From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos
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Subject: Re: William Shatner Warns Of The Dangers Of Turkey Fryers

Remysun  writes:

> On Nov 18, 4:43-aam, Ubiquitous  wrote:
>
>> You should also avoid oil spills by first filling the pot with cold oil,
>> and then, lower the thawed turkey into the pot to measure exactly how
>> much oil yourCOll need.
>
> How come you can't put the turkey in, then cover it with enough cold
> oil, remove turkey, and warm the oil up?

Your description is what Ubiquitous undoubtedly meant.

Slightly better is to put the thawed turkey in the empty fryer, add
water to cover turkey, remove turkey, measure how much water you added.
Replace water with oil, heat oil.

This way you don't have an oil-soaked turkey dripping while you wait for
the oil to heat.  Cleaning up water drips is easier than oil drips.
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