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William Shatner Warns Of The Dangers Of Turkey Fryers
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Ubiquitous
Nov 18, 2011, 4:43:13 AM11/18/11
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BLOOMINGTON, Ill. (CBS) — Thanksgiving is a mere eight days away, and
State Farm insurance has recruited William Shatner to inject some humor
into a serious warning about turkey fryers.
As WBBM Newsradio’s Bernie Tafoya reports, Shatner appears in a
1-minute, 39-second video clip about fryer safety, in which he asks
people to join his “Fryer’s Club.”
The dramatic retelling titled, “Eat, Fry, Love,” is pure Shatner
melodrama, tracing his triumphant purchase of a fryer to examining the
parts such as the thermometer and the “dingle-dangle,” and finally to an
incident where he was blinded by hunger and “spat in the face of
science” by frying the turkey without taking safety precautions.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYkRF_FmD40&feature=player_embedded
“Look at this! That is so stupid!” Shatner cries as computer generated
flames rage on his patio – and his sleeve.
Ultimately, Shatner tells the fryer, “I loved you, but you only brought
me pain, as he hurls it into the back of a garbage truck.
“Fire, metal, oil and turkey are glorious when in harmony,” Shatner
said. “But their power is unrelenting in careless hands.”
In a separate, more serious video, Shatner says in real life, he has
burned himself, and almost burned his house down, as a result of mishaps
stemming from deep-frying turkeys.
The video goes on to list several safety tips, and shows how easily a
fire can result from mistakes.
State Farm says if you fry a turkey you should do it outside, far from
buildings and trees.
“A garage, or any kind of a building – a shed, or even a covered deck –
they catch on fire really easily,” Eddie Bain of the Illinois Fire
Service says in the video, “and sometimes it’s a tempting place to do
this because the weather might be bad, or it might be raining a little
bit, but it’s an exceptionally dangerous place.”
You should also avoid oil spills by first filling the pot with cold oil,
and then, lower the thawed turkey into the pot to measure exactly how
much oil you’ll need.
--
"If Barack Obama isn't careful, he will become the Jimmy Carter of the
21st century."
State Farm insurance has recruited William Shatner to inject some humor
into a serious warning about turkey fryers.
As WBBM Newsradio’s Bernie Tafoya reports, Shatner appears in a
1-minute, 39-second video clip about fryer safety, in which he asks
people to join his “Fryer’s Club.”
The dramatic retelling titled, “Eat, Fry, Love,” is pure Shatner
melodrama, tracing his triumphant purchase of a fryer to examining the
parts such as the thermometer and the “dingle-dangle,” and finally to an
incident where he was blinded by hunger and “spat in the face of
science” by frying the turkey without taking safety precautions.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYkRF_FmD40&feature=player_embedded
“Look at this! That is so stupid!” Shatner cries as computer generated
flames rage on his patio – and his sleeve.
Ultimately, Shatner tells the fryer, “I loved you, but you only brought
me pain, as he hurls it into the back of a garbage truck.
“Fire, metal, oil and turkey are glorious when in harmony,” Shatner
said. “But their power is unrelenting in careless hands.”
In a separate, more serious video, Shatner says in real life, he has
burned himself, and almost burned his house down, as a result of mishaps
stemming from deep-frying turkeys.
The video goes on to list several safety tips, and shows how easily a
fire can result from mistakes.
State Farm says if you fry a turkey you should do it outside, far from
buildings and trees.
“A garage, or any kind of a building – a shed, or even a covered deck –
they catch on fire really easily,” Eddie Bain of the Illinois Fire
Service says in the video, “and sometimes it’s a tempting place to do
this because the weather might be bad, or it might be raining a little
bit, but it’s an exceptionally dangerous place.”
You should also avoid oil spills by first filling the pot with cold oil,
and then, lower the thawed turkey into the pot to measure exactly how
much oil you’ll need.
--
"If Barack Obama isn't careful, he will become the Jimmy Carter of the
21st century."
Remysun
Nov 18, 2011, 8:30:57 AM11/18/11
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On Nov 18, 4:43 am, Ubiquitous <web...@polaris.net> wrote:
> You should also avoid oil spills by first filling the pot with cold oil,
> and then, lower the thawed turkey into the pot to measure exactly how
> much oil you’ll need.
How come you can't put the turkey in, then cover it with enough cold
> You should also avoid oil spills by first filling the pot with cold oil,
> and then, lower the thawed turkey into the pot to measure exactly how
> much oil you’ll need.
oil, remove turkey, and warm the oil up?
Neill Massello
Nov 18, 2011, 2:22:02 PM11/18/11
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Remysun <remys...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> How come you can't put the turkey in, then cover it with enough cold
> oil, remove turkey, and warm the oil up?
Eureka!
> How come you can't put the turkey in, then cover it with enough cold
> oil, remove turkey, and warm the oil up?
Joe Pfeiffer
Nov 18, 2011, 3:56:28 PM11/18/11
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Slightly better is to put the thawed turkey in the empty fryer, add
water to cover turkey, remove turkey, measure how much water you added.
Replace water with oil, heat oil.
This way you don't have an oil-soaked turkey dripping while you wait for
the oil to heat. Cleaning up water drips is easier than oil drips.
Remysun
Nov 18, 2011, 5:23:21 PM11/18/11
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On Nov 18, 3:56 pm, Joe Pfeiffer <pfeif...@cs.nmsu.edu> wrote:
dampens the cooking area and gives an idea of how much room you'll
need.
> Remysun <remysun2...@yahoo.com> writes:
> > How come you can't put the turkey in, then cover it with enough cold
> > oil, remove turkey, and warm the oil up?
>
> Your description is what Ubiquitous undoubtedly meant.
>
> Slightly better is to put the thawed turkey in the empty fryer, add
> water to cover turkey, remove turkey, measure how much water you added.
> Replace water with oil, heat oil.
>
> This way you don't have an oil-soaked turkey dripping while you wait for
> the oil to heat. Cleaning up water drips is easier than oil drips.
Nice. Ubi's method using water works well too because any overspill
> > How come you can't put the turkey in, then cover it with enough cold
> > oil, remove turkey, and warm the oil up?
>
> Your description is what Ubiquitous undoubtedly meant.
>
> Slightly better is to put the thawed turkey in the empty fryer, add
> water to cover turkey, remove turkey, measure how much water you added.
> Replace water with oil, heat oil.
>
> This way you don't have an oil-soaked turkey dripping while you wait for
> the oil to heat. Cleaning up water drips is easier than oil drips.
dampens the cooking area and gives an idea of how much room you'll
need.
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Duggy
Nov 20, 2011, 7:43:39 PM11/20/11
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Cooking with cold oil absorbs the oil.
Marcovaldo
Nov 21, 2011, 12:42:24 PM11/21/11
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would be very little chance of constipation.
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