“Americans adore fried foods and yet we’re willing to entrust the process to tenth graders wearing polyester smocks and funny hats…strange.
YOU: What the heck’s so great about frying?
ME: Remember the mean Terminator in Terminator2?
YOU: The guy that was made out of that liquid metal stuff?
ME: Imagine having a pan made out of that stuff. That’s what frying’s like.
YOU: How’s that?
ME: Because you fry in fat, and fat’s dry.
YOU: But it’s a liquid.
ME: Just because it’s a liquid doesn’t mean it’s wet. Mercury’s a liquid.
YOU: Well, it doesn’t matter. Fried food’s greasy.
ME: Not if you do it right.”
-from the intro to the chapter on Frying in Alton Brown’s I’m Just Here for the Food: Version 2.0; Stewart, Tabori & Chang; New York, 2006
