Fried turkey can be delicious, but you need to do it right.
This video has some excellent safety tips for frying your turkey with relative
safety: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65m8-Em2ziA
At a previous job the CTO came back after Thanksgiving and
told us how he’d just burned down his deck and done significant damage to his
vinyl siding. He’d been using a Turkey Fryer. He’d plopped the frozen turkey
into the fryer. First, the oil overflowed and caught fire. Next, the ice in the
turkey did what frozen water does when you drop it in boiling oil. Within
seconds his deck and the side of his house were covered in burning oil and
flaming chunks of turkey.
He finished the account with saying that next year he would
set the fryer up in his garage, which had a cement floor. I left that job
before Thanksgiving rolled around again, so I don’t know if he followed
through.
Here are a few videos demonstrating what I suspect his back
deck looked like thanks to his flagrantly ignoring pretty much all the safety
advice around using a turkey fryer.
This video shows what a frozen turkey will do when put in
boiling oil. Check out the air time that oil gets when it sprays up:
Here’s a short video of what happens when the fryer
overflows:
Remember, the CTO I mentioned had BOTH happen.
Did you know Underwriter’s Laboratory has never certified a
SINGLE turkey fryer? Here’s why:
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has their say:
Have an happy and enjoyable Thanksgiving! I hope everyone
comes back to work Monday uncharred and without any new home repairs suddenly
added to their calendar.
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