Re: Serves them right

On 2024-12-03, ItsJoanNotJoAnn wrote:

if you're going to deep fry a turkey, do it in the yard
or at least in the driveway, far away from the house.

I'm not sure if it applied in this case, but also it is
important NEVER to try to save a bit of time and drop it
into the hot oil while it is still frozen a bit.

Initial cooking sears an impermiable layer on the exterior
and although the vapour pressure of the steam building up
on the interior follows the universal gas law, more heat will
permeate the upper protions because the oil rising on the
outside of the turkey has more time to penetrate.

Simultaneously, pressure at the bottom of the turkey will
be higher due to the vertical pressure difference caused
by the oil column. This delays water from vapourizing.

Eventually, this pseudo-homeostasis is disrupted in a
non-adiabatic catastrophic runaway reaction, usually
simultaeous with an uncontained turkey-skin failure.