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I Love Fried Turkey...How Do The Oil-Less Fryers Perform?
nunn
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We prefer our turkey fried to any other cooking method, and generally have had to get someone to fry one for us. The propane fired outdoor fryers seem messy and somewhat dangerous. Then I saw an electric fryer that was safe to use indoors. Hmmm....still messy though.
Yesterday, we were in Academy and saw an electric OIL-LESS turkey fryer. I presume it is something like an air fryer. That was intriguing to me and I think I'd like to own one, but I'd like to have some first hand information on them.
Do any of you have an oil-less turkey fryer? What brand is it? How large a turkey will it handle? Do you use it indoors? Does it work well? If something were to happen to your fryer, would you buy another one?
Thanks in advance.
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I love fried turkey. My brother down in Atlanta fries one every Christmas and I love to eat it.
He hangs a skinny rope from a basketball goal out in the driveway and lowers the turkey into the fryer with the rope.
It is a real mess and it is dangerous.
I don't know how well an air fryer would work.
I have the Char Broil Big Easy propane oilless fryer. It works great however the skin is not as crispy as oil fried turkey. Don
My cooker is round. Don
Forget the stove oven. We have an electric turkey roaster. Also an oil fryer... buy the oil and spend a fortune just to throw it away afterwards. The oil that is.. oil free turkey fryer sounds like a large air fryer. Lowes sells full size stove with air fryer options in the oven
I also have a Char Broil Big Easy. It does a good job, not quite the same as oil fried but cheaper and easier than buying oil. I use it to cook whole chickens, chicken legs, turkey legs. Its simple and easy to use. Will be doing a whole chicken in it for Thanksgiving.
How good is the char broiled turkey, versus the one fried in oil?
As I said in my reply, the turkey is good but the skin is not as crispy. I have cooked chickens as well and they are juicy and tasty. It is fried turkey without the expense of peanut oil. Don
Daughter developed a peanut allergy and that ended deep fried turkeys after something near a 20 year run. I’m ok with it, especially when the weather is bad!
Well I reckon I have one in the shed outside. We used it inside a long time ago on the island and cooked the Turkey. My Wife reminded me not to use it inside since it smoked up the house. I had forgotten but Women never forget.
She don't look like Cristy Brinkley to me! 😯
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We recently bought one of these Air Fryer Ninja things. No way would a Turkey fit in there.
Tried some wings in it the other evening. They came out great.
Only problem was the thing smoked up the whole house. I was really surprised the smoke alarms didn't go off. House smelled like fast food restaurant for a couple days after.
If we ever fry anything in it again, going plug it in outside and let it cook out there.
If you want a turkey w/o the oil, buy a smoker.
I like FRIED turkey. Smoked is OK, but fried is the best.
I have a nice Brinkmann Gourmet smoker and I have smoked a turkey. Very good and better than oven baked.
But not as good as fried.
Been frying turkeys for over 30 years now. Sorta neat to drop a large turkey in the pot and have it on the dinner table a hour later. Oven takes 4-6 hours, smoking up to a day.
Tried to smoke a 20 pound bird one Thanksgiving here in a Michigan November. Outside temps were in the low 20's with a stiff wind. I smoked that thing an entire day and half a night and still ended up finishing it off in the oven!! Came close to having the holiday dinner at Denny's!
The Big Easy is a propane infrared cooker that uses high temp and convection. If you rub the bird with oil it makes the skin quite crispy and almost like oil fried. It is not electric at all.
https://www.charbroil.com/the-big-easy-oil-less-turkey-fryer-17102065
Wife bought 3 pounds of smoked turkey from a local BBQ place. I’m not much on turkey, but, man, that stuff is great!