Corndogs for Saturday: Deep Fryer Dilemma Solved

Posted on 27 June 2007 under Camp Cooking, Special Events

I’ve mentioned previously my cooking corndogs at last year’s City Wide Yard Sale here in Luna Pier. I knew that, for this year (Saturday, June 30th), my “standard size” home deep fryer wouldn’t be enough for the volume of customers we expect I’ll be getting based on last year’s response. Yesterday, a chef from one of the restaurants in Toledo brought by one of their countertop commercial deep fryers. But unfortunately, that unit has what’s known as a twistlock connector for 220V outlets … and the 220V lines here in the house, one for the stove and one for the clothes dryer, have straight connections for standard home appliances. At Home Depot last night in the electrical department, I realized that building the right adapters into the right size and length of power cable would cost as much as another deep fryer.

This morning, I ended up with two choices: Buy another deep fryer, or once again only make three corn dogs at a time with the deep fryer I have. Presto makes a dual home deep fryer, but looking at it online I came to the conclusion it’s really not that much bigger than the deep fryer I have.

Then it dawned on me: What about a turkey fryer? Those beasties are powered with LP gas, which alleviates the connection issue, and maybe I could just replace the pot with something smaller. I went to www.cabelas.com to see if I could possibly pick up something at the store in Dundee. After finding some interesting items, I called the store. Shelley in the camping department suggested I come in and having a look at what she had on the shelf.

What I found was a King Kooker 18″ Rectangular Propane Outdoor Cooker:

With the baskets out of the pan, I’m guessing I might be able to cook eight corndogs in this thing at a time, possibly more. The shelf will be a good place for the tall, narrow container I use to hold the batter for dipping, and a card table is then all that’s necessary for condiments and other supplies.

Ahhh, corndogs. Gotta love ‘em!

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  1. 28 June 2007 @ 10:27 am Posted by Cyndi

    And how to explain it to Mary…”But honey, it’s for the blog.” LOL

  2. 28 June 2007 @ 11:19 pm Posted by Vanessa

    lol, cyndi!
    i wish i would seen that you were having a dilemma with the fryer…we also have a propane deep fryer with a large round basket, not divided like this one although yours is probably better for cooking corn dogs! the fryer is so great on camping trips, i can fry up some walleye for 25 people in about 15 minutes with that thing. got it from bass pro outlet when the brother in law worked there…they have some interesting cooking gear at sporting goods stores thats for sure. good luck on saturday!

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