John Spencer
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- Mar 2, 2000
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Maybe some of you fryers will have time between opening gifts in the morning and frying your own turkey for dinner to fry one up for a local organization.
that's a good idea, once the oil is hot it doesn't cost any more to fry 2 or 3 birds than one, besides the cost of the turkey.
how much are turkeys in other parts of the world? jenni-o were on sale here for 59 cents a pound.
I've also heard of a method where you toss the bird in the oven at 400 or 500 degrees for an hour then turn the oven off and let it sit overnight.Whoa, I don't know about that. Turkey has to reach an optimum internal temperature in order to kill all the little beasties, especially salmonella. I don't know if I'd trust an oven cooling from even 500 deg. to reach that temp in the bird and I would not risk the next few days on the hopper (or in the hospital) to try it out. My mom is 73 and she had a case of food poisoning last year that kept her in the hospital for three days. If she had not gotten off the floor to the phone, she would have not made it at all. I'm the first one to not worry all that much about cooking rare beef, med-rare pork (trichinosis has vitually disappeared in the U.S. - med-rare pork tenderloin, mmmmm), rare duck etc., but turkey and chicken must be done to 160 deg., period.
BTW, the bag method is great for juicy turkey, but the skin is nowhere near as crisp.
Would one of those Home Depot 5 gallan buckets with a lid be okay for brining?Alton Brown from "Good Eats" is the turkey brining king and he used to use a clean 5 gallon bucket. He now uses a bucket type multi-gallon cooler like the kind football teams use to chill/serve Gatorade. Keeps the brine and turkey cold and has a spigot to drain.
Whoa, I don't know about that. Turkey has to reach an optimum internal temperature in order to kill all the little beasties, especially salmonella.I don't see it as a problem. I believe it's baked the ofllowing day until it reaches the "done" temp.