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The Chemistry of Fried Food

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You know it, and you love it. Fried food! But there’s more to fried dishes than just plopping food into hot oil. You have to know what’s up with the food you’re cooking and what oils will work best for you dish.

I've always heard that by deepfrying a layer of the boiling water + other things, like with potato fries, forms around the food keeping oil from getting absorb, at least not too much. Is this true? Now with this video not as sure lmao

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Hosted by: Olivia Gordon

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No, "vegetable" oils aka seed oils are not good for cooking. Use Ghee, Tallow, Coconut oil or red palm oil.

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Sources:

Nala is more of a disney princess than Mulan. Mulan was sort of a commoner and her love interest was a general, not royalty. Nala and simba were siblings.....but still daughter of the leader of the pride

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General:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19595388 (I got a pdf of this, which I can send to you via email)

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http://cst.ur.ac.rw/library/Food%20Science%20books/batch1/Marcel%20Dekker,.Food%20Chemistry,%203rd%20Edition..pdf (frying starts at page 292)

https://scienceandfooducla.wordpress.com/2015/08/25/fair-food-deep-frying/

Pelicula

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http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/03/24/470396393/fry-and-fry-again-the-science-secrets-to-the-double-fry

http://www.fsis.usda.gov/wps/portal/fsis/topics/food-safety-education/get-answers/food-safety-fact-sheets/safe-food-handling/deep-fat-frying-and-food-safety/ct_index

Vegetable oil is just trash for deep frying, just like for anything else. Deep fry in lard or Evoo or tallow (don't use the money excuse because lard costs the same as shitty sunflower oil but it's just so much more stable an reliable)

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/amanda-greene/back-to-basics-the-scienc_b_3276776.html

http://www.finecooking.com/item/48328/the-science-of-frying

I feel like my eyes have opened. I finally understand why we do what we do, and why coat things in batter sometimes.

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http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Frying.aspx

Batter:

1:25 like jack in the box tacos super nasty,but super tasty

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20623702

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/beer-batter-is-better/

have you ever tried to be a chef?😊

— @mayankpatel3737

http://www.livestrong.com/article/530119-when-deep-frying-how-is-batter-different-with-milk-or-eggs/

http://www.foodarts.com/tools/equipment/13431/the-frying-game

Really. i dontsee anything from.you . is fried food healthy or not? and you are just talking from preparing food itself point of view.

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https://www.finedininglovers.com/stories/what-is-tempura-batter/

http://www.finecooking.com/articles/light-delicate-tempura.aspx?pg=1

This was certainly interesting, but I was hoping for some more discussion on the chemistry of why fried foods are unhealthy (beyond calories, which aren't necessarily bad. I.e., the formation of trans fats during frying). Part 2 please?

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http://www.livescience.com/33128-why-does-beer-foam-.html

Oils:

Female version of Dhruv Rathee😂

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http://www.heart.org/HEARTORG/HealthyLiving/HealthyEating/Nutrition/Saturated-Fats_UCM_301110_Article.jsp#.V-g7CpMrLVo

http://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/nutrition-and-healthy-eating/expert-answers/cooking-oil/faq-20058170

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http://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/the-truth-about-fats-bad-and-good

https://authoritynutrition.com/healthiest-oil-for-deep-frying/

Coolest

— @standforfreedom3795

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-33675975

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1750-3841.2007.00352.x/full?wol1URL=/doi/10.1111/j.1750-3841.2007.00352.x/full®ionCode=US-OH&identityKey=b97a5e3f-f919-4eaf-a79b-f49f55337a2c

every time i see the woke thing... I stop watching

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http://www.foodarts.com/tools/equipment/13431/the-frying-game

Images: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Deep_Fried_Oreo.JPG

Last time at band camp.

— @manofsteel1082

Deep Fryer: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frituren.jpg

Chicken Bubbling: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Deep_frying_chicken_upper_wing.JPG

Watching this while making fried chicken... :D

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Donuts: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jack%27s_Donuts.jpg

Good information

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More User Perspectives

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What's the best cooking oil

@mlandvomayenzeke8801
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What's your favorite fried food? Mine's fried human 😋

@athenatanyimin4035
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My cholesterol risen just 1 minute into the video.

@sochyvonnnora6035
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Food does taste good just B4 the smoke point!!!!!!!!

@smeenasiddiqui2374
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Rev up those fryers cause I'm sure hungry for one HELP HELP MY LEG!

@joegover9452
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@samfrench6235
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Deep fried food is by all means unhealthy!!!

@TheTruth-fully
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Where have you been all my life, you are the smartest person. On the planet. I love you

@joedrycln
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Thanks

@diegonayalazo
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I came here for fried food not a brain overdrive

@Andriu_zx
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I don't recognize my french fries anymore, after all this science talk.

@lotfibouhedjeur9897
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Is it possible to obtain a crispy texture without the actual oil? Is it more about the dehydration of the surface, or is it about what you replace the water molecules with (in this case with lipids)?

@mathiasfantoni2458
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2:57 .....says the Olive Oil shapes girl.

@augurcybernaut4785
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hey can anyone help me explain the different types of oils and how they interact with our food

@zionwithano8600
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yeap, now i'm even more sure i made a good choice by avoiding oil-fried food. I'm lucky - I do not ike the taste. All that oil is just eeeh. I do enjoy meat from open fire though. Just no oil.

@Cruel_pizza
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Ok you know when you comb your hair you get a bit of oil out some times? what if you used that for your cooking oil.

@bearcatben4762
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I was reading a novel and the characters were deep frying food so I started wondering how deep frying actually works, so here I am

@JadeCaro
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I feel really upset now after I eat fried food why is that ?

@matthiasrambally1899
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Ways to kill oneself faster.

@Olivier175
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lol I'm pretty sure no one thinks it's the oil boiling when you drop food on hot oil.

@69elchupacabra69
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Very interesting and worthwhile video.

@robertschlesinger1342
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Wrong Olivia, cupcake. "180 C is not nearly twice 100 C". To determine the true relative temperature ratio you need to work in Absolute: So hot oil is 453 / 373 K =  21%  higher than the boiling point of water. Yes, that 21%, in conjunction with the higher specific heat of oil over water, holds enough differential heat energy to boil the water on contact. That is the mojo of deep frying, Cupcake.

@radzewicz
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It wa an awesome video but its name should change to "The biochemistry of fried food".

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not love about it, idts

@zes3813