I used to dread Christmas and Thanksgiving dinner.My husband is a very traditional person and both those holidays involved a traditional southern dinner, very different from the ones I grew up with in England.Of course we don't have Thanksgiving, but often we would have duck or goose instead of the dreaded dry old turkey for Christmas dinner.Then we discovered deep fried turkey and I look forward to both of these celebration dinners enormously.Deep fried turkey seems like a different beast entirely.Deep fried turkey is moist and succulent, with delicious crispy bits.We always have a bunch of people over for Christmas dinner and we used to cook one deep fried turkey and one oh-so-boring roast turkey.The deep fried turkey would disappear first, its poor relation sitting looking all dried out and forlorn on the counter, waiting to be thrown into the garbage a week later.What a waste.Injecting some spices into a deep fried turkey or chicken can also improve the flavor, the left over breast slices disappear into salads and moist sandwiches with gusto.If you are thinking about buying something to deep fry a turkey in, there are a lot of advantages to an electric turkey deep fryer over a propane set up.With propane, you have to lug around a big old propane cylinder.We used to have to put one of those long thermometers into the oil and check on it every few minutes.Dropping a turkey into a vat of oil that's too hot can cause a big mess and is very dangerous.With an electric set up, you can go off and do something else while the temperature is monitored digitally.Even if Christmas Day brought freezing weather, the propane burner was either put outside or in the garage if it was raining.The smell from all that grease pervades everything, and frying a turkey in the house is just not an option.With an electric turkey fryer you can do it inside, without your house smelling like a grease factory for the next two weeks.An electric turkey fryer will cost around $100, which may seem rather a lot just to cook two dinners a year, but once you have seen how simple and efficient they are to operate, you will probably start using yours more often.You can deep fry chicken or be adventurous and try deep frying a duck and make delicious Peking Duck.If you have a large family, turkey can be a very economical dinner and there are a lot of things you'll want to make from the leftovers.The moist meat from a fried turkey is a perfect addition to a Caesar salad, cobb salad, turkey melt, and turkey club sandwiches and can be used in stir fries instead of chicken.I met someone who discarded the oil after frying a turkey - we never do, we simply let it get cold and filter it again and again.If we go all out and buy peanut oil - which gives the turkey an even better flavor, it is so expensive you can be sure we'll filter it and use it at least a dozen times.Electric turkey deep fryers win every day over a propane set up, for ease of use, convenience and safety.
Thursday, September 6, 2012
Use Electric Turkey Deep Fryers For A Tastier Holiday Meal
I used to dread Christmas and Thanksgiving dinner.My husband is a very traditional person and both those holidays involved a traditional southern dinner, very different from the ones I grew up with in England.Of course we don't have Thanksgiving, but often we would have duck or goose instead of the dreaded dry old turkey for Christmas dinner.Then we discovered deep fried turkey and I look forward to both of these celebration dinners enormously.Deep fried turkey seems like a different beast entirely.Deep fried turkey is moist and succulent, with delicious crispy bits.We always have a bunch of people over for Christmas dinner and we used to cook one deep fried turkey and one oh-so-boring roast turkey.The deep fried turkey would disappear first, its poor relation sitting looking all dried out and forlorn on the counter, waiting to be thrown into the garbage a week later.What a waste.Injecting some spices into a deep fried turkey or chicken can also improve the flavor, the left over breast slices disappear into salads and moist sandwiches with gusto.If you are thinking about buying something to deep fry a turkey in, there are a lot of advantages to an electric turkey deep fryer over a propane set up.With propane, you have to lug around a big old propane cylinder.We used to have to put one of those long thermometers into the oil and check on it every few minutes.Dropping a turkey into a vat of oil that's too hot can cause a big mess and is very dangerous.With an electric set up, you can go off and do something else while the temperature is monitored digitally.Even if Christmas Day brought freezing weather, the propane burner was either put outside or in the garage if it was raining.The smell from all that grease pervades everything, and frying a turkey in the house is just not an option.With an electric turkey fryer you can do it inside, without your house smelling like a grease factory for the next two weeks.An electric turkey fryer will cost around $100, which may seem rather a lot just to cook two dinners a year, but once you have seen how simple and efficient they are to operate, you will probably start using yours more often.You can deep fry chicken or be adventurous and try deep frying a duck and make delicious Peking Duck.If you have a large family, turkey can be a very economical dinner and there are a lot of things you'll want to make from the leftovers.The moist meat from a fried turkey is a perfect addition to a Caesar salad, cobb salad, turkey melt, and turkey club sandwiches and can be used in stir fries instead of chicken.I met someone who discarded the oil after frying a turkey - we never do, we simply let it get cold and filter it again and again.If we go all out and buy peanut oil - which gives the turkey an even better flavor, it is so expensive you can be sure we'll filter it and use it at least a dozen times.Electric turkey deep fryers win every day over a propane set up, for ease of use, convenience and safety.
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