For some odd reason I was not all that hungry.
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For some odd reason I was not all that hungry.
Shaggy must have passed his bug onto me via the Post Race.
Could be. I don't feel like I ate all that much, but I was unpleasantly stuffed by the end of it. There is something about turkey that it fills me up super fast. That's not a bad thing, though.
I was hoping that my dad would deep fry the turkey again this year, but instead he bought a "fully cooked" turkey and just threw it in the oven roaster.
Seriously?! You guys deep fry turkey?!
Only in 'Murica.
Although I have never deep fried a turkey it has both pro's and con's that should be considered.
http://www.idealhomegarden.com/recip...vs-oven-baked/
I would not call it an America-thing - I've only heard of one person ever doing it (I am near NYC myself).
More of a southern thing, even then I only heard of a few people doing outside of Louisiana.Quote:
Originally Posted by FunkyDexter
Another thing we didn't have this year which we usually do is a turducken.
It is NOT solely southern. It's just that the only decent cooking systems are made in the south.
Deep fried turkey sounds kind of nasty, as it sounds like it's really fatty, but that's not the case. The oil doesn't get into the meat, and the heat seals in the moisture. You end up with some of the best turkey you can get, and the cooking time is trivial, so it's a great way to cook for a crowd. My brother-in-law can now cook three turkeys at once (all in the 15 lb range, due to the limitations imposed by the pot size), and they come out looking pretty ugly, but tasting great.
Deep fried turkey is my favorite to eat, and favorite to cook due to the speed of cooking. The major drawback is the horrible cleanup process that follows. If you recycle the oil, as my brother-in-law does, you have to vacuum filter the oil, cause it has lots of particulates in it, then you end up with oil on everything, so there's a fair amount of scrubbing to do on the parts you want to clean, like the pot an utensils.
Yeah, the clean up's really the only bad thing about deep frying a turkey(other than the fact that it's deep fried).
That link suggested that the cleanup was less for deep fried turkeys. That surprises me. On the other hand, they didn't suggest recycling the oil, which would make cleanup slightly better. If you cook over dirt, and have a few dogs around, they'll clean up any spilled oil and keep right on cleaning until they hit either groundwater or bedrock, whichever comes first.
A few years back, some friends of mine deep-fried a couple wild turkeys, and they couldn't get the dogs to leave that area alone afterwards. It was like crack for dogs.
Another great thing with deep fried turkey is the cracklin it produces. I MUCH prefer turkey cracklin over pork cracklin.
Well I've learned something new. I think I'll probably stick to roasting though.
I would say that you'd stick to deep-fried before you'd stick to roasting. After all, roasted turkeys can be a bit dry, so it's harder to stick to them.
Had a not so tasty turkey TV dinner on Thanksgiving day.
I forgot all the restaurants were closed.
Had a nice dinner at my Daughter's on Sunday though.
Winter ale and grog flowed like wine.
What else should if flow like? You'd be a bit disappointed if it flowed like honey, wouldn't you?
I'm wanting to go back to school.
I've been accepted in my local university as of today.
Now I just have to apply for academic bankruptcy.
Whenever I last attempted school I took 37 hours and only completed 2.