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060727_deepfryer.jpgHeather’s away at BlogHer and I’m devolving. All the great things I can cook for myself and I choose fries, fried up in my birthday present. I’ve been scheming since I got it. I’m wondering if I can fry pizza. If Taco Town can do it, why can’t I?

The best thing about the fryer? Making fries for Leta. I inject them with extra hydrogenated things and put sugar in the oil. Before they get dropped in, I wrap them with a layer of candy.

Also, the instructions say not to use lard, but I’ve saved the bacon grease from last Christmas and I scooped it into the fryer. After it heats up, I add bacon.

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  • http://www.maniacaldays.blogspot.com Maniacal

    That Taco Town video is freakin hysterical! LOL

    Have fun with your fryer! Perogies are the best in that thing. =)

  • http://tim-o-rama.blogspot.com tim

    Mmmm, bacon fried in bacon fat!

    I ate a pound of bacon for lunch the other day.

    It was kind of an accident. I cooked it all with the intention of making one sandwich and saving the rest for later.

    But once all of that sweet sweet bacon was in front of me, I couldn’t resist.

    Of course none of it was fried in its own fat!

    I need to start saving my bacon fat, currently I just pour it over the dog’s food.

  • JessicaP

    I’m de-lurking myself to say how much I miss my fryer! We sold it when we moved to Amsterdam, but now that we’re back we haven’t gotten another, and I really, really miss it. the heart-clogging recipe possibilites are endless. Four words — funnel cake on demand.

  • http://www.internalmonoblog.typepad.com/ Sandra Heikkinen

    You can totally fry pizza. I can confirm this because I dated a Scottish guy for ages, and they deep-fry everything (i.e., pizza, Snickers bars…). I knew he was fabulous when, on our second date, he said that he missed deep-fried pizza. I laughed and said, “I didn’t know they could make pizza less healthy” and he responded with honest confusion, saying, “what about pizza is unhealthy?”

    Hope the fries were fabulous.

  • MommyofOne

    Taco Town! I know I’ve seen that before, but where? Mad TV? SNL? Grr.….

    Enjoy! We don’t have a fryer for the same reason we don’t have a Kitchenaid mixer: the only kinds of foods they make useful for are high in fat and processed carbohydrates (baked goods and fried foods). We are so boring…

  • http://www.pcgeekonthego.com Garret

    Will Heather be home for your and Leta’s bypass surgeries?

    On another note, I was reading the manual of my fry daddy to see how much oil to use and there was a warning. “Do not use to deep fry”…well I am glad it makes a good hat then!

  • http://cowjumpmoon.blogspot.com Shalini

    Oh yum!!!!!

  • http://rivetergirl.blogspot.com rivetergirl

    What’s up with a fryer that suggests you not use lard. Lard = yummy goodness!

  • http://verygeorge.com GEORGE!

    Deep fry a hot dog. I’ve always wanted to do that.

    TACO TOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWN!

  • http://q.t_pihotmail.com Jezzie

    Please don’t shoot, but I am a vegetarian, and I think fried tofu is awesome. Totally not healthy, but awesome. Popcorn fried tofu=yum. How I wish I didn’t have a few extra to lose, I would sooo have some right now. With peanut sauce. Yum. Go Jo-on, its ya birt-day, go Jo-on…

  • http://tastethehappy.wordpress.com monkeyaker

    The two most fantastic words in the english language– the two words that will simultaneously increase your heart rate and make you faint– the two words that will somehow be written into the vows at my wedding: fried pickle.

  • Varla

    As long as Chuck gets to eat the bottom of the fryer crispies, I say go for it. I’m picturing you and Leta covered in grease passed out on the couch when Heather comes home, with Chuck licking the bacon fat from between your toes.

    Good times.

  • Bea

    ya know, i’ve never been able to bring myself to buy a deep fryer — i think it’s because of the brain-washing i underwent at college during my health and fitness degree.

    BUT, my best friend has one and I secretly covet her luscious fried goodies, in all their caloried, artery clogging glory.

  • sugapie

    Blurb you hold out..WHERE ARE THE PICTURES? I keep checking back for your photographic homage to all things fried and glorious!

  • Brandy K

    If you can cram it into the fryer…you can fry it. Sweet lord Jesus, my husband can never read that statement.

  • http://grrarghing.lipejournal.com grrarghing

    I work in a professional kitchen (translation, we have a big ass fryer) and one night we decided to fry whatever we could.

    1.) Fried Ice Cream. As stated above, it is in fact heaven on earth.
    2.) Pickel slices
    3.) Krispi Kremes. (Yes. Refry your doughnuts. Then Top with fried ice cream, and coat in honey, caramel, and chocolate sauce.)
    4.) Cake. (this one was discovered at a wedding where the wedding cake fell over. squish cake into bite size ball, fry, and dip in chocolate fountain.)
    5.) herbs.

    note…while pepporoni seems like it’d be perfect to fry, the results are less than happy.

  • http://www.jolie1.blogspot.com jolie

    sniff sniff, sob sob ñ I miss my fryer. I lost it in the custody battle that ensued after my last break-up (I got the crock pot, he got the fryer. they were both mine though! bitter, bitter, bitter.)

    glad to see you and leta making food memories together. one of my favorite dishes is ìchicken a la daddyî which claims its provenance from the first time my mom left me and dad alone for more than a day. good times.

  • Margaret

    Texas, the midwest, and Scotland are collectively the Frying Things Capitals of the World. You should consider taking a tour (and consequently joining the natives in obesity). The Texas State Fair is also the home of one of the greatest fried things ever, the corny dog. They come in jalepeno now, and they are not to be missed.

  • McDonie

    Love the deep frier. My wife and I have the exact one. Knocked it over a few weeks ago. Cleanup was a nightmare.

  • http://dooce.migrantroo.com minxlj

    It’s not just Scotland that has the deep-fried Mars Bar, lots of places in England has it too. I just can’t bring myself to try it for fear that my arteries will seal up and I’ll keel over, but I’m told that’s half the fun.

    (I think in the USA, your ‘mars’ isn’t the same as our Mars Bar — ours is a chocolate/caramel/nougat bar, like a Snickers without peanuts.)

    Oh btw, deep-fried pineapple rings are fabulous, especially with maple syrup to dip in. Yum!

  • Chloe

    The US Mars bar is no more; it’s now “Snickers with Almonds”. The EU Mars bar is akin to the US Milky Way.

    I am still in mourning for the Peter ‘n Paul Caravelle of my youth, along with the Milkshake bar from Hollywood (IIRC).

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