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It's Canadian Thanksgiving, and Jess and I were voluntold to host it in our new home.

Anyways, I ended up borrowing a deep-fryer and cooking the turkey that way.

f**k. Crispy skin and the juiciest turkey I've had. It only took about 50 minutes to cook, and alot less difficult to clean up. I would highly recommend this to anyone.

Have you guys tried this before? Any suggestions or hints to pass along? I used canola oil, but I've heard that peanut oil is even better.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Youngest won a Xmas dinner a couple years ago and our oven was down. So, I bought an infrared turkey fryer just for it. Never had turkey before. We are a spiral cut ham family. It was OK. Nothing special or whatever. But, it was free.

BTW, sticking with ham for big family dinners. I'll take pig meat over turkey any day of the week and twice on Sundays.

The thing about ham is that, if I'm eating pork, I would prefer it to be either pork tenderloin or bacon... or better yet, bacon-wrapped pork tenderloin.

The thing about ham is... Ham is ALWAYS better than turkey. In whatever form.

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So does Canadian Thanksgiving have like pilgrims and stuff? What's the story with that anyway?

Oh yeah, and peanut oil is awesome but its more expensive.

Never had deep fried turkey, after discovering a cast iron convection cooker I've done all of my turkeys on the bbq burner with one of them, no buckets of oil to deal with.

Deep fried turkey sounds delicious. I'd take that over ham. Ham is great and all for a taste but I get pretty sick of it after more than a plate. I prefer turkey's texture, goes great with everything.