You can absolutely fry things without a deep fryer. There's a number of ways to judge the temp, and you can pick up a relatively inexpensive temp gauge if you want to be super accurate. Usually the non-digital ones are around $10, and the digital ones are closer to $30.
Having the right oil temp is pretty much vital for deep frying, if you don't the food is going to burn on the outside and be undercooked inside or be greasy and nasty. Adding food to the oil alters the temp, too. So between batches you want to bring it back to the right temp before adding more.
I've used a few different ways to judge oil temp. A few of them are just, 'I've done this a lot, and that reaction is what I want,' so they aren't great as suggestions, but dropping a popcorn kernel in works pretty well. It'll pop between 350-365 degrees. A wooden spoon handle or wood chopstick will cause the oil to bubble when the oil is hot enough for frying, if it's bubbling really hard, it's too hot.
My grandmother used to use the kernel trick when I was kid. Thanks for sharing that, I had completely forgotten about it
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I showed my family Sessi's picture, then got made fun of even more.
..Buuuut, using a little advice from everybody, I managed to not burn them this time. It sure as hell didn't look like one, but it tasted amazing. I've definitely gotta work on getting the shape down and then the whole flipping thing.
@Valenae: You da best. Medium heat for about 5 minutes was exactly the perfect temperature.
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Using a pipping bag will help. If you don't have a pipping bag use a ziplock and cut the end off.
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Picture is of the living room taken from the kitchen:
Kitchen, stove is off to the left of the fridge. TONS of counter space. ^.^
Bathroom and two bedrooms, the bedrooms are huge:
The tomato and cucumber garden:
We also have a storage room right off of the carport that looks like someone used it for a dark room at one point. I'm gonna look into planting some herbs in the backyard which, by the way, is big. ^.^ Plenty of room for our Spanador
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"To be awkward or unkempt, to talk or move wrongly is to be a dangerous giant, a destroyer of worlds...any accurately improper move can poke through the thin sleeve of immediate reality." - Erving Goffman
"To be awkward or unkempt, to talk or move wrongly is to be a dangerous giant, a destroyer of worlds...any accurately improper move can poke through the thin sleeve of immediate reality." - Erving Goffman
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"To be awkward or unkempt, to talk or move wrongly is to be a dangerous giant, a destroyer of worlds...any accurately improper move can poke through the thin sleeve of immediate reality." - Erving Goffman
Nothing is going to get better. It's not.”
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