Deep Fried Turkey

[crazelion]

Fried Turkey is excellent. It's very good and moist.

 

[iggbees]

my boyfriend has pictures of his dad cooking a turkey in a deep fryer outside on the driveway last year on thanksgiving when it was pouring rain out. pretty funny to see that kind of dedication (they were really into deep fried things that year). my boyfriend said he loves deep fried turkey though.

i think it's something like 15 homes burn down a year from deep frying turkey on thanksgiving day. be very very careful. i'd suggest doing it outside. on concrete or asphalt.

 

[wide awake]

I adore deep fried turkey...but was stressed about the lack of drippings for gravy and the fact that the stuffing wouldn't be cooked inside the turkey. I talked to one of my moms yesterday...I facilitate home schooling, give advice, purchase supplies...she said buy a smoked turkey leg or thigh, cook it with the neck, and then use the broth in the stuffing and gravy to give the cooked turkey taste. I bought some extra necks, and made a stock w/ the smoked turkey thigh, necks, onion, celery, and spices...to die for. Am certain will make great gravy and stuffing. Normally I'd just fry one turkey and roast another, but am only having 7 for dinner so don't want that many left-overs...am doing a ham too.

 

[Buckalew11]

Yummy!

But like someone else said be very careful!! Never walk away from that turkey for 1 minute!!!
Isn't your DH a FF? I bet he's heard all about how dangerous it can be to fry a turkey. Anyway, enjoy--they are wonderful.

 

[RadioNate]

it's great but do it outside and make sure you have a fire extingusher handy

 

[Poohnatic]

Ummm... does it surprise you that we have a turkey fryer and do this all the time, Suzanne?

My DH will take it sometimes on Scout camporees - the boys love it!

So you're saying a turkey fryer will be in my future, now that the boys are joining scouts?

Can you use that for roadkill?

Suzanne

 

[Chris2597]

Fried Turkey is very popular in my area...I have never tried it but I hear it is wonderful..
For the last several weeks there have been public service announcements telling people to be very careful when frying a turkey....The spot shows a person lowering a turkey into the hot pot of oil, the turkey weight overflows the oil, oil ignites and disaster happens...
I dont know if I would do this myself but I may have it done at one of the restaurants that offer this service.

 

[Disneynutbsv]

Fried turkey is actually wonderful! Its so much moister than baked turkey Give it a try, we actually prefer it this way, plus it takes less time to cook than roasting Good luck!
Oh and don't do what my dh did, lol. The first time he used it, he brought it inside and put it on the plate, we couldn't even cut through it, I told him that I hoped he didn't petrify the turkey. Come to find out he had it upside down

 

[kat3668]

Just be careful!!!!


Workers Using Deep-Fryer Burn Down Newly-Built House

POSTED: 11:44 am EST November 23, 2005
UPDATED: 11:54 am EST November 23, 2005

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EUGENE, Ore. -- Construction workers using a deep-fryer to cook an early Thanksgiving dinner committed the ultimate no-no.

They used the fryer in the garage of a vacant house they had just built in Eugene, Ore.

It's an annual tradition by the crew, but the workers said the oil inside got too hot. Flames spread through the garage and up the front of the house, into a second-story room.

Firefighters said the blaze caused about $75,000 in damage.


The house was unsold, and the loss was insured.

Undaunted, the workers bought a second bird and cooked it in the back yard of a house across the street.

 

[slo]

We love Fried Turkey's but be careful!!!

Our Turkey Fryer exploded last year and thank God my DH is a fireman because he was very careful with it. He made sure the fryer was far away from the house and the fire didn't affect anything.

The reason why it exploded is because it got to hot. DH had a fire call that went to long and the fryer just sat there and got hotter and hotter and hotter. When he opened the lid and the cold air hit it - BOOM!!! The flames shot far into the air.

I would give it a try, just be careful!!

Happy Thanksgiving!!!!

 

[dizneenut]

We fried one last year and it was sooo good. We are frying one for Christmas this year.

 

[mom2rb]

This is how we eat turkey every year. We have one fried turkey and one smoked turkey. My dad and his friends got together yesterday and made all the turkeys for their families. If you do a lot of turkeys at the same time it is pretty cheap, if not the peanut oil can get expensive. At 3 1/2 minutes a pound it doesn't take that long to fry them.

 

[GuestRiku]

I have never tried Deep fried turkey LOL. Sounds positively delicious. I will demand we try it next year lol.

 

[Papa Deuce]

I like it but it is very expensive. The amount and type of oil is pricey. And unless you use the oil a lot, it can go rancid before you make your next bird. Plus side is that it is one tasty bird.

 

[Deb & Bill]

Lots of people I know wind up frying several turkeys, at least one for their dinner, plus several for other families.

 

[parrothead365]

So....ChrisnSteph how did it turn out?? Did you like it?

 

[scrump]

We would do it if we could, fried turkeys are YUMMY!

 

[chrissyk]

OP, how did it go? I'd love to try a deep-fried turkey, but I'm way too chicken to try to fry one myself. I have a feeling that I'd be the person who ends up on the news for burning the neighborhood down with the deep fryer or something