Fried Chicken
1/6/25 - This tasted amazing. I spent most of 2020-22 running daily to a local pizza place for fried wings. A flavored, rather small 5-piece cost me 6 bucks, then I'd give a tip of 10 bucks on top of that. Similarly I'd spend 20-30 dollars a pop ordering take-out from Popeye's or Chick-Fil-A.
Turns out all that was totally unnecessary and unhealthy. Instead of poisoning myself with seed oils and F-grade meat, I can use avocado oil and high-quality chicken for a much healthier, heartier meal at home.
The avocado oil is probably the most expensive part. It costs around 8 dollars for enough to fry chicken. But then I can fry 2 pounds of chicken (costing 5 bucks) which is enough for 2 meals. So that's $6.50 per meal for more and better food.
Really a steal, and I also feel pretty hardcore frying chicken on my stove. I want to get into Indian cooking (with high-quality ghee instead of the seed oils used in American Indian restaurants and the gutter oil used in India/China), and I suspect this was a great introduction.
