Time to fry a turkey!

[bonkoif]

It's the time of year for turkey, which means it's also the time of year to fry one. Since snarkymarcy's dad taught me how to fry a turkey 5 years ago, I've taken his notes and revised them after each turkey. After last Christmas, I didn't have to revise them, which is a bit of a milestone. So here are are instructions on how to fry a turkey safely and

Comments

[tooffdk]

Instead of calling for "Enough oil to almost fill the pot", shouldn't that be with the turkey in it? I recall a lot of turkey frying disasters happen when people overfill the fryer, not accounting for the volume of oil that the bird will displace.

[foomf]

From the description (fill to the measured mark) that's what he does call for. I think the excess is just to ensure that you have enough oil, but just a bit more than the measured amount should do it.