The fried chicken skin quandry

[shoeless]

When eating fried chicken, one is faced with the decision of what to do with the breaded fried skin. It's usually quite tasty, but also very fatty. So what do you do?

 

[Andrew Sak]

We have been buying whole, roasted chickens.
Most of the time we throw out the skin.

 

[MonkeyZero]

We have been buying whole, riasted chickens.
Most of the time we throw out the skin.

Roasted skin and fried chicken skin are two very different things.

 

[micwalt]

I don't often eat fried chicken (or fried anything, for that matter), but when I do, I am sucking down that delicious skin.

 

[Denverdave]

If I am going to make the plunge and fry some chicken, everything but the bones gets eaten.

Just thinking - It's probably been well over a year (maybe two?) since I have had any fried chicken.

 

[rhino]

If I’m eating fried chicken I’m not trying to be healthy, I’m eating the skin.

 

[Andrew Sak]

Roasted skin and fried chicken skin are two very different things.

Yes. The other has grease and batter. You are still better off not eating too much chicken skin.

 

[yabba]

If I’m eating fried chicken I’m not trying to be healthy, I’m eating the skin.

This. Eating fried chicken but not eating the skin in an effort to be healthy seems like eating a hamburger but deciding to throw out the meat and the cheese to be healthy. Just order/make non-fried chicken.

 

[Tig]

The skin is unfit for human consumption.

 

[smurfco]

It eats the chicken with the skin or else it gets the hose again!

 

[Chad]

I love the fry.

 

[Knox in Box]

Someone went through the trouble to perfectly bread that stuff. It's the whole point of fried chicken. Just get roasted chicken if you're just going to toss the skin.

 

[jbj]

Why would you throw the best part away?

 

[tiger roach]

I'm eating all the crunchy goodness. Let no part of this bounty be wasted.

 

[jp_nyc]

Is the skin even really skin? Or is it just bread and batter?

 

[Jbird]

Is it original, or extra crispy?

 

[nuke_diver]

I need the extra calories anyways so I'm eating the skin, roast or fried (though fried chicken is a rarity around here). But often the boss buys boneless skinless chicken so

 

[Devil is Dill]

Shaking my head that this is even a question.

 

[Chicken Man]

Eating the skin if it's crispy--soggy chicken requires some emergency operations.

I'd been planning on trying chicken skin sandwiches this summer, but I couldn't get a batch of broilers to raise so I won't have a surplus of skin.

 

[dodgechargerfan]

If it’s crispy, it’s getting eaten.