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Brilio.net - Among the various cooking methods, frying is one of the most frequently used techniques. Frying food in oil can make it cook quickly. Apart from that, the texture of the food is also crisper and crunchier.
However, frying food has its own drawbacks , you know. Especially if the fried food tends to be watery and soft, such as fish. Usually frying fish can make the oil explode because of the large water content in the food.
So that when frying the oil doesn't explode, some people usually use special tricks. One way is to sprinkle flour or add ginger to the cooking oil used. These two ingredients are considered to be able to reduce cooking oil explosions.
Unfortunately, these two ingredients also have other impacts, you know. If you use flour, the oil will become cloudy and dirty, so you have to filter it first so it can be used again. Meanwhile, ginger itself is not always effective in reducing oil explosions when frying fish.
Instead, you can try a trick shared by TikTok user @ummu_balqis_haura. Through one of the uploaded videos, he admitted that he used other kitchen ingredients. Well, this ingredient can keep the oil calm and clean when used for frying fish.
Reported by BrilioFood from TikTok @ummu_balqis_haura on Thursday (8/2), the kitchen ingredient in question is salt. Well, this salt is believed to absorb water in cooking oil. Apart from that, salt also makes the pan non-sticky, so that the fried fish remains intact or doesn't fall apart.
However, how to use this salt needs further attention. If flour and ginger are usually added after the oil is hot, then not with salt.
TikTok user @ummu_balqis_haura also shared a simple method.
photo: TikTok/@ummu_balqis_haura
More specifically, prepare a clean and dry frying pan. After that, sprinkle a little salt evenly over the surface of the pan. Only then pour in cooking oil and heat over medium heat.
photo: TikTok/@ummu_balqis_haura
When the oil is hot, add the fish pieces you want to fry. Then fry the fish until dry, turning it so that it cooks evenly. There's no need to worry about it sticking, because the salt has coated the bottom of the pan, so the fish can be easily turned over without worrying about any parts sticking.
Apart from not being sticky, the oil used to fry fish tends to be calmer, you know. You can freely fry fish without worrying about oil splashing. This indicates that salt is really effective in absorbing excess water content in fish when fried.
photo: TikTok/@ummu_balqis_haura
If the fish is cooked, immediately remove it and drain it. When removed, the cooking oil will appear cleaner and clearer. Salt itself leaves almost no residue in the oil. This is different from flour which immediately makes cooking oil cloudy and difficult to reuse.
How about it, it's quite easy, right? You can apply this trick if you want to fry fish or other animal protein, such as beef or chicken. Guaranteed to be effective and not make the oil explode or even become cloudy.
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