NFT: Indoor turkey fryers

I just got one off QVC a couple of weeks ago. Typically smoke a turkey but will also fry one this year. I tried it out on a whole chicken and it was delicious. I paid $30 for 3 gallons of peanut oil from the grocery store.

it's not infared and oil less?

what makes it indoors?

Is it worth it for once or twice a year?

When ever I deep fry a turkey, I ask around so to cook 4 or 5 at a time and spread the price around. Like you said, getting to expensive cook one.

One if the weather permits. We have been frying turkeys for probably the last 5 years and it is amazing. So much better then baking a turkey in the oven. It is so juicy and tender I literally make myself sick eating so much of it. I can't stop!

i live in Manhattan and have a patio, but a regular propane fryer clearly isn't an option. The model I have handles up to 14 lbs, but 10-12 is really a much better fit. I've used it a ton for wings, tempura, steaming things, and also bought a cool gadget that lets me use it as a ghetto rigged sous vide.

I got it on sale for about $50 bucks and I absolutely would pay 100 for it. One note, even though it is "indoor" it still smells like a fryer so I use it outside, even though i don't think it's that bad, the wife has decided.

is that there isn't an open flame. There is a closed electric heating element, like the thing on the bottom of a electric skillet, but it sits inside the oil.

is electric and I'd never use it indoors.

it makes such a mess with the steam released and the oil splatter.

I have a turkey fryer too that is propane, and obviously that's an outdoor fryer, but for me at least they both are.

the damn thing to fry a turkey? There's a huge difference in thermal energy outputted by even the biggest electric element (unless these things are 220V) and your typical propane burner, can't imagine it's anywhere near as practical as gas (which, in around an hour you go from setup to finished bird, depending on size).

My brother in law has one he uses it in the garage now.

Regardless what kind of fryer you use it will keep your house smelling a lot better then cooking it inside

In comment 11992395 jcn56 said:

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the damn thing to fry a turkey? There's a huge difference in thermal energy outputted by even the biggest electric element (unless these things are 220V) and your typical propane burner, can't imagine it's anywhere near as practical as gas (which, in around an hour you go from setup to finished bird, depending on size).

Apparently, it still just takes about 3.5 minutes per pound.

Yeah, I wouldn't use it in the house. Perhaps the garage. But I'm thinking I'll just use the smoker to great success again.

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fryers are more of a fire hazard than electric, but I guess both could be.

Usually though a fire is because someone puts frozen food in a gas fryer.

because the heat output isn't nearly as much as propane but once it's up to temperature it cooks in about the same amount of time as a gas one.

I don't see how the electric pose any kind of fire hazard since the heating element literally sits within the oil. Even if it overflows there isn't anything to set it aflame, it'd just make a huge mess.

probably more of a burn/mess hazard than a fire hazard for the electric