Here's the first bird that I did (for a customer), after about 30 hours of marinading and rubbing-in seasoning, as it awaits the 350 degree Fahrenheit hot oil...
Yours Truly carefully lowering the turkey in...
Frying at 3 and a half minutes per pound, this 9-pounder took 35 minutes to cook...
A little over half an hour later (a heckuva lot shorter time than basting it in an oven) this turkey is done!
Beautiful, ain't it? :-)
Now this next one is the turkey that I fried for my own family's Thanksgiving dinner. And lemme tell ya: I've never done one this big before. It weighed in at more than TWENTY AND A HALF POUNDS! I nicknamed it "The Beast", it was so monstrously large. Think the previous biggest one was about 13 pounds and I darn nearly had cardiac infarction when Dad told me how big a bird he had purchased. But, I'm always up for a challenge.
Here's "The Beast" before frying...
A turkey this big deserves something better than just still pics, don't ya think? So how about a video clip of me lowering it into the oil...
"The Beast" took 75 minutes to thoroughly fry...
And an hour and fifteen minutes later...
That is going to be my personal standard by which all future fried turkeys will be judged. If all the rest to come can be as big and juicy and delicious as The Beast, I will be happy :-)
3 comments:
Good to hear that you used cottonseed oil this year! When you posted your offer to fry turkeys for people, I considered passing the link on to some friends I have down in Virginia, but I remembered from following your past turkey events that you use peanut oil, which is a life-threatening allergy to some. Kudos on the new find though!
Happy Thanksgiving! =D
-Cassie
They look gorgeous! How much was the cottonseed oil and where did you find it?
Found the oil at Dick's Sporting Goods in Greensboro. And for two 3-gallon containers it came to only $29! With peanut oil, it would likely be twice that much (or pretty darned close to it).
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