lol so almost every day for the last little while, I've been making poached eggs and frying potatos in a pan hash brown style. I'm wondering if this is unhealthy for me. I use organic potatos and fry them with organic extra virgin olive oil. I've read that heating up oil to very high temperatures transforms some of it into trans fat, but would this be occuring from frying over medium heat over the stove? Or is there some other reason why this would be unhealthy? What do you think?
It sounds like you're making them as healthy as you could. But generally frying anything is never too healthy. Equally, frying kills heat sensitive vitamins. My sports coaches always said to avoid frying stuff. But as I said, it's not the worst thing you could be eating at any stretch of the imagination.
thanks for your input. yeah i was under the assumption that it wasn't too healthy to be frying them on a regular basis. I'll probably end up stopping. Its too bad, they go good with poached eggs lol.
EVOO is probably the least worst oil you can use for cooking/frying. Just don't start mainlining it and you should be good
Making fried potatoes at home with wholesome fresh ingredients is a thousand times better than going through Mc Donald's drive through.... so keep on frying!
Oh man, I could never give up fried taters, 'specialy with eggs! Check it out... Don't use olive oil, although it is delicious, it tends to polymerize at frying temps. Use organic Coconut oil instead, It is a higher temp oil and OMG does it make some tasty fries! I use it for all my high temperature frying...I use walnut oil for saute and other low temp cooking. ZW
