She does that regularly. For example, she’ll give you her biscuit recipe but not the process. She only taught it to me after we were married 10 years.well, you can just tell her to do like all respectable southern women do when it comes to recipes. leave out one crucial ingredient or small step. my grandmother and my wife's great aunt were notorious about doing that.
Have not heard of Unguentine in at least 50+ years.I'm pretty sure I was having the usual dilemma of trying to keep the temperature steady. That was the main struggle I always had. The electric fryer looks a lot better that way. I once accidentally dipped my hand into the boiling oil. I ran cold water over it for about five minutes and covered it up with a large Compeed bandage. Eventually the skin there sloughed off, but I never had a blister nor any kind of scar. When I was a kid, I used to use cold water while my mother yelled at me that I was just driving the burn in. (She believed in butter or Unguentine.) I lived long enough to be proven right...
Bazza, I have this electric cooking fryers and it’s makes the best deep fried turkeys I’ve ever eaten. My turkey fryer is all digital.I realize this isn't an answer to your question, but just wanted to mention I am probably going to get one of these in the near future for cooking a turkey - plus whatever other stuff I decide. I like the overall design, features, & associated benefits it provides.
There are a few different sizes available and looks like Lowes carries them as does Amazon, of course.
Good luck with your Thanksgiving dinner...hope it turns out well!
People can be very finicky and over-reactionary about food preparation. I've been cooking BBQ (on a personal level not business) for 20 some odd years. I've cooked for events such as church events, fundraisers, small groups and groups of up to 500 people. Many times BBQ'd meats have a "smoke ring" that appears on the outer edges of the meat that commonly gets mistaken by the average person as "under cooked". I can't tell you how many times I've had people walk up to me with their plate in hand and pointing to the smoke ring saying "Hey man, I just wanted to let you know that you under cooked this and it probably needs to go back on the smoker." Even after I explained to them it's not under cooked and it is a smoke ring produced in the cooking process. I've watched otherwise smart people walk a plate of good BBQ over to the trash and dump it.I have been questioned multiple times how I knew it was done to the point I’m getting fed up with it.