I bought a turkey fryer from sears and was wondering how many gallons of oil to buy. The bird is 15 pounds. Any help ?
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I used 2-64oz bottles of peanut oil that u can purchase from Gordon Food or Sams Club. That fried bird was so good!!!!
The safe way to know how much oil you need is this:
first put the turkey in the pot, then start adding water until you cover the turkey, afterwards remove the turkey, finally wherever the water settles down after removing the turkey that is the safe level that you should put of oil, simply replace the water with oil and your good to go.
if you put in more oil than that level when you put the turkey in with the hot oil it could spill and start a fire
good luck and enjoy
they have lines on inside of pot! or maybe inch turkey becarefull not splash it, try keep a constant tempature too…
In most cases, if your turkey pot is the taller, but narrower type you would only need about 1.5 gallons, but if it is a shorter, but larger in diameter then problebly 2 gallons of oil. Also did you get the kit the has you stand the turkey upright on a spindle? Best thing to do is take the turkey (while still wrapped in plastic bag) and submerge it into the pot you will be using and add enough water to just cover the top of the bird, and that will tell you how many gallons you will need. I do mean just the very top tip of the bird, as the oil will expand once heated and you will gain an inch or 2. Key thing is to not put to much oil in (which many people do, which is also leading contributor to burning ones house down) If your pot has oil line marking inside the pot, do not go by those, as each bird is different in dimensions, so that’s not an accurate way to measure. I love fried turkey, and for the northerners that think were nuts for doing it this way, have no idea what they are missing. Happy frying:)
Put the bird in the fryer now… Fill it with water until you cover the bird.
Now, take the bird out. Mark the fryer with an indelible marker where the water line is AFTER the bird is removed. That will be the “fill line” for oil when it comes time to actually cook.
Now you have two choices. You can either bail the water out, measuring how much you pour off, or, empty it completely and, using an empty gallon milk/water jug, refill it to that line, counting the number of jugs it takes. (It will probably be somewhere between three and five gallons, depending on the size of the fryer and the size of the turkey)
It takes about 1 1/2gallons. It should have a fill line in it so just fill it to there. Once it comes to the desired temp, you can place your turkey in and make it yummy.
