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This was enjoyable, but I’m unclear on what that alternative to Panko was. Did he say, “Dixie fry”? I’ve never heard of this.
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use it for fried chicken, catfish, grouper, snapper, alligator, onion rings, okra and more. kinda southern, I guess. it was some southerners living in Los Angeles what launched the brand. I don’t use it. make my own fry-up for the relatively few times I ever fry anything (like grouper!)
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Glad to see he used a spoon to lower it into the hot oil the second time. Dropping it into hot oil from your hand is a recipe for serious burns.
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I’ve never fried water but I have burned it before. It’s pretty terrible, especially when it’s the only thing you have to drink at 13000 feet.
Two observations:
- if he’d added some food dye to the solution in the spoon you’d have been able to see it as it reacted with the other solution in the bowl to create the bombs.
- I suspect the first panko bomb broke in the oil because the water inside the bladder heated to boiling then burst through the membrane.
Neat experiment 
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This is actually a common technique in fancy pants restaurants but with a good justification of creating an explosion of flavor in your mouth.
I was lucky enough to have a ‘once in a lifetime’ meal in France where they served a poached oyster on the shell dissected in two with two tastes of the ocean - the white pearl was broken and released seaweed smoke!!!
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Why is he poking them with the fork before putting them in his mouth though?
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Alginate-calcium encapsulation was cool exactly once when the Adrias did it and the novelty outweighed the gross texture.
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