You may not know this, but conventional ovens use more energy than just about any other method of cooking. The most efficient way to cook your thanksgiving turkey, as unappetizing as it sounds, is a giant microwave oven. But, since I really would rather not spend my Thanksgiving chewing turkey-flavored bubble gum, I will be eating Deep Fried Turkey.

That's right, one of my good friends has her very own Turkey fryer and it will be preparing a crispy and juicy meal for a bunch of folks come Thanksgiving. I don't know the energy savings off hand, but its definitely more efficient tham a conventional oven, if only because oil is a much better conductor of heat than air, and it only takes 45 minutes, not five hours to cook the turkey.

 

But be careful, every Thanksgiving, some poor sap burns down his house, or his boat, or his grandmother, with an over-full turkey frier. And, also, before you can ask, yes, the turkey that is destined for the frier is local and organic. I met it when it was a baby, and know the young lady who slaughtered it.