?! Where's your sense of adventure? Clearly you need to re-weigh the risks versus the benefits of owning such a unit. "To err on the side of caution is still to err."
Folks love deep fried turkey. ;-)
The best was when they did a similar piece on Datleline NBC and started the vinyl siding an soffets of a house on fire - very dramatic. At my sister and brother in law's house in Jordan MN, there will be two (maybe three) of these devices at work on Thursday.
We were looking into these for making Crispy Pata. Thinking a turkey fryer would be the best tool for the job, I was researching them when I found the youtube video. I was under the impression that the units had some sort of temperature control to prevent spontaneous combustion of the oil. And when I saw how easy they were to tip over... fuhgeddaboudet. We own a deep fryer that we can use if we cut down the meat to more manageable sizes, something a fellow could not do with a turkey, I suppose.
This is not sheer timidity speaking. A few years back our household suffered an incident where an unattended pan of Turon erupted into flame on our stove top. Basically I found myself standing in my kitchen, barefoot and wearing nothing but shorts and a T-shirt, looking at a spattering column of fire that was hungrilly eying up the cabinets. Wondering how the hell I got into this situation. Ever wonder if you'd freeze in a situation like that? Thank God I didn't. I got the pan down to the floor (There was no getting a lid on this thing, it had taken on a life of it's own) and extinguished it with the fire extinguisher I keep under the sink (& never really thought I would need).
We were very blessed that things didn't turn out worse than they did. Collateral wise, the linoleum in the kitchen was trashed, we had some soot damage, we lost a nice reverware sauce pan and the place stunk for a few days. This was before we had our house, and amazingly the apartment owners installed new linoleum and never charged us for it!
On the other hand I was a little worse for the wear. The spattering oil gave me some pretty serious burns on my right hand and foot that netted me a trip to the ER and some outpatient visits to the HCMC burn unit.
I exercise a lot of caution around hot oil and deep frying as a result. I still kid the wife about 'going through fire for her!'
?! Where's your sense of adventure? Clearly you need to re-weigh the risks versus the benefits of owning such a unit. "To err on the side of caution is still to err."
ReplyDeleteFolks love deep fried turkey. ;-)
The best was when they did a similar piece on Datleline NBC and started the vinyl siding an soffets of a house on fire - very dramatic. At my sister and brother in law's house in Jordan MN, there will be two (maybe three) of these devices at work on Thursday.
Great post!
Eric,
ReplyDeleteWe were looking into these for making Crispy Pata. Thinking a turkey fryer would be the best tool for the job, I was researching them when I found the youtube video. I was under the impression that the units had some sort of temperature control to prevent spontaneous combustion of the oil. And when I saw how easy they were to tip over... fuhgeddaboudet. We own a deep fryer that we can use if we cut down the meat to more manageable sizes, something a fellow could not do with a turkey, I suppose.
This is not sheer timidity speaking. A few years back our household suffered an incident where an unattended pan of Turon erupted into flame on our stove top. Basically I found myself standing in my kitchen, barefoot and wearing nothing but shorts and a T-shirt, looking at a spattering column of fire that was hungrilly eying up the cabinets. Wondering how the hell I got into this situation. Ever wonder if you'd freeze in a situation like that? Thank God I didn't. I got the pan down to the floor (There was no getting a lid on this thing, it had taken on a life of it's own) and extinguished it with the fire extinguisher I keep under the sink (& never really thought I would need).
We were very blessed that things didn't turn out worse than they did. Collateral wise, the linoleum in the kitchen was trashed, we had some soot damage, we lost a nice reverware sauce pan and the place stunk for a few days. This was before we had our house, and amazingly the apartment owners installed new linoleum and never charged us for it!
On the other hand I was a little worse for the wear. The spattering oil gave me some pretty serious burns on my right hand and foot that netted me a trip to the ER and some outpatient visits to the HCMC burn unit.
I exercise a lot of caution around hot oil and deep frying as a result. I still kid the wife about 'going through fire for her!'