A lot of fried chicken recipes make you leave you chicken in buttermilk to tenderize the meat...

A lot of fried chicken recipes make you leave you chicken in buttermilk to tenderize the meat, but I don't want to go out and get that shit. Can I use heavy cream or regular milk instead?

I'm no specialist but I'm genuinely sure the molecules are different so you probably won't get the same effect, but if you think about it, heavy cream would be too hard on the chicken but milk would make the meat soggy, but if you really don't want to use buttermilk, use yogurt or milk and for every cup of milk, add 1 teaspoon of lemon juice or vinegar as alternative to using buttermilk for fried chicken. I hope this helps.

you can, but the point of the buttermilk is that the acid in it tenderize the meat. You can use salt brine or pickle juice too.

>but the point of the buttermilk is that the acid in it tenderize the meat
And if you still think it tenderizes the meat then you are a gullible southerner.

You can add a bit of vinegar or lemon to milk - this makes a buttermilk substitute.

1 teaspoon to a cup of milk is a really small addition, you sure that makes the milk more like buttermilk?

>Can I use heavy cream or regular milk instead?
don't soak your chicken in buttermilk, you're really looking for the consistency of buttermilk which is good for making a breading.
I use sour cream thinned out with milk.

What this guy said. Plain greek yogurt is fine and I can't tell a difference between that and buttermilk.

Use a milk and pickle juice combo, works wonderful as a substitute for buttermilk.

1. Toss a couple cups of heavy cream in a food processor and make butter. The liquid that remains is buttermilk.
2. Mix plain yogurt with water in a 1 to 1 ratio, and you can use that in place of buttermilk.

I use homemade plain yogurt and water as a buttermilk substitute all the time in cornbread, biscuits, or pancakes and the shit always turns out great.