Customer Reviews

The Ultimate Turkey Fryer Cookbook

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I was expecting a book with good turkey recipes with marinades and rubs, but instead it is recipes that you need to buy the authors own marinades and rubs. Evidently this guy started the Cajun Injector marinades and seasoning and the recipes say things like, use one jar of our marinade and one can of our seasoning and use our injector. There are a grand total of 9 turkey recipes in a book that has 192 pages. All the other recipes are for different side dishes and some desserts. Don't waste your money on this book. It was a big dissappointment.

I bought this book hoping to get a better understanding of how to cook with a turkey fryer, and got some good recipes in the process. Despite what has been previously posted, nearly half of the 160 recipes are for main courses. I was also unbothered by the self-promotion, having been forwarned. Besides you could easily substitute another seasoning or marinade if you didn't want or couldn't find the author's.

My major disappointment was that there was next to nothing unique to using a turkey fryer, save one page on actually frying a turkey. I was more interested in using this appliance to cook fish and chicken for large groups at church and other places. While it had plenty of recipes for fish, chicken, fries, funnel cakes, etc., it didn't even include such basic info as how much oil to use for these recipes (surely not the five gallons required for a turkey.) I would have liked to have know what advantages this appliance would have over a regular fryer. Would adding extra oil allow me to cook more than four pieces of fish at one time? I still have no idea.

With a title like "The Ultimate Turkey Fryer Book," I expected more, although having bought it for about $5.00 including postage on Amazon's used section, I got what I paid for.

One star off for the author touting his own rubs and marinades. Aside from that, this is one of the best cookbooks I've seen for deep frying in general - especially if you love onion blooms and begneits. The turkey frying instructions are very safety-oriented and we got great results. Every recipe is carefully given for the best breading and frying technique for the particular food. Our family has passed around one copy of this book for several months now while waiting to buy our own copies. Highly recomended!

Book is an effective resource but to pretend that it should be titled as a turkey frying book with only a handful being turkey recipes is a little misleading to me. Fine book recipe wise other than the bait and switch set up.

I feel three stars are fair because there are some good recipes and helpful hints. HOWEVER, I think the author hurts this cookbook by having recipes that include purchasing his (late) father's injectors and seasonings. I can understand his wanting to honor his dad in this way, but I was buying HIS book, not his dad's. For full disclosure, the cover should include a reference to the need for the "Cajun" requirements.

Sure not all of the recipes require the stuff, but now I've got to figure out how to rework those recipes to get around it. I just hate to feel mislead about a product and this one just crosses that line a bit.

Even stating all that, I would recommend this book to someone AFTER they know what I have told them. It still has some good stuff in it that I am looking forward to trying.

Both my husband & brother in law love their Turkey Fryers. Now they can make things other than turkey.