# Deep Frying Foods **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [August 25, 1999, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deep-frying-foods/2836 "1999-08-25T18:11:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jake)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 1999, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deep-frying-foods/2836/1 "1999-08-26T05:03:00Z")
If I use oil low in saturated fat and high in unsaturates, cook at the proper temperature so the oil doesn’t soak in the food, just how unhealthy is deep frying? Or is it unhealthy at all? Assuming, of course, that I use low fat meat such as chicken, or veggies. * * * “A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.” -Anon ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 1999, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deep-frying-foods/2836/2 "1999-08-26T05:50:00Z")
If you do this with every meal you eat, yeah, this is gonna be unhealthy. But an occasional meal of greasy fried is not gonna kill you, unless you spill some of it in the floor and slip and hit your head or something. your humble TubaDiva Never fry bacon in the nude. ---
**Author:** ![Guy\_Propski](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/5e9695/32.png) [@Guy\_Propski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guy_Propski)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 1999, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deep-frying-foods/2836/3 "1999-08-25T18:11:00Z")
If you make sure that you cook with the oil at a high temperature, don’t leave the food sitting in the oil, and that you drain the food, you’ll prevent the oil from soaking into the food. This is not only (relatively) healthier, but tastier too. ---
**Author:** ![Nickrz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbce88/32.png) [@Nickrz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nickrz)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 1999, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deep-frying-foods/2836/4 "1999-08-25T19:49:00Z")
I always make sure my deep-fried Mozarella lumps are well drained. Sometimes I cook them in the nude, though. ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 1999, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deep-frying-foods/2836/5 "1999-08-26T00:20:00Z")
Eat whatever, but don’t fry in the nude. Oh, yeah. AP ran a story yesterday (that I didn’t read) titled something like “Government warns against frying while drunk” ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 1999, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deep-frying-foods/2836/6 "1999-08-26T02:00:00Z")
Friends don’t let friends fry drunk. your humble TubaDiva somebody had to say it! ---
**Author:** ![Doobieous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/da6949/32.png) [@Doobieous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doobieous)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 1999, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deep-frying-foods/2836/7 "1999-08-26T02:25:00Z")
THings with heavy batters on them tend to be really oily (Like KFC). Things with light batters hold less oils. For instance, the lightest fried food i have ever tried is Tempura. The batter is thin and light and not very oily (oily tempura is bad tempura). Anyway, if you eat fried things a lot, it is unhealthy. In other words, dont live off of KFC or Fried foods :). Eat things in moderation. ---
**Author:** ![DoctorJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctorj/32/2904_2.png) [@DoctorJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DoctorJ)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 1999, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deep-frying-foods/2836/8 "1999-08-26T15:58:00Z")
At Applebee’s they have a new dessert, the Chimi-Cheesecake, which attempts to create a whole new class of unhealthy food–fried cheesecake. Yes, of course I tried it. It was tasty. The angioplasty that followed it was successful. Dr. J