stuff.