Just as I’ve done the last two Thanksgivings, I bring you a public service announcement from William Shatner: try not to set yourself on fire while frying a turkey.
For those with low Shatner thresholds, the advice is:
Don’t overfill the pot with oil.
Turn off the flame when lowering the turkey into the oil.
Always fry your turkey away from your house.
Properly thaw the turkey before cooking.
Use a grease-approved fire extinguisher.
If you’re going to fry a turkey, this is pretty sound advice.
Another Thanksgiving-related Public Service announcement: Try to avoid dropping a frozen turkey on your foot or your pets. You know, just in case you were planning on doing that for grins. At the very least you might want to wear shoes when you pull that sucker out of the freezer.
William Shatner gets some corporate money to tell yourself not to set yourself on fire while frying a turkey:
Warning: Just as the fryer is filled with too much oil, the video is filled with too much Shatner. Way, way, way too much.
For those with low Shatner thresholds, the advice is:
Don’t overfill the pot with oil.
Turn off the flame when lowering the turkey into the oil.
Always fry your turkey away from your house.
Properly thaw the turkey before cooking.
Use a grease-approved fire extinguisher.
If you’re going to fry a turkey, this is pretty sound advice. And if you live in central Texas, you probably shouldn’t be frying a turkey at all this year with the drought restrictions.
How not to deep-fry a turkey. Not once, not twice, but eight different frying disasters. The first one is long and lame, but the rest have varying degrees of satisfying flamey goodness. (Or, more to the point, flamey badness.)