The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science

COATING Style   3:

BEER    BATTER

Beer-Battered Fried Fish
Here’s the thing: Fish is extremely delicate, while frying is
horribly violent. Dropping a hunk of fish into a pot of hot
oil is like throwing an Ewok into a cage match with a
Terminator: it doesn’t stand a rat’s chance in hell.
This is particularly true of white-fleshed, slow-moving,
bottom-dwelling fish like cod or halibut. These large
ichthyoids spend the vast majority of their time slowly