Deep fried turkeys
 

Has anyone either had one, or better still, bought a deep-fat frier and cooked one?

I have to say it sounds utterly disgusting to me, but my OH has been raving about it - so much so he's looked up the frier and is threatening to buy one :eek:

So, do they get a :thumbsup: or a :thumbdown:


:confused:

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I've never had one, but I've heard they are fantastic.

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That's what the husband keeps telling me guys at work are telling him. The skin gets deep fried, but the meat is juicy and tender. As long as you don't eat the skin, the meat has no more fat in it than an oven cooked turkey.

I'm not convinced, but willing to be proven wrong if it cooks a turkey in a fraction of the time. Plus, it'll be his baby, so he can do the cooking on Thanksgiving and Christmas :wink_smile:

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Now that's a smart way to look at it! Just tell him to be careful - lots of fires start as a result of someone trying to deep fry a turkey. I think it's also very, very important to make sure the turkey is fully thawed if you buy a frozen one. It's definitely supposed to be a lot faster than cooking a turkey in an oven would be.

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:thumbsup::thumbsup: The frying seals the moisture in :)

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I found the thought revolting too but went to a friend's about two years ago. It was okay not greasy like I thought it would be but pretty tasteless as it's cooked so quickly and the juices can't seep through the bird like you do when it's cooked slowly and upside down!
And no chestnut stuffing which is the whole point of turkey isn't it? And of course no delicious natural gravy!?

Big thumbs down from me:thumbdown:

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That makes perfect sense. I make a mean stuffing, and great gravy (both courtesy of Jamie O!)

Still, tasteless turkey vs me doing all the cooking. Hmm. :huh::huh:

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Philip Schofield bangs on about this every year. Apparently he has a huge outdoor one, a present from his FiL.

I'm quite interested in trying it, I despise stuffing with a passion so it's perfect for me.

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My BIL has cooked them and I've had it once. Its not bad, although cooking anything in a deep fat fryer can't be a good thing. ;):D

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The guys where M works always deep fry at work the day before TXG and Xmas. He says it's ok but he is not a great Turkey lover anyway..

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I have had one, they aren't.

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My brother is obsessed with deep frying turkeys. Even he admits that they only turn out "GREAT" about half the time though. Which tells me he doesn't really have a system - he's just as surprised as everybody else when they turn out okay. :rolleyes:

But there is a deeper and, IMO, more insidious problem with the whole thing. Deep fried turkeys are ugly. They look like a withered old man's ass, complete with gaping cavernous hole. :frown: Besides, I don't get it. My baked turkey is just as moist as the good deep fried ones and my turkey is far more attractive. People shouldn't eat ugly food on Thanksgiving. It is wrong and should be stopped.

So, when we have Thanksgiving at his house, like this year, he'll stand outside over that bucket of boiling grease waiting for his surprise, and I'll make a real Thanksgiving turkey. When his is done it gets plopped on the ugly platter and people just hack off pieces of it. It isn't even worthy of carving.

I'm just glad my mother isn't alive to see it. :frown:

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It's an ace day if your a lover of Fire Engine Sirens though :rofl:

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Our neighbours cooked us one in their outdoor turkey fryer and I have to say, it was damn good. Cooked to perfection in 48 minutes, very moist, very nice. I have looked at the indoor ones but tbh I wouldn't pay over $100 for something I probably wouldn't use that much. I think the neighbours one was like $20 from Walmart several years ago. Was going to take up some mars bars for them to deep fry, but maybe that's going a bit toooooo far. I think I'll stick to my normal deep fryer and keep making my veg and chicken pakora to keep the longing for scottish indian takeaways at bay :D

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This is the Cleveland thanksgiving special.

1. Put fryer in garage.
2. Fill up to the top with oil.
3. Heat up oil to frying temperature.
4. Drop in turkey.
5. Run away screaming for the fire department because the oil spilled over and exploded into flames.

It's unbelievable how many times every year this happens.

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:thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup: :thumbup:

From the Titchski household and neighbours.

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Thats the bit I don't get, every year, sirens all day, surely these things come with instructions!:confused:

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If the fryer isn't in the garage it's on the deck right next to the house...same ending though the house burns down. :eek: Although you may be lucky and escape with only serious burns and still have a house.

