{"id":13051,"date":"2025-11-20T09:15:37","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T01:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=13051"},"modified":"2025-11-20T09:15:37","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T01:15:37","slug":"mouthing-off-stop-deep-frying-turkeys-for-thanksgiving-its-dry-and-dangerous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=13051","title":{"rendered":"Mouthing Off | Stop deep-frying turkeys for Thanksgiving, it\u2019s dry and dangerous"},"content":{"rendered":"


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With American Thanksgiving around the corner, I need to call out one of the dumbest cooking trends the internet has ever promoted: deep-frying turkeys. It is time to stop!<\/p>\n

This big bad idea began back in the late 1970s. Southern chefs in New Orleans, who normally fried chickens, decided to apply their technique to a different bird five times the size.<\/p>\n

As time went by, celebrity cooks like Martha Stewart<\/span> and Emeril Lagasse took the scheme to their television shows, adding to the lore.<\/div>\n

But it was YouTube \u2013 making the world ever more stupid \u2013 that really elevated this sizzling shenanigan to epic proportions. The concept of cooking a large turkey in a fraction of the oven time, not to mention the redneck spectacle of a pot of hot oil, a wrecking ball of a fowl, and the ever imminent danger of this combustible combination spilling and splattering into a backyard fireball, was just too irresistible not to click.<\/p>\n

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A full-size turkey frying in peanut oil. Photo: Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Some culinary proponents argue that deep-frying makes the bird crispier and more tender. I am not so sure. Turkey has so little fat that the skin is likely to be brittle, not crunchy. The one time I tasted a fried turkey, the breast meat was as dry as a manila envelope.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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