/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>9815509
400F. I think I may have needed to cook both fish and fries for much, much longer to actually get them to crisp up despite getting about 20 minutes and 30 minutes respectively. The oven just didn’t get the oil hot enough despite appearances. The fish itself was cooked and fork-tender, but the batter was limp and soggy. Same story for the fries. I tried dumping some Worcestershire on this to make it more appealing but it literally just beaded off everything because there was so much fucking grease. Only thing left to do is throw out the remnants, clean up, get drunk, pass out, get up, and go to my dead-end retail job for 8 hours. Goodnight anons, I hope you at least got a laugh out of this.

>>9815444
Last time I tried that I nearly started a grease fire and coated every surface of my kitchen in a gross film of grease.

>>9815480
I regret everything. Never worked in food service and I don’t plan on it at least.

>>9815484
>>9815484
Last time I fried something in this much oil on the stove it coated every surface of my kitchen in a gross film of grease. I thought maybe this would be a good compromise. Fuck fried shit, from now on I only boil, bake, and grill.

>>9815416
The only thing bigger than my disappointment in myself is my disgust. Especially because I’m about to eat this abortion of a meal because there’s nothing else to eat in the apartment. Grease adheres to it like glue, for what reason I do not know. Never again. Never again.

>>9815388
Attenpted to flip, failed spectacularly. Batter stuck to te bottom of the pan. Fuck me in the ass this always fucking happens when I try to fry shit.

>>9815373
I dunno man I’ve never done this before, that’s why I said I’m experimenting. Looks greasy as fuck and limp to me too. Fish frying, good batter cohesion at least.

>>9815276
Fries done. Cooked about 20 minutes. Adding more oil and doing the fish.

>>9815294
I have no idea who this is.

>>9815075
>>9815279
Does this cat count? He eats out of the trashcan sometimes.

>>9815200
Fries fryin. This is a good method so far.

>>9815175
Fries drying, oil heating, and oven heating too. I figured since I don’t want to make a huge mess and this is only a shallow fry, I’ll heat the oil on the stovetop but transfer to the oven once everything is in. Probably going to do the fries first though.

>>9815169
Pic forgotten.

>>9815150
Batter all mixed, and additional flour prepped to dust the fish before battering. Now to heat the oil.

>>9815135
Fries are boiling, gonna drain now.

>>9815102
Half a cup of whole wheat flour, a teaspoon baking powder, a bunch of spices I didn’t measure(cayenne, black pepper, salt, onion powder, paprika, and parsley), 1 egg, and beer. Dry ingredients mixed here.

>>9815091
Guest appearance by my good buddy, Al Cohol. Never tried this particular beer before, so now I’m gonna see if I like the taste enough to batter fish with it. The answer is yes, citrusy and hoppy but not overbearing. Hopefully should liven up the flavor.

>>9815078
Bringing them to a boil with some salted water, going to take them out once they cook a bit then dry and season them in preparation for frying. In the meantime, we make our batter. Some part of me is saying “no bring the water to a boil first”, but I’m ignoring it for now.

>>9815066
Cold water rinse.

>>9815036
Fries have been cut, which I’m just going to call fries because I cut them fairly thin compared to what they call chips across the Atlantic.

Hey /ck/. I’m snowed in today and I was hungover most of the afternoon so now I’m finally ready to cook dinner. I’ve decided to experiment by doing a dish I’ve never tried to make myself, fish and chips. For your information I am an American, but fried fish is far from unheard of around these parts. I’ve taken a swai fillet, cut it in half, and soaked it in buttermilk. I’ve also semi-peeled these Klondike goldust potatoes and dug the eyes out, because I like a little skin on my fries/chips. My plan is to beer-batter the fish and fry everything up in some shallow oil in my skillet there.

>>9809993
Not a bad suggestion, thanks anon.

>>9809740
I don’t own one nor do I have the space or money for one.

>>9807660
Actually I’m of the opinion that you should never use creamed corn to make cornbread, and that you should use no more than a teaspoon of sugar at the very most. Cornbread is a savory bread.

>>9807611
Certainly. Maybe I’ll post a thread about making actual cornbread in the near future. I’ve always wanted to do it in a skillet, as much as I love cornbread muffins. Spoiler: I have very strong opinions about how much sugar there should be in cornbread.

>>9807568
Second loaf was much the same.

>>9807452
I’m the anon that posted this thread >>9805338 earlier and I never got around to posting the crumbshots before it was archived. The results where disappointing, probably should have proofed longer.