First off, a little song to get in the mood: The Gobble Song - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jW1vWgogLQ If you’ve never fried a turkey for Thanksgiving, you’re really missing a treat. But since you’re cooking with VERY HOT oil and an open flame, you really have to be careful. This is probably trivial to most of you, but here are a few BASIC tips: 1. Make sure you’re out doors. No cookers inside a garage or on a wooden deck. If you cook on a patio, you run the risk of getting oil stains. Stick with cooking out in the yard. 2. Use peanut oil if you can. Otherwise corn oil or canola oil will do just fine. Peanut oil seems to give the turkey a little better taste. It’s more expensive, but worth it. You can reuse both. Make sure you don’t over fill the cooker. There are lines inside the cooker to go by based on the size of your turkey. 3. Pre-heat the oil up to about 375. This takes 20 – 30 minutes, depending on the outside temp and how high you have your propane set. The temp will really drop when you put the turkey in and it won’t take as long to get back up to the 325 cooking temp. 4. A good cooking estimate is 3 minutes per pound PLUS 5 minutes, or whatever it says on the lid of your cooker. Try to stay 15 lbs or under. 5. Give yourself plenty of time to thaw out your turkey COMPLETELY. A good way is to use the cooker and put the turkey in some cold water and let it thaw out. You don't want to have to fiddle with a frozen turkey on the day you're going to cook it. Put the thawed turkey in the fridge until about an hour before you fry it and let it warm back up and get nice and limber. 6. Take out all the trimmings. Cut the tail off, and, if you like, trim off some of the hanging skin around the tail. Trim out around the neck opening. You’ll want an unobstructed opening here since you’re putting the turkey in the cooker upside down. Feel free to put any type of rub on the outside of your turkey. This gives the skin a nice flavor. 7. When the oil is up to temp, lower the turkey down into the cooker VERY SLOWLY. Make sure you have some heavy gloves on to protect you from grease pops. Make sure the turkey is not frozen or dripping wet. Here’s a good video on how to put the turkey in the cooker – SLOWLY - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yb0XN89wANM Quick note: You don’t want anything around you to trip over and knock over onto the cooker. DO NOT LET KIDS PLAY AROUND THE COOKER! Here are some things NOT to do: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKZeFj5mDlY&feature=related 8. Cut your heat up on high and get the temp back up to 325. Keep it at 325 which means you can’t put the turkey in and go do something else. NEVER let the cooker go unattended. 9. A good link for some pics: http://www.fabulousfoods.com/school/cstech/fryturkey.html Have a great Thanksgiving!
I watched her last night .... Sound like she was in some sort of unspoken competition with Rachel Ray (she says evoo)... I wish I had a counter to catch how many times she said y'all, y'all. Hey y'all, up next y'all is pear fritters y'all. ....I dunno ... maybe it was just me ... :neutral:
She was downright obnoxious as a celebrity contestant on Wheel of Fortune the other night. My dh told suggested that she go suck on a stick of butter. But fried turkey is delicious!
I can't watch her every day, that is for sure. The episode I watched was from 2002, before the stylist's got ahold of her. :mrgreen:
Oh I saw her on there.... she just seemed like her normal "quirky" self to me. She is just loud and silly in general
How to cook a turkey....according to Jennifer. Buy turkey Take crap out of the middle of the turkey Put turkey in pan, put 2-3 inches of water in bottom of pan Rub turkey with butter and seasonings. Cover turkey with tinfoil Put turkey in grill and leave it the heck alone for 4.5 hours Turkey is now done!
We tried frying ours one year. My husband wasn't sticking the thermomoter in the right place.....burned the legs slap off!! :mrgreen: Other than no turkey legs, it was pretty good.
The best tip I know for frying a turkey (and Thank Alton Brown for it); Take your turkey, put it in the pot, fill with water until the turkey is covered. Then take the turkey out, now you will know how much oil to use without worry of a spillover of hot oil when you put the turkey in. :mrgreen:
Yeah.. you like Ingrid Hoffman too (Simply Delicioso)... you just love when that top button on her blouse is screaming for relief! :mrgreen:
