Presto Stainless Steel Pro Fry Deep Fryer

For years I did not want to take up my already packed kitchen cabinets with a fryer. I eat healthy and I would just use a pot and oil. I didn’t feel the need–until I watched a friend fry up some appetizers far more easily and perfectly and wondered why I didn’t have a fryer.

Let’s face it, the key to perfectly fried foods is the temp of the oil. You can’t guesstimate that and you don’t have to with this. When it’s the right temp for frying (which you can adjust but it has a chart with it–pretty much turn the knob up all the way and everything fries perfectly if you want the easy way–it’s a no brainer) the light goes off. If you fry a batch of something and it cools the oil down, the light is back on so you know when it heats back up to being perfectly ready. If you have to add more oil, you will also know when it gets to frying temp. No more guesswork.

The basket just makes everything so much easier too–no scooping anything out of hot oil…just lift and dump out on the paper towel.

Diet is all about balance and when I entertain I find myself using this every time. I can have something cooking in the oven and fry up instant hot appetizers or you can make a protein and fry up some fries, you can get fancy like the Texas wontons I made placed over guacamole and garnished with red pepper jelly (but still super fast to make–just stuff cut eggroll wrappers with cream cheese, Mexican cheese and green chiles), or shrimp and okra beignets…or funnel cakes and donuts for the kids. It’s a treat maker and a go to gadget for party food and entertaining, let’s face it.

Plus it will pay for itself when you do things like make your own fish sticks, french fries, donuts, etc. You also eliminate the chemicals and preservatives and everything tastes better.

Chili cheese fries? Get yourself a spiral slicer and you can make spiral cut potatoes literally in seconds.

fried mozzarella? You will never eat store bought again.

Get a fryer cookbook–the Southern Living one is excellent, and you will be as addicted to this as I am. Plus when you invite people over for dinner they love to watch you use it. And want one.

This one is the perfect size and heats fast and fries evenly. If it broke, I’d buy the exact same one again.

I make my own taco and tostado shells from leftover tortillas but my favorite thing is to make soups and slice tortilla ribbons and fry them up–great on soups and salads and better than croutons! Looks prettier too!

Muy buena y muy rápida a calentar el calor perfectamente

buena freidora, la caba de desempacar y usar con papas naturales, con 300grados y como en 10 minutos estuvieron mis papas a la francesa muy bien

I would not recommend buying this deep fryer if you are in Europe, as the plug is not compatible even with the use of an extension. Additionally, the manual suggests a frying time of 13 to 18 minutes for chicken, but I found that I needed to fry the chicken for more than 20 minutes and it was still raw.

You don’t realize how much better, faster, easier and less greasy fried food is over pan frying until you try it. Because it cooks food so much faster the food absorbs a lot less grease, seems counterintuitive but I swear to you. We put Yuca fries on the paper towel and theres hardly any oil at oil on the towel vs A LOT when we pan fry them. Plus they are so much crispier, cook a lot faster, you can cook a LOT more than you can with a pan, its just way better. The only down side is the amount of oil it takes, two medium sized bottles worth of oil, so you have to have a lot cook or its not worth it, but you can save and recycle the oil.

Works as expected, easy to use and mostly dishwasher safe.