February 9, 2009

i'm feeling so blue, i think i'm gonna fry

Well its my first fry test and until i get the hang of layout, and get a hold of a proper digital camera, theses posts will be a little sloppy. Here goes:
Looking around my kitchen at work, trying to decide what to fry, i come about our cheese stack in the walk-in fridge. a delicious chunk of blue cheese. Now I've had mozza sticks and cheddar sticks before, but none of the crumblier cheeses seem to get deep fried as much. As a blue cheese lover, i figured why not? after a few comments from my coworker chuck of "that's gonna make a huge mess", i collected all the deep frying ingredients. we had just finished making deep fried haddock for fish and chips (next time maybe?) and still had some batter left over from that. the batter consisted of flour, beer, a half a can of soda water some baking soda, a little Cajun, some pepper, all mixed to the nice battery consistency. we don't really measure it, as my friend hawk says, measuring kills kittens. then i grabbed some flour in a bowl and cut a chunk of the blue cheese about the size of two dice stacked on top of each other, carefully, because it crumbles easily.
i took the chunk, dipped it into the flour, then the batter. the batter didn't seem to want to hold on very well to the blue cheese, so i decided to add an extra step and dip it into some panko breadcrumbs mixed with Cajun spice to make sure i had a good coating around the blue cheese as i didn't want it melting and creating a huge mess in the fryer.

it was a little sloppy and a little rushed, but it seemed to hold up. i put it in the fryer and fried it for approx 45 seconds until the breadcrumbs started to brown (our fryers are set at 375f).
it came out a nice solid crunchy square. i ate it, as i promise to eat everything i fry, and was quite surprised, it was pretty good. crunchy on the outside, soft gooey bluecheesyness on the inside, and for a brief second it's what i imagined french people eating in sports bars. all in all, as a first attempt to deep fry a crumbly cheese, it wasn't great but it wasn't terrible. i give it 5 fries out of ten.

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