jennyema
Chef Extraordinaire
Definitely. I was responding to replies like "Then it would likely be really gross ...." and "ew".
Not saying that it's a wonderful method, but it's easy and better than Shake 'n Bake.
I said it was likely going to be gross....
Shake and Bake contains fat and pretty much every oven fried chicken recipe uses at least a little fat to cook out the flour and carry the flavor.
Sprinkling raw chicken with seasoned flour definitely doesn't allow for more even seasoning than simply carefully seasoning the chicken directly without flour. Mixing the seasoning in the flour will make it less even.
My thought of chicken simply sprinkled with flour without oil is that the flour would get dry and crumbly and wouldn't be a nice savory coating on the meat.
But I'll do a comparison sometime since you vouch for it !!