Yea, the price nearly doubled this year for about 4.5 gallons. I think we paid around $40. But we only used a little over half of it. Check back in a day and I will have a link to the pics that show the step by step process as I did it. I took pics for the interested.

Cool, I'm looking forward to seeing them.

Add another viewer for the pics - am very interested.

Here you go friends and others.

http://picasaweb.google.com/AnesMerc...eepFryATurkey#

I will add detailed captions over the next week.

What is it that you injected into the bird before seasoning?

Breast down or up? I've see it up, never down. But I think down is a great idea. IMHO.

very nice

Well you can do lots of things, including buying something from the store, but I find that stuff to be way to salty.

I have always made my own. This one was 3 sticks of butter melted in the microwave. To that I added half a jar of onion dressing (for salads), garlic, salt and pepper.

I have made others that were teryaki, hot and spicey, cajun, jamacian jerk and a few others. There are also plenty of recipies on the web but I have not found any from there that really jumped out at me.

Breast up for prep, there is more meat that needs to be injected. I do make sure and flip it on the side and get the thighs.

Now complete with captions. :D

I don't know if I could ever do that, but if I did I would use the oil for something else first, maybe 30 pounds of sweet potato fries. I don't think I could reuse oil that was used to cook a turkey.

Actually I poured some of it on our wood pile for the out door fireplace. But I can't have it where the dogs can get into it or they will make a mess trying to eat it. We poured the rest of it out in the woods for the critters to eat.

Well Done Merc !!
I still dont have the HooHaz to try this ,
But we DO have a BIG Ass Wok , I have done Tempura for the masses when weh go camping ,
I am thinking about trying a Whole fried chicken first !!

You can do it zippy. It is so much fun to do because it is so unconventional. Just follow the pics and do some on-line reading and jump in. I may do it again for Xmas.