"George" <george@nospam.invalid> wrote in message
news:heor2g$6ds$3@news.eternal-september.org...
> 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.
>

I agree... my dearly departed DH however, was..hmm how do I put this
warmly.. a klutz! :-) If anything was going to happen, it happened to him.
The stories that get repeated at family gatherings over and over again! <g>

Debbie