It really is unbelievable how many times this happens this time of year.

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What is it with people and their war against dry turkeys?????? Are dry turkeys such a huge problem that people are burning their own houses down in protest?

The main reasons for dry turkeys is (1) you're not roasting/baking it correctly or (2) you've bought a cheap old turkey.

Get your collective act together folks. Don't be bested by a big dumb bird.

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Speaking of big dumb birds. :lol:

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I've got one and it works well. Get the peanut oil to 350 (Inject the bird as the oil heats) cook the bird for 3.5 mins per pound. It works every time.

Corn on the cob is good too. Again have the oil at 350 and give it 5 mins or until the ears float.

:thumbup:

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I did this for the first time last year. It was fantastic. We used a large outdoor fryer with a tub of peanut oil. Delicious :)

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Been cooking turkeys (besides dating a few as well) for over 40 years. Ain't never made a dry one yet. Turkey has got to be one of the easiest things in the world to roast.

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Mum always covered the bird with rashes of bacon to stop it from drying out....gives it a lovely flavour too.

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I think it's more the pressure of it, don't you? If your turkey is no good, well, that's the star of the show! To me the hardest thing about cooking Thanksgiving is the timing. Plus last year some distant relative kept coming into the kitchen asking how much longer before she could mix her marshmallow/fruit salad (blech!) while I was trying to get the sweet potatoes to finish roasting. I was about ready to roast her. :o

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I cover mine in bacon and shove a pricked lemon up it's jacksie, never had a dry one either.

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I'm so happy for you:lol:

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Exactly. I think this whole turkey frying trend is just a thinly veiled excuse for men to blow things ups and burn things down. We've been bamboozled. :sneaky:

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There was a thread on this last turkey season...

It's pretty good....but not worth the effort to do at home, but do it outside if you do...

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and the year before...and the year before that...etc....:lol:

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Will it never stop?

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We can stop it if we all start eating Menudo for TXG:scaredhair:

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I had to Google it when I saw it mentioned in the other thread. Tripe stew!!!

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Nom nom nom yummy.

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Oops! Sorry!

Well, you guys have sealed the deal as far as I'm concerned.

Cons:

*Frying (can't get my head around the frying part) :blink:
*Potential fire hazard
*Peanut oil (I'm allergic to peanuts!)
*Possible dry bird
*Wizened old man resemblance!

Pros:

*Him indoors - no, outdoors doing the cooking!


And as for Thanksgiving .. we're going out now LOL :rofl:

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It's really good, I fry, smoke and my wife bakes one every thanksgiving. I usually prefer the smoked one, but sometimes I like the fried one the best. And I always eat the skin on the fried one. Use 100% peanut oil

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Yikes, I would have thrown her out bodily along with her marshmellow fruit salad (Ambrosia?????) ingredients. Could you not have handed her a double strength martini and shoved her into a corner in the living room?

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OMG you found someone to marry you?????????????????????????

And stay married to you??????????????????????????????

I'm aghast. Come on ladies, this poor woman needs an intervention ASAP.

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It was probably about 4 years ago now, I think it was our first Thanksgiving after we moved out of the apartment, but anyway - someone on our street managed to burn their house down with one of those things.

Because we were unincorporated fire departments from at least 3 towns showed up, I saw at least 8 appliances going down the road (where they met a dead end and all had to reverse back up again when they were done). The house was at the bottom of a reasonably steep hill but you could see the tips of the flames above the tree line. No-one was hurt, thankfully. After having a yarn with the firefighters on their way back up the street, it seems like they had thrown in a still frozen turkey and buggered off out to the shops, only to come home and find the house ablaze and 3 towns worth of fire engines and water trucks all around putting it out.

I know I don't cook them so I am in no position to talk but I'd miss not having the house filled with the smell of roasting turkey as it cooks, and my wife doesn't seem to mind anyway. I've had deep fried turkey legs outside of Thanksgiving though, they're not too bad but just not the same as roasted.

Deep fryers are for chips, and the associated battered goodies you get from the chippy (and the occasional Mars bar :))