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The Presto Big Kettle is a 1500-watt electric kettle cooker that deep fries, boils, steams, blanches and roasts in one pot. Its basket holds enough for roughly 8 cups of french fries, and the ceramic nonstick coating inside and out makes cleanup easier than bare-metal fryers. It suits families and batch cooks who want one appliance for frying and everyday cooking. Rivals like dedicated deep fryers fry well but do little else; the Big Kettle trades some frying precision for range. Owners rate it highly overall, though some find the thermostat imprecise and the unit bulky on a counter.
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Owners praise the capacity and the easy-clean ceramic coating, and many use it for soups and pasta as much as frying. Complaints center on temperature control and the size of the unit.
The Presto Big Kettle Ceramic Deep Fryer/Multi-Cooker is sized 60% bigger than the classic Kitchen Kettle. It deep fries up to 8 cups of french fries and handles large batches of onion rings, chicken and doughnuts. The extra capacity also suits soups, casseroles, boiling pasta and rice, and roasting meat and poultry.
The basket is used for deep frying, steaming and blanching. It hooks onto the kettle rim for easy draining. A ceramic nonstick surface inside and out gives stick-free cooking and easy cleaning.
With the heat control removed, the kettle is fully immersible for cleanup.
