it scalded me (Morphy Richards 45470)

Member Name: barbie84

Product:	Morphy Richards 45470
Date:	04/01/08 (149 review reads)
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Advantages: none

Disadvantages: hospital visit

I brought one of these last christmas from latifs for £30.

I chose this fryer in particular as it was the only fryer i knew of that you could take the element off and put the rest of it in the sink to wash so after getting fed up with my circular deep fat fryer with internal element that i had to spend hour trying to clean i got me one of these.

I used this fryer once and once only.

I set the fryer up, put the vegetable oil in to the fryer turned the temperature to 180 and left it to warm up.
After about 10 minutes i put the chips into the basket and attempted to put them into the fryer.
I say attempted as at this point the fryer foamed every where scalding me for no reason, i spent christmas night in A&E.

I hadnt done anything wrong, i had filled it in the middle of the low and high setting so couldnt see any reason for this happening.

I wrote a letter complaning to the manufacturer as latifs would not refund as it was used and they sent me a letter back saying that oil should not be heated past 120 but there temperature dial goes to 205 and i used to use my old fryer at 180 with no problems.

Needless to say i bined the fryer and went back to my old one.

Summary: steer well clear

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