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Doesn't seem very fuel efficient at all, on top of that for unstuffed turkeys they recommend 15 minutes per pound, so for a 14 lb turkey, you'll be cooking for at least three and a half hours at the highest setting. Hope you got a large propane tank or a couple extra in reserve.
a really expensive way to try to fake-bake food with a gimmicky product. If you want to do it right, either actually oil fry the turkey, or buy an electric infrared convection oven that has a rotisserie attachment. And, you know, an oven door to actually keep the heat in.
If you don't have a convection oven, you could just bake the turkey until it's fully cooked, lower the oven rack to the lowest setting, remove the foil or pan lid and briefly broil the turkey with the oven door slightly open to provide a little bit of convection and help the skin crisp up. You'll get the same effect for a bare fraction of the price and make your entire house smell amazing in the process. 🍗
Take the money that you saved by not buying another clutter appliance that would just waste space in your garage and buy some more pumpkin pie. 🥧 😋
Pro tip...get a commercial steam table pan for $20 to catch gravy drippings.
edit- dude who made the first comment has no clue
Pro tip...get a commercial steam table pan for $20 to catch gravy drippings.
The 15 minutes/pound comes from the manufacturer's recommendations. Surprised you don't know that, considering that you say you own one of these. There's absolutely no way you're cooking a 20 lb turkey for 3 hours and having it cook correctly and reaching a safe internal temperature. The manufacturer's recommendation of 15 minutes/lb, for a 20 lb turkey would be 300 minutes, or -five hours-.
You'll be starting on your third propane tank by then. 😂
I genuinely hope that you've been using an accurate instant read thermometer and checking the internal temperature in multiple places, because every actual non-shill user video that I watched said that it cooked incredibly inconsistently, one side could be 40°f colder than another. Try not to get worms.
I find it rather telling that the manufacturer's videos all seem to lean very heavily on trying to scare people about the dangers of oil turkey fryers. They don't mention anything at all about how to be safe cooking with an oil fryer, but expound on how unpopular and unsafe you'll be if you use anything but their product. 🙄
And yeah, you have to be careful when you're cooking with oil, whether you're making french fries, whole chicken, a turkey, a ham or anything else. That's why deep fryers(both electric and gas), grills, bbqs and literally every other cooking appliance have instruction books to teach you how to use it safely.
This product is an attempt at a propane powered air cooker/fryer. It does nothing that a smoker, infrared rotisserie, or a convection oven will not do better, faster and cheaper. Smokers will take longer of course, but that's by design and flavor.
I could be wrong. This could be the best product that's ever been made for cooking turkeys and use some kind of magical cooking process that isn't explainable by thermodynamics, and that somehow has never been mainstreamed or popular in the 14 something years? that it's been on sale enough to not be clearance aisle fodder.
I could be wrong. But I don't think so.
But hey, here is your chance to put your turkey where your mouth is! 🍗👉👅
Please, prove me wrong. Do a full in depth video review of this oil free turkey fryer and explain every single step of what you do and why. How big the turkey is, how many pounds of propane you use to cook it, how long it takes to cook and if it in fact cooks evenly and safely, how much the turkey weighs afterwards and what is its moisture content before and after. Do a time lapse maybe, start to finish. Your reward will be Internet points and a delicious crispy turkey.
Or possibly worms. 🐛
edit- dude who made the first comment has no clue
Side note, OmahaJeff needs to chill.
Doesn't seem very fuel efficient at all, on top of that for unstuffed turkeys they recommend 15 minutes per pound, so for a 14 lb turkey, you'll be cooking for at least three and a half hours at the highest setting. Hope you got a large propane tank or a couple extra in reserve.
a really expensive way to try to fake-bake food with a gimmicky product. If you want to do it right, either actually oil fry the turkey, or buy an electric infrared convection oven that has a rotisserie attachment. And, you know, an oven door to actually keep the heat in.
If you don't have a convection oven, you could just bake the turkey until it's fully cooked, lower the oven rack to the lowest setting, remove the foil or pan lid and briefly broil the turkey with the oven door slightly open to provide a little bit of convection and help the skin crisp up. You'll get the same effect for a bare fraction of the price and make your entire house smell amazing in the process. 🍗
Take the money that you saved by not buying another clutter appliance that would just waste space in your garage and buy some more pumpkin pie. 🥧 😋
Worst review ever. In the future if that's all you have to offer please save everyone a time from reading your dribble.
