Deep Fryer

Hey guys…I just used my deep fryer for the first time and let me tell you, if you don’t have one, you need to go out and get one . I had some walleye fillets that i cut in half/breaded, and cooked 2 at a time. Wow they came out w/so much flavor and to my surprise, weren’t that oily. I highly recommend getting one if you don’t have one already.

Anyone else’s thoughts on them?

I love ’em! I have a slick one with a locking lid (to avoid spills n’ splatters / burns) with a nice charcoal ilter element to cut down on the oily fish smell when cooking indoors.

The key to great fried fish fillets is being able to control the temp of the oil. Cooking in a small skillet doesn’t allow you to use a larger quantity of oil and most people over-load the skillet with fillets which immediately lowers the temp of the oil. When this happens the oil soaks into the breading and fillets themselves and makes the fish VERY greasy.

Oil temps should be around 400 degrees if my memory serves me. At thsoe temps the oil cooks the outside before it can soak in. Results are some darn crispy and light fillets!

just used my deep fryer tonight made beer batter walleye and there is nothing better on a cold winter night.my boys like it so much Iam lucky to get any fish. better hide a little when I cook it.

My fry daddy gets used about once a week, reuse the oil about 4-6 times. Soak the walleye and halibut (just got back from Alaska)in milk and coat with italian bread crumbs….fry at 350 to 375. My wife just loves it, which is a plus since you can’t eat fresh fish if your not fishing!!!!

Deep fryers are great! Ever do a turkey? A 10 pounder done to perfection in 45 minutes!! Yum!

Jon J.

Love em. Without a doubt my favorite way to eat fish.

Wife hates the smell it leaves in the house. James, the charcoal filter idea is nice. What Brand model is that?

Healthy eating at it’s best!!!

Deep frying, when done properly, is actually not that bad for you. The key is (as James said) to keep the temperature of the oil high so that the water in the fish steams out while it is cooking. The steam forcing its way out of the fish keeps the oil from soaking in.

The key to keeping them from getting oily is to pull the fish before they’re done steaming (but are done cooking). Once the steam stops escaping, the oil will start to soak in and replace it. If you keep this in mind, a full basket of fillets has probably less oil in it than a fast-food burger.

I should add: Tips courtesy of Alton Brown of Good Eats <– that guy rocks.

How too make a deep fryer. First throw all your money away except for a stamp for a letter to the us government. You probably already have the paper and pen so you could write a simple letter telling them you want two outdated jet engines from an experimental test for moon launches. They would probably work pretty good for fast frying for shore lunch this time of year. Next go write another letter, or include the statement in the same letter, they have people who can read long letters too so i guess thats a good idea, asking for a donation and tell them its for an up and coming inventors club and say that you would like just one oxygen tank about 2ft by 4ft with one end cut off but you would like it welded upside down for a stand for the bottom of the cooker but we could do it if its too much problem for them. At this time so they don’t think were nuts tell them we would like just a few pieces of aluminum, not titanium because they might be too tight and not grant our wishes, that we could use for a simple but worthy frame to mount all this highly experimental stuff too. We could easily build a quick cooker from all of these valuable throw away scrap items of little value to them anyway. The last thing is probably the hardest thing to find, knowing the present government and its oil policies, is some good cooking oil straight from their private kitchens, around the white house grounds would be good enough but we’de probably get turned down and have to buy it ourselves or maybe we’de get lucky and get some food stamps from them, probably only 20$ worth, but heck when your asking the government who can beg? We can really surprise them and tell them we don’t need rocket fuel because we have a hidden still that we get our fuel from, thats better than theres, from using the local wood around here to fire our treasured fast cooker up. Then send them an invitation for a good fish fry saying the weathers fine up here. When they ask if they should bring anything we’ll just say no and don’t bring any coats becuase were all not wearing any and let thier imiagination just wonder what kind of wonderfull place this is up north in the winter with these wonderful natural gas prices. When they get here and are freezing out on some sandy shore eating with all of us and start complaining well just say, hel- we do this every winter with the gas prices rising , but we’ll tell them don’t worry were tough. Think this will help us get our jet engines or just fill thier stomachs with delicious cold water walleyes on a cold winters day up in the beautiful north country? I kinda want to get my money back some way for another shore lunch too show these guys how well we do when its cold up here where they never come and to never worry about us because were ok. Ever think they will get the idea on whats going on?

I could not find a listing for the exact model that I have… I looked a couple times, maybe its discontinued.

http://www.growinglifestyle.com/prod/B00005JSG5.html

I have a T fal and this unit has many of the same features.

Hey guys don’t take what i wrote too seriously, i just got my last gas bill and i exploded. Im tired of the excuses the pipelines use to get our gas up here. We use to live on the gulf coast and they burn it off in huge deposits that emit huge volums of natural gas so when ships sail through them they don’t set them off. These deposits burn 24/7. I called the gas company here to find out why we had a raise in our bill last year and again this year. The lady told me its not the manufacturers in the gulf or the companies selling it here, The price increase is from the companies who pipe it up here from the gulf. Its the same line they’ve been useing for years, they just decided they wanted to charge us more, plain and simple. Maybe those same investors are trying to come up with enough money to help fund the new pipeline thier going to build in alaska and afghanstan. Just a thought, they are trying to build one in both places. I thought of the natural gas it takes to fry in the cooker and they just hit my yelling bone, don’t take it too serious. Makes me think of what kind of friends we really do have in washington at the moment.