I finally stopped trusting the timer on my fryer after a 200 piece disaster

Last Saturday in the middle of service at Brickhouse Kitchen in Charlotte, my timer dinged on a full basket of wings and I dropped them without checking the oil temp. The probe was reading 310 instead of 350, so the breading came out pale and greasy, and we had to refire about 200 orders right before the dinner rush. I now check the actual oil temp with a handheld every single time I load a basket, even if the timer just went off. Has anyone else had a fryer timer lie to them during a busy shift, or is my equipment just cursed?

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the_robert28d ago

Reminds me of the thermostat on my old home oven. I was baking bread for a bake sale and the knob said 375 but an oven thermometer I stuck in there read 325, so 14 loaves came out doughy in the middle. Turns out the sensor had drifted over like 6 years of daily use and I never knew it. Now I keep a $9 thermometer hanging on the rack and check it every time, same as you with the probe.

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