Monday, January 31, 2011

The turkey fryer!


In case you were wondering how I was able to fry the turkey in my previous post without the use of any oil, this is the contraption that did it.  It is an infrared Turkey fryer from Char-Broil.  I cannot tell you how easy this thing was to use.  All you do is hook up your propane bottle, light it up, and bingo, you are ready to cook.  The book says it works by bouncing infrared heat all around the inside of the round pan.  Being from the South, we are known for frying just about anything and we like to fry in things such as peanut oil or vegetable oil or just straight up lard!  This thing uses no oil, but the turkey came out with a crispy brown skin and the juices flowed from the middle just like your Grandma's fried chicken at Sunday dinner.  All I did was coat the turkey with some of my favorite rub, put it in the basket and lower it into the cooker.  It takes about ten minutes per pound, so my turkey breast took about an hour and a half.

I'm looking forward to trying different things in the cooker because of how easy it was to use and how easy it was to clean up.  Hardly any mess at all.  The book gives directions on how to cook hams, roasts, Boston butts, etc.  If you are looking for an easy cooking tool for your shop or your home, give this thing a try.

**Shameless blog promotion-  If you want to see the turkey that I cooked over the weekend, click on my post entitled "Weekend Work!"  Scroll to the bottom.

14 comments:

Jan said...

I will be looking into getting one of these!

Scott said...

Hey Trey, any of those turkey sandwiches left? LOL

Downeast Duck Hunter said...

I suppose you are going to make me google this to find out where to get it and at what price... links my good man, links!!!

Downeast Duck Hunter said...

Hey Trey, you and I won the lottery for the gun cleaning review on Outdoor Bloggers!!! What a riot!!!

Unknown said...

Now how cool is that??! DEDH we have definitly got to get together to do some hunting now! Seems kind of like fate!!

Unknown said...

DEDH- I think tat you can find it at Cabelas or Bass Pro. Google Char-Broil!!

Ian Nance said...

Again, not sure how I feel about this. Next thing I know, you'll be frying catfish in one of these things...are you sure you're from GA???/

:)

Unknown said...

Ian, that would definitly be a sin and if I start doing that you have my permission to come and releive me of my "good ole boy" card!

Anonymous said...

DEDH-I got it from Home Depot and it's affordable.

Downeast Duck Hunter said...

Anything my wife gets me is affordable until I pay the credit card bill... I'll check it out, thanks...

Unknown said...

DEDH- We are more alike than I thought! That is exactly my way of thinking when it comes to my wife's spending!!

Dennis said...

I need one of those for sure...thanks Trey

Hey I passed an award your way...this is your notification my man :)

-Dennis

Unknown said...

Thanks D! I think that may be the third one this week. :) I have not had time to follow up and pass the award along, besides, all the folks I know have won it this week too! :)

Anonymous said...

Trey, thanks for a great product review. The turkey fryer sounds like something worth looking into :-)

Take care and have a great week :-)

~Ron
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