“This is how we cook the MAHA way,” Kennedy said in a video posted on X, explaining that he was cooking the turkey entirely in beef tallow.
The video was notable for the number of safety precautions eschewed by Kennedy, such as dipping the turkey in the oil without gloves and in short sleeves and taking it out while not wearing any footwear.
“This is the dangerous part,” he said while slowly lowering the turkey into the deep fryer.
“Put it in very slowly. Wait until it stops making noise,” he said over the boiling.
He jokingly asked wife Sheryl Hines if she wanted any, to which she replied that she doesn’t eat turkey.
“That’s gonna be delicious,” he said after showing the result 40 minutes later.
The video went viral on X, with various reactions. Many found the video amusing.
“RFK JR: ‘This is how we cook the MAHA way…’ *dunks entire turkey in sizzling hot beef tallow,*” influencer Benny Johnson wrote in a post on X. “America is so back.”
“Taking a huge turkey out of boiling hot oil in bare feet is the most RFK thing possible,” another user said.
Others weren’t as thrilled.
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“Video of RFK deep frying a turkey in beef tallow which is incredibly stupid. If even a tiny bit of that tallow overflows, the whole thing will go up like Hiroshima and take the house with it. Brilliant,” one user said.
Though firefighters warn families every year not to deep fry frozen turkeys, showcasing the resulting fireballs in demonstration videos, deep frying a thawed-out turkey is safe if done properly.
