Good Eats - Fry Turkey Fry [Full - HD Quality]

Whether or not the Pilgrims ate turkey at the first Thanksgiving is debatable, but one thing is not: if they'd had a propane tank and five gallons of hot oil they'd have deep-fried the turkey for sure. Alton Brown takes on the new American tradition of deep-frying the big bird in an effort to prevent future backyard disasters from flaring up. Along the way, he talks turkey flavor and texture to ensure that we all get the most out of our birds, without getting burned. (foodtv.com)

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Alton
• Brown;
• Good
• Eats;
• Thanksgiving;
• Deep
• Fry;
• Turkey
• Derrick

[AnimeFunTV]

Tried this out last year, came out wonderful! Just a side note though, by the end of eating the turkey, it seem a bit salty, plan on reducing the brine salt from 1 lbs to about 1/2lbs but keep the same 1 lbs for the brown sugar and see how that works. We had gotten a turkey that was pre-brined by the company, so adding the additional salt kind of over did it by the end. Still a very good eat! X3

[Katjaneway]

@AnimeFunTV I've read never to brine a pre-brined turkey. That's why it was salty. Either buy a turkey that is not pre-brined and use all the salt, or probably don't brine it at all. (If u still want to soak it with flavor like the all-spice... but I wouldn't add any salt)

[AnimeFunTV]

@Katjaneway It's kind of hard (especially around here since its all Jumbo supermarket grocers) to find a turkey thats not pre-brinded. It was all bad though, it was still good and very delicious. I just plan on reducing the salt before hand.

[Katjaneway]

@AnimeFunTV Last year was the first time I ever hosted Thanksgiving, and I wanted to try his brined turkey recipe. I made sure that I got a free range turkey, not because I CARE, necessarily, but because they aren't messed with in processing. I just went to Albertsons today and found one.

[ToxicSpork]

That brunette chick had bad chopping form...

[chidoriookami]

@okdesuka44 LOL ikr, i looked down on the comments just to see if anyone commented that line

[okdesuka44]

This is one of the silliest episodes I've seen Alton Brown do. "what do you think the trunk's for?" xD

[jawojnicki]

@jawojnicki brought the level of oil to within 2 inches of the top of the pot, when it was COLD. Once it started heating up, expanding, rising and bubbling, there were splashes of oil going over the sides of the pot, EVEN AT 225 degrees. If I kept boosting the heat to 350 like he says to do, I almost guarantee it would have boiled over and caused a fire. You REALLY need to get a bigger than 30 QUART pot if you're doing a turkey more than about 12 pounds. mine was 14.5 lbs,and pot was too smal

[jawojnicki]

in response to your question, I bought EXACTLY the same burner he uses on the episodes. it's by the "bayou" company. 50 bucks but worth it. unfortunately, I could not use it to it's full potential because it was so windy here, the high setting on the burner sent flames so high, they were scary when blowing in the wind.

Also, I didn't mention in the previous comments that even though I got a 30 quart pot (like he has), the turkey required 4.5 gal oil to be covered, which...

[Katjaneway]

@jawojnicki question... do you have a high powered gas burner like he does? That might be part of the problem. But I understand your point. It's probably 60+ degrees in Georgia and here in WA it was like 41. And RAINING LIKE CRAZY lol Frying a turkey is just not possible around here without at least a carport or something. But I live in an apartment so it doesn't even matter for me lol

[jawojnicki]

@jawojnicki (continued again)

like he just turns the heat up and waits 30 min, but where I live (midwest), because it's 40 degrees outside on Thanksgiving, and the rope/pulley make it IMPOSSIBLE to cover the pot once the turkey is in, and it takes SO LONG for the oil to reach 350 degrees, that the meat in the turkey cooks to 160 deg when the oil is still only between 200 - 250. Thus, the skin is all SOGGY and WHITE/TAN still but the meat is done. If you wait for 350 deg, meat is WAY overcooked

[jawojnicki]

@jawojnicki (continued from the last post)

2. .... you need to PAT the turkey dry and let it SIT for 30 min at room temperature before hooking it up to the turkey derrick

3. Unless you have a very expensive, HEAVY ladder, the weight of the turkey will cause the ladder to TIP toward you when you are raising or lowering the turkey, so weigh down the opposite side.

4. The 30 minute countdown doesn't start until AFTER the oil has reached 350 degrees with the turkey inserted. The vid makes it look..

[jawojnicki]

AB is a great performer, but his recipes have f'd me over more than once, and this one is the worst! PLEASE read the following before you try this. There are some VERY IMPORTANT things that AB doesn't tell you in this video, which I learned the hard way:

1. If you live in a climate where it's COLD in the late fall (thanksgiving time), the oil will take FOREVER to come up to 250, and you should also COVER the pot to reduce this time to FOREVER MINUS 10 minutes.

2. After doing the water test,