How Much Energy Do Americans Use On Thanksgiving?

Oilprice.com ^ | November 26, 2019 | Julianne Geiger

[be-baw]

“Google says 15 lbs for avg T G Turkey”

That sounds right. Most the turkeys I see in the store are in the 12-23 lb range. More on the low end than high.

I bought a 12 lb turkey for just me this year. I’ll have a lot of leftovers. Freezer food. Should last me for the rest of the year. Just have to figure out what to make for Christmas. Probably seafood.

[Paladin2]

There is no shortage of Turkeys in Congress who each weigh a lot more...

[NormsRevenge]

Talk about cutting costs for cooking the bird, Elon Musk has turknology in the lab almost perfected for cooking a 10 pound bird in a jiffy with an attachment to his handy dandy flamethrower.

[Clay Moore]

This is how you cook the turkey with a jet powered truck:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuofC5mEjv8

[SamAdams76]

despite the fact that turkeys take nearly all night in the oven to cook.

It never took me more than four or five hours to cook a turkey, And I'm talking 18 pounders. What are they talking about with taking all night?

[grey_whiskers]

[TADSLOS]

LMAO!

[Sicon]

Ugh! What ever happened to that miserable scold? Is she still making her way across the Atlantic in a canoe, or whatever? I guess (ok, I hope) her 15 minutes are up.

[jospehm20]

That was my reaction too.

[BlueLancer]

This Thanksgiving, Americans will suck up 350 gigawatts of electricity--equivalent to the entire world’s nuclear power capacity in 2012--making turkeys.

That would run almost 290 time-traveling DeLoreans ...

[Viking2002]

When I got our turkey at Kroger last week, they had fresh Butterball birds in one case for $1.69 a pound. There were two birds left the size of pterodactyls. I looked at the tag on it, not checking the size, but it was $53 and change! Now, 53 ÷ 1.69 = 31.36 pounds of farm-raised gobbler. I opted for a 13 pound Honeysuckle White and a two pound, spiral-cut brown sugar ham instead. I'm not running a soup line at the local mission here.

But given the number of locusts about to swarm us later today, you'd think I was.

[be-baw]

That’s a huge bird. I went to Kroger looking for a store brand bird for 37 cents/lb. They didn’t have any (local store has a big problem with no advertised sale problems available), so I went to Meijer. Spent 33 cents/lb. 12 lb for $4.

That was Sunday night. Have had it in the fridge since, but it still feels rock hard. Good thing I have a backup plan.

I would love to have found a two pound ham. All I saw were whole or half hams. Prices were good, but no way could I use that much. Ham doesn’t freeze well, not even in recipes.

[politicianslie]

This Thanksgiving, Americans will suck up 350 gigawatts of electricity--equivalent to the entire world’s nuclear power capacity in 2012--making turkeys.

That would run almost 290 time-traveling DeLoreans ...

gigawatts is a measure of rate (1 watt = 1 joule/second). Is that 350 gigawatt-hours or gigawatt-days?

And the DeLorean used jigawatts. But since those jigatts were only for a few seconds to reach 88 mph, the amount of energy used would be jigawatt-seconds, not jigawatt-hours.

YOUTUBE 88 MPH BACK TO THE FUTURE

Obviously to get the amount of energy used, it has to be = #watts x time

Don't they teach journalists physics anymore? (It's a joke, I've never met a journalist who understood any physics beyond global warming is caused by manmade CO2).

[politicianslie]

This Thanksgiving, Americans will suck up 350 gigawatts of electricity--equivalent to the entire world’s nuclear power capacity in 2012--making turkeys.

That would run almost 290 time-traveling DeLoreans ...

gigawatts is a measure of rate (1 watt = 1 joule/second). Is that 350 gigawatt-hours or gigawatt-days?

And the DeLorean used jigawatts. But since those jigatts were only for a few seconds to reach 88 mph, the amount of energy used would be jigawatt-seconds, not jigawatt-hours.

YOUTUBE 88 MPH BACK TO THE FUTURE

Obviously to get the amount of energy used, it has to be = #watts x time

Don't they teach journalists physics anymore? (It's a joke, I've never met a journalist who understood any physics beyond global warming is caused by manmade CO2).

[Svartalfiar]

But you might be surprised to know that Americans consume far less energy on Thanksgiving than on just any old Thursday—despite the fact that turkeys take nearly all night in the oven to cook.

If we're cooking at home and not out at family, we use almost no electricity to cook ours. Smoking it a couple hours requires charcoal and wood. Finishing cooking it for hours in the oven uses gas. Just a tiny bit of electricity for the timer/control and the gas's ignition.