I bought it to fry Thanksgiving turkey, it was my first time with an indoor electric frying and this Materbuilt was the absolute best. Dipping turkey in at first was a bit nerve-racking, but once in I did nothing for about 1.5hrs and when I pulled it out, she was beautiful and tasted even better. I was so amazed, it will be fried turkey from now on. I don't write reviews but I had to give you guys 2thumbs up, I'm very impressed and love the drainage pipe and the clean-up. Great product I'd recommend 5-Stars 10 if you had them.