Got my own Masterbuilt on the way to the house

I was watching TV last night and since nothing was on, I was flipping channels. I've been looking for a fryer for awhile now that was big enough but really couldn't find one. Welp, Seems QVC had one last night that I couldn't turn down. I know Masterbuilt puts out a quality product and they had a Turkey fryer on there last night. It'll cook up to a 22 pound bird, 5 pounds of chicken wings, or you can do a low country boil it it. It's always a pain to drain off the oil from a fryer but this one has a drain spout which makes that easy. Just drain through a strainer straight into a jug. I did the 5 easy payments of about 35 or so a month for 5 months. Not bad at all.

Butterball XXL Digital 22 lb. Indoor Electric Turkey Fryer by Masterbuilt — QVC.com

Can people really be this stewpit? I was looking at the reviews on it and Several folks had the same complaint. get this. The cords to short. REALLY. Can we say Extension cord? LOL It got 4.2 out of 5 stars on 83 reviews. Several of them said they were only giving it 4 because of the cord.

Short cord is probably a safety feature. Both my electric fryers have a removable cord that is held to the fryer by magnets. If somebody were to trip over the cord it would just fall off rather than pull the fryer over and dump hot oil on whoever tripped over the cord.

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Originally Posted by DonDon

Can people really be this stewpit? I was looking at the reviews on it and Several folks had the same complaint. get this. The cords to short. REALLY. Can we say Extension cord? LOL It got 4.2 out of 5 stars on 83 reviews. Several of them said they were only giving it 4 because of the cord.

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that is a nice unit for sure !!!
reason for the short cord is for SAFETY , meaning the unit should be plugged into a electrical outlet that way nobody can get entangled in the electrical cord pulling the unit off the counter causing injuries from hot oil !!! if you do use a extension cord please route for safety so it cannot be tripped on or pull the unit off a table or counter !!!!

Just common sense on that Strm.

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Originally Posted by strmwalker

that is a nice unit for sure !!!
reason for the short cord is for SAFETY , meaning the unit should be plugged into a electrical outlet that way nobody can get entangled in the electrical cord pulling the unit off the counter causing injuries from hot oil !!! if you do use a extension cord please route for safety so it cannot be tripped on or pull the unit off a table or counter !!!!

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Originally Posted by DonDon

Just common sense on that Strm.

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DD,
I know , but if you are like me sometimes those common sense get cloudy from TOO MANY GREEN CUPS !!! not often but it does happen !!!

Don Don,,,, just think of all those Bigfoot meals you'll be having after you fine tune that shotgun,,,

A word about extension cords. My fryer was acting crazy when I used an household extension cord. Discovered that I had to use at least a 12/3 cord. Unit couldn't get enough juice on anything less. Made one about 2 feet long to reach the wall outlet.
That's a good looking unit, Don.

I have a 25 foot heavy duty Cord I use outside for all my equipment. It'll work.

Wonder how it'll do on fish?

Looks like a decent machine. Congrats.

Have one similar. Use it to cook fish. Works great.

They cooked fish in the Demo I saw. It heats up to 375 so I don;t see how it could be bad for cooking fish. Probably cook fish alot in it personally. I won't have to get the Propane cooker out and keep checking the oil temps constantly. This lets you set how hot you want it and can hold alot. This the fill line is 2 gallons on oil