Deep frying

My family has a traditional holiday food, Baccala, that is only made one or two days a year, usually on Christmas eve/Christmas morning. I often want to have some at other times of the year (such as right now, today), but my mother refuses to make it any other time. So, I decided that I should just break down and make my own. The ingredients for it are available year-round, so the only thing really standing between me and my Baccala is my lack of a deep fryer.

I thought I’d take a gander online to see what was available before I ventured out into the world to see what was on sale in actual brick-and-mortar stores, and … let me show you. I thought I was looking for something small and traditional, like this, and I did eventually find it, and it was the price I expected, but first I found .. well … I found something that … it still doesn’t look like a deep fryer to me, here … and I guess you’re paying for … design. And before I found that normal, cheap one at Amazon, I found this much more expensive one, with … all sorts of interesting features. That one reminds my of my Maytag Neptune washing machine; it tumbles the food over and over in a low volume of fluid & claims that this process is better than the conventional process and uses less raw materials to make crispier, lower-fat foods.

So, I’ll probably either just go down to the local store and buy a $40 cheap fryer, or save up and buy the Maytag Neptune of deep fryers, the Deluxe Cool-Touch Roto Deep Fryer from DeLonghi. Because that’s just how I do things, sometimes.

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Teel

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46 thoughts on “Deep frying”

  1. Does the Maytag Neptune of deep fryers have a companion dryer to get out any left in fat/oil?

  2. Does the Maytag Neptune of deep fryers have a companion dryer to get out any left in fat/oil?

  3. Why bother with all this teel? I deep fry all the time in a standard frying pan, using a fine mesh sieve over the pan to avoid splatters. Works fantastic, or, get a wok and fry in it, and have all the utility of a wok. Like alton brown says, why buy something that only has 1 use, when you can get a deep rimmed frying pan, or wok and have multiple uses from the same item?

  4. Why bother with all this teel? I deep fry all the time in a standard frying pan, using a fine mesh sieve over the pan to avoid splatters. Works fantastic, or, get a wok and fry in it, and have all the utility of a wok. Like alton brown says, why buy something that only has 1 use, when you can get a deep rimmed frying pan, or wok and have multiple uses from the same item?

  5. Something about too many projects and interests and distractions at once. Something about spending the last 4 free hours (over two days, some between calls at work) learning PHP (to redecorate ME) instead of how to deep-fry in a wok. Something about how the cooking thing feels increasingly like one of those things I wish I was doing and wish I was good at and just am not doing. Something about how your innocent comment about cooking smarter makes me sink into the funk that made me write so much the other day, about how it makes me feel like I’m a failure for having looked at fryers at all, let alone thought they were funny enough to comment on. (Something here about how although it sounds like I’m complaining about getting comments, I don’t actually want you to stop commenting, and although my knee-jerk reaction to both of your comments is to censor myself and/or disable comments entirely, that reaction is irrational.) Something about feeling bad about spending money on cooking because I don’t spend time cooking, and feeling bad about not spending time cooking because I feel like I don’t have the right tools. Something about feeling so bad about being overweight and my bad eating habits that I overeat and sustain/encourage my own bad habits and weight. Something about feeling like I don’t deserve to even try to cook well because there are more talented people out there (you included) cooking; I know this is irrational, but I feel it anyway. Something about petty domestic disturbances and other excuses for not doing better with what I have and not applying myself more to achieve what I want.

