This is my lil gittyup... Anything fried gets cooked in black iron on gas. My house is all electric, electric stoves just don't cut it.
I prefer yellow cornmeal mix, add black pepper until visible, add Lawyrs seasoned salt until salt can be tasted. Perfect! I love Orida shoestring fries but I recently bought a fry cutter. Cut em', soak em' (removes the starches) fry em' up, throw the Lawyrs to em'. I VERY rarely reuse fish grease. I refuse to cook fish without thermometers, I get ridiculed by folks but my cookin is consistent!
Where the smoker comes in "Big Daddy's Cooker" we cook a hog once or twice a year. Nothin but pure Hickory! Who's heard of "Oak Smoked BBQ"? Not me!
I make a "Carolina" sauce which is mustard base. We like to eat good, feed lots of folks, and drink lots of beers, wash it all down with some Arkansas Apple Pie not the pie you eat.....