BE And Oiless Read

[NePaSmoKer]

Found this. Not very interesting and the write up person prob has no or limited experience with it much.

http://shine.yahoo.com/channel/food/should-you-cook-your-turkey-in-an-oil-less-turkey-fryer-2408811/

[GusRobin]

Found this. Not very interesting and the write up person prob has no or limited experience with it much.

True, but based upon his writing:

Out of the box, it requires a bit of assembly, but nothing that your average person with a backyard and a

He at least knows that you are supposed to eventually take it out of the box!! ;D

[SouthernSmoked]

Found this. Not very interesting and the write up person prob has no or limited experience with it much.

True, but based upon his writing:

Out of the box, it requires a bit of assembly, but nothing that your average person with a backyard and a

He at least knows that you are supposed to eventually take it out of the box!! ;D

:D ;D ;D :D ;D Now that's funny! ;)

[SnellySmokesEm]

Man if I would have read this last week I dont think I would have bought the SRG.  After all why pay for something thats going to sit 364 days out of the year?
"as I foresee it collecting dust 364 days out of the year"

Maybe someone should send him a link to our forum, lol 

[Ka Honu]

There was already a short discussion on the Char Broil forum about the original post (on Serious Eats).  The author is usually pretty good but he blew it on this one.

[FLBentRider]

I don't own any cooking equipment I use 1 day a year. I wish I had room in my house for stuff like that.

IMHO, they need to think more cooker-centric than food-centric.

[TestRocket]

I've got a feeling that the "Serious Eats" folks needed someone to show them what end of the "Philips-head screwdriver" to hold.

[Ka Honu]

... they need to think more cooker-centric than food-centric.

There's a lot more to TBE than cooking the Thanksgiving turkey.  Like most of us who own one, I use TBE in a pretty decent rotation with my other outdoor cookers (grill, smoker, etc.), just as when I had a "traditional" turkey fryer, I used it more often that once a year and for more than turkey.

I think the issue here is that since it's called a turkey fryer, people sort of assume you can only use it to fry turkeys.   Char Broil may have missed a marketing opportunity here - now presumably corrected with the successor SRG (Smoker-Roaster-Grill).  Regardless, the reviewer was "lazy" and didn't do his research properly.  If he had, he would have found out at least a few of the other uses for TBE instead of writing it off as a "one-trick pony."

[TMB]

Is it worth the investment? If you've got an outdoor shed and your kitchen starts hurting for space around the holidays, then by all means. If you hate unitaskers (though this thing supposedly can be used to slow cook ribs and other roasts), then you'd probably want to pass this one up, as I foresee it collecting dust 364 days out of the year



HA, he never met me!!   ;D      I'd show him a thing or two along with a few others I know. Heck Tenpoint5, TestRocket, CRG, Snelly,
Ka Honu and NaPe's (well if he would get IT out of the box! ;) )  just to name a few   ;)

[pensrock]

I've got a question to those that have a TBE, how do you go about cleaning the inside? Or is it like a smoker, just clean the racks and let the rest be?

[classicrockgriller]

The nice thing about the BE is that it doesn't crust up.

Too high of heat!

Clean up is the easiest of all my smoker/grills.

Actually I stick the basket back in the BE and cook the

crud to crisp and brush it off.

[TestRocket]

Actually I stick the basket back in the BE and cook the crud to crisp and brush it off.

I've got a basket that needs cleaning and now I know what to do!  ;D

[ArnieM]

I think the reviewer is about one sandwich short of a picnic.

I 'clean' mine like CRG.  Any junk left on the bottom gets a light scrape with a stiff putty knife and it goes down the grease drain hole.  Simple.

[TMB]

After TestRocket and I cooked the 4 butts in the comp all I did was removed the chamber brushed out the old wood pellets wiped it down and reloaded time spent cleaning 3 units, 5 mins each . NO JOKE

[iceman]

I have to agree on clean up. Probably the easiest to clean out of all the toys I have. Chars anything left in there and brushes right out. The guy that did the right up sure missed alot of what this thing really can do. Kind of like doing a review on my 911T and saying the only thing it's good for is making noise.  :D  ;)