B&W Pepper do not deliver the unique note or flavor of KFC

We split recipe #14 and I deep fried ~2/3 of it, while my Wife Air-Fried ~1/3. Neither my Wife or I could taste any spice level related differences between them at all when eating them side by side. My only complaint afterwards was that the Deep Fried version had an odd and mildly off-putting (by comparison) cooking oil flavor that assuredly would have gone completely unnoticed had there been no Air-Fried version to compare it with. #14 was only the second of my recipes to have used this oil, as #13 was cooked with fresh oil. So the oil's freshness is not to be blamed here.

I'm often amazed when randomized populations of "Triangle Test" participants fail to collectively evolve statistical significance (P<= 0.05) for notions generally taken by faith and/or pre-conceived confirmation bias to be truisms (with myself assuredly included here as one who undoubtedly has many of such biases, often due simply to following the crowds mantra/hearsay of the day and wanting to feel as if I belong).  Therefore to validly evaluate differences between Deep Frying and Air Frying to within any meaningful level of statistical significance I propose carefully designed and undertaken blind triangle testing.

I fully agree!  And this is precisely why I went out of my way to emphasize/include myself among the biased.

Using any other method than pressure frying is adding yet another level of difficulty to the process, even deep frying and pan frying will give different results, and by Air frying, we are removing the oil factor, which also adds a second layer of difficulty.


DT