Does anybody know how to cook a turkey?

self | 11-24-2005 | self

[Gordon Pym]

When I opened the turkey there was no instruction book

[RobFromGa]

I would recommend Chinese instead

[PeteB570]

It looked like she had some kind of metal pins.

[skinkinthegrass]

I saw that too! The next day I saw an article in the paper about how turduckin is getting to be the latest craze. It does look good.

I saw it, too...Food Top 5; Cajun "Gourmet/Something" Co. sold them on internet...It was on the Food Channel.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

My favorite way of cooking a turkey is the slow-roast method. Take a big turkey and stuff both the body cavity and underneath the skin as far around as you can go. Smear butter over the whole carcass and put it in a 450 degree oven for about 90 minutes. Then turn the heat down to 180 and cook it for about ten hours or so. The smell of roasting turkey will permeate the entire house, and when you go to carve it the meat will fall right off the bones.

[AZRepublican]

You mean you deep fry the turkey FROZEN???????????

[Casloy]

When I opened the turkey

Never having opened a turkey, I'm probably not a good source of information.

[PeteB570]

It does work like a charm.

Turkey injection prior to cooking works good also in the fryer. A guy I know injects different flavors for each side.

[solitas]

<chuckle>

[saveliberty]

LOL! Do you honestly think that Katie or Matt ever even contemplated making Thanksgiving turkey???

[Poser]

Throw some fresh herbs and a cut up orange or lemon inside the turkey (after taking out the giblets). Rub the skin with butter and put it in a pan with the breast up. Go to the Bed, Bath and Beyond and buy an external probe type thermometer (the one with the probe on a wire and the lcd temperature display outside the oven).

Put it in the oven at 350, covered with a tent of foil. Assume about 20 minutes per pound. When it reaches about 150 degrees (probe in thickest part of breast), take the foil tent off and baste it with butter.

Take it out at 175 degrees and let it sit under a tent of foil for about 20 to 30 minutes.

Slice and eat.

Ask me about gravy next year.

[headstamp]

Throw some stuffing in there and bake until the little button pops out, that's about it. (grin)

Happy Thanksgiving

[newzjunkey]

Rub it with oil!? With gas prices what they are?

;)

Butter works.

[Youngman442002]

Call PETA...they have GREAT recipies......

[RGSpincich]

[Condor51]

1. If frozen, defrost bird in refigerator the DAY BEFORE

   If you forgot step one STOP and order a pizza

2. Take bird out of frig, insert in OPEN baking pan
3. Stick hand up birds butt and remove PLASTIC BAG of 'giblets'
4. Throw 'giblets' in garbage
   
5. Take one small loaf of bread, mix with 1/2 pound of yeast, insert up birds butt - remove all wrappings
   
6. Sew up butt and where the neck used to be (that's at the front)
7. Preheat oven to 350⁰
   
8. Insert OPEN pan with bird in oven on bottom shelf
   
9. Cook for 15 minutes per pound.
   If you don't have a scale, compare the weight to your bowling ball, adjust accordingly
10. After 1/2 hour open oven and baste top of bird with pan drippings, water, 7-up, Vodka or Gin.
11. After one hour open oven door and leave room, or house, have your cell phone
12. At approx 1 1 1/4hours you'll hear a small explosion, that would be from the yeast 'expanding'.
13. If no serious damage is done, re enter house. Otherwise use that phone
14. Scrape 'stuffing' off walls and floors, put on platter.
15. Continue cooking what remains of the bird until a golden brown.
16. Remove from oven, let stand for 15 minutes before carving
    
17. However if exploding stuffing was done properly, carving will not be required.

Serve to guests

[pointsal]

Ask John Murtha

He is recently acquainted with the roasting process.

[Amelia]

He said they cooked the turkey upside down and then turned it right side up a few minutes before taking it out of the oven.

I did that once by accident (never cooked a turkey before, woke up at 5 a.m. to put it in the oven and I'm NOT a morning person!) and it tasted great - very moist breast meat.

Only thing is, since I did it by accident, I didn't turn it back over, and the poor thing didn't have that "nicely browned" look.

[mtbopfuyn]

I've been roasting turkeys for more years that I care to say, but I've never seen packet of "seasoning" tucked inside a turkey.

Me neither, but then I buy the cheap birds. Bet it's really the giblets.

I had to control some serious facial switching yesterday when a neighbor asked if I was cooking the dinner because she didn't have a clue. My little one didn't have so much self control so was nearly on the floor with laughter exclaiming she did the whole dinner when she was 10 years old (except for mom lifting the hot bird out of the oven) - turkey, dressing, all the sides, and both pecan and pumpkin pies from scratch.

[wizr]

Just put Teddy under glaring lights and take his booze away. He'll be sweating very quickly.

[WideGlide]

Fry it in one of these, it's easy as 1, 2, 3. But have the Fire Department standing by.