'Eat, Fry, Love': William Shatner Warns Of Turkey Frying Dangers (VIDEO)

If you're worried about how exactly to deep fry a turkey, never fear -- William Shatner is here! Shatner has teamed up with State Farm to offer sage advice on how to prepare (or not prepare) your turkey. His documdrama has it all: multiple uses of the technical term "dingle dangle," an extremely fake fire and, naturally, Shatner chucking a turkey fryer.

He explains that he was formerly a deep fryer fan, but has since changed his ways. "Blinded by my hunger, I ignored safety, spat in the face of science." Then, after he learns the hard way (fire!) about the perils of the deep fryer, Shatner admits, "I love you, but you only brought me pain."

We're not sure if Shatner's advice is actually going to prevent anyone from deep-frying a turkey. The whole bit is mostly silly, with some actual facts thrown in. Still, he does make the ordeal pretty scary: a lot of oil and a giant deep fryer never actually struck us as a good idea. More cooking fires happen on Thanksgiving than any other day of the year, and U.S. fire departments are responding to more than 1,000 fires each year in which a deep fryer is involved. That's more than $15 million in property damage every year.

Watch the docudrama and check out the photo slideshow below.

Comments

[JohnBryansFontaine]

01:33 PM on 11/25/2012

Gotta wonder if the folks behind deep frying turkeys also invented the Star Trek Enterprise Pizza Cutter :

http://www.amazon.com/Think-Geek-Enterprise-Pizza-Cutter/product-reviews/B004FQDWP0

[JohnBryansFontaine]

11:23 AM on 11/25/2012

Next time, use a Replicator.

[JohnBryansFontaine]

11:17 AM on 11/25/2012

Guess this explains why Spock ( as well as Leonard Nimoy ) are vegans.

[jedisabre]

06:41 PM on 11/18/2011

Bill, just smoke the turkey in a Brinkmann with hickory or mesquite chips and you will have moist meat and good flavor. The water pan will keep the meat from drying out. Happy thanksgiving, Captain Kirk.

[stopgeorge]

10:59 AM on 11/18/2011

Forget the Turkey fire.

Why is William Shatner having Thanksgiving in NOVEMBER?!

He's a Canadian!!!

[Jamf]

08:32 AM on 11/18/2011

Set fryer to Warp Speed and let's cook this baby, Mr. Sulu....

[HappyBrit]

06:57 AM on 11/18/2011

Why would anyone want to eat a turkey? Tough, tasteless and dry.......

[hector74elp]

10:04 PM on 11/17/2011

for a moment there I thought he was going to start this video with -- "Hi, I'm Troy McClure. You might know me from..."

[Ossit]

02:26 PM on 11/17/2011

Peace and Long Life, scout638 and have a Happy Turkey day too.

[rudeprude2u]

01:22 PM on 11/17/2011

Shatner and Nemoy both look great for 80 years. Must be all the warp speed....

[Ossit]

12:55 PM on 11/17/2011

D'oh those miners from Janis VI can't make it to your Thanksgiving dinner, Mr. Shatner. They're having a really bad windstorm.

[Ossit]

12:53 PM on 11/17/2011

Great music. Great overacting, great safety tips. Shatner can make anything believable. Who are you going to invite for Thanksgiving this year, Shat? Andorians? The miners from Janus Vi? Tyree? The Bridge crew? A couple of Klingons loaded to the gills with blood wine? Your good buddy, Leonard Nimoy? Well whomever you invite, have a great Thanksgiving Mr. Shatner.

[wunkman]

12:19 PM on 11/17/2011

I suggest lowering the turkey with a rope and pulley from about 30 feet away. Being on fire is not as much fun as it looks like. NEVER let a kid anywhere near turkey fryer.

[altheschrod]

12:18 PM on 11/17/2011

Why would anyone want to fry a turkey rather than roast it?

[Bebees Human]

01:58 PM on 11/17/2011

I have heard that the flavor and moistness of the turkey is much better deep fried. I don't know if it's true.

[Libia]

01:30 AM on 11/18/2011

Because roasting for the time it takes to cook the turkey dries up the meat. But there is a better way to get moist turkey. First inject a brine marinade into the turkey . You may use salt and wine or salted milk (1 to 1 and 1/2 % saltabout 11% of the weight of the turkey will be good.. Then braise the turkey. Put in the stuffing , glaze the skin and roast to get the nice brown color and crisp the skin as well. a convection roaster will be good or a salamander

[Ossit]

12:18 PM on 11/17/2011

Holy mother Horta! 'Tis that a fried turkey or a red shirted security man!