    I’m feeling so down and “depressed” and self-deprecating right now. I’m feeling something black fighting back on the inside of me. I’m feeling like the world is against me, even when I know that rationally it isn’t the WHOLE world; probably around 70-80% at most. (Which means that a few people are still on my side or apatheic, right?) You might not believe how many people have literally laughed out loud at the suggestion that I could create a song or write a book or create a movie, just within the last week or so. Or how many of them were family and people I tried to consider my friends. After that, I guess my defenses are just up a little too much, because man o man did I read too much into this. I realize you aren’t trying to attack me, that you offered useful feedback at an early stage, possibly saving me from spending unneeded time, money, and efforts on something that can be done better in a way I hadn’t yet considered. I realize that I pretty much said outright that I was just at the beginning stage of even thinking about this, so your suggestion doesn’t really have a boa to rock. I also know that I first saw your response reading as something like “You’re such a fucking moron, Teel! Why do you do everything wrong all the time? How did you get so stupid? You used to show so much promise, why are you still so ignorant of what is so obviously the right way to do things?” … Which is clearly not what you said.

    So, I don’t really have much to offer by way of reasonable explanation for (or even pitiful excuses for) my gut reaction to this, but since this site is all about ME (and by the way, whoever you are, I resent and despise you for signing your comments as “ME”, implying that they came from an official representative of the site instead of some jackass who doesn’t even leave his/her email/web address to identify themselves), I figured it was appropriate for me to take a couple of minutes to share my response.

    There is at least one person out there I know knows me well enough that they understand that sometimes I say/write things about myself and how I’m feeling that have no context/could be taken the wrong way easily/have no place being said/serve no useful purpose/etc… She’ll be reading this, and know something else that went through my head and not try to figure out why I said it except that I want to share ME with YOU.

    Maybe you do, too.

  6. Something about too many projects and interests and distractions at once. Something about spending the last 4 free hours (over two days, some between calls at work) learning PHP (to redecorate ME) instead of how to deep-fry in a wok. Something about how the cooking thing feels increasingly like one of those things I wish I was doing and wish I was good at and just am not doing. Something about how your innocent comment about cooking smarter makes me sink into the funk that made me write so much the other day, about how it makes me feel like I’m a failure for having looked at fryers at all, let alone thought they were funny enough to comment on. (Something here about how although it sounds like I’m complaining about getting comments, I don’t actually want you to stop commenting, and although my knee-jerk reaction to both of your comments is to censor myself and/or disable comments entirely, that reaction is irrational.) Something about feeling bad about spending money on cooking because I don’t spend time cooking, and feeling bad about not spending time cooking because I feel like I don’t have the right tools. Something about feeling so bad about being overweight and my bad eating habits that I overeat and sustain/encourage my own bad habits and weight. Something about feeling like I don’t deserve to even try to cook well because there are more talented people out there (you included) cooking; I know this is irrational, but I feel it anyway. Something about petty domestic disturbances and other excuses for not doing better with what I have and not applying myself more to achieve what I want.

    I’m feeling so down and “depressed” and self-deprecating right now. I’m feeling something black fighting back on the inside of me. I’m feeling like the world is against me, even when I know that rationally it isn’t the WHOLE world; probably around 70-80% at most. (Which means that a few people are still on my side or apatheic, right?) You might not believe how many people have literally laughed out loud at the suggestion that I could create a song or write a book or create a movie, just within the last week or so. Or how many of them were family and people I tried to consider my friends. After that, I guess my defenses are just up a little too much, because man o man did I read too much into this. I realize you aren’t trying to attack me, that you offered useful feedback at an early stage, possibly saving me from spending unneeded time, money, and efforts on something that can be done better in a way I hadn’t yet considered. I realize that I pretty much said outright that I was just at the beginning stage of even thinking about this, so your suggestion doesn’t really have a boa to rock. I also know that I first saw your response reading as something like “You’re such a fucking moron, Teel! Why do you do everything wrong all the time? How did you get so stupid? You used to show so much promise, why are you still so ignorant of what is so obviously the right way to do things?” … Which is clearly not what you said.

    So, I don’t really have much to offer by way of reasonable explanation for (or even pitiful excuses for) my gut reaction to this, but since this site is all about ME (and by the way, whoever you are, I resent and despise you for signing your comments as “ME”, implying that they came from an official representative of the site instead of some jackass who doesn’t even leave his/her email/web address to identify themselves), I figured it was appropriate for me to take a couple of minutes to share my response.

