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[SahmIam]

No matter what I do, I can NOT make fried chicken the way my grandma did. I think I'm afraid of the hot oil : (

However, I make a MEAN chicken and dumplin's, let me tell ya. In fact, I'm making it for dinner tonight!

[Ms X]

My local supermarket has delicious hot fried chicken just waiting for me whenever I want it.  I am a horrendous cook.  I can't figure out when the chicken is done, so I always end up overcooking it until it's dried out.  We hear so much about salmonella these days, and I don't want to get that.

How does southern fried chicken differ from regular?  Being a Yankee, I don't think I've ever tasted southern food.

[momtochloe]

Yesterday I treated myself to my local grocer's Cheap Chicken Friday deal so I'll be in chicken heaven for a while.  I eat the dark meat pieces and wings pretty much skin and all but I do pull the skin off the breasts and make chicken salad out of them.  I have tried deep frying fish and it didn't go very well so deep frying chicken has been stricken from my list of things to try.

[Sister Golden Hair]

The only good fried chicken is cooked in a cast iron skillet

[SharkE]

More chicken LOL

[MacDUFF]

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@Ms X wrote:

...How does southern fried chicken differ from regular? ...

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@Ms X

@Tinkrbl44

Lard maybe?

[shell garden]

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@Tinkrbl44 wrote:

I'm asking this question in all sincerity ....

Is there really any difference between "fried chicken" and  "southern fried chicken"?   If so, what ? 

Southern Fried Chicken....according to my late granny who made the best, must be

Cooked in a cast iron frying pan with Crisco on medium high heat...and it gets the perfect "scald" on it, which is the best southern fried taste....yum!

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[shell garden]

I love fried chicken.  I also love fried pork chops.  I use this recipe...try it.

Season pork chops with sea salt, pepper and garlic powder on both sides.  Must be garlic POWDER and not garlic salt.

Fry in canola oil. 

I use no flour....just fry like this and it is so good, it'll make a "bulldog hug a hound"!

[JustJazzmom]

I have my mother's recipe for fried chicken but haven't made it in years. 

[ChazzyLady]

Oh yes there is @Tinkrbl44 and it's called a well used/seasoned cast iron skillet!!! Learned that from my farm girl South Carolina mama.