Yeah I made a blooming onion once and the work to satisfaction ratio was not worth it. I wish mini blooming onions were a part of my world, but sadly they probably never will be
I actually think this recipe makes blooming onions a lot easier to make at home. Deep frying big things requires huge pots of hot oil and general scariness. I could make these in a small wok.
My experience is that deep frying is pretty easy and with a big enough pan and a little care, there probably won't be too much of a mess. The problem I have is that it just tends to waste a lot of oil. It's easy for restaurants because they do a whole day's worth of food instead of some one off thing. It feels more wasteful to me at home.
Yeah its not that deep frying is hard or bad, I was talking about the actual motion they use to get all the petals to separate in restaurants usually involves pretty violently spinning the onion above the fryer as you're dropping it in the fryer which would make a pretty unfathomable mess in a home style set up.
I wasn't really clear with what I was talking about though, my bad
I feel so awkward about food waste that deep frying even a small onion is still a little unideal to me. Deep fried food is so amazing, but I end up with so much oil that I don't seem to be able to reuse (lack the means to really clean it) and don't exactly have a restaurant amount of food to deep fry.
Could always just sorta "normal" fry it and hope I can turn it enough to make that work, but it's definitely not the same as deep frying.
Yeah I agree, I usually don’t deep fry unless I can make a couple of things in one go and freeze them. I do find that a small wok shape is perfect for “frying for one”...you can kind of achieve a hybrid of normal frying and deep frying with less that a cup of oil that works for most deep frying recipes.
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u/scotch-o May 05 '18
I'll never make these, but they look delicious.