    There is at least one person out there I know knows me well enough that they understand that sometimes I say/write things about myself and how I’m feeling that have no context/could be taken the wrong way easily/have no place being said/serve no useful purpose/etc… She’ll be reading this, and know something else that went through my head and not try to figure out why I said it except that I want to share ME with YOU.

    Maybe you do, too.

  7. I’ve been motivated lately to do some work on the What’s for Dinner part of ME. You wanna do it with me? (or do you want to let me even add imput there?) I’ve been trying to put together cost efficient/healthy meals (that don’t involve a fryer at all) for myself. And since I’m a moron who can stand in front of a fridge full of food and not see anything to make, I thought it might be helpful.

    Also, I lost my wedding invitation. Can you tell me where the wedding is? And any other information that seems relevant? I’m going to do a million things now, see you later.

  8. I’ve been motivated lately to do some work on the What’s for Dinner part of ME. You wanna do it with me? (or do you want to let me even add imput there?) I’ve been trying to put together cost efficient/healthy meals (that don’t involve a fryer at all) for myself. And since I’m a moron who can stand in front of a fridge full of food and not see anything to make, I thought it might be helpful.

    Also, I lost my wedding invitation. Can you tell me where the wedding is? And any other information that seems relevant? I’m going to do a million things now, see you later.

  9. I guess it depends on which things they are, but it seems to me if you are about to go do a million things you may not make it to the wedding on time.

    Unless the wedding is one or more of those million things, in which case this is a more reasonable endeavor.

    Teel, whether either of us considers the other to be his friend, I am confident based on past experience and recent discussions on the matter that you will succeed in writing your novel. And despite what I think about you one way or the other, I feel like I know you better than many, if through nothing else than a lot of exposure, and would say if someone laughs at your statements of what you intend to succeed at creatively, they haven’t paid enough attention to what you have accomplished in the past when you have set your mind to something, or perhaps just don’t understand the effort involved. Most people, after all, would look at modernevil.com and say “yep, there’s a website.” Those of us who view source have a much deeper sense of respect for the work though.

    Blah blah blah. Don’t let other people get in the way of your creations. For that matter, try not to let yourself do it either.

    And newtron, thanks for the tips =)

  10. I guess it depends on which things they are, but it seems to me if you are about to go do a million things you may not make it to the wedding on time.

    Unless the wedding is one or more of those million things, in which case this is a more reasonable endeavor.

    Teel, whether either of us considers the other to be his friend, I am confident based on past experience and recent discussions on the matter that you will succeed in writing your novel. And despite what I think about you one way or the other, I feel like I know you better than many, if through nothing else than a lot of exposure, and would say if someone laughs at your statements of what you intend to succeed at creatively, they haven’t paid enough attention to what you have accomplished in the past when you have set your mind to something, or perhaps just don’t understand the effort involved. Most people, after all, would look at modernevil.com and say “yep, there’s a website.” Those of us who view source have a much deeper sense of respect for the work though.

    Blah blah blah. Don’t let other people get in the way of your creations. For that matter, try not to let yourself do it either.

    And newtron, thanks for the tips =)

  11. Speaking of people in the know knowing my website is more than just a little HTML, if all goes well in the version I’m working on now, only people who know the limitations of HTML, JS, and Moveable Type will really be able to grasp exactly what my website will be doing. Especially when you see the interface I’m trying to put together; it looks simpler than ever.

    Man, I wish people had ever taken the time/effort to post any poetry, fiction, reviews, ramblings, or anything else on ME since the last major revision. I spent a lot of time putting together the code that puts together the website so that it is seamless to a visitor using only free tools and JS, SSI, and HTML to bring together everything without the need for administrative intervention. That is, people can go through the web interface and post to the website whatever they want, and it will automatically appear in the right places on the site, and on the front page of the site. It’s when I mention things like this that I feel like whatever the current code revision is supposed to do doesn’t matter because there still won’t be any content that I don’t provide myself.

