Posted on 11/19/2010 5:13:31 AM PST by Red_Devil 232
Good morning gardeners. Thanksgiving is next week and I hope all Freepers enjoy a bountiful feast with family and friends. Don’t forget to give thanks, it can turn a meal into a feast.
A reminder for those of you who have a frozen turkey, for every 4 pounds of turkey it will take a day to thaw in the refrigerator. A 20-pound turkey will take 5 days so you need to start defrosting it tomorrow. If your turkey will not fit into your fridge defrost it in an ice chest with ice.
If the turkey is allowed to thaw at a temperature above 40 ºF, any harmful bacteria that may have been present before freezing can begin to grow again unless proper thawing methods are used.
You can also thaw it in a cold-water bath. Allow about 30 minutes per pound when thawing a turkey in cold water. A 20-pound turkey will take 10 hours using this method. Be sure to change the water often. Turkeys thawed by the cold-water method should be cooked immediately because conditions were not temperature controlled.
Ok Freepers this means no thawing of the turkey on the back porch or in the trunk of your car!
Hydrophones?
Yes. Used in seismic exploration for oil beneath the seas. A geophone would be used on land.
Hi Greeneyes. Until Christmas? Good for you!
We are expecting a mild Tues/Wed, and then back to seasonal temps. Mid 30’s in the day, and down to 20 at night. At least we haven’t had much snow yet, and it hasn’t lasted.
you’re brining already?....I’ve got a recipe that calls just for overnight....do you mind sharing?
The brine is a standard I cup salt and 1/2 cup sugar per gallon with some herb seasoning thrown in. It brines for almost a week, gets rinsed and good air drying before hitting the fryer on Thanksgiving.
Don’t remember what they are called. Actually, I think they call them “fish”. I’ll ask my husband when I get to work for a name — something more scientific than “fish” and more explanatory than J-7200. (That’s not the right name either — just an example of an ambiguous name.) It’s a sonar type device.
#127 should also be addressed to Red_Devil 232
8 to 24 Hours, No more than 24 hrs. this is enough time for Brining.
At the place I currently work, we regularly brine and corn for fairly long periods of time.
The term “Fish” sounds like a recovery tool sent down hole (Oil Drilling Hole) to recover something lost down a well. The item lost is called a “Fish” and the tool sent down hole is the “Fishing tool”
Not in this use. These are sensors attached to a huge net spread out behind the exploration ship and sounding the bottom of the ocean.
My husband is familiar with the other use of the word too. He spent 20 years in the oil machinery biz and holds several patents.
Something like that, although I think ours are used on more of a fan shaped array. Where did you work?
I started out of college (after the Marine corps) with Texas Instrument's Subsidiary - Geophysical Service Inc. (G.S.I.). Actually TI was a spin off of the parent Seismic company G.S.I. after G.S.I. decided they need to manufacture their own Electronic Instruments. TI grew faster than G.S.I. and took over. Then Halliburton Bought G.S.I. from TI and then Western Geophysical bought Halliburton's Gephysical operations. I kept my position through all these take overs. Then after a year and a half with Western they laid me off. And I worked with a much smaller company Grant Geophysical. All of our Head Quarters were in Houston.
Oh it’s going to be nommy if you follow Guy’s instructions.
No worries.
Happy Thanksgiving to you & yours. : )
This could be a urban legend
Pregnant Turkey
One year at Thanksgiving, my mom went to my
sister’s house for the traditional feast. Knowing
how gullible my sister is, my mom decided to
play a trick. She told my sister that she needed
something from the store.
When my sister left, my mom took the turkey out of
the oven, removed the stuffing, stuffed a Cornish hen,
and inserted it into the turkey, and re-stuffed the
turkey. She then placed the bird(s) back in the oven.
When it was time for dinner, my sister pulled the
turkey out of the oven and proceeded to remove the
stuffing. When her serving spoon hit something,
she reached in and pulled out the little bird.
With a look of total shock on her face, my mother
exclaimed, “Patricia, you’ve cooked a pregnant
bird!” At the reality of this horrifying news,
my sister started to cry.
It took the family two hours to convince her that
turkeys lay eggs!
Pregnant Turkey
One year at Thanksgiving, my mom went to my
sister’s house for the traditional feast. Knowing
how gullible my sister is, my mom decided to
play a trick. She told my sister that she needed
something from the store.
When my sister left, my mom took the turkey out of
the oven, removed the stuffing, stuffed a Cornish hen,
and inserted it into the turkey, and re-stuffed the
turkey. She then placed the bird(s) back in the oven.
When it was time for dinner, my sister pulled the
turkey out of the oven and proceeded to remove the
stuffing. When her serving spoon hit something,
she reached in and pulled out the little bird.
With a look of total shock on her face, my mother
exclaimed, “Patricia, you’ve cooked a pregnant
bird!” At the reality of this horrifying news,
my sister started to cry.
It took the family two hours to convince her that
turkeys lay eggs!
That is a cute story, although I seriously pity someone who takes 2 hours of convincing that a bird lays eggs. :)
Hey where was the duck in all this? You just can’t stuff a turkey with a hen and not include a duck!
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