Featuring Kallisti’s (my sister) Chicken Girl Doll. Check out her site for more pictures of that and many other infamous dolls of distinction.
This last Sunday was Uncle Cindy’s 50th birthday. What does the MeatHenge crew do for someone’s birthday? That’s right, cook a lot of meat. Sunday was no different. This time though, we had a guest celebrity that came all the way from Mobile Alabama to give us a demonstration for cooking Southern Fried Chicken. I know, the variances here are enormous, but I can’t dwell on that. I wanted to see what John Bell was up to.
The list of ingredients was short. Chicken (no skin), canola oil, milk, egg and flour. That was it, no salt, no pepper. I was kinda surprised he cut off the skin, but to each their own. Besides the skin does tend to burn and using hindsight, it wasn’t missed.
John got right to work dredging the chicken through the milk and egg wash, then into the flour. And back again until he deemed it correct in every way. Then into 370 degree oil. The basket was clearly in our way and so was that silly lid. They were removed after the first batch was done. That also gave us more room for chicken and more room for oil. The oil fill line was quickly submerged. Oh well, we were outside and if anything went wrong we could just have another cold beer and go inside for the smoked pork ribs & chicken & sausage & Canadian Pork Pie. We had our bases covered.
Here we see the first batch mostly done.
Stick a fork in that right there suck! IT’S DONE !!! wow …
No skin?! Half the time that’s the best part. Eh, but that’s okay, I like fried chicken in all its forms.
Now I’m really craving some!
Love the chicken doll, too, by the way! 🙂
I still can’t believe I ate the chicken of the infamous John Bell… *I faint*
Great chicken. I want some now.
That chicken was super fantastic! The coating was so crispity-crunchity that I didn’t miss the skin at all. Yum!!!