Charbroil® The Big Easy® Outdoor Propane Gas Air Fryer, Black – 24102165

For the most part, it’s a good oil less turkey deep fryer
I bought this for one sole purpose, to deep fried turkey at Thanksgiving. I hated the electric, oil deep fryer by Butterball ever since they came out with the new model. A slight touch to the electrical cord, the connector on the Butterball deep fryer would come off. I tossed that Butterball deep fryer and looked for another fryer. When I saw this oil less fryer and read the reviews on it, I bought it and used it last Thanksgiving. It was very easy to assemble and use. Hooked it up to a propane tank, turned it on and it’s good to go. One thing that I noticed though is that the cooking time took considerably longer than what I expected or heard from other people. For a 14 lbs turkey, I think it took me something like 5 hours to deep fried and have internal temp reaching 185. Now that I know roughly how long it took to fully cooked a 14 lbs turkey, I can compensate for the time accordingly next time. The bright side is that the turkey came out superb. The skin was crispy, and the meat was juicy. Best part is that I don’t have to spend the money on peanut oil to deep fried. Because there’s no oil, it’s healthier to deep fry in it.The basket that came with it can be a bit difficult to take the turkey out after cooking. I bought a collapsible basket that made it a bit easier to put the turkey in and remove after cooking, but I’m not wholly convinced if it was worth it. Neither basket is all that easy to clean by hand. I put them in the dish washer when I cleaned them, but I still scrubbed them down with a brillo pad first to remove as much of the stick on food.

Never looking back now
I’ve been deep frying turkeys for over 20 yrs, usually just once a year; the relatives that come here over holidays expect it, as there is no comparison as far as flavor goes.But (and I never told any of them)–it’s a huge hassle and expense. Figure $40 for peanut blend oil, only to find out 3 gallons isn’t quite enough, add some more $ for oil to completely cover the turkey. And the waste–yeah, I would either store it until I’m sure it was rancid and then throw it away, or would wait half the day for it to cool down enough to pour back in the box and freeze it. Did you know it takes 3 days at room temp to thaw frozen peanut oil? I do–years 13 through 20.Year 7 it started raining. Rain and hot oil? Booya.And it was dangerous, all that oil and open flame…actually I enjoyed the danger part.Whatever rub you use on outside of the turkey boils off and makes it way to the bottom of the pot. Last year instead of spending a lot of time scrubbing the inch of crude off the bottom, I just threw the pot away.Present day–found out about this Big Easy, and I’m thrilled.Did a turkey today to make sure know what I’m doing (don’t want to experiment on Thanksgiving).This thing is idiot proof.Every bit as delicious and crispy as deep frying. Even more so because the legs can be eaten (deep frying fried the legs and wings to nothing). And unlike deep frying, was able to capture the drippings for gravy.Sold!Now that it’s so easy and cheap, plan to use it year round for a lot of different things.

good but…
Char-Broil Big Easy Oil-less Liquid Propane Turkey FryerThis air fryer is a good deal at 99, but there are some things you should keep in mind: (first and only attempt was with an ~18 lbs turkey.- if you’re in a windy place you will probably need to keep the gas on highest setting – I set the flame to mid level after 1 hour and the flame went out. did not know until 30 min later.- untuck the turkey legs and make sure the cavity is open, or you will have a raw bottom (pun intended). Like the booklet recommends cook stuffing separate. I didn’t untuck the buttr bll turkey legs and the turkey didn’t cook on the bottom, also the wings were raw too. I used a thermometer and it read 200F, but I cut into the wing joint and it was pink meat. Juices coming from the breast were clear. I believe the cavity needs to be open so the hot air can circulate inside the turkey for best results. Despite having to cook the turkey for an hour longer the turkey was still moist. (total time about 4 hours including the half hour where the flame was probably out)- You probably want to have some sort of tray to put the turkey on and some mitts ( I burnt my fingers being stupid )- There is a juice collector on the bottom that you could probably use for gravy.I want to try another bird, or a roast!I recommend this product over oven cooking and oil cooking.

We love our infrared cooker! We used to use a Turkey deep fryer but gave up when buckets of oil went up to almost $50 in our area. I’m really happy that I found this cooker instead of another fryer!! This thing makes Turkey and chicken turn out just like rotisserie from your fav take out and it easily cooke ribs and other extras at the same time using other attachments that we bought separately. Potatoes and veggies can cook up top, ribs on the side and two chickens in racks below. Love it! And it uses much less propane than our deep fryer used to. It’s not nearly as fast but it tastes much better and cooks much more evenly and not to mention safer!

I’ve cooked a variety of meats in this cooker, from ribs, pork roasts and chickens to moose roasts. It does a great job on all of them and when I use a meater thermometer with it everything is cooked just how we like it. The cleanup only takes a few minutes, that’s a big selling point for me. As a matter of fact I like it so much I just ordered another one for our hunting camp and maybe another for our place in Mexico.Update: I now own 4 of these things, bought a lightly used one on Kiijji for 50 bucks so we have a spare one for cooking for large groups and we got one for Mexico. Cooked the Xmas turkey for the neighbors and they all raved about it.