Car Thread

[robert.]

Wild turkey breakfast of champions . Fresh wild turkey is 100x better then one of those frozen things. Even a good kosher turkey beats a butterball. If you want a good turkey start with a smaller bird. Something you don't need to cook for 8 hours. Turkeys are hard to hunt. Their eyesight is outstanding.Damn birds can see you blink. One blink and they'll fly away. It is also one of the most deadly hunting seasons in Pa. Guys sit with their back to a tree and a turkey call in their mouth. They cackle away. trying to call in a tom turkey. Only to call in some schmuck trying to hunt a turkey. Cackle cackle cackle and blammo hunter get shot.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Wild turkey breakfast of champions . Fresh wild turkey is 100x better then one of those frozen things. Even a good kosher turkey beats a butterball. If you want a good turkey start with a smaller bird. Something you don't need to cook for 8 hours.

All true, but again, far too many have no idea how to cook one of there regardless of size or source.

Turkeys are hard to hunt. Their eyesight is outstanding.Damn birds can see you blink. One blink and they'll fly away. It is also one of the most deadly hunting seasons in Pa. Guys sit with their back to a tree and a turkey call in their mouth. They cackle away. trying to call in a tom turkey. Only to call in some schmuck trying to hunt a turkey. Cackle cackle cackle and blammo hunter get shot.

Makes it a bit of challenge............

[MurphOnMillerAve]

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I never could get past having to shove my hand up that giggi to remove all the packaged innards, and then wash it out, and then stuff it with junk. Yuk. Gross. Yuk. Plus, the skin back there looks and feels so much like...….oh nevah mind……….

You've apparently let a sheltered life where all meat has been prepared for you w/o any personal involvement, never cooked for yourself(??!!), and jut want to believe that meat magically arrives wrapped in plastic on Styrofoam in grocery stores.....!

Yep. Great insight. That about covers it, except for the decades , as a bachelor , when I would prepare T-bones for friends who popped-in for impromptu visits, usually around dinner time , or Chicken Paprikash, chicken stew, stuffed-pork chops , or Pasta Fagioli.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

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I never could get past having to shove my hand up that giggi to remove all the packaged innards, and then wash it out, and then stuff it with junk. Yuk. Gross. Yuk. Plus, the skin back there looks and feels so much like...….oh nevah mind……….

You've apparently let a sheltered life where all meat has been prepared for you w/o any personal involvement, never cooked for yourself(??!!), and jut want to believe that meat magically arrives wrapped in plastic on Styrofoam in grocery stores.....!

Yep. Great insight. That about covers it, except for the decades , as a bachelor , when I would prepare T-bones for friends who popped-in for impromptu visits, usually around dinner time , or Chicken Paprikash, chicken stew, stuffed-pork chops , or Pasta Fagioli.

Then get back into the kitchen and have some fun with it all!

[robert.]

i wonder how many people forget to pull out that plastic bag of organs. Only to find melted plastic and giblets on the diner table

[Rufus T. Firefly]

i wonder how many people forget to pull out that plastic bag of organs. Only to find melted plastic and giblets on the diner table

I'm sure that it happens a lot; heart, gizzard, liver, and the neck usually. My grandmother and mother would use those for making gravy....

[chuck]

Depending on the size of the bird and who did the processing there may have been TWO bags. Main cavity with the bag of organs while the neck is wrapped up and stuffed in the upper chest cavity not far from where it used to be attached. That upper one is sometimes missed.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Depending on the size of the bird and who did the processing there may have been TWO bags. Main cavity with the bag of organs while the neck is wrapped up and stuffed in the upper chest cavity not far from where it used to be attached. That upper one is sometimes missed.

Possible. Not experienced that but then we don't get a turkey all that often (will probably pass on that entirely this year....) - they used to just be wrapped in butcher's paper, too.

[robert.]

Anybody remember when they said " cook turkey in an oiled grocery bag"? Yup a brown paper bag. How many kitchen fires did that start. My father would spend an hour eating a turkey neck. How about the wish bone?

[chuck]

I would boil down the neck to make gravy. I also switched to Reynolds oven bags about 20 years ago. When we invited extended family over I'd poll the participants about a week before and then buy parts, aka wings, drumsticks, thighs and either a split breast or a whole breast of the appropriate size. Even if you could find a three winged, one thigh and four drumstick bird I'm not sure I'd want to be eating something that mutated. It also cooked way faster. Odd thing I discovered is that blueberry juice/wine added to the bag made a very nice base for gravy (especially helpful when you don't have a neck to render down).

Anyone that is going to deep fry a turkey should be forced to watch a couple of YouTube videos that showcase all the things that can go wrong, like forgetting to thaw the turkey! Or why you don't do this in the garage, under the car port or on the deck/patio unless you have 10 feet of clearance and good fire extinguisher! Those frozen birds go off like a tactical nuke

[John Webster]

I remember my mother cooking the turkey in an oiled grocery bag back in the 50s.

My dentist used to cook large turkeys in those flimsy aluminum pans. The pan would deform, liquid would flow out and fire would ensue. One year she got a call from the local fire department asking when they should show up.

[sleepmac]

One year she got a call from the local fire department asking when they should show up.

ROFL

Dan Weinhold

[healey36]

[v8vega]

Being's as your not talking about cars yesterday I thought I had been banned. I got a notice "your account has been suspended with a exclamation point" I was trying to thin back of a acoustic post I might have made and couldn't think of any. I'm glad to see it's going now.
Now I notice there are no Saturday posts.

[Roy]

Being's as your not talking about cars yesterday I thought I had been banned. I got a notice "your account has been suspended with a exclamation point" I was trying to thin back of a acoustic post I might have made and couldn't think of any. I'm glad to see it's going now.
Now I notice there are no Saturday posts.

Thanks, for mentioning this. I got the same message, beginning late Friday, and continuing until early this morning (Sunday).