For me fresh fried chicken is better than cold, but cold fried chicken is better than microwaved. In the rare event that I have left overs sometime I put it in friend rice lol
Better not eat too much chicken or you'll run out of friends.
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Still says “friend rice” over here lol. Does your instance reflect edits?
I believe there's some federation problem lately? Oh well. I should be mindful of not eating all my friend chicken.
I don't know if it's better, but it's definitely good! Like cold pizza is good. It's just a different food.
Cold pizza is a better breakfast.
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Chicken is almost always best not reheated. You risk drying it out, and ruining the texture.
I've not tried it, but a couple of min in the air fryer might crisp up the breading without overcooking the meat.
I've done that often, and it's pretty good. French fries too, you can get one adequate reheat in an air fryer, but it's touchy... a couple of minutes at the temp that works best in your fryer, and nothing more, or they turn into garbage twigs. Still don't finish them and try it again? Garbage twigs. The line between ever so slightly overcrisped, yet still solid, leftover fries and garbage twigs is rather thin.
Re-oil and you will be fine for both.
If you're sticking with "better" then I think you've got an unpopular opinion there.
Still, it's good though.
Standing by it. Prefer it over fresh n hot.
Cold fried chicken alone is not my preferred way of eating it; I love to use it in a salad! As it hits the spot only then for me, otherwise I gently reheat before eating. Cold pizza, that rates way higher for me.
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Have to disagree. Good cold, but better warmed up, just like your mother.
You monster. Have my angry upvote
Cold fried chicken is pretty good and so is cold pizza.
I think how good cold fried chicken tastes depends very much on the type of oil it was fried in, and whether it's been overcooked and/or has sat under a heat lamp for too long. Under the right circumstances cold fried chicken can be fantastic. But it's pretty easy to make it bad.
Your last sentence makes it a bit tough. I want to upvote as I think the fresh hot chicken is better but cold is not bad to the point I would rather do cold than microwave it.
Ew, upvote
The problem isn't flavor, imo. Cold chicken is really good, in different ways from warm and hot. Dunno if I'd say better, but good in its own way.
It's texture. Doesn't matter what the temp is if the breading isn't good, and cold breading might taste fine, but the texture is crap. Might as well not have fried chicken at that point, just pick up a rotisserie chicken instead, and go to town with it cold.
But, yeah, definitely an unpopular opinion!
My 4 yo kid agrees with you
I personally don't like it cold but I'm not surprised that you do - it gives seasoning more time to penetrate into the meat, and the texture gets really different.
Dude. Core memory unlocked. I’ve been vegetarian for 20 years and vegan for 5ish…but cold fried chicken was the shit of my childhood. Maybe that explains a lot lol. But I’m with you brother/sister/other
What. The. Fuck.
Then you just haven't had good fried chicken. The shit from KFC or grocery stores wouldn't matter cause it was never good to begin with.
I agree with you. My partner that his we are both nuts.
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