# Why Does The DHS Need to Advise Me About Frying Turkeys?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [November 23, 2011, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-the-dhs-need-to-advise-me-about-frying-turkeys/603864 "2011-11-23T13:04:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![emacknight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3ec8ea/32.png) [@emacknight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emacknight)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2011, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-the-dhs-need-to-advise-me-about-frying-turkeys/603864/21 "2011-11-25T16:21:45Z")

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People shouldn’t be free to burn down their houses since that puts my house at risk. This is a matter of public safety and national security.

Turkeys should be fried in government approved facilities by licensed operators, over the age of 25, and certainly never on a Sunday.

Why haven’t we banned this infrerno practice? Where are the real regulatory agencies when we need them?

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**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2011, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-the-dhs-need-to-advise-me-about-frying-turkeys/603864/22 "2011-11-25T17:14:59Z")

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> [@WolfpackJeep](#):
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> Did they produce a spiffy video or something to go along with this warning? I love the annual “dangers of frying a turkey” demonstrations the local fire departments perform for the news.

I believe the DHS linked to a video produced by Underwriters Laboratory. They basically put out a press release and posted a few Tweets about this burning issue. In other words, they didn’t spend much, if any, government money.

That said, the idea of three or four gallons of boiling vegetable oil scares me, especially when it’s in an unstable container atop a propane fire. So I’d never do it.

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**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2011, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-the-dhs-need-to-advise-me-about-frying-turkeys/603864/23 "2011-11-25T17:18:22Z")

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> [@emacknight](#):
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> People shouldn’t be free to burn down their houses since that puts my house at risk. This is a matter of public safety and national security.
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> Turkeys should be fried in government approved facilities by licensed operators, over the age of 25, and certainly never on a Sunday.
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> Why haven’t we banned this infrerno practice? Where are the real regulatory agencies when we need them?

Look, lots of people are really really dumb. Half of them have below average intelligence. Yes, if everyone were smart capable adults then we could do away with all sorts of things. Except lots and lots and lots of people are antisocial retards. So we can’t.

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