Have you ever maid up a recipe on the fly that turned great with no record of it?
Ell Ya, We have a funny story here at our house!
“She Who Must Be Obeyed” and me, was doing deep fried chicken a few (well several) years ago now. I had purchased my Stainless Steel turkey fryer from BPS here. I’d had it a year or 2. I kept it in the original box, kept he cardboard separation plastic bags etc to allow the new looking to exist as long as possible when it’s stored. Who doesn’t do that, right??
Any hoot, pulled it out SWMBO’s parents were coming for a Sunday chicken dinner. Got to impress the In-Laws ya know! So I had it all set up on the deck, poured in the peanut oil and set the lid on it for bird poop protection and waited for the guests to arrive.
Came time, I fired the bunner. Cooked the yard bird pieces and had maybe the best fried chicken that even the guests exclaimed they ever had! NO Kidding!! Later pulled in the pot and let it cool off for the night.
Went to filter the oil and noticed a dark area in the bottom. And what was that smell! Drained quite a bit but the dark bottom was not separating or blending in with what I was filterating off. WTH is that, that seems to be lurking in the bottom of the pot?
O Wholey Carp!! A piece of the cardboard packing that I kept in the bottom of the pot that seperated the pots to protect them, well I hadn’t removed it! I’ve never been able to replicate the chicken since. And I won’t cut a piece of card board for the bottom of the pot.
So Denny O’s famous “Card Board Chicken” was born! True story not kidding. Just ask SWMBO or me!
