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Title: Chicken in oil
Post by: Ekram_123 on August 19, 2020, 01:41 PM
Hi all

I recently saw a video of a chef in an Indian take away taking chicken out from under the counter from what I can make it out to be a tub full of oil. My question is why was it filled with oil? My own chicken I pre cook it before we open and just keep it in tubs and take out when we need.
Title: Re: Chicken in oil
Post by: Garp on August 19, 2020, 03:32 PM
No offence intended, Ekram, but you seem to be asking a lot of questions which should probably have been answered before you started selling to the public.
Title: Re: Chicken in oil
Post by: Peripatetic Phil on August 19, 2020, 04:36 PM
I recently saw a video of a chef in an Indian take away taking chicken out from under the counter from what I can make it out to be a tub full of oil. My question is why was it filled with oil? My own chicken I pre cook it before we open and just keep it in tubs and take out when we need.

It was possibly not oil but "pre-cook juice", as it were.  Certainly when I pre-cook my chicken using Syed's method, the resulting juice is very oily, and it would make sense to retain this juice as a near-sterile medium in which to store the chicken.  As time goes on you will accumulate more and more of this juice, to the point where your pre-cooked chicken can be completely submerged in it, which will (a) keep the chicken moist, (b) inhibit decomposition, and (c) allow more flavour to infuse.

** Phil.
Title: Re: Chicken in oil
Post by: livo on August 19, 2020, 05:18 PM
Read Misty Ricardo's pre-cooked chicken instructions.
Title: Re: Chicken in oil
Post by: Ekram_123 on August 19, 2020, 09:34 PM
Hi! Dw no offence taken thank you for your input ????
Title: Re: Chicken in oil
Post by: Ekram_123 on August 19, 2020, 09:36 PM
What a brilliant idea I