Subj : Re: William Shatner Warns Of The Dangers Of T To : All From : Joe Pfeiffer Date : Sat Nov 19 2011 15:19:59 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos From Address: pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu Subject: Re: William Shatner Warns Of The Dangers Of Turkey Fryers verysorry@nocando.com (Pinstripe Sniper) writes: > Joe Pfeiffer wrote: >>Slightly better is to put the thawed turkey in the empty fryer, add >>water to cover turkey, remove turkey, measure how much water you added. >>Replace water with oil, heat oil. > > I'd also do it this way with these secondary/implied details: > > - "measure how much water" - I would take this literally and just > note where the water line is inside the pot and add oil to that level. Exactly. > - I'd wipe the inside of the pot completely dry - I will speculate > that the insurance company decided not to use water because some > people won't dry the pot and cause undesired excitement as the oil > hits the boiling point of water. My experience with smaller fryers is that this isn't necessary -- the event of the oil hitting the boiling point of water isn't all that sudden. You end up with the little drops of water coming to a boil slowly. On the other hand, wiping it totally dry certainly won't hurt anything. > - I'd also drain/dry the turkey Ah, thanks. Forgot to mention that one. >>This way you don't have an oil-soaked turkey dripping while you wait for >>the oil to heat. Cleaning up water drips is easier than oil drips. --- Synchronet 3.15a-Linux NewsLink 1.92-mlp # Origin: A noiseless patient Spider (1:2320/105.97) * Origin: CCO BBS - capitolcityonline.net:26 (1:2320/105) .