Mon, Sep-09-02, 16:48
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Posts: 134
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Plan: atkins
Stats: 325/243/150
BF:
Progress: 47%
Location: Seattle
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frying chicken
I read somewhere else on the lc forums about MCT oil and coconut oil. I don't know the science but mct oil and coconut oil are sorta newly discovered good oils for cooking. Ferrando, someone on the lc forum who sure sounds like he knows what he's talking abut, says coconut oil is the ideal to cook with. He is pretty opposed to cooking w/olive oil, with scientific reasoning. Something about good fats and bad fats.
I have never fried anything but, having a curious mind, I went out looking for coconut oil and mct oil. Coconut oil does not come in a liquid: it stays pretty solidified, looking like a jar of fat. That sure sounds like it would be good lard for frying and the coconut oil is good foryou. The MCT oil (the letters stand for something: look on the net, it is interesting) is liquid and more familiar to us and good for cooking.
Anyway. I've written a lot of mumbo jumbo. Try coconut oil for your chicken.
When I was a little girl, the first thing I learned how to cook all by myself was "oven fried chicken", kind of like a homemade shake and bake. I never acquired a taste for fried chicken. I don't think my mom ever cooked a meal fried in something so that's probably why I grew up never frying myself. I like the occasional piece of fried chicken but at home it has always been and is always going to be some kinda baked chicken.
Pork rinds work, I am sure the baking mix from atkins would work but I have discovered carb free hot sauce. Now I douse my chicken in hot sauce and bake. Gosh it is good.
If you've got a thing for fried chicken, you gotta find something that works. Try coconut oil. sorry for the ramblings.
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