For a time I worked in a convenience shop as a clerk and cook and I used a deep fryer a fair bit for cooking battered chicken and French fried potatoes.
Obviously the chicken does not begin damaged. It comes provided frozen in huge cardboard boxes. Before the chicken is all set for the cooking part it should be prepared and time to thaw out. Each piece of chicken is rinsed in cold water, then put in a vat of tenderising, salty water to soak for a number of hours in a refrigerated area. It is again rinsed and kept cold, until needed for cooking.
When required for preparing the chicken is breaded in a special spicy flour mix, dipped in spice water, and breaded with mix once again. Each piece is than thoroughly put in the boiling oil in the deep fryer; starting with the large, meaty pieces, and completing with the thin bony pieces. This gives the thick meaty pieces more time to prepare. They get the hottest oil in the pot to start off the cooking process. The deep fryer is on a timer and part method through the cooking procedure the timer triggers an alarm which alerts you that it's time to stir the chicken, so it gets all sides prepared uniformly, even the sides touching when initially put in the fryer. After stirring the chicken it cooks till the end of cooking cycle alarm goes off. The pot elevator will automatically lift the cooking basket out of the hot oil, permitting the chicken to leak off the excess oil.
The deep fryer also 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 decreased in hands complete, into the boiling oil. The cooking is again managed by a timer, which sounds when the cooking cycle has completed. After 4 cooks the oil in the fryer requires to be filtered to clean it for future cooking cycles. When oil filtering needs to happen, another alarm suggests.
The heat on the oil is turned off, so the oil can cool off enough to deal with. The cooking basket is raised and eliminated from the fryer. A valve is turned to enable the oil to drain down into the filtering drawer. When the oil has actually drained pipes the empty oil reservoir is brushed, consisting of the heating coil aspect, to eliminate anything sticking to their surface areas. A pump is switched on which distributes the oil consistently through the filter. The filtering can take place for 10 or 15 minutes, depending how dark the oil appears in color. When the oil has actually become lighter in color it is pumped back up to the oil reservoir, after the valve at the bottom of the pot has been closed. The heating element is switched on and the oil is restored approximately cooking temperature. The undesirable part is digging the sludge at the bottom of the filter drawer. Then the cleaned filter is dusted with an unique powder, put back in its location under the fryer pot, and all is all set to go once again.
Yes the fryer does the majority of the cooking for you however enjoy out for the hot oil when packing the food into the cooking basket. Even wearing rubber gloves will not stop the oil from burning you, ought to it splash on your hands as the food drops into the hot oil. The trick is to be brave and gutsy. Get the food close to the oil prior to you drop it in. That way the splash is really little, and doesn't jump up to fry your wrist.
Delighted cooking. Cook, however don't be prepared.
The pot elevator will automatically raise the cooking basket out of the hot oil, permitting the chicken to drip off the excess oil.
The heat on the oil is turned here off, so the oil can cool down enough to work with. When the oil has actually drained the empty oil tank is brushed, including the heating coil component, to get rid of anything sticking to their surface areas. When the oil has become lighter in color it is pumped back up to the oil tank, after the valve at the bottom of the pot has actually been closed. Even wearing rubber gloves won't stop the oil from burning you, must it sprinkle on your hands as the food drops into the hot oil.