  12. Speaking of people in the know knowing my website is more than just a little HTML, if all goes well in the version I’m working on now, only people who know the limitations of HTML, JS, and Moveable Type will really be able to grasp exactly what my website will be doing. Especially when you see the interface I’m trying to put together; it looks simpler than ever.

    Man, I wish people had ever taken the time/effort to post any poetry, fiction, reviews, ramblings, or anything else on ME since the last major revision. I spent a lot of time putting together the code that puts together the website so that it is seamless to a visitor using only free tools and JS, SSI, and HTML to bring together everything without the need for administrative intervention. That is, people can go through the web interface and post to the website whatever they want, and it will automatically appear in the right places on the site, and on the front page of the site. It’s when I mention things like this that I feel like whatever the current code revision is supposed to do doesn’t matter because there still won’t be any content that I don’t provide myself.

  13. From: ME
    Well I am sorry, I was trying to be funny. Because I was commenting to you about your blog I thought it would be read like I was calling you on the phone and saying ‘Hi it’s me’. Of course I knew it would be a puzzle about who it was but that was part of the joke in my comment, which you ignored by the way. Well that’s ok. I have been so non-humorus lately I am sure you were not expecting any from me.

    Oh yes by the way I resent the implication I read into your comment about family laughting at your aspirations. Well communication is difficult so maybe there is less/more to what I/you said/heard than I/you said/heard.

    I hope this straightens out some of the confusion I created.

  14. From: ME
    Well I am sorry, I was trying to be funny. Because I was commenting to you about your blog I thought it would be read like I was calling you on the phone and saying ‘Hi it’s me’. Of course I knew it would be a puzzle about who it was but that was part of the joke in my comment, which you ignored by the way. Well that’s ok. I have been so non-humorus lately I am sure you were not expecting any from me.

    Oh yes by the way I resent the implication I read into your comment about family laughting at your aspirations. Well communication is difficult so maybe there is less/more to what I/you said/heard than I/you said/heard.

    I hope this straightens out some of the confusion I created.

  15. Well, I wasn’t taking a headcount when a room-full of my family began laughing and joking when I tried to explain about the novel I plan to write, but you were there and definitely didn’t say or do anything to show you didn’t agree that laughter was appropriate. Luckily for you, four generations of family weren’t the only ones who thought my plans were laughable, so you all get lumped in together.

    Anyway, I shouldn’t be posting right now, obviously, because I’m in such a poor mood. I’m going to go to bed right now and not post the 2500+ word rant about my sister and the dishes that wants to come out of me right now. I’m sure that in a few weeks/months when I feel better, I won’t want to write about it at all, so if I can just put it off until then, we’ll be set.

  16. Well, I wasn’t taking a headcount when a room-full of my family began laughing and joking when I tried to explain about the novel I plan to write, but you were there and definitely didn’t say or do anything to show you didn’t agree that laughter was appropriate. Luckily for you, four generations of family weren’t the only ones who thought my plans were laughable, so you all get lumped in together.

    Anyway, I shouldn’t be posting right now, obviously, because I’m in such a poor mood. I’m going to go to bed right now and not post the 2500+ word rant about my sister and the dishes that wants to come out of me right now. I’m sure that in a few weeks/months when I feel better, I won’t want to write about it at all, so if I can just put it off until then, we’ll be set.

  17. Well in a few hours I will no longer be single, I will be a married man. For the longest time people have been asking me if I was nervous and I wasent, partly because I know I am with the right person and partly because it hadent really set in that I was about to become married, to make a vow before god that I would be spending the rest of my life with. Last night at the rehersal it set in, I couldent breathe, my hands were shaking and my knees went weak. I can only imagine what it will be like today.