I have been using this device for over 10 years. If you aren't cooking your turkeys standing rib roast and other great cuts of meat in one of these you're missing out on one of the best cookers out there. This is a great price. Four years after Christmas Lowe's used to put these on clearance for about 50 to $60. Its been a while since that has happened.
I want to add, the comments that were made about propane usage are completely wrong. Your normal 4 gallon tank will last for many meals cooked in here. i use mine at least once a week for 1-2 hrs per session, and have not had to change the tank yet since february.
Everything comes out amazing in these. Flank and Skirt steak, pork belly, pork loin, beer can chicken. I had to buy a 2nd one so I could cook two turkeys on thanksgiving because my family fights the leftovers!
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I have been using this device for over 10 years. If you aren't cooking your turkeys standing rib roast and other great cuts of meat in one of these you're missing out on one of the best cookers out there. This is a great price. Four years after Christmas Lowe's used to put these on clearance for about 50 to $60. Its been a while since that has happened.
While I don't own this product, I've used similar devices (and then promptly returned them). I'm hoping other people won't literally buy into the very fake hype and fanboy/shill-driven reviews. It's not a mistake or coincidence that you always see this in a clearance aisle; that's called a "clue".
You're all excited and defensive about your oilless fryer, I get that. But there are many very good reasons why this isn't a popular or successful product, it's fringe for a reason ...and you seem to be blind to that.
One man's trash is another man's... Wait, nope, it's still trash.
Have fun with your toy. 🪀
While I don't own this product, I've used similar devices (and then promptly returned them). I'm hoping other people won't literally buy into the very fake hype and fanboy/shill-driven reviews. It's not a mistake or coincidence that you always see this in a clearance aisle; that's called a "clue".
You're all excited and defensive about your oilless fryer, I get that. But there are many very good reasons why this isn't a popular or successful product, it's fringe for a reason ...and you seem to be blind to that.
One man's trash is another man's... Wait, nope, it's still trash.
Have fun with your toy. 🪀
No, people just have a problem with uneducated folks like yourself. From the look of all your comments I don't think anybody here can help you with your problem in that regard.
The 15 minutes/pound comes from the manufacturer's recommendations. Surprised you don't know that, considering that you say you own one of these. There's absolutely no way you're cooking a 20 lb turkey for 3 hours and having it cook correctly and reaching a safe internal temperature. The manufacturer's recommendation of 15 minutes/lb, for a 20 lb turkey would be 300 minutes, or -five hours-.
You'll be starting on your third propane tank by then. 😂
I genuinely hope that you've been using an accurate instant read thermometer and checking the internal temperature in multiple places, because every actual non-shill user video that I watched said that it cooked incredibly inconsistently, one side could be 40°f colder than another. Try not to get worms.
Attached are pics from the beginning and end. Notice the time stamps. Wires out the top are dual digital thermometers.
Big Easy burners are 16000 BTU....tank is 450000. That's 28 hours of use.
"There's absolutely no way you're cooking a 20 lb turkey for 3 hours".....yet you are arguing for a oil fryer which is less?
Attached are pics from the beginning and end. Notice the time stamps. Wires out the top are dual digital thermometers.
Big Easy burners are 16000 BTU....tank is 450000. That's 28 hours of use.
"There's absolutely no way you're cooking a 20 lb turkey for 3 hours".....yet you are arguing for a oil fryer which is less?
You left out a pretty important part of the quote.
Hot frying oil Cooks by direct thermal conduction of heat on and into the food. That is how you can completely cook a piece of chicken in a deep fryer in 6 to 8 minutes, but that same piece of chicken takes 20 to 30 minutes to cook thoroughly and safely in a 375-400°f degree oven. Baking (or "air frying" which is what this oil free toy does) is a very very different way of cooking than oil frying.
That is a nice looking bird, I'll give you that.
I genuinely hope that you used an accurate instant thermometer to make sure that every part of the bird reached a safe minimum temperature before serving it to your family.