How much oil do you need for those?

I need to pick up one of these. One problem with frying is the spatter and general mess it makes of your kitchen. It seems that with an enclosed appliance like this, you would have less of a mess and hopefully the food would cook more evenly as well.

I'm off to add it to my Amazon wish list.

TexasRose you are right about there being less mess with the enclosed deep fat fryers compared to frying food in oil in a regular fry pan. This is especially true with a good deep fat fryer such as the T-Fal brand because they come with their own replaceable filters on the top of the lid.

The food does cook more evenly as long as you make sure to have the proper level of oil in the deep fat fryer and you don't overload the fry basket. All food should always be complete submerged in the oil when cooking. It also helps to start cooking the food for a couple of minutes and then lift the basket out of the oil and give the food in the basket a good shake and then lower the basket of food back in the oil to finish cooking. Shaking works extremely well for french fries, onion rings, etc. it keeps them from sticking together.

Man, I would love to have one of those, but I thought only fast-food restaurants had them. I thought they were extremely expensive, but I guess they're not.

walmart has some different brands, for about 1/2 price. I got my GE one there for about 35.00, and it's just like a fast food one. and uses a lot less oil than old styles. The cord is magnetic, pretty cool feature. and it's cool to the touch, never hot.
best of luck