"Mark Thorson" > wrote in message
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> "John D. Misrahi" wrote:
>
> > I am looking for a small electric counter top deep fryer. Any
suggestions?
>
> If you have a stove, a big pot does as good a job and
> douvles for other uses. What makes life so much easier
> is a long-handled whatchamacallit -- it's like a spoon,
> but full of holes and much larger than a spoon, more
> like a small colander on the end of a handle. Any
> Chinese food store will have a similar device, with
> a bamboo handle and a woven wire basket. Don't
> get one of those, they're impossible to clean! Get
> the whatchamacallit (which also may be found at a
> Chinese food store, that's where I got mine).

I think I have a whatchamacallit - that I got at a Chinese food store.
It's fabulous for making a potato nest - shredded potatoes deep fried. Just
need lots of oil so that it actually covers the whatchamacallit.

Elaine