Board's Insights to Turkey Fryer

My experience with any of those types of turkey fryers is that the safety mechanism they incorporate into all of them has always failed, and sometimes in the middle of frying a turkey for Thanksgiving. I loathe them because of that. I spent the $ on a highperformance turkey fryer that does not have all that BS and haven't looked back. I can also use it to do small boils, cooking, or steaming. I have the 120qt triple jet pot too for crawfish, and it kicks butt. Buy once, cry once....

I got the 40qt and have laid the turkey down, but if I did it again, I might just do the normal 30 and have it stand up.

HP TURKEY FRYERS

I've got 2 turkey fryers, both aluminum and they have served me well for many years. However, with the cost of peanut oil now ranging in the $50 mark for a container that will easily fill one pot and half fill the other, it has become costly to fry turkeys the old fashioned way. I'd have to buy 2 containers of peanut oil to use both pots. I've fried as many as 6 turkeys on Thanksgiving day------usually 3 for me and 3 for friends who like the way they come out.

When you consider a turkey near Thanksgiving can be had for well under $1 a lb. for one good for frying, the oil is costing about the same as four 13 lb. birds.

At one time I was hosting a party on T-Day that had 25 or more people show up but the last 2 years it's just been 4-5 of us, so I've been smoking one turkey instead of frying.

Makes delicious prime rib as well.