Deep Fryers

[RinconVTR]

Does anyone bring deep fryers along while "camping"? If so, what do you bring? Just pan/oil over a burner? Or a full blown electric/propane fryer with a drop basket?

[Ski_Pro_3]

We carry a cast iron Dutch Oven for deep frying as well as for making all sorts of other stuff, like apple cobbler. The cast iron holds heat well so we can eat some now, and cook more later without the oil cooling off too fast. It helps keep the heat very even.

[wbwood]

down home wrote:
I think she has one in one of the bays. Don't deep fry in the coach. Greasy vapors ruing everything. Never cook anything too hot on the stove either. We have a deep stainless pot and rack at home. The little gas grill might use a whole tank deep frying in it. got plenty of outside power outlets but just never used the deep fryer much.

I think that might be what we smelled when we looked at used RV's before...lol

[DerekV]

We have a large pot that we deep fry with on a camp chef stove. Our friends love my chicken wings.

[JoeChiOhki]

Got a small Fry Daddy deep fryer that I carry with me to make fried chicken when staying in one spot for an extended time. I mainly carry it because my RV is also my home, so whatever appliances I have with me, go wherever the camper goes :p.

I do my deep frying outside so that there's no mess inside to clean up later :p.

[down_home]

I think she has one in one of the bays. Don't deep fry in the coach. Greasy vapors ruing everything. Never cook anything too hot on the stove either. We have a deep stainless pot and rack at home. The little gas grill might use a whole tank deep frying in it. got plenty of outside power outlets but just never used the deep fryer much.

[tplife]

There's no substitute for an immersed-element deep fryer, and you can buy smaller versions than our 1-gallon Calphalon for RV'ing. We don't have AC when we camp, so it's a 10" GSI Pinnacle fry pan and peanut oil for frying duties. Dumped the Lodge-type cast iron stuff long ago as there was no good reason to tote all that heavy iron. Consumer Reports just rated them this month as much worse at heating food evenly, difficult to clean and having uncomfortable handles. No wonder the stuff just hangs on my garage wall as a decoration now! 🙂

[travelnutz]

Hard to get a deep fryer that has a better immsered heating element than an electric frypan. Also has a built in temperature control and is perfect for 3 adults eating or 2 adults and 2 kids. We use peanut oil as it dosen't burn brown in color until it gets much hotter than other oils. Canola oil is the next best on the temperature list but you have to watch that it doesn't get too hot and turn brown. At home we use a fry daddy when cooking a volume inside.

[sowego]

We don't take a fry cooker along...too messy to deal with, takes up too much space. Anything we fry and we don't eat much fried food at home or on the road...I'm an old fashioned iron skillet cook...use ours daily. I have every size from 5" up to 12", 2 dutch ovens, 2 sauce pans, 2 griddles, and 2 iron kettles to humidify the air (set on top of our 125+ year old Great Majestic wood burning cookstove). No, the cookstove isn't in the MH! Cast iron works great on campfires too.

[tplife]

There's no substitute for an immersed-element deep fryer, and you can buy smaller versions than our 1-gallon Calphalon for RV'ing. We don't have AC when we camp, so it's GSI Pinnacle fry pan and peanut oil for frying duties. Dumped the Lodge-type cast iron stuff long ago as there was no good reason to tote all that heavy iron. Consumer Reports just rated them this month as much worse at heating food evenly, difficult to clean and having uncomfortable handles. No wonder the stuff just hangs on my garage wall as a decoration now! 🙂

[RinconVTR]

Wow. What fantastic replies! Thanks everyone!!!

[fivecodys]

Yes we do.

Wifey uses the same Fry-Daddy that we use at home.
It's been on many trips with us.

She makes taco shells mostly but we have been known to make French Fries and Tater Tots in there too!

We only use this outside.
I set up a small folding table for her and I run an extension cord from the CG power pedestal for her to use.

We also use an electric skillet.
We cook outdoors as much as we can.

Bill

[donn0128]

rhagfo wrote:

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Dang you Donn0128!!

Did you have to mention Pan Fried Chicken!!!!

Well time to throw the 12" cast Iron in the 5er, then ask DW to cook it up. DW has a large kitchen in the 5er and loves to cook, and I don't mind cleaning up after wards.

Yum!!! Pan Fried chicken, my dad loved to cook it, and I surly love to eat it!!

Years ago we camped with another couple and he deep fried chicken over an open fire. Somewhere he had found about a 18inch square pan with 4 inch sides that would hold two gallons of oil. As long as he did not drink too much the chicken turned out perfect. But if he got too drunk, look out! Lots of beautiful looking but raw chicken would show up on your plate.

[travelnutz]

There's always an electric frypan, an electric crockpot, and depending on where we are going a small deepfryer in everyone of our RV's including the TC. Even if boondocking we have electric with a 2000 watt plus generator or using the inverter off the pattery bank. Crockpot is always run off the inverter when we don't have shorepower beacuse it draws so little and is on for 4 to 6 hours and who wants to listen to a generator running that long?

For greasy or smelly cooking like bacon, fish, cut up fryers. etc they are done outside on the patio as we have a removable shelf on the side of the TT and the 5th wheel for the grill and the frypan. We always also have a foldup plastic top table that's carried under the bed to use if we want for out away from the RV. Some boondocking areas do not even have picnic tables but for us, who cares? We are truely self-contained as we are always prepared!

With our TC's, on the neat rear porch I built (I've built 4 different porches now for our various RV's owned) the first being in 2002 that goes into the hitch extension tube. They have a support cable going to the TC rear electric jack bracket so they are very solid when stepping onto. On the driver's side of the porch, I have a fancy storage box with a hinged cover. The box, 22 X 24 X 14 has a cover that is larger than the box below and is hinged gasket weather sealed and it's top is covered with exterior type Formica so the sun/weather doesn't ruin it. 11 years later, the Formica still looks like new as does the "C" channel aluminum molding that's wrapped all around the table's edge holding the Formica down tight. I can't contact glue the Formica to the plywood because I always multi-coat the plywood first with Thompson's waterproofing first so it wont soak up water and rot. It a perfect self-contained table top for snacks/orderves, eating, or grilling or the electric frypan. I also have a 24 X 36 bi-fold table that extends from the box/porch if wanted. It stores bungeed behind the box. Fantastic way to have your cake and eat it on the very long RV trips to Alaska and other couple month laing trips with the TC when you are traveling on the road so much of the time.

NO grease, smell, or water vapor buildup in the RV. Cleanup is a couple minutes max and the grease from cooking is a great fire starter too along with the waste paper and packaging etc normally thrown in the garbage. win win win...

[PAThwacker]

i use the coleman propane skillet. dedicated breakfast cooker away from the tt.