True Story 🍑

My wife’s stance against me deep-fry a turkey may be influenced by a recent incident when she was on a trip to TN and the backyard camera alert kept going off on her phone because the pork belly on the grill burst into flame and the waves of dark smoke kept triggering the camera

— RiggedAndStollenHat (@Popehat) November 3, 2022

I set a peach cobbler on fire once. 🔥 

It was more cobbler than the pan could handle; but it was the biggest pan I had for cobbler. I was also trying to use up the peaches. 🍑 

It bubbled over…and over…and over. And caught fire to the point I had to use a fire extinguisher for the first (and only) time in my life.

We got rid of that oven. I also painted the kitchen.

I tell you this because I’ve seen the YouTubes of idiots frying turkeys with a full pot of oil. I blame our failure to teach people who Archimedes was, and why they should know him. A full pot of hot oil will find the hot oil displaced in an amount equal to the volume of the turkey 🦃. And hit the blazing gas burner below the pot, and inflame. And burn any adjacent structures.

I’m not that stupid. But neither am I stupid enough to set a turkey sized pot on a gas burner, heat oil in it to frying point, and put a turkey in it.

Besides, whaddya do with all that used oil?