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Recently I have been trying to fry chicken in KFC style.

I marinate the chicken for over 3 hours or more. I bread the chicken just before frying.

First 2-3 batch of chicken i.e 12-15 pieces turned really good in colour and texture but after that residue started building in the bottom of the pan and started sticking in the chicken crunchy surface. I usually use amount of oil that lets chicken float. So what am I missing here?

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  • Can you not spoon the bits out with a slotted spoon between batches?
    – Chris H
    Oct 24, 2019 at 5:32
  • It doesn't seem to help as the bits are too tiny.
    – Aneal
    Nov 6, 2019 at 6:44

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You aren't missing anything, it's completely normal for parts of the breading to come off food while it's frying. This residue will keep cooking, leading to blackened breading bit buildup.

If pieces of breading are sticking then the answer is to fish them out, you can use a metal strainer to do this, there are strainers designed just for that purpose. You could also buy frying baskets (provided you find ones that fit your pan) and cook your chicken in those, the beauty of them is that when you lift them out you take all of the breading pieces that have fallen off with it.

If it is smaller particles that are the problem then you can get them out by pouring the oil through a fine mesh strainer. This is a bit slow, so you'd want to build a few extra minutes into your cooking process.

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  • Thanks for the answer. In another way can we use more oil to increase height?
    – Aneal
    Nov 6, 2019 at 6:48
  • You could try it, sure, it's not going to prevent the problem but it may slow it enough to finish your cooking.
    – GdD
    Nov 6, 2019 at 17:50

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