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Kitchen & Housewares : Presto 05466 ProFry Stainless-Steel Dual-Basket Immersion-Element 12-Cup Deep Fryer |
- Takes Some Trial and Error To Get Used ToPresto 05466 ProFry Stainless-Steel Dual-Basket Immersion-Element 12-Cup Deep Fryer
Got my fryer in this afternoon, cleaned it like the instructions and filled it with a gallon of peanut oil and set the temp to 375 degrees. Sat my kitchen timer at 15 minutes, at the about the same my timer went off the red light went off on the fryer. Re-sat my kitchen time again for 20 minutes and put the chicken in the baskets, put the lid on and left it for about 18 minutes and I got a deep fried un-godly mess in the baskets. The coating was fried so hard, I couldn't eat it and the chicken cooked only part way through. So I'll chalk it up to a first attempt (and no I am not inexperienced in frying chicken or cooking) and try it again at 325 degrees and keep an eye on it this time LOL.
Definitely nothing like the deep fryers I used to cook with at the Dairy Dinner. I don't have a Thermometer to check it with but I'd be willing to bet the temp went over the 375 mark. Can't say I'm thrilled about the two foot cord either.
I highly recommend the use of tongs, which you can also order though Amazon over long handled BBQ forks,
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- Could not be made any cheaper if you triedWe purchased the previous model of this fryer in 2004. It was well built and did a great job. However the control burned out and we decided to replace it with another one. The material and construction of the new one is awful. The only thing that prevents us from returning it is that the control fits on the older model. Presto it appears no longer build quality. One can rest assured that when we need to replace the one we now have it will not be one made by Presto.
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- Deep FryerExcellent for one or two people. Good but slower for larger groups. Prepare two different foods at the same time. Fairly quick temperature recovery considering the foods being fried were still frozen.
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- Works deliciously.Works deliciously. I love zuchinni fries and onion rings with a deep firey passion, so I figured I'd buy something like this. Little did I know how good it works, I have had friends come over and think my food's as good as restaurant food. Really, this works amazing, if you're deep frying onions to chicken wings. It makes a delicious treat.
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- There has to be a better fryer out thereAfter reading all of the wonderful reviews here I was almost ready to order it. Fortunately I held off and found the same unit at a local retailer for less than advertised here. I would not buy this product again. While I have not got a thermometer that reads high enough to verify the temperature, my guess is that it is running cool as others have reported. I have used it now four times, twice for home made fries, once with sweet potato and once with regular potato, and once for beer battered halibut, and most recently for beer batter onion rings. The results were no better than using a heavy pot on the stove top. Food still comes out every bit as oily and greasy as cooking on the stove top, maybe even worse, which leads me to suspect it really is not achieving a high enough cooking temperature. Grease still splatters everywhere; the cover is useless as it warns not to use it when cooking any high moisture content food, such as french fries, fish, etc. Even when it is in place it does nothing to capture the odors. Where I live moving it outside as one reviewer suggested would mean limiting my frying days to about 3 times a year. The description says the unit is built of stainless steel, which led me to believe the entire unit is constructed from stainless, but the outer shell that appears to be stainless steel in the picture is in reality just tin, at least on my unit, and is of a thickness and quality achievable at home by anyone with an 8th grade shop class skill level and a pair of vice grips. The inner tub is painful to empty once the oil has cooled, as well as to wash. I swear my fingers are being sliced to ribbons on the thin edge of the frying tub because it is so sharp, and when slippery it is impossible to hold on to. It is no wonder that the unit cannot maintain temperature; since there is no mass to it what so ever. The baskets are also very thin and flimsy, I would speculate that the total cost of materials and overseas labor to produce this unit is around $3.00. I am very happy to have not paid the asking price here and I would have returned it for a refund had I paid the listed 'original' price. For materials and workmanship this is about a $25.00 item. If you are thinking of spending the $60.00 on this, save a while longer and get into the next price point up for something of quality.
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