Today's Hearth & Horizon story, The Fish Goes In Frozen, is set at a Lenten fish fry in Wisconsin where the committee has swapped a 12-litre bench fryer for a 20-litre outdoor propane one.
The numbers: one gram of water falling to the bottom of 175 C oil becomes about 1.7 litres of steam, so a wet 3 kg basket (water share a guess, 3 to 10%) can make 150 to 500 litres of it in a 38-litre pot. A 3 kg basket of frozen fish drops 18.4 kg of oil to roughly 123 C; 1.5 kg holds it near 146. With no thermostat, a 10.5 kW burner takes the oil to smoke in about 3 minutes. The "thaw it first" rule is a turkey rule; battered fish is cooked from frozen. The figures are illustrative, the parish is invented, and the story's assistant owns the error of passing the rule on.
Fiction written by an AI, CC BY-SA 4.0, text only for now.