I need help to get better at frying.

Skip to the end if you want to see my listed problems without my life's story.

Frying is food is my biggest fear when it comes to cooking. A lot of ingredients can easily be wasted by improper techniques and/or a poor set up. Tonight was another failure. I tried my hands at southern style fried tenders which ended in disaster (thankfully nothing burned down or even caught fire).

The Recipe I used seemed solid and had a video link to the OPs channel. I was an idiot and didn't watch the video otherwise I would have caught the fact they said to use 2-3 cups of flour instead of 2/3 cups of flour which was listed on the Reddit recipe.

When deciding to go with shallow fry or deep fry I initially when with shallow but then panicked and switched to deep fry before the oil got too hot. My panic came from the fact that there was no listed time that the chicken should be in fryer for. Of course I (probably) didn't add enough oil. Found this out the hard way as the chicken almost instantly stuck to the bottom of the pan.

The chicken and the batter. From what I found, I did not pat the chicken dry enough. Still find that statement odd since the tenders get soaked in buttermilk before hand anyways. Coat, return to marinade and coat again. By the time I got the second coating done it half was the consistency of mud and sticking to my fingers rather than the chicken. The other half magically fell away as it hit the oil. But I will not give up on this and will attempt again next week, hopefully with a little more knowledge

Takeaways:
More flour
Pat the chicken dry AF
More oil (or learn shallow fry technique)

If you have any questions or need some more detail ask away. Any links to videos that break down learning how to fry would also be welcomed.