Anyone deep frying a turkey?
 

and how long do those things take? Half hour or so?

our 22lbs turkey will take 6 hours @ 325 degrees.

doing a ten pound.. says 35 minutes

6 hours if a really long time to deep fry a turkey.. you sure?

deep fryer... deep fryer.... not oven.... deep fryer

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Anyone deep frying a turkey?
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thats fucking insane!

:1orglaugh

http://www.tznet.com/lwittman/turkey.html

Enjoy.

Yeah oops, sorry - didn't catch that. I dunno, maybe half an hour...

second thought tells me it's pretty stupid to fry a turkey. wtf? :1orglaugh

ahhh good stuff. thanks... that's what I was looking for... looks like about 3 1/2 minutes per pound. :thumbsup

:1orglaugh

hmm, i wouldn't have thought a turkey could be cooked all the way through with a deep fryer.

neat.

Almost looks like these guys handle some elements from a nuclear reactor...

http://www.tznet.com/lwittman/turkey5.jpg

this will be my first year doing it.. wish me luck..

deep fried shit screams heart attacks but that actually almost looks good lol

good luck! I wanted to do it last year but got too busy to mess with the whole thanksgiving thing at all... supposed to be really fricken tasty!

I haven't had it yet, last year was the first I ever heard of it. We had street vendors with fried turkey. Haha.

You would think that until you taste it. It's really kicks ass. Yeah, probably pretty bad for your heart...but who cares. I usually hate turkey. But this way its actually good. :thumbsup

Takes about 8 beers, then its done. :glugglug

half hour sounds right to me..

we usually deep fry about 5 turkeys each thanksgiving, (were not fat, we just have a biiig family) .. you've never experienced thanksgiving until you've had a louisiana redneck deep fried turkey..

that's about all my redneck uncles are good for... cooking

I'm bringing the video camera for this one!

Fried turkey isn't any worse for you than baked turkey, if you use a good light vegetable oil.
"tasty" is a bit of an understatement as well.
Last year our 22 pounder took about 70 mins, but I started it a bit too early.
My Mom got me hooked on that shit, she started frying her Thanksgiving turkeys about 6 years ago, and when I moved away, Thanksgiving wasn't the same without a fried turkey :)

I have the "Hungry Man Frozen Turkey Dinner" going on...:321GFY


I wasn't able to get home to see my family this year.

3-4 minutes a pound, make sure you pre-measure the oil! Can you say Grease Fire!

The oil is only on the outside of the turkey anyhow... so it isn't even as bad as a big mac. ;-)

I wanted to get the hubby a cooker this year and he didn't want anything to do with it. lol We have a Kroger's special dinner... heat and eat.

Man I have deep fried mine for the last 3 years and I will never go back to the old way there is no comparing the 2 as far as taste and moistness (if thats a word). I go between 2 1/2 to 3 minutes per pound. but do remember not to add too much oil (good point rj)cause when it flows over the pot and and hits that fire youre looking at a backyard bomb.

Yea, I've heard the same. Their suppose to be really fucking good! Maybe I'll do one next year!

jDoG

I love fires tho, hmm, maybe that's the thing I should do! :Graucho

jDoG

Just Be Carefull:

We had 3 homes in the midwest catch on fire last year due to those turkey fryers Exploding!

Tip : Do not use a frozen turkey in the fryer,. that was the main cause of explosions.

Also keep that fryer Far from your property!

Have a Hose Near by! to extinguish all flames...

Hope that helps.....

Hahaha! Have you ever thrown a piece of ice in a deep fryer? What kind of IDIOT would put an entire frozen TURKEY in one?

Double haha. Water is NOT the cure to oil and grease fires.

SpaceAce

Deep frying may cause health problems.

Try turbo broiling the turkey. If you get a large enough unit, the turkey would fit and you would not have any cholesterol issues to worry about.

We are doing ours that way also this year. We have not done it before, but have heard great things. Most of the time we do them on a smoker, but that takes a long time. Usually 16 hours. And you have to stay with it the entire time. And you smell like smoke when you are finished, but DAMN what a taste!!!

Yes first thing you should do is measure to see how much oil you will need. I have done it three times and each time it was fucking the bomb:thumbsup

nope not deep frying yet the fucker is still running around the garden....brb

Deep fried turkey's are awesome. My family's been doing it for about 10 years. An awesome flavor enhancer is to inject the meat with marinade before deep frying. (There are special injectors for this purpose, that look like huge syringes).

10lbs is about all you want...any bigger and it doesn't cook properly. Half hour is about right.

another option that alot of people are doing here is the Imu kalua turkey... cooked in the ground like the kalua pig.

I bet that's delicious as hell, but prolly takes all damn day just like the pig.

Dousing a grease/oil fire with water is the absolute worst thing you can do. A can of Haylon is much safer....and won't make a mess like CO2

once you have it you'll never wnat a oven bnaked turkey again, health wise you're using peanut oil and shoot it up with itilain dressing

You can have my family :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

I have deep-pitted a turkey and it comes out tasting really good. The meat stays really juicy and just falls of the bone. But it don't look to good at the center of the dinner table cuz the meat just falls apart.

Holy shit. Can't believe this is the first thread I see. :1orglaugh

I've been getting everything set up, all evening. Got my turkey washed and already injected some marinade to set overnight. Measured my water to see how much oil I would need. Got everything set up outside and ready to go. Then it happened.

Dropped a 3 gallon jug of peanut oil on my kitchen floor, knocked a hole in the side of it, it spilled everywhere, and I then proceeded to cuss anything and everything in the house. :( What a nightmare of a mess.

I even had to throw some clothes back on and go to the grocery store and get more oil. I *thought* $10 a gallon was expensive at Sam's. It was more than that at the market. :BangBang:

I do 3 1/2 mins per pound, btw. And I use a 14-15 lb turkey, and it's always delicious.

what you shoot it up with?

No its NOT , I just bought a little gas stove just for that purpose. I heard about it here last year, been dying to try it ever since:thumbsup

Couple of questions:

1). Can you drop a turkey in frozen or do you have to thaw it first? (When I worked at KFC many many many moons as a teenager we dropped frozen chicken in the deep fryer is why I ask).

2). Is fried turkey still good for having turkey and mayo sandwhiches?

peanut oil...that was the ticket!

that's the best though.... all shredded and juicy! :thumbsup

It's a big plastic syringe. It came with my fryer, but I think you can buy them anywhere. I inject it just under the skin in a few places. If you want your marinade flavor to be stronger, then also inject it straight into the turkey at each spot you put it under the skin. Turn the syringe and shoot it into the turkey in four or five different directions.

i'm sorry i meant to say what did you use for your marinade
:glugglug

Definitely. The flavor is better, but peanut oil has one of the highest smoke points, so you can keep the oil hot enough to fully cook the turkey. And for whoever was asking- NO you can't put it in frozen! It has to be completely thawed. And fried turkey is even better on sandwiches, to me. The meat will melt in your mouth, it's so juicy and tender.

lol

Home Depot sells peanut oil in the big boxes too. :winkwink: Probably any home center that sells the cooker would have the oil and gear to work on it with.