"Richard Casady" wrote in message
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On Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:45:51 -0400, HK wrote:

Never understood cooking turkey in oil when it is so easy to just roast
it in a pan in the oven, and avoid the grease and oil.

Just how much oil does it take? How many dollars worth? And how long
does it keep? How much for a freezer to hold the oil at 0 F. between
uses. I think you could easily end up buying new oil for every turkey.
I have a radio remote oven thermometer that sits by the keyboard, or
the beer, as the case may be. If I want grease, I will go to the
restaurant down the street and have onion rings. We bought a set up,
tank, burner, and kettle, and it has the cooking instructions for
frying a turkey stamped into it. Of course, we bought it for mashed
potatoes and lobstercide. Anyone dumb enough to oil a turkey needs the
instructions right on the gear.

Casady

Peanut oil keeps very well at room temps. And the turkey is not greasy.
But costs about $30 for enough oil and you can do 5 turkeys they say. Is
not cheap hobby. But since I own a boat, actually a boat, canoe, kayaks,
and float tube, hard to say I am cheap. Broke maybe, but not cheap.