Low oil usage turkey fryer

A device to reduce undesirable emissions from a hot liquid cooking apparatus, comprising:

• a vessel configured to hold cooking liquid and food being cooked in the cooking liquid, the vessel having an upper rim;
• a heat source configured to heat to cooking temperatures, cooking liquid and food being cooked in the cooking liquid, while they are both disposed in the vessel;
• the vessel capped to form an enclosed chamber;
• a chamber exit, and the chamber exit proximate to the upper rim of the vessel, and the chamber exit configured to pass fluids from inside the enclosed chamber to outside the enclosed chamber;
• an upward opening debris collection cup, having an upward directed upper opening, and configured to accept through the upper opening, emissions emanating from the chamber exit, and the chamber exit configured to direct fluids into the upper opening, and the debris collection cup having an interior surface configured to retain debris including condensed residue emanating from the chamber exit.

A device to cook foods in hot cooking liquid, comprising:

• a vessel configured to hold hot cooking liquid and food being cooked in the hot cooking liquid;
• a heat source configured to heat to cooking temperatures, cooking liquid and food being cooked in the cooking liquid, while they are both disposed in the vessel;
• a food support bowl removably disposed within the vessel, configured to hold foods being cooked in hot cooking liquid contained within the vessel, and the food support bowl capped by a lid to form an enclosed chamber;
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• at least one orifice penetrating the enclosed chamber and configured to control fluid egress and ingress out of and into the enclosed chamber.

A device to cook foods in hot cooking liquid, comprising:

• a vessel configured to hold hot cooking liquid and food being cooked in the hot cooking liquid;
• a heat source configured to heat to cooking temperatures, cooking liquid and food being cooked in the cooking liquid, while they are both disposed in the vessel;
• a food support bowl removably disposed within the vessel, configured to hold foods being cooked in hot cooking liquid contained within the vessel, and the food support bowl capped by a lid to form an enclosed chamber;
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• a first lock configured to be manually operated, and to selectively lock the lid onto the food support bowl.

A safety apparatus on devices to cook foods in hot cooking liquid, comprising:

• a vessel configured to hold hot cooking liquid and food being cooked in the hot cooking liquid;
• a heat source configured to heat to cooking temperatures, cooking liquid and food being cooked in the cooking liquid, while they are both disposed in the vessel;
• a magnetically coupled power plug disposed adjacent to user device control input;
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• a user visible marketing associated with the magnetically coupled power plug, indicating “off” and a user action to turn the device off by severing the magnetic connection between the power plug and the device.

Heating apparatus on a device to cook foods in hot cooking liquid, comprising:

• a vessel configured to hold hot cooking liquid and food being cooked in the hot cooking liquid, and the vessel having a floor and a generally vertical sidewall;
• a heat source configured to heat to cooking temperatures, cooking liquid and food being cooked in the cooking liquid, while they are both disposed in the vessel;
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• the heat source comprising a rod type electric resistance heating element disposed at the surface of the generally vertical sidewall, and disposed to circumnavigate the vessel.

Heating apparatus on a device to cook foods in hot cooking liquid, comprising:

• a vessel configured to hold hot cooking liquid and food being cooked in the hot cooking liquid;
• the vessel having a floor with a periphery, and the floor having a generally vertical peripheral sidewall, a heat source configured to heat to cooking temperatures, cooking liquid and food being cooked in the cooking liquid, while they are both disposed in the vessel;
• the heat source comprising a tubular electric resistance heating element;
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• the tubular resistance heating element coupled on the floor, away from the periphery of the floor at a distance not to exceed four times the typical diameter of the tubular electric resistance heating element.

A device to cook foods in hot cooking liquid, or to cook foods using vaporized liquids, comprising:

• a vessel configured to hold hot liquid and food being cooked;
• a heat source configured to heat to cooking temperatures, and to heat to liquid vaporization temperatures, liquids while disposed in the vessel;
• a food support configured to be manually lowered into, and to be manually lifted out of the vessel;
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• a liquid transmissive food support basket, configured in a first disposition to open upward while resting on the support, and while so disposed, to hold foods being cooked in hot cooking liquid contained within the vessel, and the liquid transmissive food support basket, in a second inverted disposition, configured to open downward while resting on the support, and to support foods being cooked on the inverted floor of the basket using hot liquid vapor.

A method to use deep-fried fish, and deep-fried foul to lose weight, comprising the steps of:

• Preparing for breakfast, in accordance with a user selection during a first day, breakfast comprising deep fried fish or foul without any carbohydrate coating or accompanying carbohydrates;
• Preparing, in accordance with a user selection during the first day, lunch comprising deep fried fish or foul without any carbohydrate coating or accompanying carbohydrates when no user selection is made for breakfast;
• if no user selected menu was chosen for breakfast or lunch, preparing, in accordance with a user selection, deep fried fish or foul without any carbohydrate coating or accompanying carbohydrate;
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• repeating the previous steps for at least 6 consecutive days directly following the first day.

A device to cook foods in hot cooking liquid, comprising:

• a vessel configured to hold hot cooking liquid and food being cooked in the hot cooking liquid,
• a heat source configured to heat to cooking temperatures, cooking liquid and food being cooked in the cooking liquid, while they are both disposed in the vessel,
• a food support bowl removably disposed within the vessel, configured to hold foods being cooked in hot cooking liquid contained within the vessel, and the food support bowl having a liquid transmissive floor,
• filtering media removably coupled to the bottom of the food support bowl adjacent to the liquid transmissive floor, and the filtering media configured to remove debris from cooking liquid passing into and out of the food support bowl through the liquid transmissive floor.