From: "Chuck Guzis" <cclist at sydex.com On 11/14/2005 at 9:32 AM Dwight K. Elvey wrote: >>> I've used peanut oil and a fry pan. > >That's downright scary--oil fires are nasty. And burns from oil that hot >(I've had them from cooking) take a long time to heal. >I've heard plenty about the big 30-quart propane-fired turkey fryers >catching fire. I'm not so sure that I'd like to try your method, although >it sounds interesting. Indeed. It's a clever idea, to be sure. For me, I've spent a good bit of time around everything from pans to very large buckets of boiling oil (wife is from New Orleans, I had to learn to keep her happy). Having had to triage a folks who weren't very experienced with oil (hint: your turkey, catfish, etc., should patted as dry as possible and MUST NOT STILL BE FROZEN...and the flame does not have to be maxed out), I would suggest sticking to heat guns and propane torches...at least when they burn you you can drop them and the worst of it stops. That's not true with oil..it really likes to stick to you and everyone else in the room. Messing around with hot oil if you're not an expert and there are other options is *not* my first choice. YMMV... Ken P.S. - Watching someone drop a mostly frozen turkey in a vat of vigourously boiling peanut oil was a deeply disturbing experience...