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You guys are becoming turkish
Notice I said "oil-less". I used to use one of those fryers with the peanut oil. Heating up gallons of oil to boiling and then lowering a turkey into it resulted in a great tasting turkey but the whole thing was pretty dangerous, messy and expensive. My new fryer doesn't use oil, claims it cooks via infrared. I don't care how it does it because it turns out great. Another thing, with the turkey fried in oil you had no drippings to use to make gravy. The oil-less fryer has a drawer at the bottom for you to put a pan in there to catch the drippings so we can have real gravy to pour over our mashed potatoes and stuffing.
I hope you enjoy your Turkey but the thought of using all that dripping oil in gravy just gives me horror visions of blocked arteries, same as for cooking a whole turkey in a fryer full of oil.
In the UK if you want something deep fried take it to a chip shop
you can get deep fried chicken any time of the week (except sundays when they all seem to be closed).
but why have deep fried chicken when you could get a deep fried and battered chocolate bar?
Aww, thats no fun. Shouldnt the bird get a shot at some payback too?Fried chicken, fish & chips, fried Twinkies & Mars bars all have a coating or batter that they are dipped in before frying. The coating absorbs the oil during frying and adds lots of calories and fat.
When you fry a turkey, there is no batter or coating, the heat sears the turkey which prevents oil from being absorbed so it doesn't add calories and fat.