Sundays spent lounging inside a restaurant’s kitchen are a peaceful time.  There is no sizzling, no slicing, and no yelling, partially because there are often no customers.  With a giant deep fryer only feet away, curiosity reigns supreme.  If they can deep fry potatoes and fish, why not cherries or sandwiches?  We did.  Here’s a report:

• Sandwiches: The more simple the sandwich the better.  It’s really just like grilling the bread hundreds of times over.  On the other hand, don’t overlook the ecstasy that can result from a monstrous breaded Rueben whose Thousand Island dressing is dripping down your forearms.
• Bar Fruit: This probably isn’t a shock, but deep fried cherries and oranges are subpar.  They taste just like a regular cherry or orange, only with breading and hypertension as an outer layer.

• Pasta: Deep-fried pasta tastes like all those crunchy noodles at Chinese restaurants.  Crafty Easterners.
• Vegetables:  Pickles are fantastic, and some places have even taken to offering this deep fried delicacy on their menus.  A slathering of ranch or bleu cheese only enhances the experience, complementing the pickle and breading double crunch with a creamy finish.  
• CANDY: Deep fried Snickers or Milky Way belong with the printing press and push-up bra in the running for best human invention ever.  The satisfying crunch when you bite into them is met with a creamy chocolatey-nougat goo encased within the breading.  Feel free to explore the studio space in this category, with the ultra-important exception of Butterfingers.  For some unexplainable reason, the wafer in the Butterfingers reacts with the scalding oil to create a substance best described as a cross between plaster and gum.  The more you chew it, the harder it gets.  Unpleasant. 

If you have the irrestiable urge to break into a kitchen and deep fry everything in sight right now, then try your best to restrain that greasy passion.  You can just fill a pot about a quarter of the way with vegetable oil (please, please, please don’t use your valuable olive oil) and get it boiling.  From there, just drop the food and enjoy your short term gratification (and long term heart problems)