So here’s a recap of my deep fried turkey ordeal in 2015

Oil splashing is VERY real. I measured several times the fill rates with water, and we still have spillage. As you can see, the hazard is real and there is no room for error.

The overfill could have caught fire and ignited a gigantic fire ball.

Luckily, I took all precautions and things turned out great. Turnout gear and fire gloves – MANDATORY!

Birds all vary in size and no matter how many times you’ve done this before, you can never be too safe.

Gobble gobble

So what did we learn?

Plan for fire. Wear more than just shorts and flip flops. Boots, nomex everything!

Plan to be outdoors the whole time and never do it indoors.  

Hazards are real and you could explode and catch fire.

Use pure peanut oil to allow for the highest smoke point. Do NOT use olive oil.

Peanut oil actually expires so please check your expiration dates on the peanut oil package.

Measure your oil level first with water before you start frying. Use a catch bin like this seafood basket to better handle your bird and increase your chance of NOT dropping bird and splashing molten hot oil on everyone.

Just like El Guapo, make sure you have a plethora of fire extinguishers around.

Do it on concrete.

Have some aerial ops going on to help document your work.

Take photos while frying. (skillz)

Happy Thanksgiving everyone. Glad I’m not dead or caught the house on fire.

Whew.
@rusnivek