Cooking Tips & Advice

How to Deep-Fry A Whole Turkey

Date: 2017/12/23
Comment: Deep frying a turkey is a redneck invention if there ever was one. How many other ways to cook something pretty much dictate that you have a fire extinguisher VERY near by? All it take for a disaster you do NOT want to deal with is for a child to trip over the propane tank and knock it all over, or hit the fryer itself. Either way you've got a GIANT fire if the oil is hot enough to fry, and most likely burnt humans, not just the turkey. This way of 'cooking' rates right up there with trucks that are so high from giant tires, that you honestly need a step ladder to get in and out of one...unless of course you can fly, but I digress. For the sake of you sanity and the safety of your or your neighbors children(including the "children" that are using one of these, PLEASE stop before you even buy one. Like the saying about Corvairs back in the day by Ralph Nader, he said they were unsafe at any speed. These turkey fryers are unsafe in the hands of ANYBODY! There are too many variables that could go wrong in a split second, and as a former roofer that worked with tar that was 4-500+ degrees, and then a legitimate cook for decades, I know how fast things can go wrong and people end up permanently disfigured for LIFE because of flammable liquids. Just be NORMAL and use an oven like most NORMAL people do, and DO NOT buy these death traps! Would you like to see YOUR kid scarred for life just because you wanted to "run with the big dogs"?? Didn't think so. Oh yeah...if one of your neighbors kids gets severely burned by your new pos toy, you can and probably WILL get sued!!