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More oil when it's cool to freezing but less when it is warm to hot

 We knew that this upcoming summer would be a scorcher like last summer, so I needed to find a way to fry tempeh is less oil but still have that almost crunchy fried feel, so I asked the Internet and was pointed in the direction of the air fryer. The air fryers that are selling on the market are essentially convection ovens that blow hot air around the food, so one can air fry many foods quickly with little or no oil, and they can turn out to be quite delicious. So here's a simple way to prepare and air fry tempeh: You get a package of unfrozen tempeh , open it  and using a good long sharp knife, slice the tempeh into 16 to 32 pieces (I like cutting them up into 32 small bite sized triangles) and while I am cutting the tempeh I heat up the air fryer in my case holding a silicone bowl    (which saves me from having to wash the air fryer tray so often). When I have finished slicing the tempeh and the air fryer finishes heating up a bell rings and I open the tray  and using tongs pla

New Ways to Control Your Tempeh

Hi Everyone, Having eaten a veganish (some seafood on occasion) macrobiotic type diet for almost 48 years, I didn't find out about tempeh until about 7 years later, I took a tempeh making class in San Diego about 3 years later from European who made various types of tempeh to sell to a clientle that he had developed. My go to way of prepping and cooking tempeh was to  cut up the tempeh into cubes,  steam it,  then place it in a jar with ginger juice, mashed garlic, coriander powder, cumin powder, and soy sauce,  cover and shake vigorously until the liguid and spices thorough permeated the tempeh  and then placed the jar in the freezer if I was in a hurry or  the refrigerator if I wasn't and  after the marinated tempeh had cooled sufficiently I would heat some oil in a frying pan,  cook some slivered yellow unions until almost translucent and  add the tempeh and  then some twice rinsed sauerkraut laid on top of the tempeh  add some water until it immersed the sauerkraut, and  th