This recipe is for individuals from New Jersey. Should you’re not from New Jersey, maintain scrolling. 

For authorized functions, that’s a joke. In an effort to perceive the enjoyment and significance of a fried Oreo, you actually simply must be an individual who’s been to a theme park, a tailgate, a state honest, and/or had a childhood. My connection to them falls into the previous two classes. It wasn’t till I used to be barely an grownup that I first was handed three of those guys at a Jets tailgate within the car parking zone of MetLife Stadium on a grey, bitingly chilly day. The man who handed them to me defined confidently that the right serving dimension was three almost-too-hot Oreos in a single go, and that I needed to eat them now, recent out the tiny fryer teetering on the sting of the pick-up truck in the midst of our set-up.

I hated that soccer sport, however I cherished these Oreos. And that man! I married him, like, seven years later.

Each fried Oreo I’ve had since has been so good, irrespective of how massive a batch or fryer it got here from. Should you’ve additionally acquired good and proper ones, you’ll have smelled them coming earlier than you noticed them. They’re paying homage to funnel cake, with a chewy sweetness that’s so acquainted you’d acknowledge it anyplace. The powdered sugar is in each chew, however it coats that puffy golden shell so properly you by no means understand how a lot is definitely on there.

And if you happen to’re nonetheless sitting there intrigued (in an excellent or unhealthy means!) by the concept somebody would fry Oreos, that’s by design. These items have been mainstays at locations with enjoyable stalls and scrumptious issues because the aughts when a then-teenaged Charlie Boghosian threw a bunch of Oreos in a deep-fryer whereas he was working on the 2001 San Diego County Honest. Why? “To get clients’ consideration,” he informed Forbes again in 2018. (There are unconfirmed stories of individuals experimenting and technically “creating” Oreo-frying as early as 1995, however the recognition can firmly be traced again to Boghosian.)

The widespread thread of all fried Oreos, although, is that they really feel like an outside-the-home expertise. This made it an much more enjoyable problem for our crew to develop this recipe! How may we seize that festive, fair-like power (and style and texture) at residence? Our Birmingham check kitchen colleague Melissa Grey recognized a number of variables essential to this experiment: frying temperature, Oreo filling quantity, Oreo temperature, batch dimension, and toppings. Then she examined—and we tasted—batch after batch after batch. 

The primary three variables go hand-in-hand. The upper the oil temp we examined, the crunchier the shell and fewer seen the Oreo filling—each in frozen and non-frozen variations—grew to become. The decrease the temp, the extra unpleasantly melted and soggy the cookies and filling each grew to become. The batter, in fact, was additionally generally nonetheless uncooked. Frying Double Stuf Oreos at 375° for 2 minutes was the “candy spot,” Melissa famous, yielding a golden-brown fried exterior, a crunchy cookie, and a lush, important, intact layer of filling. You will discover the complete scope of her temperature and filling testing under.