Debbie wrote:
>
> "Virginia Tadrzynski" <tadx6@ptd.net> wrote in message
> news:4b0f477f$0$19738$ce5e7886@news-radius.ptd.net...
>> Hubby got a turkey frying aparatus from his employer. So turkey this
>> year was to be fried....he watched Good Eats and liked Alton Brown's
>> 'turkey derrick'...so Mr. Fixit makes his own version of the turkey
>> derrick. (We took pictures).....
>>
>> Turkey was good. Skin crispy, meat moist.
>
> Glad it turned out well. I was going to get one of those contraptions
> until I started seeing reports of fires. My DH and fire? Well to
> preserve my sanity, I decided that the best course was to not get one
> and hope that some day I get invited to someone else's house who is
> doing one! :-)
>
> Debbie

The fires are usually the result of folks looking for a Darwin award
doing things like running them on a deck close to the house and then not
calculating the proper amount of oil etc. If you are sensible about what
you are doing they work fine.