This holiday weekend, hundreds of families gathered together to visit, hunt for eggs and stuff their faces until they puked.
While preparing my own feast, I found one of the hippest ways to prepare a holiday banquet: the Euro Pro Electronic Deep Fryer.
A trip to the grocery store and a few jugs of vegetable oil later, my usually somber Good Friday turned into amazing "Deep Fry-day."
The power of a colander of hot grease is astounding. In just a few seconds it creates crispy deep-fried carrots, deep-fried hot dogs, deep-fried cheese slices, deep-fried apples, deep-fried eggs - even deep-fried Peeps.
Jason Kravitz, a communication sophomore and "Deep Fry-day" partier, said his dining and social life has been boiling over since he purchased his Euro Pro Deep Fryer.
"I always say: 'If you don't like it, deep fry it,'" Kravitz explained. "I mean, people always want to come over and play with the deep fryer and see what kind of crazy things they can 'crispify.'"
Kravitz, a shot putter for the track team, bought a deep fryer of his own when he realized he needed to stuff his face any time possible in order to gain weight and perform better on the field.
The Euro Pro Electronic Deep Fryer, which can be purchased for $19.99 anywhere kitchen supplies are sold, boasts "precision temperature control that maintains ideal frying for healthier results."
If I wanted healthier results I would have stuck with the Easter eggs - as if dunking anything edible in a bucket of hot oil could ever be healthy in the first place.
While the frying fiasco left my stomach satisfied, grease is at the top of the food pyramid for a reason. After an Elvis-inspired deep-fried PB&J, Deep Fry-day left me bogged down with an oily aroma oozing from my pores.
The Euro Pro may be essential for the next spring feast, but deep-frying is not for the faint of heart, or the heart disease prone. Maybe next year I should just stick to boiling Easter eggs.
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Ben Honingford is a journalism sophomore. Reach him at benjamin.honingford@asu.edu.