    I am posting this here because I know alot of my closest friends will be reading it, and just need to get it out. I am nervous, but excited at the same time. I am happy that most of you will be showing up, and looking forward to seeing you. The church is on the ne corner of College and Broadway in tempe, service starts at 2:30, so start showing up around 2:00. The service will go till about 3:15-3:30 at the latest depending on when we get started, then the minor reception at the church till about 4:30-4:45, then we are all headed to Pranksters Gar and Brill for the Revelry reception. We plan on starting that at 5:00 and I hope to see you all there.

    On other side notes, I look forward to writing a novel with you teel, I to have a feeling that I have been wasting talent, and that its time to get all this out, I used to do alot more creative things, write, draw, act. I envy you that you acually can create paintings, and GOOD paintings at that. Your house is full of color, and style, and all the things I wish my house will be. You really do have a knack for painting, with a style all your own, which I really do enjoy, and on May 1st, with support from my friends, I look forward to stamping out a novel. Those fish donughts do sound mighty tasty, if you wanted to start rinsing the cod on like thursday, when I get back next weekend from SF, I can bring a couple of frying pans and my wok over and we can do some experiments to see if it works, and make some Baccala :>.

    Well, I think I have rambled enough, I hope to see you all tonight at some point, and now I have a ton of stuff to do, from the dishes that are taunting me with there unclenlieness, to getting my self presentable for a wedding to getting to the church, and I just noticed that its raining, most people would consider this a bad sign, but for me its acually a very good sign. Being a native to the desert rain is always a welcome sign, an omen of good things to come, of the desert coming into bloom with a thousand colors. I know now that my union is blessed.

  18. Well in a few hours I will no longer be single, I will be a married man. For the longest time people have been asking me if I was nervous and I wasent, partly because I know I am with the right person and partly because it hadent really set in that I was about to become married, to make a vow before god that I would be spending the rest of my life with. Last night at the rehersal it set in, I couldent breathe, my hands were shaking and my knees went weak. I can only imagine what it will be like today.

    I am posting this here because I know alot of my closest friends will be reading it, and just need to get it out. I am nervous, but excited at the same time. I am happy that most of you will be showing up, and looking forward to seeing you. The church is on the ne corner of College and Broadway in tempe, service starts at 2:30, so start showing up around 2:00. The service will go till about 3:15-3:30 at the latest depending on when we get started, then the minor reception at the church till about 4:30-4:45, then we are all headed to Pranksters Gar and Brill for the Revelry reception. We plan on starting that at 5:00 and I hope to see you all there.

    On other side notes, I look forward to writing a novel with you teel, I to have a feeling that I have been wasting talent, and that its time to get all this out, I used to do alot more creative things, write, draw, act. I envy you that you acually can create paintings, and GOOD paintings at that. Your house is full of color, and style, and all the things I wish my house will be. You really do have a knack for painting, with a style all your own, which I really do enjoy, and on May 1st, with support from my friends, I look forward to stamping out a novel. Those fish donughts do sound mighty tasty, if you wanted to start rinsing the cod on like thursday, when I get back next weekend from SF, I can bring a couple of frying pans and my wok over and we can do some experiments to see if it works, and make some Baccala :>.

    Well, I think I have rambled enough, I hope to see you all tonight at some point, and now I have a ton of stuff to do, from the dishes that are taunting me with there unclenlieness, to getting my self presentable for a wedding to getting to the church, and I just noticed that its raining, most people would consider this a bad sign, but for me its acually a very good sign. Being a native to the desert rain is always a welcome sign, an omen of good things to come, of the desert coming into bloom with a thousand colors. I know now that my union is blessed.

  19. Oh, and if I was going to just buy a deep fryer, I would get the Fry Daddy, they are indestructable :>

  20. Oh, and if I was going to just buy a deep fryer, I would get the Fry Daddy, they are indestructable :>

  21. I haven’t been to a grocery store to buy the fish yet. Saturday I’m busy most of the day and I’m going to try to go to a fashion show that night and I really want to try to finish up what I’m doing to Modern Evil this weekend. Plus, oh! I have to burn and mail five summer-themed CDs by Monday (which means I’ll probably burn them Sunday afternoon) for the Burn Baby, Burn CD Exchange. How’s next weekend for you? I bet I can get to a grocer before next weekend.

