On Mar 22, 8:03*pm, Todd > wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I cook because it is fun. *I really do not know what I am doing.
>
> Okay, I give up. *How do you fry eggplant without it becoming
> an oil sponge? ....[snip]

The short answer is, you don't, and you're doing nothing wrong. If
you don't want all that oil, just bake/roast the eggplant instead of
frying it. I make a spicy Sichuan-style stirfried eggplant that is
always plenty oily. I've used roasted eggplant instead a few times to
cut back on the oil and we just didn't like it as well. That
particular dish seems meant to be oily. But grilled eggplant and
roasted eggplant are good, too, just different. -aem