/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>6888821
This is a troll post, please ignore.

>>6888826
no

I am not hip with your epic meh-meh's
just tell me why it's stupid to cook it in butter

>>6888905
probably cos butter has too low a burn point
you could try but youd have to be careful not to burn the butter, you dont want the butter any darker than brown.

you can use butter. different smoke point and taste. probably not the taste you want but if you're desperate go ahead.

>>6888821
you will have to be very careful to not burn the butter while you cook.

also, butter will make your schnitzels really buttery/fatty tasting, but tbh I love butter and I would eat anything cooked in butter

>>6888905
Its not. Its stupid to fry it in olive oil. You are supposed to fry it in butter.

>>6888939
> Its stupid to fry it in olive oil.
why

>>6888905
just make sure the butter boils down first. the fat has a pretty high smoke point actually, it's just the other shit that'll burn

>>6888951
It loses its flavour. It goes rancid. It becomes as unhealthy as vegetable oil, perhaps even more so.

>>6888987
Only at higher temps, but yeah, it's hard to avoid those temps.

>>6888916
burger detected

>>6888987
I think the main problem is that olive oil has a lower flashpoint.

You either cook it hot and get a nice fry that tastes like rancid oil, or you cook it so slowly that you end up with a soggy undercooked lump with no fry coating.

>>6889078
And that's exactly why coconut oil is boss.

Long live the biggest, brownest of nutz.

fry it in lard when I was living in naziland somtimes they use lard instead of butter

Clarify your butter and you'll drastically raise the smoking point. A simple Google will teach you how. Easy way is to heat it up and scoop from the top with a ladle.

>>6889151
Excuse me, can you clarify that?

>>6889165

make ghee.

>>6889165
google it, please.

clarify butter by heating it and scooping out all the cloudy white bits that separate out. it will help prevent the butter from burning too quickly.

>>6889182
>>6889190
Guys it was a joke. Clarify? Get it?

>>6889193
I got it

>>6889193
bah dum tss

>>6888821
Clarified butter is actually way more authentic than olive oil.

>>6888987
>tfw ate 5 lbs of fried zuchini last night, all cooked in vegetable oil

Yeah, but it isn't so healthy

>>6889193
YOU ARE SO SHIT
GIT OVER HERE

>>6888939
>Its stupid to fry it in olive oil.
yes
>You are supposed to fry it in butter.
no

My schnitzel is always still raw in the middle. How do I find the balance of hot enough oil so that it doesn't become soggy, but not so hot that it makes the outside totally BLACKED?

>>6892533
by pounding it flatter, it should only take a few seconds either side

You don't really even need to add oil or butter when pan frying. Medium low and cover for a bit, it still gets crispy and cooked through, just not greasy. done this twice with homemade pork, egg, panko - no problems.

I just use sunflower oil. Neutral taste and turns out perfectly crispy. Olive oil gives a weird taste.

>>6888987
>unhealthy

Look faggot, you're frying something if health is your major concern try eating boiled chicken.

>>6892533
>raw in the middle
How thick is your Schnitzel man holy shit

>>6894703
I like peanut oil the best personally.

>>6892533
Less oil
Less heat
Its not rocket science

>>6888821

Clarify the butter. Use vegetable oil.

>>6888911
he could always just make clarified butter and cook with that.

>not using lard

>going this full of retard

>>6888821
Original "Cotoletta alla Milanese" recipe requires butter.
Reason is that in the 1800 butter was way more common than oil in the north of italy. Now it's commonly fired in olive oil, but in Milan if you go to a local/typical restaurant they cook it in butter. I like it in both ways.

Jesus, i can't believe there are so many laymen in here.

You should cook Schnitzel in clarified butter. Not butter, clarified butter.

What's the difference? Butter is full of whey and water and protein and other milk solids that burn.
If you tried to fry Schnitzel in regular butter, it would be a fucking mess. At first you'd notice that the butter would separate into a white foam that would cover your Schnitzel and a yellow oil. Then the white foam would start turning brown and then go black before your food is cooked.

To make clarified butter, just bring the oil to a light simmer on very low heat and then scum all the white foam that appears on top and keep doing it until no more foam appears. Use that golden buttery oil as you would any other cooking oil.

Lard would be a good substitute. Vegetable Oil and regular cheap olive oil would be sloppy substitutions. Extra Virgin Olive Oil would be the worst for this preparation.