The Fat Facts About Frying and Oven Baked

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Chef Mark from Hook to Cook has added the following comment:
Many people at our demos ask about deep frying as compared to oven baked. Every one is striving for a light and crispy coating that is not greasy. In order to achieve any type of a crispy coating in the oven you generally will find recipes that contain some type of crumb that is generally light brown in color and contains fat or is pre fried. Example Leading Italian Style Bread Crumbs  have 1.5 grams of fat per serving, compared to Hook to Cook Premium Coatings having 0 grams of fat per serving.

The recipe on the back of  most Bread Crumbs “ Crispy Baked Chicken” calls for:

1 cup bread crumbs................................................6 g. of fat
2 tablespoons margarine or butter..........................18 g of fat (margarine) or 22 g. (butter)
1 egg......................................................................5 g. of fat
                                                                    Total 29 g. of fat

29 g. of fat to be used on 6 chicken breast making 6 servings for a total of 4.8 g of fat per serving.

Hook to Cook Recipes recommend always use Pre-Dip instead of egg or egg and milk. Hook to Cook Pre-Dip contains 0 grams of fat. Our Pre-Dip can be used as an egg wash substitute, a tempura batter, or as a flour replacement where recipes call for food to be dusted in flour. Hook to Cook Pre-Dip when mixed with water as directed makes a superior adhesion batter forming an intermediate binding layer that produces a healthier entrée by preventing oil/fat absorption. Pre-Dip also seals in juices/moisture and nutrients, increases adhesion, crispness and prevents blow off during frying. Pre-Dip will also help food stay crisp longer when kept warm or on the table, and with its superb blend of flour and spice will enhance the flavors of any additional coatings giving you the results of a professional chef. Pre-Dip is highly recommended to be used with all Hook to Cook Premium Coatings.

Once dipped in Pre-Dip your Chicken breast would then be coated in Hook to Cook Premium Light & Crispy Coating as a dry mix and then pan fried or deep fried. (canola oil recommended) Hook to Cook Premium Coatings contains 0 grams of fat and the Canola oil has 0 grams Trans Fat.

Using the scientific results from the Singapore Polytechnic School of Chemical and Life Sciences (shown at LifeWhile ) you will learn that unbreaded chicken will absorb 2.75 grams of fat. Breaded Deep fried chicken will absorb 4.8 grams. Comparing these results with
the recipe on the back of most Bread Crumbs for Crispy Baked Chicken you will see that oven baked chicken will have 4.8 grams of fat per serving..

Comparing apples to apples:
Oven baked breaded chicken will have 4.8 grams of fat per serving.

Deep fried or pan fried chicken breaded chicken will have 4.8 grams of fat per serving.

Chicken coated in Hook to Cook Premium products pan fried of deep fried will have less then 4.8 grams of fat per serving.

Note: 4.8 grams of fat is only 7% of the daily value based on a 2,000 calorie diet.