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View Poll Results: How are you cooking your turkey? | |
Roasted (no brine)
|    | 17 | 30.36% | |
Brined and roasted
|    | 15 | 26.79% | |
Barbequed
|    | 2 | 3.57% | |
Deep-fried
|    | 8 | 14.29% | |
Other
|    | 8 | 14.29% | |
Turkey-flavored carrots
|    | 6 | 10.71% |
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11-24-2010, 10:36 AM
|  | The older I get, the better I was. | | Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Pasadena, CA | | | How are you cooking your turkey?
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For the first time, we're hosting Thanksgiving at our house, and I'm cooking the turkey. I've had turkey losts of different ways (roasted, BBQ'd, and deep-fried). Again and again, it seems to me that brined and roasted just comes out best - flavor and moisture. My step-dad has been brining his turkeys for years, and it seems to be an especially popular choice this year.
Tonight, I'll start the brining process in a bath of water, vegetable stock, salt, brown sugar, oranges, lemons, tarragon, and sage and let it sit overnight. Tomorrow it will get 4-ish hours in the oven with a butter rub-down at an hour to go.
Gobble, gobble, y'all!!
Last edited by EricF : 11-24-2010 at 04:28 PM.
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11-24-2010, 10:41 AM
|  | That's the way uh huh uh huh I like it.. | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Robbinsville, NJ | | | I voted "other" because we typically insert a long iron rod into our turkey which is resting in a pool of water in the middle of an open field and let lightning do it's thing. It's really cool
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11-24-2010, 10:42 AM
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Originally Posted by Relic I voted "other" because we typically insert a long iron rod into our turkey which is resting in a pool of water in the middle of an open field and let lightning do it's thing. It's really cool | Wow ... do you at leat knock him out first? |
11-24-2010, 10:46 AM
| | That's the way uh huh uh huh I like it.. | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Robbinsville, NJ | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Jim Nazium Wow ... do you at leat knock him out first? | No, the trick is to force feed him bourban - "Wild Turkey" is the best for obvious reasons. If the alcohol content is just right, the turkey is out cold by the time he gets to the field + you get the added benefit of having it burst into flames and get that really nice golden crunchy skin 
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11-24-2010, 10:49 AM
|  | The Lowdown Diggler | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Huntington Beach, CA | | | Exactly like you would cook prime rib except it is prime rib. |
11-24-2010, 10:53 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: (M)a$$hole. | | | Brine and Roasted, stuffed to the gizzzards with pork and beef stuffing. oh crap am I hungry now, and I just had pizza-feast at work...
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11-24-2010, 10:54 AM
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Originally Posted by Relic No, the trick is to force feed him bourban - "Wild Turkey" is the best for obvious reasons. If the alcohol content is just right, the turkey is out cold by the time he gets to the field + you get the added benefit of having it burst into flames and get that really nice golden crunchy skin | I like it!!! Here's hoping you have a timely thrunder storm roll through your 'hood. Quote:
Originally Posted by MakiSupaStar Exactly like you would cook prime rib except it is prime rib. | I've been doing a rib roast for Christmas the last few years. I'm looking forward to another one this year. |
11-24-2010, 10:57 AM
| | That's the way uh huh uh huh I like it.. | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Robbinsville, NJ | | This upcoming Christmas I'm seriously considering ordering a "turducken". Anyone ever try that? I've been dying to get one for the holidays for a while now. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turducken
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11-24-2010, 11:05 AM
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Originally Posted by Relic This upcoming Christmas I'm seriously considering ordering a "turducken". Anyone ever try that? I've been dying to get one for the holidays for a while now. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turducken | I've been curious about the turducken, too. I expect a full review. |
11-24-2010, 11:06 AM
|  | no really, smokemeth&hailsatan | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Pueblo, CO | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Relic This upcoming Christmas I'm seriously considering ordering a "turducken". Anyone ever try that? I've been dying to get one for the holidays for a while now. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turducken | Wrap it in bacon as well.  |
11-24-2010, 11:08 AM
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Originally Posted by Relic This upcoming Christmas I'm seriously considering ordering a "turducken". Anyone ever try that? I've been dying to get one for the holidays for a while now. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turducken | had one last year, alongside the Turkey and Ham. It was really good, the duck was the best part, definitely. So good. worth it.
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11-24-2010, 11:22 AM
|  | Yeah, I've got the moves like Jagger. | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: G.R. MI | | | One of the guys I work with has an electric roasting pan. Kinda like a crock pot, but not a crock pot. He swears by that thing. Every time I cook a turkey, it either isn't completely thawed after five days in the refrigerator, or something else happens that adds two hours onto the cooking time. As a result, I don't even try to stuff the body cavity with anything anymore. (I do make a mean stuffing however.)
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11-24-2010, 11:24 AM
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Originally Posted by Phalex One of the guys I work with has an electric roasting pan. Kinda like a crock pot, but not a crock pot. He swears by that thing. Every time I cook a turkey, it either isn't completely thawed after five days in the refrigerator, or something else happens that adds two hours onto the cooking time. As a result, I don't even try to stuff the body cavity with anything anymore. (I do make a mean stuffing however.) | Have you tried stuffing it with a corn cob? |
11-24-2010, 11:29 AM
| | no really, smokemeth&hailsatan | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Pueblo, CO | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Phalex One of the guys I work with has an electric roasting pan. Kinda like a crock pot, but not a crock pot. He swears by that thing. Every time I cook a turkey, it either isn't completely thawed after five days in the refrigerator, or something else happens that adds two hours onto the cooking time. As a result, I don't even try to stuff the body cavity with anything anymore. (I do make a mean stuffing however.) | We have used the electric roasting pan thingy for a few years now. Free's up the oven, and it seems to do a better job anyways. |
11-24-2010, 11:29 AM
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Originally Posted by EricF Have you tried stuffing it with a corn cob? | LMAO! 
I roasted our turkey yesterday. It turned out quite well. We're going on a little thanksgiving vacation later today, and will be taking plenty of good stuff along.
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11-24-2010, 11:32 AM
| | Yeah, I've got the moves like Jagger. | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: G.R. MI | | Quote:
Originally Posted by EricF Have you tried stuffing it with a corn cob? | We still talkin Turkey here, or have we moved on to The Gobbler? Speaking of which, where is ol 5StringBlues??
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11-24-2010, 11:35 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Chester, Pa.,USA | | | Roasted, sitting on a bed of veggies, potoatoess, carrots(!), and brussel sprouts.
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11-24-2010, 11:39 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Listowel/KW Ontario | | | You silly Americans, thanksgiving was in October.
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11-24-2010, 11:50 AM
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Originally Posted by Phalex We still talkin Turkey here, or have we moved on to The Gobbler? Speaking of which, where is ol 5StringBlues?? | Have you checked the other end of the corn cob? |
11-24-2010, 11:53 AM
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Originally Posted by iamlowsound You silly Americans, thanksgiving was in October.
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Sometimes I'm too scared to look....
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