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How to Get the Most Out of Your Turkey Fryers & Fish Cookers

When you go shopping for barbecue grills you will come across fish fryers and turkey fryers along with the various electric, gas and charcoal grills. Grill manufacturers offer a range of propane fish cookers and turkey fryers and these can be really convenient for cooking fried fish, French fries, steaks and all those other recipes you have probably been meaning to try from your cookbook. You also get fish cooker smoker combos enabling you use them as smokers as well as fish fryers. So let us look at some more details about fryers.

Fish fryers

Fish fryers are popular cooking equipment that come with all that you need to turn out a delicious meal, like a single heavy duty burner that you can connect to your propane tank, a big fry pot that is made of cast iron aluminum or stainless steel, a basket, a gas regulator, a hose and a deep fry thermometer to measure the temperature. If you decide to go in for an expensive model, you would get multiple burners, accessories for steaming or boiling foods like vegetables, fish, etc.

Turkey fryers

The southerners love deep fried turkey and thus the turkey fryer was born. What used to be a cumbersome job before has now become a pleasure with turkey fryers, as it is possible to cook the entire bird. Deep fried turkey is a specialty, with the crisp skin, wings and juicy tender meat. Electric turkey fryers are equally convenient. During the winter holidays, when you plan that special turkey dinner on Thanksgiving day, you will be amazed to find that the cooking time for turkey fryers is only about three quarters of an hour instead of the several hours that it used to take earlier.

Turkey fryers, while similar to fish cookers, come with a larger fry pot with a lid. They also have a special turkey rack and a hook. They also come with an injector that you can use to fill your bird with marinades and sauces for those delectable flavors. Other accessories you can choose are cooking utensils, funnels and pumps for extracting and storing the cooking oil, etc.

Electric turkey fryers actually came on the scene just a few years ago. The Bayou classic turkey fryers are a class apart, coming from a brand that is well known for its quality. These turkey fryers can be used for boiling and steaming vegetables and seafood, in addition to frying turkey and fish. The Bayou classic turkey fryers come with a variety of choices from the all stainless steel turkey fryer kits with steel pots and burners, to the aluminum pots, burners, and deep fry thermometers. They also come with lots of accessories so that you can have your fried turkey in forty-five minutes. Burners are CSA approved.

Incidentally, indoor turkey fryers are not to be used outdoors, unless you use a covered garage or patio. Obviously electric equipment is not used where they are likely to be exposed to rains. It is also not a good idea to use extension cords with your turkey fryers or fish cookers as this can lengthen the cooking time for turkey fryers, resulting in more fuel usage. Another problem with electric extension cords is you or someone could trip over it.

Bayou also make high BTU fish cookers that come with a tall welded steel frame, a ten quart aluminum fry pot and basket, a UL approved hose and regulator valve assembly and a type 1 green hand wheel connector. Bayou classic turkey fryers are versatile and sturdy and when you do not use the basket, you can use the unit for canning.