Thinking About Frying Your Turkey? Better Watch This First

Thinking about frying your Thanksgiving turkey? Make sure you educate yourself first.

The New Jersey Office of Emergency Management has offered some timely tips on how to do it safely.

"Fried turkey is delicious! However, getting that bird to the perfect crispiness can be dangerous," according to a post on the NJOEM Facebook page. "Just because you saw a video on YouTube doesn’t mean you have all the facts!"

Don't let your fried turkey experience turn out to be a story firefighters will be telling for years.

The five dangers of deep frying a turkey:
1. Turkey fryers can easily tip over, spilling hot cooking oil over a large area.

2. An overfilled cooking pot will cause cooking oil to spill when the turkey is put in, and a partially frozen turkey will cause cooking oil to splatter when put in the pot.

3. Even a small amount of cooking oil spilling on a hot burner can cause a large fire.

4. Without thermostat controls, deep fryers can overheat oil to the point of starting a fire.

5. The sides of the cooking pot, lid and pot handles can get dangerously hot.

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Video: New Jersey Office of Emergency Management