re: When You Fry Chicken, Do You Pan a Fry Or Deep Fry?

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Is it worth doing?

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If you do it properly, I think it's worth. Growing up, we had fried chicken pretty often and while I'm not a big fan of chicken, that meal was one of my favorites. Home fried chicken is hard to beat. Like I said, I like to season the chicken and use seasoned flour only, so that's easy and there's no gummy uncooked batter like you get sometimes at fast food joints, particularly Popeye's.

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I figured it just wasn't worth doing with all the fried chicken available from restaurants.

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I guess that depends on how good the fried chicken is around your parts. Popeye's is good, but it's not great and certainly not the best out there. I haven't had Church's in years, but it was okay. Same with KFC. I never found it to be crisp enough. If the skin isn't good, forget it.

There's a place in Boyce called Uncle Albert's just off I-49 a bit that someone mentioned here a long while back. Finally got some of that chicken and it was the best fried chicken I've ever had from a restaurant. Dirty dingy looking place that's apparently been around forever, but that chicken is some good. If you're ever traveling that way, stop off. I'm not sure I'd eat inside the place, but I'd eat it in the car.