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Cooking Techniques
The Best Oils for Deep Frying
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Danielle Prewett
There are few textures more satisfying than the crunch of crispy fried fish. The deep frying process is simple, but if there is one way to ruin a good fish fry, it’s choosing the wrong frying oil. Two things to keep in mind when picking the best deep fryer oil are smoke point and flavor. The smoke point of an oil is the temperature at which the oil begins to break down and start burning. This causes oils to become carcinogenic and taste bitter...
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