  22. I haven’t been to a grocery store to buy the fish yet. Saturday I’m busy most of the day and I’m going to try to go to a fashion show that night and I really want to try to finish up what I’m doing to Modern Evil this weekend. Plus, oh! I have to burn and mail five summer-themed CDs by Monday (which means I’ll probably burn them Sunday afternoon) for the Burn Baby, Burn CD Exchange. How’s next weekend for you? I bet I can get to a grocer before next weekend.

  23. Sounds great, just remember we need to soak them for at least a day, probally 2 with water changes every 8 hours to help reduce the saltyness of the fish themselves, you can always add salt back after frying :>

    But next weekend looks great, :>

  24. Sounds great, just remember we need to soak them for at least a day, probally 2 with water changes every 8 hours to help reduce the saltyness of the fish themselves, you can always add salt back after frying :>

    But next weekend looks great, :>

  25. ouh, ick, why would you take out all the salt? then it won’t be salty enough. Perhaps half a day, but two days? you might as well use fresh boiled cod. Salt it after? how will the salt stick? forgive my pest-imism but this is not baccula that you are making … ok, not in the traditional sense that I have made it in.

    And another thing as long as I am at it. The deep fat fryer is a handy device.. If you use a deep pot of oil, you can not regulate the temperature, nor be alerted to the temp dropping. When I make baccula, I use the equivient of 6 loaves of bread in bread dough and a pound of fish. The process takes several hours. As the fish dumpling cooks, it bounces up and down in the pot of oil, turning itself in the process and cooking evenly on both sides.
    I do recommend a deep fat fryer. I have looked at the snazzy new ones with the lids, but I think half the fun of cooking baccula is watching it bounce in the oil and using a spoon to poke at it, in case it doesn’t turn on its own.
    I used to use a skillet with oil in it to make tortilla chips and taquitos and even taco shells, but did not find it practical for baccula.

    And here is a helpful hint for you: To freshen your cooking oil, if you use the same oil for more than one project, deep fry a potato in it, because the potato will absorb the other lingering flavors in the oil.

  26. ouh, ick, why would you take out all the salt? then it won’t be salty enough. Perhaps half a day, but two days? you might as well use fresh boiled cod. Salt it after? how will the salt stick? forgive my pest-imism but this is not baccula that you are making … ok, not in the traditional sense that I have made it in.

    And another thing as long as I am at it. The deep fat fryer is a handy device.. If you use a deep pot of oil, you can not regulate the temperature, nor be alerted to the temp dropping. When I make baccula, I use the equivient of 6 loaves of bread in bread dough and a pound of fish. The process takes several hours. As the fish dumpling cooks, it bounces up and down in the pot of oil, turning itself in the process and cooking evenly on both sides.
    I do recommend a deep fat fryer. I have looked at the snazzy new ones with the lids, but I think half the fun of cooking baccula is watching it bounce in the oil and using a spoon to poke at it, in case it doesn’t turn on its own.
    I used to use a skillet with oil in it to make tortilla chips and taquitos and even taco shells, but did not find it practical for baccula.

    And here is a helpful hint for you: To freshen your cooking oil, if you use the same oil for more than one project, deep fry a potato in it, because the potato will absorb the other lingering flavors in the oil.

  27. if you salt it fresh out of the oil the salt flavor will remain, even soaking it for 2 days will still retain ALOT of the salt flavor, since during the curing process you are breaking down the cell wall and adding salt to the cell itself, the soaking process simply removes the excess salt, but more importantly rehydrates the cell walls allowing for more even cooking. Plus, you obviously have not seen some of my frying pans, or my wok. The potato trick is new to me, I normally just strain my oil and keep seperate oil for fish and everything else.

