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Broasted Chicken
Have you ever had Broasted Chicken? No that isn't a typo...for those who don't know about this delicious delicacy of a time gone by Broasting is the process of pressure frying. Typically chicken is Broasted in paprika and spices
Broasting can not be done at home, and the equipment is only sold by one little company in Wisconsin - this was big in the 1950's and really hard to find today. If you've never had it then go find some, and if you have had it please post here and let us know where it is! Below is my list.
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Such things feature prominently in one of my favorite books by William Gibson, Spook Country:
She ate dollar-fifty-nine barbecue beef rib with broasted potatoes off a paper plate on the trunk of the Passat, waiting for Alberto to turn up at Mr. Sippee, a blessed oasis of peace and mutual respect situated in a twenty-four-hour convenience store at the Arco gas station at Blaine and Eleventh. Nobody messed with you in Mr. Sippee. She knew that from her previous stay in Los Angeles, and that was what brought her here now. Close to the tents under the freeway, Ms. Sippee catered to an eclectic clientele of the more functionally homeless, sex workers of varied gender and presentation, pimps, police officers, drug dealers, office workers, artists, musicians, the map-lost as well as the life-lost, and anyone in serious search of the perfect broasted potatoes. You ate standing up, if you had a car to put your food on. If you didn't, you sat on the curb out front. She had often thought, while eating there, that the United Nations could do worse than investigate the pacific powers of broasted potatoes. [...] She studied the pattern of potato grease on her empty paper plate. If you knew enough Greek, she thought, you could assemble a word that meant divination via the pattern of grease left on a paper plate by broasted potatoes. But it would be a long word. |
I thought all KFC was pressure fried?
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Had it in Richland WA. Can't remember the name of the restaurant. It was about 30 years ago.
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I remember a place in either Lanesboro or possibly Cheshire, Ma. It had a big rooster out front and a sign advertising Broasted Chicken. My father in law would pick it up about once a month. Some of the best chicken I've ever eaten. Juicy but never greasy.
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Broasted Chicken
It's pretty common in the Detroit area. I'm pretty sure chicken shack is broasted chicken, and a few of the Coney Island type restaurants here serve it. It's a little greasy, but better than KFC. :)
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I love broasted chicken. And it's not as gone as you'd think. The Broaster company is very much in business and has a store locator here: http://www.broasterexpress.com/store-locator/
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This brings back memories of Gladstone, Michigan
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Learn something new every day. I'll keep an eye out for it when I am next in the USA. Sounds good
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Originally Posted by MAN Pax
(Post 25116377)
I thought all KFC was pressure fried?
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It's big around Harrisburg, PA.
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Presumably the reason why you'd broast a chicken rather than roasting one in America is because it is both quick and less healthy ?
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Originally Posted by uk1
(Post 25119505)
It is
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Originally Posted by SimonB77
(Post 25119891)
Or it was. If it still is you could have fooled me. KFC tastes nothing like it used to.
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Originally Posted by SimonB77
(Post 25119891)
Or it was. If it still is you could have fooled me. KFC tastes nothing like it used to.
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