Brilio.net - For beginners, cooking in the kitchen can be a scary activity, because unwanted tragedies often occur. For example, when frying chicken, hot oil that meets the chicken meat has a very high risk of exploding out of the pan.
The explosion of oil when frying food is really surprising. Especially if it comes into contact with the skin , the oil explosion risks causing injury. It's not surprising that there are a number of people who are traumatized and don't want to cook using frying techniques anymore. Or perhaps you are one of them?
However, for those of you who are often afraid of hot oil exploding, there is actually a frying trick so that the oil doesn't splash out of the pan, you know. One of the tricks was shared by the TikTok account user @masakanrumahsederhana. He explained that there is one kitchen ingredient that you can use to prevent hot oil from exploding.
"Who is lazy about frying chicken or fish because they are afraid of oil splashing? These are effective tips for explosion-proof frying pans," he wrote in the caption of the TikTok video @masakanrumahsederhana, quoted by BrilioFood on Wednesday (24/7).
photo: TikTok/@simplehomecooking
Before trying the trick, first prepare a frying pan filled with enough oil to fry chicken or other ingredients according to your taste. Heat the oil over medium stove heat, wait until the oil is hot enough.
photo: TikTok/@simplehomecooking
When the oil starts to get hot, sprinkle with a little flour. Yup, wheat flour is the main kitchen ingredient for practicing the trick for frying chicken so that the oil doesn't splash out of the pan. After adding flour, it means the oil is ready to be used to fry the chicken.
photo: TikTok/@simplehomecooking
Continue the process of frying the chicken as usual until the meat is cooked and browned. Guaranteed, the oil will be much calmer without explosions because it has been added with wheat flour.
How about it, it's a really simple trick to fry chicken so that the oil doesn't squirt out of the pan, right? Taking a peek at the comments column in the upload belonging to the TikTok account @masakanrumahsederhana, quite a few netizens were inspired by this trick, you know.
"Is that how it works?? I often cover the frying pan because I'm afraid it will explode," said TikTok @Festi | Story about and received an answer from the video owner, "if you add wheat flour it can reduce the explosion, sis, keeping the pan covered is better."
"If you fry the gizzard liver, can you also use flour, bro, oil?" asked TikTok @Flower Without Leaves, then replied, "You can, bro, please try."
"Oh yeah, bro?? You need to try this... usually fried chicken heads like to explode," said TikTok @Sanny | KePO received the reply, "Yes sis, I also often fry chicken heads and add flour and oil first, thank God it doesn't explode sis."