[commish]

Actually once you have eaten one, you won;t want to go back to regular roasted Turkey.

Frying a turkey is easy as long as you use common sense (IE follow the rules above). My brother and I have fried at least 20 birds over the past 5 years with no problems.

Put the fryer on a level concrete pad away from the house and keep an eye on it and everything is fine.

15 Lb bird is fully cooked in under an hour.

[Pedantic_Lady]

Funnily enough, the only level concrete pad that's a safe distance from the house is the street. You'd be surprised just how tiny lot sizes are here in the UK! It's probably against some law, too. It's unbelievable; there are so many ridiculous laws here; like I can't grow a garden hedge over six feet tall, but idiots can set off loud fireworks all night long and the police won't do a thing about it. But if I grow that hedge taller than six feet...not only will the council come and cut it down, they'll send ME the bill.

To the moon!

[Lurkd Long Enough]

Put the fryer on a level concrete pad away from the house and keep an eye on it and everything is fine

This is important.

The local news keeps showing a teaser of a moron who tried to fry a turkey on his deck, and the grease boils over. It catches fire and his whole house goes up in flames.