I have been frying turkeys and wings for 5 years now and they are great. The family used to smoke the Turkey for Thanksgiving but now we fry. I never had any problems with fires until last year, I was going to do wings one night at my in-laws house, I was comming over right from work so I gave the wing thawing duty to my father in-law,he didn't do too great of a job. When I put the wings in the oil reacted with the ice and splatterd which caused a fire. I shut the propane off and the fire went out in about 1 min. This year I am inspecting the bird and wings throughly.