Rating  - Like taking your oven to the back yard.
We apprehensivley purchased one of these things for Thanksgiving this year because we love fried Turkey but hate the clean-up. Frying with oil, while dangerous if your not intelligent enough to pay attention to what you're doing, tastes sooo good and cooks MUCH faster than a conventional oven. The "BIG EASY" is JUST that. Its easy. Thats the only good thing I have to say about the product. It's no faster than a conventional oven, and while you can collect the drippings to make gravy, that just proves it doesn't "seal in the juices". It took almost two frickin hours to cook one small chicken. Almost everything about the way this product is marketed is a lie. It's nothing more than a roaster. There is still no comparison between what this product does and what a REAL fryer does. To all you hardcore fryers out there, I'm sorry I strayed and it won't happen again. For all you out there that want to try frying a turkey but are too scared, You're not doing yourself justice buying this product and fooling yourself into thinking its just as good.
Rating  - simple. Neat. Delicious.
Amazing! I Picked up one of these on a whim on a sunday afternoon 11/9/2008. Brought it home, assembled it (took about an hour), and read the recipe book.
Next morning, I went out and bought a new propane tank, had it filled, and bought a fresh turkey (14.59 lbs). I opened and washed the bird, dried it, brushed it with olive oil, sprinkled with some cracked pepper and some poultry seasoning, put it in the cage, inserted the thermometer, and had it going at 1:00pm on monday afternoon.
At 3:00 pm the thermometer read 170 degrees F, so I removed the bird, let it rest for about 10 minutes, and sliced off a couple of pieces.
This bird was moist, with a crispy skin, and done to perfection, without the cost and mess of deep frying.
Rating  - I hate liars
It's a small cylindrical propane-fired oven. Not a fryer. Frying by definition uses oil. This doesn't use oil so it is NOT a fryer. They can call it a baker or a cooker or an oven or pretty much anything except a fryer, which it is not. I rate it a ZERO because they're liars. It is entirely different than a deep-fried turkey. I've been doing those for 20 years. They're great. Just don't try it with a frozen turkey or burn your garage down. Note that their non-fryer will only do a turkey or whole bird. Can't do french fries, fried chicken, onion rings, fish, or any of the other delicious cholesterol-laden and possibly-fatal-but-delicious things you can do with a turkey fryer. I'll bet these things are illegal in Texas or Louisiana unless you have a special sissy-boy certificate.
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