What Made you Smile/What Ticked you off Today?

[Ziggy]

Any one ever make homemade potato chips?

[lisalover1]

Any one ever make homemade potato chips?

I have, but they always end up as round french fries.

[Ziggy]

I got a couple of cheese slicers that work perfectly for potatoes. I can slice perfectly thin slices of potatoes with it. The problem is that I need like $10 worth of oil to put in the deep fryer. I guess I can fry them in a pan with less oil, but it just isn't the same.

[fastbilly1]

I got a couple of cheese slicers that work perfectly for potatoes. I can slice perfectly thin slices of potatoes with it. The problem is that I need like $10 worth of oil to put in the deep fryer. I guess I can fry them in a pan with less oil, but it just isn't the same.

Fry them in Lard once and youll never go back.

[Ziggy]

Because I'll be dead?

[fastbilly1]

Most fast food places, McDonalds in particular, fried in lard until the late 80s. Most of taste is carried in fat, which is why things taste better with butter and why so many meats "taste like chicken." Lard is fat, so cooking in it adds a different level of taste to the food.

[brunoafh]

Lard is fat, so cooking in it adds a different level of taste to the food.

It also adds new levels of fat and arterial plaque. There are plenty of ways to flavor your food without resorting to soaking it in lard.

[fastbilly1]

Lard is fat, so cooking in it adds a different level of taste to the food.

It also adds new levels of fat and arterial plaque. There are plenty of ways to flavor your food without resorting to soaking it in lard.

I am fully aware, but nothing can come close to that taste.

[Stark]

Lard is fat, so cooking in it adds a different level of taste to the food.

It also adds new levels of fat and arterial plaque. There are plenty of ways to flavor your food without resorting to soaking it in lard.

I am fully aware, but nothing can come close to that taste.

I would disagree that frying something in animal fat is any worse for you to frying it in a combination of hydrogenated vegetable oils, in fact I'd say it's better for you.

[harper]

This morning felt like Christmas, I got 3 packages in the mail all filled with gaming goodness. Can't wait to clean and try out all this new stuff.