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Due to the high temperatures of deep frying food, the cooking oil used in your Electric Deep Fryer will over time become rancid tasting.  The rancidity is caused by several factors.  They are oxidation, the formation of polymers, and acrylamide formation from starchy foods exposed to high temperatures (french fries, bread, potato chips).

These substances are toxic and for the health of your family, you should change your oil every three months or as soon as your oil starts to become rancid, whichever occurs first.

You can tell if your oil is spoiled by the following tests.

• Color: your oil turned from a light golden color to a dark brown
• Texture: your oil is thick and has a syrup like consistency
• Cooking: when you heat your oil, you get smoke or foam at the surface
• Taste: your oil has a rancid odor and taste

If any of the above is true, then it’s time to change the oil in your Electric Deep Fryer.  Of course, you can make your oil last longer and avoid rancidity by using an Electric Deep Fryer with a cover and periodically filtering your oil to remove leftover bits of starch.  The DeLonghi D895UX Cool Touch ROTO Electric Fryer is a good model which has a built in filter and cover.

Deep Fried Pizza

Deep fried pizza is a very popular dish, especially in Scotland where it originated.  This particular dish was first created in the 1970s and is often served with a side of potato wedges.  Any number of toppings is possible and in the south of Scotland, the deep fried pizza is smothered in a brown sauce and folded in half.  It’s also possible to get a deep fried pizza with salt and vinegar and brown sauce.

Pizza can be deep fried with or without batter depending on regional variation.  A battered pizza would obviously have a crunchier exterior.  Deep fried pizza is a perfect food to cook up in you home Electric Deep Fryer since it’s a small appetizer food that anybody can make.

Deep fried pizza is also a very popular dish in Italy.  In an Italian deep fried pizza, the toppings and sauce are sealed inside two layers of pizza dough, forming a pizza pie.  The most simple fried pizza is simply pizza dough topped with salt or sugar and deep fried.  This is known as pizzarella, avvoltolo, gnocco fritto, and other names.

Delicious Light Crunchy Fried Food We all know that deep frying is the process of cooking food by submerging it in hot oil or fat.  Frying is a very fast cooking process due to the high temperatures involved and completely dry since no water is involved.   But how do electric deep fryers cook food?  What makes our food so crispy and light and what causes some fried food to be greasy and soggy if cooked improperly?

Okay, the science behind deep frying is this.  Any moisture inside the food is converted to steam as soon as the food is added to the hot oil.  This steam pushes against the hot oil and as it does this, causes bubles in the surface of the food (i.e. batter).  This is what causes fried food to be light and crunchy.

Now if you continue to cook the food in your Electric Deep Fryer until all the moisture is gone, then you’ll start to get greasy and soggy food.  As soon as the water runs out, there’s nothing pushing against the oil to keep it out of your food and all the oil will seep in.  This can also happen if your oil is not hot enough to cause the moisture inside of your food to turn into water vapor.

So now you know, the secret to perfect fried food is to only fry as long as necessary and to set your Electric Deep Fryer to a temperature of 345-375 degrees Fahrenheit or 175-190 degrees Celsius.