I bought a turkey fryer last year to brew beer almost a year ago, now SWBO says i must fry a turkey tomorrow, in my my 7.5 gallon pot,that i use for full boils. I say okay now time to find a proper 8 or 10 gallon pot 
SWBO now says cook turkey
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Mountainbeers
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Haha but beer flavored turkey sounds amazing! Not so sure about turkey flavored beer though...
Ahhh....good excuse...always looking for them myself!!!
Don't tell her there will be no issue with it...think there is even a "Cock Ale" recipe somewhere in the Joy of Homebrewing!
Don't tell her there will be no issue with it...think there is even a "Cock Ale" recipe somewhere in the Joy of Homebrewing!
shek
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My turkey fryer came from my MIL&FIL's garage. They only used it once or twice. I've had it for about two years and done about twenty batches of beer with it, but have actually fried on turkey in it within the last year; also made a sh*tload of potato chips in it from scratch which were f'ing :rockin:
Upgraded to a 10 gallon pot a month ago, the fryer came with a 7.5 gallon pot. My MIL is sick right now so I offered to fry a turkey using it (with the 7.5G pot, which I don't use for brewing that much anymore). I wonder if I can do the frying and handoff the cleanup effort to someone else.
Upgraded to a 10 gallon pot a month ago, the fryer came with a 7.5 gallon pot. My MIL is sick right now so I offered to fry a turkey using it (with the 7.5G pot, which I don't use for brewing that much anymore). I wonder if I can do the frying and handoff the cleanup effort to someone else.
Red Clay
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I was doing an in-service with docs at SHANDS (University of Florida's trauma center) the week after Thanksgiving year before last. A man was there who had a turkey frying accident. He tipped the pot over and tried to catch it....it was very bad. He was burned from the waist up. I'm guessing he eventually died.
I'll never fry a Turkey after seeing that. <shudder>
I'll never fry a Turkey after seeing that. <shudder>
Fingers
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Wouldn't it make more sense to say that you would never try to catch a pot of boiling oil after seeing that?
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Which would be really ironic if you got your start in brewing because of Alton Brown as well!
Just don't use your cooler/mastun to brine it in.
Which would be really ironic if you got your start in brewing because of Alton Brown as well!
Just don't use your cooler/mastun to brine it in.
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Red Clay
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Sure...but logic has nothing to do with it. Every-time I bite into that crispy turkey leg there will be this image in my mind that just isn't very appetizing!
Grimsawyer
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I have that burner he suggests... LOVE IT!!! (course, maybe santa will bring me a banjo burner this year... *starts holding breath*) (On a similar yet completely unrelated note I have 2 propane tanks and no gas bbq... my friends love ribs from my treager and steaks from my old charcoal BBQ but still ask why I don't get a gas grill... *sigh* Ya win some, and ya lose some. Maybe some day they will learn...)
springer
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if you live like that soon you wont do anything..
cheezydemon3
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Brine in the brwew pot! That's what I did.
Dry the turkey and rub it while you wash the pot.
FRY.
Dry the turkey and rub it while you wash the pot.
FRY.
