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Turkey Fryer Reviews

Turkey frying is the fastest way to cook a turkey. By deep frying a turkey you can cook it in as little as 3 minutes per pound. That's a 20-pound turkey in 60 minutes. Frying also delivers incredible flavor, but there is a danger to cooking with gallons of boiling oil over an open flame. This has led to a whole series of innovative products to cook your next turkey (chickens, roasts, and more too) quickly, easily and with great flavor.

Masterbuilt Butterball Professional Series Indoor Electric Turkey Fryer

Basically this is a large fryer designed to hold up to a 14 pound turkey in a specially designed (turkey shaped) frying chamber. Like other modern fryers this unit is thermostatically controlled and has a built in timer so you can tell it how long you want to cook. The interior frying chamber is molded to fit a turkey so you don't need to use a lot of extra oil to fry the bird.

Char-Broil's The Big Easy Oil-less Infrared Turkey Fryer

We all know that turkey frying can be dangerous. Char-Broil has developed a way to make it not only safer, but cheaper and easier. The Big Easy is a propane powered infrared roaster oven that gives you foods that look and taste very much like they were fried. I believe that the true versatility of this unit has yet to be discovered. Anything you can lower into the cooking chamber can be cooked quickly (turkey at about 10 minutes a pound).

Masterbuilt 28 Quart Electric Turkey Fryer

The popularity and the danger of frying turkeys have lead many people to try to come up with a more convenient and safer way to deep fry turkey. This gives us the Masterbuilt electric turkey fryer. Basically a super-sized deep fryer, this unit can cook a turkey up to 14 pounds just like the larger, propane powered units.

North American Outdoors 35-Quart Aluminum Saf-T-Fryer

Frying turkeys can be dangerous business no matter what you do. This doesn't mean that you need to give it up completely. For most people once you've tried deep fried turkey you don't want to go back. The Saf-T-Fryer is what you get when you give the list of risks to a team of engineers. This unit takes virtually all the risk out of frying a turkey (provided that you follow the instructions).

The Orion Cooker

Describing what The Orion Cooker is may be the most difficult thing about it. Basically this is a charcoal fired roasting oven. The completely enclosed cooking chamber completely separates the flame from the food. This does not mean that you can not add smoke flavor and it does not mean that this is no better than your oven at cooking everything from racks of ribs (6 at a time) to whole turkeys. This is a great "cooker" for large meals, tailgating and for getting foods cooked quickly.

Saf-T-Fryer Turkey Fryer

Frying turkeys is dangerous business no matter what you do. This doesn't mean that you need to give it up completely. For most people once you've tried deep fried turkey you won't want to go back. The Saf-T-Fryer is what you get when you give the list of risks to a team of engineers. This unit takes virtually all the risk out of frying a turkey (provided that you follow the instructions to the T). With everything you need to fry a turkey (except the oil) this unit is the complete solution.

Char-Broil's The Big Easy Oil-less Infrared Turkey Fryer

We all know that turkey frying can be dangerous. Char-Broil has developed a way to make it not only safer, but cheaper and easier. The Big Easy is a propane powered infrared roaster oven that gives you foods that look and taste very much like they were fried. I believe that the true versatility of this unit has yet to be discovered. Anything you can lower into the cooking chamber can be cooked quickly (turkey at about 10 minutes a pound).

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