Deep Frying with Peanut Oil and a quick Physics Lesson
Posted: July 18th, 2007, 1:40 am
Here's a few tips and tricks, and a physics lesson I re-learned a few hours ago...
Physics Lesson: Heat and Pressure are related. Something under pressure can get much much hotter than you think possible
Peanut Oil: Something about Peanut Oil multiplies this effect by 100
Tip: When the burner is about medium, and you have a lid on there creating pressure, peanut oil can easily heat to well over 600 degrees.
Tip: If you have a thermometer that only goes up to 600, and you stick it in hot peanut oil that's been sitting on the medium burner for 20-30 minutes while you clean more scallops because you decided you didn't have quite enough, it very well may explode.
Tip: Just milliseconds after your 600 degree thermometer explodes, you may learn that the peanut oil is hot enough to make the ambient air flammable
Trick: If you find this to be the case, don't be a retard and squirt water on it. Put the lid back on.
Tip: If you execute this maneuver, regardless of how successful, and you used to have hairy arms, you probably will not after that.
Tip: Burned hair smells even worse if you just got home from fishing and had a bunch of bug spray on it.
Tip: The smoke from burned peanut oil mixed with the smell of melted bugspray-hair is one of the most horrible smells in the world.
Trick: If your house still smells like a grease fire and it's still a little cloudy near the kitchen after venting for an hour or so, be glad you still have your hairless arm and your house, grab a Corona, and hit up the fishing forums. The more you drink, the less dominant the smell becomes, and the funnier it is that you narrowly avoided burning the house down and lost all the hair on your left arm.
Mega-Tip: If you have an assortment of outdoor fryers and 8 or 10 pots to choose from, it's a good idea to use one of them instead of the stove and small pot because "you're only cooking a little and don't want to waste the oil and have to clean a big pot"
Physics Lesson: Heat and Pressure are related. Something under pressure can get much much hotter than you think possible
Peanut Oil: Something about Peanut Oil multiplies this effect by 100
Tip: When the burner is about medium, and you have a lid on there creating pressure, peanut oil can easily heat to well over 600 degrees.
Tip: If you have a thermometer that only goes up to 600, and you stick it in hot peanut oil that's been sitting on the medium burner for 20-30 minutes while you clean more scallops because you decided you didn't have quite enough, it very well may explode.
Tip: Just milliseconds after your 600 degree thermometer explodes, you may learn that the peanut oil is hot enough to make the ambient air flammable
Trick: If you find this to be the case, don't be a retard and squirt water on it. Put the lid back on.
Tip: If you execute this maneuver, regardless of how successful, and you used to have hairy arms, you probably will not after that.
Tip: Burned hair smells even worse if you just got home from fishing and had a bunch of bug spray on it.
Tip: The smoke from burned peanut oil mixed with the smell of melted bugspray-hair is one of the most horrible smells in the world.
Trick: If your house still smells like a grease fire and it's still a little cloudy near the kitchen after venting for an hour or so, be glad you still have your hairless arm and your house, grab a Corona, and hit up the fishing forums. The more you drink, the less dominant the smell becomes, and the funnier it is that you narrowly avoided burning the house down and lost all the hair on your left arm.
Mega-Tip: If you have an assortment of outdoor fryers and 8 or 10 pots to choose from, it's a good idea to use one of them instead of the stove and small pot because "you're only cooking a little and don't want to waste the oil and have to clean a big pot"
