For a time I worked in a convenience store as a clerk and cook and I used a deep fryer a fair bit for cooking battered chicken and French fried potatoes.
Of course the chicken does not start battered. It comes provided frozen in huge cardboard boxes. Before the chicken is prepared 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 several hours in a refrigerated location. It is again rinsed and kept cold, until needed for cooking.
When required for cooking the chicken is breaded in an unique 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; beginning with the big, meaty pieces, and ending up with the thin bony pieces. This gives the thick meaty pieces more time to cook. They get the most popular oil in the pot to start off the cooking process. The deep fryer is on a timer and part way through the cooking process the timer triggers an alarm which alerts you that it's time to stir the chicken, so it gets all sides cooked evenly, even the sides touching when first put in the fryer. After stirring the chicken it cooks up until completion of cooking read more cycle alarm goes off. Then the pot elevator will instantly raise the cooking basket out of the hot oil, enabling the chicken to leak off the excess oil.
They then can be gently lowered in hands full, into the boiling oil. After 4 cooks the oil in the fryer needs to be filtered to clean it for future cooking cycles. Another alarm indicates when oil filtering needs to occur.
The heat on the oil is turned 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 eliminate anything sticking to here their surface areas. When the oil has ended up being lighter in color it is pumped back up to the oil reservoir, after the valve at the bottom of the pot has actually been closed.
Yes the fryer does most of the cooking for you but view out for the hot oil when packing the food into the cooking basket. Even wearing rubber gloves won't stop the oil from burning you, must it splash on your hands as the food drops into the hot oil.
Happy cooking. Cook, however do not be prepared.
The pot elevator will automatically lift the cooking basket out of the hot oil, enabling the chicken to drip off the excess oil.
The heat on the oil is turned off, so the oil can cool down enough to work with. When the oil has actually drained pipes the empty oil reservoir is brushed, consisting of the heating coil component, to remove anything sticking to their surface areas. 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. Even wearing rubber gloves won't stop the oil from burning you, needs to it splash on your hands as the food drops into the hot oil.