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Title: Turkey?
Post by: Green1000S on November 26, 2015, 01:21:32 PM

For me, it's smoked.
How about your turkey???

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Title: Re: Turkey?
Post by: old head on November 26, 2015, 01:51:33 PM
I used to fry in peanut oil, buy now I use the dry fryer.

Less mess, still juicy, takes a little longer, but no oil to buy or dispose of.

besides the wife has developed a peanut allergy.

Old Head
Title: Re: Turkey?
Post by: Kent in Upstate NY on November 26, 2015, 02:22:35 PM
Seeing as there is just the two of us, we a smoking a breast over mesquite and apple.
Title: Re: Turkey?
Post by: jas67 on November 26, 2015, 02:42:14 PM
Cooked by someone else.  :thumb:

 :1:

In this case it is going to be deep fried.
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Post by: Rox on November 26, 2015, 02:58:15 PM
:1:

In this case it is going to be deep fried.

 :1:


Ill be frying one next weekend though.
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Post by: Tom on November 26, 2015, 06:04:53 PM
Chinese food.
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Post by: Triple Jim on November 26, 2015, 06:10:13 PM
Brined, then baked, being careful not to go over about 165F so it doesn't get dry.
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Post by: Arizona Wayne on November 26, 2015, 09:25:44 PM
I used to fry in peanut oil, buy now I use the dry fryer.

Less mess, still juicy, takes a little longer, but no oil to buy or dispose of.

besides the wife has developed a peanut allergy.

Old Head



Ate turkey boiled in peanut oil a few years ago................ tasted like peanuts.  :huh:   Chef swore it was the best kind.
Title: Re: Turkey?
Post by: Guzzistajohn on November 26, 2015, 10:17:15 PM
Apple smoked over a water pan in the Big Green Egg. The drippings made a nice smoky giblet gravy :thumb:
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Title: Re: Turkey?
Post by: Kentktk on November 27, 2015, 02:12:03 AM
Borders Iran, Iraq, Syria and the Black sea is to the north :grin:
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Post by: tris on November 27, 2015, 04:09:29 AM
Borders Iran, Iraq, Syria and the Black sea is to the north :grin:
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That's where I was and whether the Russians were about to annex them on the back of the Turks shooting down a Russian bomber earlier this week

That doesn't bare thinking about!
Title: Re: Turkey?
Post by: molly on November 27, 2015, 04:11:55 AM
Turkey? It's not even Christmas yet. What are you colonials up to?
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Post by: oranges3 on November 27, 2015, 08:47:12 AM
turduken baby!!
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Post by: Penderic on November 27, 2015, 09:42:21 AM
Watchout when good turkeys .......
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...go bad!
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 :shocked:
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Post by: Perazzimx14 on November 27, 2015, 10:12:22 AM
Brined, then baked, being careful not to go over about 165F so it doesn't get dry.

I was a big fan of deep frying until I tried Alton Brown's brine. I will never willingly fry another turkey.
Title: Re: Turkey?
Post by: Sasquatch Jim on November 27, 2015, 11:19:56 AM
  Has anyone thought about how the turkey feels about all this?
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Post by: Triple Jim on November 27, 2015, 11:27:39 AM
  Has anyone thought about how the turkey feels about all this?

I don't think ours was feeling much.
Title: Re: Turkey?
Post by: Tom on November 27, 2015, 02:40:41 PM
Over here if you get one of the wild turkeys, you'll need to stew it with green papayas.  The enzymes will tenderize the meat.   :tongue:
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Post by: sincolita on November 27, 2015, 03:03:59 PM
Cooked by my mom and consumed halfway through a six pack of hefeweizen.  :boozing:
Title: Re: Turkey?
Post by: Sasquatch Jim on November 27, 2015, 04:22:59 PM
Over here if you get one of the wild turkeys, you'll need to stew it with green papayas.  The enzymes will tenderize the meat.   :tongue:

 Or you can have a francolin which is much smaller relative. Both turkeys and francolins belong to a group of birds that includes pheasants and partridges and grouse.
 Francolines are frequently seen about the sides of roads and are easily caught or killed for food.  You have to know whare to look for turkeys as they are not so numerous.  Francolins are the size of a small pheasant and tasty when steamed
 tender.  I suppose a turkey could be tender if you had a big enough steamer or pressure cooker, otherwise do it as Tom says.   If you know how to tenderize a tough stringy bird, they are pretty good eats but don't expect them to be like a domestic turkey Which has been bred to be tender and has not had to forage for itself to live.
 When I lived in the mountains, I ate a lot of grouse.  Like the above, they are tough and stringy unless you steam them.
 I would float the breasts and legs on top of stew slow cooked in a cast iron dutch oven.

 Around here if you want francolin, get to be a good shot with a sling shot and keep it with you as you ride or drive the mountain roads.  Or a pellet gun.
Title: Re: Turkey?
Post by: Tom on November 27, 2015, 04:48:28 PM
Filipinos would use the green papayas to stew w/the losers from the "cock fights".  If your bird lost, at least you'd have dinner. :wink:
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Post by: krglorioso on November 27, 2015, 06:37:50 PM
Looking at that magnificent roast turkey almost made me shuck any further ideas to remain a vegan..

Ralph
Title: Re: Turkey?
Post by: Sasquatch Jim on November 27, 2015, 07:16:50 PM
Looking at that magnificent roast turkey almost made me shuck any further ideas to remain a vegan..

Ralph


Stolen from El Escargo Squalide in Oz.

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Title: Re: Turkey?
Post by: Tom on November 27, 2015, 08:06:56 PM
I'm doing my part.  I'm an omnivore.   :shocked:
Title: Re: Turkey?
Post by: Sasquatch Jim on November 28, 2015, 01:13:35 AM
  So how do the omnis feel about that?
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Post by: MGPilot on November 28, 2015, 10:12:07 AM
Although I recognize the value, my annoyance is the two solid days of baking turkeys After Thanksgiving, as we cook 2-3 turkeys after they've gone on sale & freeze the meat for later.
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Post by: Tom on November 28, 2015, 11:27:55 AM
  So how do the omnis feel about that?

They do just fine and eat everything too although I'm not sure about some of the Filipino omnis.  They eat some bizarre stuff.
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Post by: Sasquatch Jim on November 28, 2015, 12:55:08 PM
 Filipenos also invented chicken adobe.  They put a live chicken in a bag and beat it with a stick until every bone is broken into pieces none bigger than a quarter inch.  This is then cooked into a muddy stew like substance and fed to the American Coast Guard on Sand Island.  I always ate at the club on those days.
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Post by: Tom on November 28, 2015, 01:13:44 PM
I hear that's the way to tenderize a dog.  Bats are used instead of sticks.  More flavor in the meat.
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Post by: roofus on November 28, 2015, 02:40:32 PM
Borders Iran, Iraq, Syria and the Black sea is to the north :grin:
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I was going to say, I wonder how Putin "smokes" his Turkey.
Title: Re: Turkey?
Post by: Sasquatch Jim on November 28, 2015, 03:43:31 PM
  And what does the chicken or dog feel about this?