White butter, commonly known as shortening or special oil for fried chicken, is used for fried chicken in the catering industry. Ordinary households can use cooking oil when frying chicken.
Shortening refers to refined animal and vegetable oils, hydrogenated oils or mixtures of the above oils, solid oils obtained by rapid cooling and kneading, or solid or fluid oils obtained without rapid cooling or kneading. product.
Shortening usually contains hydrogenated vegetable oil, which is trans fat and is extremely harmful to the body.
Shortening has processing properties such as plasticity and emulsification. It is generally not suitable for direct consumption. It is used for processing pastries, bread or fried foods, so it must have good processing properties.