Deep fried turkey.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9M7s...eature=related

This time of year I end up watching all the Deep Fried Turkey accidents and wonder when it will all come to an end.

I am shocked and secretly entertained when I see people blow up a perfectly good turkey-and their homes in some cases.

There will be clips posted of Uncle Frank asleep on the couch, exposing his-self because his shorts are too short.

The women discussing and prodding Auntie Bertha's new surgery, your nephew running into the closed sliding glass door, You cousin, drunk on Bud Light, kicking the TV because he lost next month's rent betting on the football games and your sister/brother bringing home their new squeeze and getting them to shoot egg nog out of their tear ducts......

But let me tell ya! There's nothing like the person who refuses to drop the camera and try to help their loved ones with a peanut/canola/vegetable oil
fire.

I especially want to thank the people who drop a FROZEN turkey into a pot of oil that is about 450 degrees.....It's only about a shift of 490 degrees, what could possibly go wrong?:eek::o;):rolleyes:

They sound like a bunch of morons.

You didn't happen to catch the Food Network Thanksgiving Challenge did you? One of the challengers decided to deep fry his turkey. It was totally black and so was the oil. Oopsie.

We once went on a Boy Scout outing ... ice fishing. Not on my Top 10,000 Ways to Spend a Saturday, by a long shot. A couple of the dads produced turkey fryers and proceeded to fry turkeys ... on the ice. Ok, I'm sure it was probably safe enough and they knew what they were doing. Nothing bad happened. But it made me EXTREMELY nervous to see the ice melting into a pool of water under and around these blazing hot fryers, while dozens of little boys were out on that ice.

Fried turkey, although a terribly unhealthy thing to do to a formerly healthy food, is very yummy.

As God as my witness, - I thought turkeys could fly.


Talk about one smoking hot bird. :eek:

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Originally Posted by catland

As God as my witness, - I thought turkeys could fly.

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They can fly. Not long distances. My parents had a flock of wild turkeys in their front yard for 20 years. Turkeys can fly up into trees (where they look rather frightening - like vultures.) They can also fly over fences.

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Originally Posted by catland

As God as my witness, - I thought turkeys could fly.

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[/"WKRP in Cincinatti" reference]:D

:rolleyes: Ya think someone was Bored here.. Like UmmPPss

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Originally Posted by aTailOf2Kitties

[/"WKRP in Cincinatti" reference]:D

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Ah, but WKRP they had frozen turkeys - which of course, do not fly!

nah, they were live: "In case you just tuned in, the Pinedale Shopping Mall has just been bombed with live turkeys".

Any of y'all seen that episode of Good Eats where Alton Brown deep fried the turkey? He rigged up a pulley system to a step ladder and lowered the turkey into the pot from several feet away, LOL

The How To of Deep Frying a Turkey >>>

Sort of a light-hearted how-to - but with some good Safety Tips
thrown in with the comedy.

!st of 3 = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E270Qx5OpxU&NR=1

2nd of 3 = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLNLY...eature=related

3rd of 3 = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9mq2...eature=related

hahaha funny

I don't know... my mother in law can deep fry a turkey without any disaster and without any kind of special equipment lol. not really rocket science

but yes... turkeys can fly but will only do so to roost or try to get away from danger. Kind of wierd to see such a large bodied bird take off

The two most important things to do is: displacement test with WATER!, and have it on a fireproof surface.

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Originally Posted by smokey the elder

The two most important things to do is:
displacement test with WATER!, and
have it on a fireproof surface.

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Make that 3 Things ...

Do not cook UNDER Anything ... like:
* a Tent
* inside a :eek: GARAGE or Carport
* Under your Upstairs Neighbor's BALCONEY
* Under YOUR Porch Roof - even if the floor is concrete!

;)

I hope Jerry the turkey doesn't read this thread. :D

I've actually never tasted a deep fried turkey before but I hear when it's done rigth it is soooooooooo good lol.

so sounds like it might be worth it :D

although I suspect the guys in that link will never know