How often do you deep-fry food, at home?

[LaraMN]

I think I haul out the fryer once or twice a year. I'm just curious, humor me.

[LeftyMom]

1. I never do.

Once in a blue moon my sister uses her fryer thing.

[LaraMN]

4. I tried to make homemade mozzarella sticks, once.

It didn't turn out real well.

[qnr]

2. Never. Well, I sometimes make potato chips in a skillet, which is kind of

a shallow deep fry.

[reyd reid reed]

3. I never haul out my fryer

I use my big ol' cast-iron skillet when I do fry, and that's really not all that often.

But...fried chicken's been sounding awful good lately...



(edited because I've apparently allowed my skill at spelling skillet to slack somewhat)

[yvr girl]

5. Never

Don't even have a deep fryer.

[LaraMN]

6. Paula Deen was making me wonder....

She seems to fry everything. I wonder how much regional variation there is.

[yvr girl]

10. I was served deep fried French Toast in the South

Yummy, but OMG, so bad for you. No one I know deep fries anything regularly.

[Chan790]

7. French Fries rarely

other than that, never.

[politicat]

8. Hardly ever...

Once a year I'll haul out the pizelle irons for some pastry, or make a batch of frybread, but that's about it. All of the "fried" foods we eat are panfried.

I've got my eye on one of the newer, better designed fryers, so maybe if I end up with a gift card or something, I can convince myself that it's better than the obnoxious electric one I have now.

[Broken_Hero]

9. probably...three times a year

for fry bread...sometimes my wife gets an itch for it, and decides to make some. Other than that, never....

[Broken_Hero]

20. btw,

we use a big, huge cast iron pot, and she usually uses crisco....or that shortening stuff...

[texanwitch]

11. I use my fryer for lots of foods.

I use mine at least once a week, use peanut oil.

[NMMNG]

12. Never. I don't even have a deep-fryer.

The limit of my frying is stir frying in a tablespoon or two of olive oil or, more often, cooking spray.

[Nicole]

13. Once a week at least

Especially this time of year. There's so many good veggies begging to be battered & deep fried.

Nothing like a pot full of oil to take the healthy right out of those veggies. :rofl:

[Broken_Hero]

15. isn't that the truth...:)

fried corn on the cob...never had it before, until coming to the midwest, pretty tasty...:)

[Nicole]

19. Yummy!

I love fried corn on the cob. I just had it for the first time this year. It won't be the last either.

[Jamastiene]

14. I fry food quite often (once or twice a week.)

I'm not sure what the difference between frying and deep-frying is though. I guess what I do is moderate fry. I use vegetable oil though, not lard or fat or any of that stuff.

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

16. Hello fellow Tarheel state resident.

I do a moderate fry too. I think deep fry means that the food you are cooking can float in the oil that it is being fried in. I have a deep fryer too and it has only been used once.

[Jamastiene]

21. I just use a frying pan and maybe

sometimes the oil will come halfway up the food I am cooking. Most of the time it is less, just to keep it from sticking and add a little color to the surface of the food. For sliced potatoes and onions though, I do let the oil cover them. They are yummy.

[Heidi]

17. Twice a year:

Breaded, fried fish for Call Me Wesley
Funnel cakes (like we used to get at the county fair when I was a kid) for my goddaughters

[Karenca]

18. Never. nt

[RebelOne]

22. I never fry anything.

I either bake, broil or microwave.

[riona]

23. Never n/t

[femmocrat]

24. Never.

You can get good results with less grease by "oven-frying". I even make frozen French fries in the oven.

[Ellen Forradalom]

25. Never

I try to cook fairly low fat at home. Plus, deep frying is messy.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

26. Good morning, my dear Lara!

I never deep-fry anything.........

I do pan-fry a couple of things......petrale sole, and flank steak.

And that's it!

:hi:

[NewWaveChick1981]

27. Hubby loves to fry stuff, but I rarely eat it.

He's stopped deep-frying so much, which is good. I don't eat deep-fried foods as a rule (sauteed or stir-fried foods are OK with me, though). I might eat deep-fried foods once every couple of years. Just don't care for it too much.

[SacredCow]

28. Never, and I'm from the Mecca of fried food....

It's just too much trouble and it makes the house stink. If I want something fried, I go out to eat.

[GalleryGod]

29. Deep-Fry ? I had to look-up the spelling

It's so far removed from our life style.:puke: :puke:

[querelle]

30. Never

The exhaust fan in my kitchen is not very powerful and I hate the smell of grease in my house.

Q

[trackfan]

31. A few times a year.

[Reciprocity]

32. I dug my large......

(I’m southern so yes I have more than one) deep fryer out Sunday to make soup in.

[Arugula Latte]

33. Never.

P.S. Remember those turkey frying threads at Thanksgiving? :rofl:

[seemunkee]

34. one every two months

I get a craving for french fries done right and have to cook them myself.

[SmokingJacket]

35. Never, it stinks up the house.

We don't even have a stove hood!

[peekaloo]

36. Rarely. But when I do I use peanut oil to reduce smoke/stink.

[XNASA]

37. Every couple of weeks.

I use an electic wok to deep fry. It uses less oil and cleans up nice & quick.

We made onion rings last Sunday.

[Puglover]

38. Rarely, but frankly

the only way to make tonkatsu (fried pork cutlet breaded with panko) or tempura is to deep fry them. The whole trick to not having a greasy crappy mess is to have your oil hot enough.

[Fleshdancer]

45. I LOVE tonkatsu n/t

[Momgonepostal]

39. about the same as you...once every 6 mos or so

[leftofthedial]

40. technically never

I do a dish that is supposed to be deep fried about once a month, but I've adapted it to frying in a skillet.

[Breeze54]

41. Never! n/t

[ScreamingMeemie]

42. I have one, but it got icky. So it just sits in the back of the cupboard

now.

[LSK]

43. never

[Fleshdancer]

44. never n/t

[ForrestGump]

46. Never. Not in years anyway. Falafel was about it, and I did that in

a pan, usually, I think.

Many years ago I had to do deep-frying in a restaurant job, and clean the thing, and that put me off deep-fried food to a great extent for quite a while. Now, if I get a hankering for something deep fried (the only thing lately that's provoked me to do so is a craving for fried chicken that I satisfied a few times in the past eight months or so), I just run out and buy it ready-made.

My living situation and general lack of desire to get culinarily creative right now really limits me to just using the oven (been eating too many pizzas) and the microwave for everything.

[SOteric]

47. Not so much for myself, but

when I do catering jobs I often fire up the deep frier for Garnishes, Handmade Vegetable, Potato and Tortilla Chips, Kahlua Pork Springrolls, Crab Rangoon, or to put the secret 'crisp' into my buffalo and cherriyaki wings.