ZeroDarkMediaThanksgiving Is Almost Here! Fried Turkey Is The Way To Go!
jordanlundA SUPER IMPORTANT NOTE ON THE FILL TEST:
“For Safety perform a FILL TEST: make sure the power is off and always fill your fryer with water first and then lower the turkey in BEFORE you remove it from the store bought packaging to TEST if the water will fully submerge the turkey without overflow. Mark that line on the outside of your fryer with a sharpie. Clean out your fryer, make sure it’s dry and fill the cooking oil up to that line. This will prevent piping hot oil spillage which causes fires and injury!”
A buddy and I did this, and we figured “We’re smart people, we know about the fill test. We got this.”
We used more or less the instructions above, can you tell what’s missing? 😉
Oil expands when it gets hot. So when you use cold water to mark a fill line, that’s too much oil. Start with 1/2 that, get it hot, then add more oil as needed.
Way easier to add more oil than it is bailing out boiling hot oil to keep it from boiling over.
Guess which one of those two we ended up doing. DOH!
In the end, it was all good, everyone was safe and we had a good turkey in like 45 minutes.
You’re absolutely right, that could happen! The recipe will be amended to account for it thanks! Guess if we thought to buy an oil-less fryer that would also fix the problem huh? Ahhh, hindsight is always 20/20. Do you plan on making another fried turkey this year?
I honestly don’t know the plan this year. An aunt and uncle are hosting so… 🤷♂️
If it were me, I’d be doing it up on the Big Green Egg, but I guess they have a plan?
I’m taking home made bread and a sweet potato dish people fight over. LOL.
This year, I’m adding a secret ingredient:
traderjoes.com/…/bourbon-vanilla-bean-paste-07686…
Pro-Tip: If you want to level up your dry rub, add a little of this… not much, it’s potent AND expensive:
beyondgood.com/…/pure-ground-madagascar-vanilla-p…
We’ll see how that goes. I also have someone begging for my banana bread, which also has a secret ingredient: