Martha's Kitchen

It is becoming popular to deep fry turkey on thanksgiving. Deep fried turkey tastes moist and non greasy. It is simply delicious. Here are some frying turkey tips to prepare a tasty dinner for your family.

Firstly, here are equipments you need to deep fry a turkey:

40 or 60 quart pot with basket
propane gas tank and burner
deep fry thermometer
meat thermometer
pot holders

You will be using lots and lots of oil for frying a turkey and so outdoors is the best place for the entire process.

Here are deep frying turkey tips:

Measure how much oil you will need. Put turkey in basket and lower it into the pot, then pour water till it reaches two inches above turkey, mark the limit on the basket and get rid of water. Dry the pot and add oil to equal the water level in the basket.

Use deep fry thermometer to heat the oil to 325 degrees Fahrenheit.

Put the turkey in the oil and let it fry.

After sometime remove turkey and use meat thermometer to check temperature of breast and thigh of turkey. The former should be 170 degrees Fahrenheit and the later should be 180 degrees Fahrenheit.

Use injector to marinate your fried turkey. This way you can inject marinate directly into the meat.

Here is some interesting side information about hunting turkeys. Hunters often use turkey calls to bag a wild turkey. Tube turkey call is probably one of the most common types of calls used. Are you wondering how to use a tube turkey call to hunt a turkey? It is really simple and with it hunters can virtually make any kind of sound made by turkeys ranging from yelps, purrs to gobbles. It is made from a small barrel which has to be hollow. Latex is fixed across half of the top with an elastic band. One can even make a turkey tube call at home.