Interesting way to prepare the bird tonight

[scottjf8]

I went to a coworkers house tonight for T-day dinner, and they grilled their turkey as a way of cooking it. It was a bit salty, but had a really cool smokey BBQ kind of taste to it. It was really damn good....

I've also had a friend do the deep-fry thing, and that works really great as well, since it doesn't get greasy, but the skin keeps the juices inside the bird and it's really moist....

How have you had your bird prepared, besides in the oven?

[JustAllie]

I'm an old-fashioned girl. I still like oven-roasted turkey best.

But one advantage of grilled or deep-fried turkey is that generally the guys do the cooking when it's prepared like that. :D

[bsnelson]

After doing it for the last three years, I really like Alton Brown's method from Good Eats: in short, brine thawed turkey for 6 hours, put aromatics in cavity, coat with vegetable oil, bake low in oven at 500 degrees for 30 mins, bake middle of oven at 350 until center of breast is 161 degrees.

Very juicy, very tasty, awesome mahogany brown exterior etc. Having said that, I'm still intrigued about deep frying and I may try that some time.

Brad

[mercurial]

But one advantage of grilled or deep-fried turkey is that generally the guys do the cooking when it's prepared like that. :D

Wait, I always do all the Thanksgiving cooking... ? :huh:

After doing it for the last three years, I really like Alton Brown's method from Good Eats: in short, brine thawed turkey for 6 hours, put aromatics in cavity, coat with vegetable oil, bake low in oven at 500 degrees for 30 mins, bake middle of oven at 350 until center of breast is 161 degrees.

Very juicy, very tasty, awesome mahogany brown exterior etc. Having said that, I'm still intrigued about deep frying and I may try that some time.

That's the way I do it. Brined turkey rules. I tried a deep-fried one a couple of years ago but it was cold as heck outside and windy and we couldn't get the oil up hot enough without putting the cooker somewhere that wasn't "safe". We were going to try again this year but with all the post-move stuff going on, it got vetoed. Maybe we'll do one like that on a non-holiday... Or maybe for NYE... Hmm....

[JustAllie]

Wait, I always do all the Thanksgiving cooking... ? :huh:
Your family is way ahead of the times. Or you're just a damned good cook. Or both. :)

Normally, the only time the men in my family cook the big holiday meals is when the food is deep-fried or grilled.

[doom1701]

We had the good old boil in bag turkey again this year. :rolleyes:

Last year, I did the turkey the Alton Brown way; came out pretty good--but smoked up the house quite a bit. Those of you that have done it--any problems with that?

I want to try deep frying, but my wife hates the idea. She's afraid it'll be like regular "fried" food; I think she's expecting me to bread it and then have it come out nice and greasy.

[mercurial]

Last year, I did the turkey the Alton Brown way; came out pretty good--but smoked up the house quite a bit. Those of you that have done it--any problems with that?

Previous years? No. This year? During the 500 degree for 30 minutes start, it smoked up the kitchen enough that it set of a monitored smoke detector and we got a call from ADT. :embarrassed: :huh:

I think a convection oven helped a bit with that.

[Otto]

Stuff a chicken inside of a duck, then stuff the duck inside the turkey. Cover with bacon, if you're crazy.

Turducken (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turducken)

Damn tasty.

[scottjf8]

Why are you cooking a bird tonight?

Why are you bumping threads from 6 months ago?

[mercurial]

Cause they're about 6 months old, Scott.