The Christmas 2013 thread
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wilheldp_PE
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THAW IT FIRST! I don't want to be investigating the fire that burned your house down next February.
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We do fried turkey for Thanksgiving. I didn't do one the year my husband was deployed, and I think there was one other year in the last 10 that we didn't... but oh I love me some fried turkey.
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csb
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Measure out where the oil needs to be by dunking the frozen bird in water in the pan first. That means you don't fill it full of oil and then drop it in, making it overflow. Volume displacement eludes even the smartest people when turkey is involved.
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^^ we have sharpie lines all over ours from different years depending on the size of the bird...
I should add... a metal coat hanger will not serve the purpose of lowering and raising the turkey gently in and out of the oil if the bird is 20 lbs.
I should add... a metal coat hanger will not serve the purpose of lowering and raising the turkey gently in and out of the oil if the bird is 20 lbs.
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We're thinking of doing a "white trash" thanksgiving this year. Deep-fried everything. Only problem: I have never deep-fried anything. Don't even have a frier...
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csb
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We can lend you our FryDaddy. Won't fit a turkey...you'll have to cut it up into nuggets.
Christmas dinner one year was a prepared meal from Albertson's...reheat and eat. It was really good.
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I can use the turkey fryer in the summer for a low country boil... actually, our turkey fryer is just a metal stand with a burner and a propane hose and a very big pot with a lid and a thermometer
csb
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^ I think that's what everyone's turkey fryer is...anything else would be too classy for such an event.
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we upgraded and got some hooks for ours... we be fancy like that
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Alton Brown did a fried turkey segment on Good Eats one year. He way over did it, with having an A-frame to support and lower the bird, etc. I thought it was cool, being an engineer an all.
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^^^ I could use my survey tri-pod...
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I think the worst thing we ever did was actually fry it in the garage one year. When you have company there and a downpour starts you have to get the bird cooked somehow and the oven isn't going to work that fast...
