Deep-fried turkey has its benefits: It cooks quickly. Its non-greasy. And its deliciously moist.
But getting that deep-fried turkey on the Thanksgiving table today can be a risky task if the cook is negligent.
County firemen and safety specialist are urging residents to oven-roast turkeys the traditional way and leave the deep-frying to Food Network pros..
Even if the taste of a deep-fried turkey is sure to please the palate, officials at Underwriters Laboratories worry backyard chefs are sacrificing safety for a tasty dish. They say the growing up number of fires related to turkey fryers is a risk that outweighs the benefits of the appliance.
In fact, the produce safety testing service has rated deep-frying a turkey as so risky, it will not certify any turkey fryers with the UL mark, said Division Chief Michael Cox, a US Fire Department spokesman..
By 9 p.m. Wednesday, 785,000 people had looked up turkey recipes at Allrecipes.com. For most of the day, the site was handling one million page views an hour.
‘We built server capacity for the day before Thanksgiving, then use only 50 percent of it the rest of the year,’ said Lisa Sharples, president of the site, which is based in Seattle.
For the last 5 years, Google searches for Thanksgiving recipes have climbed steadily, doubling from 2007 to 2008, according to results from Insights for Search, a tool that indexes the volume of Google search trends. . .