re: Best advice for frying fish?

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Didn't use paper towels (just used the strainer basket).

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I have done both, and could not tell the difference. I have gone back to paper towels for ease of cleaning.

I'd much rather clean the sheet than the rack.

dip in egg before batter

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And I’m going to fry fish in this?

I’m not sautéing tofu.

Well your answer to advice for frying fish has been duly noted and from it I’m discounting any other posts from you as apparently you should be on the book or soccer board.

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Why? Because I suggested that we should consider returning to the oils that humans used for millennia prior to the early 20th century at the earliest?

Man, you love your industrial solvents that cause health problems. By the way, some studies are showing that PUFAs also may contribute to mental health problems. Your adverse reaction to someone that suggests that they may be problematic certainly lends credence to that.

I find it so funny how people get so angry over this.

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book or soccer board

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Yeah, frying in animal fats or olive oil as opposed to canola oil is so GHEY! You're such a fricktard.

Martini LURVES HIS VEGGIE OILS!!!

Yeah, I get it. You’re a fat boomer. And nice selective reasoning. I mention several alternatives, but you focus solely on olive oil.

And you neglected to read where PUFAs are in so many of our foods now. You don’t just get them from your once a year fish fry. Of course your anger prevented you from that logical reasoning.

You’re deranged. And probably fat. Enjoy your vegetable oils, you fat frick. Sorry, not sorry, I ruined your vegetable oil party.

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season with only hot sauce and mustard.

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add a wee bit of cold water to that to make it extend and keeps batter from clumping too hard at your corn flour/ corn meal dredge station.

I also do a mixture of corn flour and corn meal if you couldnt tell from my previous sentence. Throw in some tonys to that as well. Theres some snobs around here, but fried fish is hard to really frick up honestly.

Oh I read it. I just don’t eat a lot of box or processed food so I’m not concerned. 80% of what I eat-with the exception of dining out, I’ve either grown, raised, caught or killed. This has been lifelong not a recent movement.

See I believe in moderation. I use plenty of olive oil. I don’t care for the taste of coconut oil. But peanut, soybean, pecan, walnut all have their place as does canola etc...

You seem to be missing the point. No one I’ve ever seen-and yes I’ve been around South Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi all my life and probably been to hundreds of fish fries, would ever consider deep frying fish in coconut or olive oil. Olive oil would burn and coconut oil has a distinct flavor that is not appealing.

Have you? Am I wrong? Do you or anyone on this board go to these fish fries?

I may be a boomer (sorry I’m spending all your money-since that’s what always seems to be a bone of contention) but I’m not hiding my own Easter eggs yet. But apparently I’m deranged. Interesting. I hope I don’t have the mojeaux.

But to the actual question of the OP who asked for tips what I normally do is pull a bag of speckled trout out of my freezer and thaw in cool water in the sink. Then I get a six pack of beer and a bottle of wine and I ride 2 miles from my house, hand the fish to a friend, open a beer for him, pour some wine and shoot the shite while he fries since he’s a master and I’m not.

And he could be frying them in used motor oil for all I care. Bit of salt, squeeze of lemon or dash of malt vinegar and they go down well.

Growing up, everything fried was in Crisco.

You can’t fry in olive oil or you shouldn’t. Does someone do that?

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Oh I read it.

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You really didn't, or you wouldn't just be focusing on olive oil and coconut oils.

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80% of what I eat-with the exception of dining out, I’ve either grown, raised, caught or killed. This has been lifelong not a recent movement.

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That's great, Grizzly Adams. Not sure why you're making this just about you though (boomer thing I guess). 99.9% of Americans don't live like that.

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But peanut, soybean, pecan, walnut all have their place as does canola etc...

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Why do they "have their place"? They're not good for you.

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You seem to be missing the point. No one I’ve ever seen-and yes I’ve been around South Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi all my life and probably been to hundreds of fish fries, would ever consider deep frying fish in coconut or olive oil. Olive oil would burn and coconut oil has a distinct flavor that is not appealing.

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That's wonderful. The majority of people in South Louisiana, Texas and Mississippi are morbidly obese and not in good health.

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I may be a boomer (sorry I’m spending all your money-since that’s what always seems to be a bone of contention)

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Nah. It's the parochial and self-centered boomer mentality that's the worst part.

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Then why the frick are you posting on a South Louisiana centered FOOD BOARD?

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That's kind of a non-sequitur, don't you think?

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You have no idea what is “good for me” or not

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Seriously, are you retarded? Whether or not PUFAs are bad for you (general you, martini, stop making everything about YOU) is an objective measure.

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Apparently you have a problem with generations and seem a bit jaundiced over what year I was born, but I’d be willing to bet your parents are/were boomers who didn’t agree with Roe v Wade which is why we are here reading your drivel. Irony.

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Jesus, man. Angry, angry, angry. Imagine loving vegetable oils this much!

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Boomers don’t have a monopoly on assholes so until you start paying my health insurance premium go fry your fish in olive oil or beef tallow and shut the frick up.

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You shut the frick, you angry old man. I don't care what what your fat arse eats. I'm just not going to be quiet about something that interests me. You take this shite way too personally. It's the boomer mentality. So self-centered.