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Picked up a real deep fryer a few days back. I have always wanted one. I have always found frying difficult to do well, and it's a lot of work unless you have a machine that holds the oil between sessions.

I filled up with peanut oil because I read that other oils pick up too much flavor from food. I made fried chicken and hush puppies. The chicken stuck to the fryer baskets and didn't cook well, and the recipe was not right. I took the hush puppy recipe from Southern Living, figuring they ought to know, but it had way too much flour in it, it was too wet, and it needed sugar and more onions. I fixed the recipe.

INGREDIENTS

3/4 cup cornmeal mix (self-rising)
1/4 cup self-rising flour
1 tsp. salt
1 large egg
1/2 cup buttermilk
1-1/4 cups finely-chopped onion
1/2 tbsp. sugar

Best to hold back on the buttermilk until you see what you have. You want the batter pretty stiff, so you may not want to use an entire half-cup.

Couple of days ago, I tried again. My wife said it was the best fried chicken she had had since moving to the US. The hush puppies were perfect. Personally, I thought the chicken was a little too salty and needed more heat, so I'll fix that.

The fryer is wonderful. It's way overpowered, so heat is not an issue. It fries very evenly. You can put a lot of food in it. The crumbs fall into a lower area where the oil is not hot, and you can just leave them there.

These things are somewhat expensive, but when you consider what something stupid like a washing machine costs, it becomes obvious what one's priorities should be.

I could have gotten a commercial unit for similar money, but they're really heavy. The down side of this one is that it has no thermostat, so if you pass out while barbecuing, your house burns down. It's a Bayou Classic.

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