Turkey. It’s a staple of millions of homes for Thanksgiving and Christmas dinner. It’s something I look forward to making every year. When you’re on the road in your RV, cooking a turkey can be somewhat of an undertaking. Luckily enough, deep frying your birds are becoming more and more popular, and it’s quickly becoming the choice of RVers everywhere. With Christmas happening in a few days, I decided to write about how to make your Christmas turkey something to remember, with a deep fryer!
1. Be sure you have a flat surface outdoors to deep fry your turkey
A flat surface is very important to be sure you don’t spill cooking oil all over the ground. Make sure you are far away from wooden decks, homes, plants and anything that may catch fire.
2. Determine how much oil is needed for the turkey.
There should be about 3-5 inches from the fill line to protect it from boiling over and spilling.
3. Preheat the oil to 375 degrees.
While this is going on, prepare your turkey with marinade, seasonings and injectable flavor. You will also need to insert a metal wire and hook to lower and raise the turkey from the cooking oil.
4. Once the cooking oil is the desired temperature, turn the burner off.
5. Lower the turkey into the cooking oil slowly, to avoid spilling and bubbling over.
6. Once the turkey is immersed, turn the burner back on.
7. Cook the turkey for 3-4 minutes per pound of turkey.
Remember, the turkey is not done until the dark meat is 175-180 degrees and the white meat is 165-170 degrees.
8. Once the turkey is done, turn the burners off and slowly lift the turkey out of the deep fryer.
Set the cooked bird on a rack or a bed of paper towels and wait at least 20 minutes before you move it.
9. Enjoy your deep fried turkey!
On thing to remember during this process is that, for all of its deliciousness, deep frying a turkey is extremely hazardous and is responsible for incredible amount of house fires and fire related injury every year. Please, please, please be very careful when frying your turkey. In fact, when you are lowering your turkey into the oil, just go ahead and turn the flame off until your turkey is completely in the pot. This will help prevent fire in case of spillover.
Good luck, be safe and enjoy! Everyone of us here at PPL Motorhomes hope you enjoy your holidays with your family and be sure to let us know how your turkey turns out!