Chili in a Turkey Deep fryer?

[HonestKen]

OK so it's still a little too cold to shoot comfortably here in Winnipeg MB.

We have a skating/hockey party on our backyard skating rink each year at the end of winter. We usually have in the neighborhood of 60 people or so. My biggest pot is the one that goes with my turkey deep fryer and I was wondering if anybody has made chili using the propane burner that comes with the fryer?

Is it possible to regulate the heat finely enough or am I asking for a major cleanup and some burned chili?

I could always make the chili on the stove inside and then keep it warm on the propane burner as well, if that will work.

If I can keep most of the party outside around the bonfire then there is less snow and ice tracked in the house. Less mess = happier wife .
Happier wife = less henpecked husband.

Thanks,

Ken

[RAF]

I understand your reasoning about less henpecked husband and agree. I don't know which cooker you have but mine is aluminum and I'm pretty sure if you do chilli in it on the burner it will burn on the bottom and you'll have a heck of time cleaning it. Even if you make your chilli inside and then try to keep it warm on the burner you'll have a mess to clean up.

[HonestKen]

Thanks for the reply RAF!
Mine is the aluminium pot and I'm sure you are right about the burning issue. I have been thinking about using some steel plate over the burner as a diffuser(sp?). I have one of the engineers at work trying to find a piece that will work,
What do you think about that idea? Maybe 1/4" plate steel a foot or so square(or round beggers can't be choosers).

Maybe I should just use my coleman stove turned down real low to keep it warm after cooking it inside.

Ken

[RAF]

I don't think it will matter. If you get the aluminum hot enough to cook the chilli, it will burn on the bottom and stick. Clean up will be a chore. Good luck

[edge]

RAF said:

I don't think it will matter. If you get the aluminum hot enough to cook the chilli, it will burn on the bottom and stick. Clean up will be a chore. Good luck

I agree 100%, but if you heat it indirectly, then you may be alright.

Take your steel or aluminum plate and place it on the burner, then a sheet if expanded metal, then your pot. This way there will be a gap between the two surfaces almost like a double boiler. A company used to make a "steel sandwich" ( steel - air gap- steel ) with a handle just for this purpose, you may sill be able to buy them somewhere.

edge.

[HonestKen]

Just so I don't leave you folks hanging, I wimped out and did it on the stove. We didn't even track too much snow into the kitchen.

Thanks for your suggestions.

I will use the turkey deep fryer for deep frying turkeys

Ken

[tar12]

Find a pot that you can hang inside of your turkey fryer,once you have done that, put water in the bottom of your fryer.Cook your chili inside, then bring it out and put it in the suspended pot in your fryer.Same concept as a buffet table!

[bubba]

just get a keg of beer there - burn some fish in that pot and it really wont matter !!!! I recall that being smelt as the fish of choice in the spring where I went to college.

ahhh the memories !

-bubba