Most People Are Frying Okra Wrong! Try These Soul Food Tricks for Crispy Okra Every Time

📖 Get Mama Odessa's Complete Soul Food Kitchen Method, every recipe in Big Mama's kitchen written down and measured (106 recipes, 332 pages): https://mamaodessa.com?v=ba-1008-1706 Down at the end of my daughter's kitchen counter in Memphis, there sits a dishpan of okra I picked up this morning, and if I fried it the way most folks do, most of that pan would be ruined by supper. You rinse the pods, you cut them wet, you roll them through the meal, and you slide them into the grease. In this video: ✓ Why the short young pods beat the big pretty ones ✓ Getting the water off the okra before the meal goes on ✓ Cast iron, deep fat and a steady fire ✓ Why your hands should stay out of the skillet Tell me whose kitchen your okra came out of, and what that woman did with it that you still do today. Did anybody in your family ever write one word of it down, or did it live in her hands the way mine did? # FriedOkra #CrispyOkra #SoulFood #SouthernCooking #CastIronSkillet