Fry or use George Forman

James1968

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Lamont D

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I've thrown mine out!
I prefer to grill from my oven as it cooks better.
But if I fry the likes of eggs, I use duck fat or goose fat, so nice!!
I also fry my mushrooms, toms and onions!
 

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I bought a George Foreman grill and it is too wimpy - it only gets hot enough to dry out the food, not to cook the fat - which can leave it rather nasty in texture.
Before the George Foreman I had a cheap one from Lidl, which had a thermostat, which the George Foreman doesn't. That was very good.
 

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Wouldn't touch it, personally. I'm trying to up my fat, not lower it! Fat is the macro least likely to interfere with weight loss and, as I understand it, increase in bsl, so I'm not mucking around with lovely fried eggs, low carb sausage and bacon. Now I'm hungry. :)
 

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These days I use a heavy cast iron frying pan with a lid - it is mirror smooth and jet black - seasoned, it is called. I usually use fat from cooking lamb or hogget for frying. I get a whole one from the butcher and he cuts it into small portions and I get the bits and bones to render down for the fat. I roast the bits and pour the fat into warm water, to clean it of the juices.
 

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Wouldn't touch it, personally. I'm trying to up my fat, not lower it! Fat is the macro least likely to interfere with weight loss and, as I understand it, increase in bsl, so I'm not mucking around with lovely fried eggs, low carb sausage and bacon. Now I'm hungry. :)

Is there such a thing as a low carb sausage?
 

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Is there such a thing as a low carb sausage?

From memory black farmer sausages are 1 carb per sausage and lidl outdoor reared (i think the delux range) are 2 carbs per sausage.
 

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I'm just having some particularly unhealthy Waitrose rich and smokey chorizo sausage, (I'll make up for it tomorrow) 3.8g of carb per 2 sausage.
 

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From memory black farmer sausages are 1 carb per sausage and lidl outdoor reared (i think the delux range) are 2 carbs per sausage.

The brands Debbie & Andrews and Heck are around the same carb value.
 

Bellatom

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I agree about Black Farmers sausages. Also major supermarkets have their own brands of 97% meat.

I did try ALDI's 97% pork sausages but they tasted nothing like sausage in fact they were disgusting, anyway I wont give up will try the ones you mentioned.
 
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Bellatom

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From memory black farmer sausages are 1 carb per sausage and lidl outdoor reared (i think the delux range) are 2 carbs per sausage.

Will look in Lidl when I go for their fab protein rolls, hope the sausages are as good as their rolls.
 

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Unhealthy because of the carbs of course...

No, saturated fat pushes my cholesterol up, and chorizo is a heavily processed meat of course.
But I had a couple with a dry fried stir fry, so low enough calorie. :)