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Thanksgiving is the leading day for home cooking fires in the United States. Turkey frying accidents can cause severe burns from exploding hot oil. To prevent kitchen fires, avoid overheating pans and ...

I’ve seen the deep-frying frozen turkey explosion videos… but nobody explains why they explode. So I recruited some firefighters and we started dropping birds in hot oil. Frozen turkey? Instant chaos.

There is a mystique around turkey frying. It sounds wild to people who haven't seen it, or who have only seen videos of it going very wrong. When my brother Bruce Inskeep started frying turkeys at his ...