For a time I operated in a corner store as a clerk and cook and I used a deep fryer a fair bit for cooking battered chicken and French fried potatoes.
Of course the chicken does not begin out damaged. It comes provided frozen in huge cardboard boxes. Prior to the chicken is all set for the cooking part it must be prepared and time to thaw out. Each piece of chicken is rinsed in cold water, then put in a vat of tenderising, salted water to soak for numerous hours in a cooled location. It is once again rinsed and kept cold, till required for cooking.
Each piece is than carefully positioned in the boiling oil in the deep fryer; starting with the big, meaty pieces, and ending up with the thin bony pieces. They get the most popular oil in the pot to start off the cooking procedure. The pot elevator will immediately raise the cooking basket out of the hot oil, enabling the chicken to leak off the excess oil.
The deep fryer likewise cooks French fried potatoes. After cutting the potatoes into the lengthened cube shape in a cutter, the french fries are battered, dipped and damaged again. They then can be gently lowered in hands complete, into the boiling oil. The cooking is once again controlled by a timer, which sounds when the cooking cycle has actually completed. After 4 cooks the oil in the fryer has to be filtered to clean it for future cooking cycles. When oil filtering needs to take place, another alarm indicates.
The heat on the oil is turned off, so the oil can cool down enough to work with. When the oil has actually drained pipes the empty oil reservoir is brushed, including the heating coil component, to eliminate anything sticking to their surfaces. When the oil has ended up being lighter in color it is pumped back up to the oil tank, after the valve at the bottom of the pot has been closed.
Yes the fryer does most of the cooking for you but watch out for the hot oil when filling the food into the cooking basket. Even wearing rubber gloves won't here stop the oil from burning you, should it sprinkle on your hands as the food drops into the hot oil.
Happy cooking. Cook, but do not be cooked.
The pot elevator will automatically raise the cooking basket out of the hot oil, allowing the chicken to drip off the excess oil.
The heat on the oil is turned off, so the oil can cool down enough to work with. When the oil has actually drained the empty oil reservoir is brushed, including the heating coil aspect, to remove anything sticking to their surfaces. When the oil has actually ended up being lighter in color it is pumped back up to the oil reservoir, after the valve at the bottom of the pot has been closed. Even using rubber gloves will not stop the oil from burning you, needs to it splash on your hands as the food drops into the hot oil.