  28. if you salt it fresh out of the oil the salt flavor will remain, even soaking it for 2 days will still retain ALOT of the salt flavor, since during the curing process you are breaking down the cell wall and adding salt to the cell itself, the soaking process simply removes the excess salt, but more importantly rehydrates the cell walls allowing for more even cooking. Plus, you obviously have not seen some of my frying pans, or my wok. The potato trick is new to me, I normally just strain my oil and keep seperate oil for fish and everything else.

  29. Two comments/questions for there Newtron Dance.

    1) No, I have not seen your frying pans nor wok, do they have temperature regulators on them?

    2)You have obviously done alot of cooking with dry salt cod. However I still prefer it salty for my recipe.

  30. Two comments/questions for there Newtron Dance.

    1) No, I have not seen your frying pans nor wok, do they have temperature regulators on them?

    2)You have obviously done alot of cooking with dry salt cod. However I still prefer it salty for my recipe.

  31. I have done alot of cooking with salt cured foods, mebbe not alot with salt cod :> It was experimentation for both of us since you refused to make them ;> And no, but I do have a deep fat thermometer, and a 4 inch deep electric skillet with a thermal regulator :>

  32. I have done alot of cooking with salt cured foods, mebbe not alot with salt cod :> It was experimentation for both of us since you refused to make them ;> And no, but I do have a deep fat thermometer, and a 4 inch deep electric skillet with a thermal regulator :>

  33. So all this talk about cod fish and do you realize how hard it is to find? I went to find some for Teel seeing how he does not drive so he can not easily go from store to store. I went to 3 Fry’s, 2 Safeway’s, and even a super K-Mart with no luck. Finally I found some at AJ’s but as suspected it was higher there then anyone else normally has at $12 a lb. Now most stores have it down at $10 a lb or if you are lucky you can find it on sale at $5 a lb. But luck was not on my side today.

    But to let all know the salty cod got in the water at 10:30 today and we will see salty it comes out.

  34. So all this talk about cod fish and do you realize how hard it is to find? I went to find some for Teel seeing how he does not drive so he can not easily go from store to store. I went to 3 Fry’s, 2 Safeway’s, and even a super K-Mart with no luck. Finally I found some at AJ’s but as suspected it was higher there then anyone else normally has at $12 a lb. Now most stores have it down at $10 a lb or if you are lucky you can find it on sale at $5 a lb. But luck was not on my side today.

    But to let all know the salty cod got in the water at 10:30 today and we will see salty it comes out.

  35. Like I was telling teel, make sure the last soak is in a brine to stabalize the cells :> 1 cup of salt and 1/4 cup sugar to 1 gallon of water. I will be bringing my gadgets over, plus I just taped a good eats thats all about frying foods! How fortunate! I can bring it over and we can watch em :> I am starting a good eats tape to collect them all :>

  36. Like I was telling teel, make sure the last soak is in a brine to stabalize the cells :> 1 cup of salt and 1/4 cup sugar to 1 gallon of water. I will be bringing my gadgets over, plus I just taped a good eats thats all about frying foods! How fortunate! I can bring it over and we can watch em :> I am starting a good eats tape to collect them all :>

  37. This is my first time at your site, and I was just wondering why you chose the name FYTH.

    Thanks,
    Scott

  38. This is my first time at your site, and I was just wondering why you chose the name FYTH.

    Thanks,
    Scott

  39. I was looking for new comments and noticed that this one ended up under “deep frying”. Suggestion: Do not drop a deep fryer full of grease (thankfully not hot grease) on your foot. It turns all kinds of pretty colors and swells up very nicely and causes pain to the recipient.

  40. I was looking for new comments and noticed that this one ended up under “deep frying”. Suggestion: Do not drop a deep fryer full of grease (thankfully not hot grease) on your foot. It turns all kinds of pretty colors and swells up very nicely and causes pain to the recipient.

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