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Presto 05466 ProFry Stainless-Steel Dual-Basket Immersion-Element 12-Cup Deep Fryer
Fry two different types of food at once or extra-large batches with this professional-style dual-basket deep fryer. The unit's generous 12-cup food capacity allows for frying family-size quantities in a hurry, while its oblong-shaped baskets nicely accommodate large pieces of chicken or fish. An adjustable thermostat allows for selecting a variety of frying temperatures, and the signal light indicates when oil is ready for frying. Another highlight includes the unit's 1800-watt immersion element, which provides quick preheating and fast oil-temperature recovery. The appliance's cover acts as a spatter shield when lowering food into hot oil, and its heating element and enameled pot remove easily for quick cleanup. For great restaurant taste in a convenient at-home size, the deep fryer measures 16 by 15 by 11 inches and carries a one-year limited warranty
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Presto 05466 ProFry Stainless-Steel Dual-Basket Immersion-Element 12-Cup Deep Fryer Reviews
Got my fryer in this afternoon, cleaned it like the instructions and filled it with a gallon of peanut oil and set the temp to 375 degrees. I highly recommend the use of tongs, which you can also order though Amazon over long handled BBQ forks, So I'll chalk it up to a first attempt (and no I am not inexperienced in frying chicken or cooking) and try it again at 325 degrees and keep an eye on it this time LOL. I don't have a Thermometer to check it with but I'd be willing to bet the temp went over the 375 mark. Re-sat my kitchen time again for 20 minutes and put the chicken in the baskets, put the lid on and left it for about 18 minutes and I got a deep fried un-godly mess in the baskets.
Presto 05466 ProFry Stainless-Steel Dual-Basket Immersion-Element 12-Cup Deep Fryer. The coating was fried so hard, I couldn't eat it and the chicken cooked only part way through. Definitely nothing like the deep fryers I used to cook with at the Dairy Dinner. Can't say I'm thrilled about the two foot cord either.
Sat my kitchen timer at 15 minutes, at the about the same my timer went off the red light went off on the fryer.
However the control burned out and we decided to replace it with another one. We purchased the previous model of this fryer in 2004. One can rest assured that when we need to replace the one we now have it will not be one made by Presto. Presto it appears no longer build quality. The material and construction of the new one is awful. The only thing that prevents us from returning it is that the control fits on the older model. It was well built and did a great job.
Fairly quick temperature recovery considering the foods being fried were still frozen. Good but slower for larger groups. Prepare two different foods at the same time. Excellent for one or two people.
Works deliciously. It makes a delicious treat. Really, this works amazing, if you're deep frying onions to chicken wings. Little did I know how good it works, I have had friends come over and think my food's as good as restaurant food. I love zuchinni fries and onion rings with a deep firey passion, so I figured I'd buy something like this.
Grease still splatters everywhere; the cover is useless as it warns not to use it when cooking any high moisture content food, such as french fries, fish, etc. The results were no better than using a heavy pot on the stove top. Food still comes out every bit as oily and greasy as cooking on the stove top, maybe even worse, which leads me to suspect it really is not achieving a high enough cooking temperature. After reading all of the wonderful reviews here I was almost ready to order it.
I would not buy this product again. I have used it now four times, twice for home made fries, once with sweet potato and once with regular potato, and once for beer battered halibut, and most recently for beer batter onion rings. Where I live moving it outside as one reviewer suggested would mean limiting my frying days to about 3 times a year. For materials and workmanship this is about a $25.00 item. If you are thinking of spending the $60.00 on this, save a while longer and get into the next price point up for something of quality. I swear my fingers are being sliced to ribbons on the thin edge of the frying tub because it is so sharp, and when slippery it is impossible to hold on to. I am very happy to have not paid the asking price here and I would have returned it for a refund had I paid the listed 'original' price. It is no wonder that the unit cannot maintain temperature; since there is no mass to it what so ever.
Fortunately I held off and found the same unit at a local retailer for less than advertised here. Even when it is in place it does nothing to capture the odors. The baskets are also very thin and flimsy, I would speculate that the total cost of materials and overseas labor to produce this unit is around $3.00. The description says the unit is built of stainless steel, which led me to believe the entire unit is constructed from stainless, but the outer shell that appears to be stainless steel in the picture is in reality just tin, at least on my unit, and is of a thickness and quality achievable at home by anyone with an 8th grade shop class skill level and a pair of vice grips. The inner tub is painful to empty once the oil has cooled, as well as to wash. While I have not got a thermometer that reads high enough to verify the temperature, my guess is that it is running cool as others have reported.
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