Brilio.net - The process of frying food often makes the oil dirty, quickly black, and unhealthy to reuse. When food is fried, the remains of flour, crumbs, and other food ingredients can be released and burned in the oil, causing the oil to become cloudy and dark in color.
This dirty oil not only reduces the taste of fried food, but can also produce harmful compounds that are detrimental to health if used repeatedly. Another factor that affects the cleanliness of cooking oil is the frying temperature that is too high. In addition, some foods such as eggs or fish can cause oil to smell and foam.
This condition certainly further reduces the quality of the oil, so it can no longer be used. To overcome this, some people often use special tricks, such as using garlic. So, this garlic will be fried in foamy and smelly oil. Garlic is considered to be able to remove foam and dirt in oil, making it cleaner.
But instead of cleaning cooking oil with garlic, you can use another way so that the oil is not dirty, foamy, and smelly when used. This method was once practiced by Instagram user @ummubalqishaura through her upload. In the video, she admitted that this trick tends to be more practical because you can maintain the quality of the cooking oil after use.
photo: Instagram/@ummubalqishaura
As reported by BrilioFood from Instagram @ummubalqishaura on Monday (9/9), the method used is to add one kitchen dregs to the oil when used for frying. To be more precise, the kitchen dregs in question are egg shells. So, these egg shells have a number of benefits that can help maintain the quality of cooking oil.
But before use, these unused eggshells must be washed first. You can simply rinse them under running water until there is no egg residue left. After that, dry them with tissue so that the water is completely gone.
photo: Instagram/@ummubalqishaura
Next, you can fry the food as usual in oil and a pan. While frying the food, put in the cleaned egg shells. Then fry the food with the egg shells until cooked.
photo: Instagram/@ummubalqishaura
According to Instagram user @ummubalqishaura, these eggshells have several important functions. When put into oil, eggshells can reduce the remaining dirty oil, absorb bad odors, and prevent foam from forming. In addition, eggshells also help prevent oil from burning quickly while reducing oil splashes produced during the frying process.
This upload about the trick of frying food immediately caught the attention of netizens. Since it was uploaded on Sunday (8/9), the video has been watched more than 1 million times on Instagram. It is not surprising that many other Instagram users are interested and admit that they just found out the trick of frying food using eggshells.
" Just found out, Umma, thank God I've gained new knowledge ," said Instagram @safaralles.
" I often find my oil foaming, especially when I'm frying, the oil can overflow, " explained Instagram @faiha_94.
" Very useful tips, because I like making cheese egg rolls. Thank you, " commented the Instagram account @indah.naira.