Bubbling away. Notice the level of oil?

DFT2014 safety tip: Do NOT overfill your pot w/ too much peanut oil.

The majority of the fires that occur from the frying a turkey comes from overfilling the oil.

Like a consummate professional, before I deep-fried my turkey, I measured how much oil to put in the pot.

Pot + stand + turkey + fill with water

Fill to cover bird

Once you fill it, remove the bird.

Mark the level of the water and empty.

After you empty the water and dry out the pot, fill the pot up with peanut oil to the same level as the water.

Easy right?

Planning and preparing this way will help ensure you don’t have any overflow on your deep fryer.

Again, no one wants to have this…

Gobble gobble!

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This is my set up. How do I look??

DFT2014 safety tip-05: make sure your deep fryer is located far away from any structure, free of obstructions, and provides ample avenues of egress.

Far enough away from the house, far enough away from any dead trees, but totally on a flat concrete surface.

This flat concrete surface provides a stable platform so nothing spills of tips over.

Bonus points for my fire extinguisher too.

I think I did pretty good. Although I wish it was warmer.

@rusnivek

Gloves on, scene safe?

DFT2014 Safety Tip-03: always practice safe cooking. Cross contamination and food poisoning is no joke.

Of course proper body substance isolation (BSI) and personal protective equipment (PPE) is a must as you prepare your Thanksgiving turkey!

Just making sure everything looks good for tonight’s turkey.

@rusnivek

A bucket of water or a fire extinguisher?

For deep-fried turkey you definitely need something much bigger than a bucket of water.

A bucket of water is not enough and it’s easily the wrong type of extinguishment method you need. Because of the nature and the dangers of frying a turkey you should definitely have a fire extinguisher ready.

Don’t forget to check your fire extinguishers to see if they are expired. The gauge on the fire extinguisher should read in the green it should not be under charged or overcharged. It should be just right.

Having a fire extinguisher ready to go is a great example of how you could be prepared. That goes for turkeys and disasters!

#Prepared2014

@rusnivek

Um, this is a frozen turkey. I’m thinking deep frying this is a bad idea. What do you think?

DFT2014 Safety tip-02 NEVER deep fry a frozen turkey! Please thaw it out first!

If you deep fry a frozen turkey you are most likely going to create a gigantic balls of fire. Not only will the oil splashed over the side and ignite, the frozen turkey will surely cook unevenly.

Trust me, if you deep fry a frozen turkey, do you have a terrible Thanksgiving dinner.

Now to find another turkey…

@rusnivek

I was just told to deep fry the turkey on he deck. Um…what do you think? #DFT2014

DFT2014 Safety tip-01: NEVER deep Fry your turkey on the deck!

@rusnivek

Well, after a bunch of reading, I decided to deep fry a turkey on Thanksgiving.

I just hope I don’t burn down the house.

Maybe I should stick to the scalloped potato dish.

@rusnivek

My office view today looks slightly different…

Related note, it is really cold here in Illinois.

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