I have both an electric deep fryer and a couple of propane fryers.

I only use the electric one for cooking small quantities, such as for just my wife and I, as it requires much less oil and works well for that.

I use the big propane units when cooking for groups such as the one you described because they will get large volumes of oil really hot very quickly and keep it that way.

Unless you go to a commercial electric unit that runs on 220, you can only get about 1500 watts of element in an electric fryer which is not enough heat input for doing large quantities of anything.

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