Making fried foods healthier: a bunch of basic tips

Of course, chefs can’t do without frying. That’s an ancient classical way of cooking that enables us to quickly serve a wide range of delicious dishes. However, it’s not easy to make fried foods tasty and simultaneously healthy. Let’s see how it can be achieved. First, we should look through the causes of making frying complicated. Then, we’ll consider smart solutions to this issue.

Keys to healthy frying: time, temperature and oil.

Oil turns out to be the very basis of frying. It simultaneously acts as an ingredient of the recipe and a means of heat transmission. Getting absorbed by the food when it’s cooked, it creates the breaded cover in which the food’s wrapped. However, oil tends to change its authentic structure due to oxidization when heated. At higher temperatures, it generates two adverse results:  

• For those who like fried dishes: Oil reacts with food components at high temperatures to produce certain chemical compounds. By the way, some of them, in particular, acrylamide, can demonstrate toxic properties in the long run.
  
• For chefs: At the smoking point (that’s heat momentum when the oil begins to generate smoke) it can do harm to cookers through inhalation of the vapors and also via probable fire bursts because some of the vapors happen to be inflammable.  
  

In order to diminish or avert such risks, you should pay attention to the following nuances:

• Choose oil of decent quality.
  
• Carefully set the right cooking time.
  
• Strictly control the temperature at which oil is kept in the frying machine.
  

As for the oil quality, that’s the chef’s choice, while the remaining two mostly depend on the professional cooking appliances employed. That’s where cutting-edge solutions from Electrolux Professional would come in handy. The company’s fryers meet these specific requirements and ensure better control over:

• The temperature the oil is kept at
  
• The cooking time setting
  
• The quality of the oil in the long run  
  

As a matter of fact, the professional fryers from this company separate food particles and prevent them from burning inside the oil, thus generating harmful stuff. The life of the oil utilized is prolonged due to the cutting-edge filtering system.

Standby modes come with the low-temperature set. Moreover, the automatic basket lifting system prevents food from staying inside the oil more than required. In addition to this, the automatic load compensation function has the cooking time adjusted to the quantity of food in the machine.