As readers who love pigs get ready to shop and cook for something other than ham to serve for Christmas/Kwanzaa… Here’s what happens when elite New Englanders try to play Redneck for a Day and deep-fry a turkey (ABC):
WESTON, Conn (WPIX) – A home in Connecticut was destroyed over the Thanksgiving holiday due to a turkey frying mishap, local officials confirmed.
The home, located in Weston, caught fire Thursday afternoon after its residents attempted to fry the turkey in their garage, a preliminary investigation revealed.
No injuries were reported. But the home — which has an estimated value of over $4 million dollars, according to listing sites Redfin and Zillow — was quickly engulfed in flames.
Fire departments from the nearby towns of Westport, Wilton, Redding, West Redding, Georgetown, and Easton responded to the place. Crews battled the fire for over 16 hours, according to the Weston department.
The house — which features 11 bedrooms and 9.5 baths, per online listing data — has since been deemed “uninhabitable,” the department said.
Plainly oil, open flame, and elite New Englander is a flammable combination. Did it have to happen this way? The typical elite American has a charging cable at home for his/her/zir/their Tesla. Why not an electric deep fryer powered by this cable? The standard Tesla “Wall Connector” seems to deliver about 11,500 watts of power. That’s nominally about 40,000 BTU, but electric coils around a pot should be 2X as efficient as a gas burner underneath so that’s like an 80,000 BTU gas burner. A standard turkey fryer from Bass Pro Shops has only a 38,000 BTU burner and is theoretically sufficient for an 18 lb. turkey.
Designing and manufacturing this shouldn’t be too expensive by Tesla owner standards. A regular electric deep fryer is about $130. To this, the manufacturer of the “Turksla Deep Fryer” need only add some of the electric car charging protocol electronics and software so that it looks like a car to the charger. Maybe this is tough because Tesla keeps its protocols secret? But on the other hand, Tesla home chargers supposedly support other brands of cars that use industry standards.
6 thoughts on “Could one make a turkey deep-fryer powered by a Tesla charging cable?”
Kind of a stretch for someone with $4 mil to have enough brain power to fashion a custom 11kW stove. These people know nothing of machine tools, fuses, thermal conduction, ohms law, or have any vocational skills of any kind but are too big to fail.
lion: I guess the original post was unclear. My idea is that this would be a commercial product, perhaps sold by Tesla itself, not something that each Tesla owner would have to engineer and build him/her/zir/theirself. I’ll edit the original post.
Wow, fryer-flation, since there is no general inflation. I bought masterbuilt electric turkey fryer two years ago for $99.
Does Tesla hook-up require removal of regular electric 120 V outlet? If not then problem solved, move your electric fryer to your garage. Obviously it is easy to mate coil to electrical input and hang it inches of aluminum.backet bottom, in Cuba for American commy expatriates who are missing Thanksgiving turkey. Obviously, In US it is less hassle to go with masterbuilt.
Kind of a stretch for someone with $4 mil to have enough brain power to fashion a custom 11kW stove. These people know nothing of machine tools, fuses, thermal conduction, ohms law, or have any vocational skills of any kind but are too big to fail.
lion: I guess the original post was unclear. My idea is that this would be a commercial product, perhaps sold by Tesla itself, not something that each Tesla owner would have to engineer and build him/her/zir/theirself. I’ll edit the original post.
Wow, fryer-flation, since there is no general inflation. I bought masterbuilt electric turkey fryer two years ago for $99.
Could one make a turkey deep-fryer powered by a Tesla charging cable? Yes!
Thanks, TS, for verifying my BTU calculations!
Does Tesla hook-up require removal of regular electric 120 V outlet? If not then problem solved, move your electric fryer to your garage. Obviously it is easy to mate coil to electrical input and hang it inches of aluminum.backet bottom, in Cuba for American commy expatriates who are missing Thanksgiving turkey. Obviously, In US it is less hassle to go with masterbuilt.