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Strengths: Easy (oil) Drain.
Cool Touch feature. (for sides)
Smell filter.
Weaknesses: There is no Temperature control.
Cover is not Cool Touch.
Cover opens pretty hard and fast.
Takes a long time to be ready.
Summary: 2008-07-12 07:04:37 I've just purchased this, so this a quick look at the pros/cons of the fryer. First off, it's a pretty good size fryer. It's capacity is 2.2 lbs of food, and has a pretty sturdy easy lowering round basket. I really wanted to try the easy drain system. I've always had the fryers that looked similar to this and not the bucket style fryers and those things always made a mess of the fryer and the area around the receptacle that I drained the used oil into. Hopefully this will work out great. But, the first thing you'll notice and it may be a good thing or a bad thing is that there is no temperature control. Only, there are pictures on the front of the machine that tell you how many minutes a certain product should stay in the hot oil. For example: veggies are listed at around 7 minutes and chicken 8 minutes, while frozen french fries takes about 15 minutes. Like I said, this may be a good thing or a bad. I usually fry at a pretty high temp, and it may take awhile for me to get my precise cooking times since I don't know how high a temp the oil gets, this feature would be a little bit of a plus. I purchased this at a price a lot cheaper than found online, so if my food tastes good and the easy drain function works, I'll be extremely happy. Edit: I've finally gotten around to cooking up some homemade wings. The fryer did take a while to heat up. I plugged it in before preparing the coating for my chicken wings and it still took about 5 minutes after my prep for the ready light to go out. During cooking, I noticed that this cooker takes in more wing pieces than my other fryer which I thought was large already. I usually cook up 5-6 wings at a time, with my old cooker, but now I can get 8-9 wings. I also noticed that the cover opens up pretty fast and slightly rocks the fryer. My last one had a gentle opening cover. I tried using my hand to let the cover gently open but the Cool Touch feature stops there...It wasn't burning hot but I wasn't expecting that. I wore a oven mitt on my left hand to slow the cover down. Overall, priced it under $30, I found it a very good fryer. The food came out really good and I was able to get more done than usual. Even with some design flaws and the long time for it to be ready, I was able to cook more at a time than usual and the food came out really well. And, isn't that the most important thing.
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