Opinions?
Costco has a Butterball model on sale for around 130. It certainly looks spacious enough to handle a good-sized turkey (ours is 16 pounds I believe). I've read that the best oil to use is peanut oil, which is pretty costly in its own right -- 3 gallons goes for about 50 bucks!
I dunno. Is it worth it?
what makes it indoors?
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.
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.
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.
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.
Usually though a fire is because someone puts frozen food in a gas fryer.
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.