Popeyes operates under a "Never Frozen" policy, only serving fresh, prime-quality chicken. They use a 75% beef shortening blend and 25% vegetable oil to fry their chicken pieces. The
Oil -- You will need oil for frying your chicken. Popeye's uses canola and soybean oil, but just about any oil is sufficient for frying chicken. The most popular oils are vegetable, canola, and peanut oils -- their high smoke points and neutral flavors make them best for fried chicken.
KFC typically uses a blend of vegetable oils for frying their chicken, with canola oil and palm oil being common components. The exact blend can vary by location and over time based on supply and cost considerations.
Did you know, we fry our chicken and seafood separately. Because at Popeyes, flavors don't mix where they shouldn't.
Does Chick-Fil-A Fry Their Chicken In Peanut Oil? Yes, Chick-Fil-A uses peanut oil for their fried chicken products, so peanut oil is a great choice for home frying too. Peanut oil is ideal for frying due to its high smoke point, meaning it can maintain high temperatures without smoking.
For Frying, McDonald's Uses A Canola Oil Blend
The fries are cut, blanched, pre-fried, and frozen by suppliers, and once they're ready to be served to customers, they're finished off in a canola oil blend of non-hydrogenated rapeseed and sunflower oil.
Five Guys Style
Freshly made boardwalk-style fries, cooked in pure, cholesterol-free, 100% peanut oil. Cut fresh and cooked twice – firm on the outside and mashed potato on the inside.
Our Filet-o-Fish® patty is cooked separately from meat items in 100% vegetable oil. However, due to the design of the oil filtration system, during the oil filtering process, there is a small chance the oil used to cook our fish patties can come into contact with oil that has been used to cook chicken products.
May be cooked in the same oil as menu items that contain Egg, Milk, and Fish (where available). Frying Oil: Corn Oil, Soybean Oil, Canola Oil, Hydrogenated Soybean Oil, with Dimethylpolysiloxane (to reduce foaming).
SHRIMP.... High allergen food.... cooked in same oil with chicken, french fries, and veggie rolls that go with Zensation Salad... if you have an allergy.. don't eat here!
Panda Express entrees and sides contain zero grams of trans fat per serving and adds no MSG in their food. Panda Express uses only 100% pure soybean oil in the preparation of recipes.
Sister brand Taco Bell also said Monday that its U.S. restaurants have completely switched to an oil with zero grams of trans fat. All 4,200 single-brand Taco Bells were converted to a canola oil, and all 1,400 multibrand locations switched to a soybean oil, the fast food chain said.
At In-N-Out, french fries come from the finest, freshest potatoes. They're shipped right from the farm, individually cut in our stores, and then cooked in 100% sunflower oil. Our shakes are just as genuine — made with real ice cream.
Our fried menu items are cooked in a vegetable oil blend with citric acid added as a processing aid and dimethylpolysiloxane to reduce oil splatter when cooking.
The new enterprise became Ultrafryer – manufacturing industry-leading deep fryer solutions for retail food service customers. Ultrafryer continued to build on its commitment to gas-fryer innovation as the supplier of choice for Popeye's and Church's – generating $3 million in annual sales.
Does Chick-fil-A use peanut oil? Ever since our founder Truett Cathy created the Chick-fil-A® Chicken Sandwich, we've been cooking our hand-breaded chicken exclusively in fully refined, heat-processed peanut oil.
Our Hot & Crispy fries are cooked in a vegetable oil and have cross contact with chicken nuggets and certain other menu items.
Once in our kitchens, we cook them in our canola-blend oil so you can have them crispy and hot—just the way you like them. Want to hear more about our fry ingredients?
Although the Tartare Sauce used in our Filet-o-Fish® is suitable for vegetarians, it is not Halal. (We do not currently serve any halal certified menu items in the U.K.)
Prepared in vegetable oil (canola oil, corn oil, soybean oil, hydrogenated soybean oil) with citric acid as a preservative. McDonald's ingredients can vary outside of the US.
Products fried in a shared fryer include but may not be limited to: Fish Filet, Pork Sausage, Crispy Chicken Patty, Chicken Nuggets, Original Chicken Patty, Spicy Original Chicken Patty, Hash Browns, French Fries, French Toast Sticks and Onion Rings.
Our fryer oil contains: corn, canola, soy and/or cottonseed oils.
Our Restaurants - FAQ's
We currently use butter on the grill, beef tallow/canola oil in our fryers, and a blended oil on our Smash Fries. To see the full list of offerings, please visit www.smashburger.com and select the “Menu” tab at the top of the page and then select "Nutrition".
The hamburger buns and meat are dairy, egg and nut free. The fries are safe there as well. Because the menu is so simple, they are cooked in a dedicated fryer using sunflower oil.