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Well? How do you like your turkey done? Fried? Or cooked in the oven?

I guess I'd have to go with the oven, but that's only because I've never had it fried..

Really want to try it though.

Fried Turkey?!

…don’t be a savage

How do you fry an entire turkey? :confused:

Fried Turkey?!

…don’t be a savage

http://usera.imagecave.com/Steve-O/Misc/deep-fried-turkey-safety.jpg

*nods*

How do you fry an entire turkey? :confused:

Well if you got Good Eats, you would see how it's done, but you don't, so wiki will have to do.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey_fryer

Fried turkey sounds absolutely vile... not to mention heart-clogging.

(Not American, but enjoys turkey.)

Turkey is terrible. I force* my mom to make ham at all holidays.


*I don't really have to force, as she dislikes turkey.

Turkey is terrible. I force* my mom to make ham at all holidays.


*I don't really have to force, as she dislikes turkey.

Roasted gammon with cloves and honey, very nice :) , If done properly turkey can be good but I find it a bit dry, chicken is better.

I have never realised people deep fat fried whole turkeys, I am amazed as in glasgow I thought they deep fried everyrhing.

Roasted gammon with cloves and honey, very nice :) , If done properly turkey can be good but I find it a bit dry, chicken is better.

I have never realised people deep fat fried whole turkeys, I am amazed as in glasgow I thought they deep fried everyrhing.

You were the ones inventing the fried Mars bar, right?

You were the ones inventing the fried Mars bar, right?

I cannot take any claim as I am not from glasgow, just here for a few years, but yes they did. They also have deepfried pizza though I have not tried it yet. They also do the same for haggis (traditionally boiled) which is good to have on a drinking night.

prefer having a good goose than a turkey tastes alot better

prefer having a good goose than a turkey tastes alot better

True. Goose > Turkey.

True. Goose > Turkey.

I believe that is due to the goose having more fat than the turkey so that it is not as dry and has more flavour. Never had goose though :( .

I'm not much of a fan of turkey either. I much prefer roast duck or chicken.

who the effing ell was the idiot who invented frying anyway?

sure hot grease smells great when it's cooking, but tasts like the crap that it is once it's cool enough to eat.

i feel about deepfrying the way many vegitarians feel about slaughtering cattle for meat and raising cattle for slaughter.

while at the same time being a carnivour who loves eating many varieties of once living flesh.

frying is blasphemy against the sacred sacrafice of living organisms to gastratory gratification.

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who the effing ell was the idiot who invented frying anyway?

sure hot grease smells great when it's cooking, but tasts like the crap that it is once it's cool enough to eat.

i feel about deepfrying the way many vegitarians feel about slaughtering cattle for meat and raising cattle for slaughter.

while at the same time being a carnivour who loves eating many varieties of once living flesh.

frying is blasphemy against the sacred sacrafice of living organisms to gastratory gratification.

=^^=
.../\...But southern fried chicken- it's one of the great pleasures in life. Mmm. And chicken fried steak with cream gravy.

That said, I'm with the group that prefers goose. While it's traditional to have a Christmas turkey around here, my step-mother always made goose. Much jucier.

That said, I'm with the group that prefers goose. While it's traditional to have a Christmas turkey around here, my step-mother always made goose. Much jucier.

Very German ;)

Very German ;)Goosestepping?
Anyway, Central Texas is full of Germans.

I hate turkey.

I hate turkey.

Pfft, you're no fun. Turkey is teh yum.

Goosestepping?
Anyway, Central Texas is full of Germans.

No, goose is the traditional German christmas dinner.

No, goose is the traditional German christmas dinner.

You mean Germans don't live on Wurst and beer?! :eek:

You mean Germans don't live on Wurst and beer?! :eek:

Goose liver pate is Wurst. And who said you can't have a beer with it?

No, goose is the traditional German christmas dinner.
I figured that. Central Texas was heavily settled by German immigrants. We have towns like New Braunfels, Fredricksburg and Brenham. It's where I'm from. My paternal grandmother was fully German, even though her family had been in the America's a couple of centuries. They just kept marrying other German families.
So I guess that's where we got the preference for goose. Or just good taste on our part.

I'd prefer turkey if it turned into chicken or ham LOL!

It sucks. It's way too dry, and almost tasteless unless tons of spices and broth are added--99.9% of the time it's kind of like what I imagine eating half-set plaster would be like. I only eat it once a year, and then only enough of it to be polite.

If anything could redeem it, it'd be deep frying. The gallons of cooking oil just *might* manage to permeate it enough to overcome the dryness. Unfortunately, my family would never do it that way. Too tradition-bound, and cleaning a fryer that big would have to be a horrid mess, too.

sure hot grease smells great when it's cooking, but tastes like the crap that it is once it's cool enough to eat.*Disagrees*

The type of oil (and its freshness) makes a big difference in the result, though. Corn oil tends to suck more than other types. Canola's pretty good. And it's all lousy if it's been reused all day long (like at some restaurants and snack-food makers). I'm sure old-fashioned grease (lard) would have the same effect of degrading with overuse.

The best deep-fried fish I've ever eaten was when I'd stop at a restaurant after a night job I had got out--I'd hit there just after 6:30AM, for my dinner. At that hour I had the absolute first batch of fish made for the day! (As this shows, they serve all kinds of meals during all hours of operation. But I'd bet they hated me taking them up on it with fish, which requires seperate grease/oil from everything else...)

Haven't had a fried one yet, but any food that might explode (http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/s_388284.html) I'd call fun. :D

Personally, I'll go with goose. Especially with my Nana's oyster, sausage, and cornbread stuffing. YUM!

Turducken's good too.

You mean Germans don't live on Wurst and beer?!

Bingo. Pumpernickel anybody? What about Hasenpfeffer, Stollen, Sauerbraten, Knödels, Riesling, and Silvaner?

Haven't had a fried one yet, but any food that might explode (http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/s_388284.html) I'd call fun. :D

Personally, I'll go with goose. Especially with my Nana's oyster, sausage, and cornbread stuffing. YUM!

Turducken's good too.



Bingo. Pumpernickel anybody? What about Hasenpfeffer, Stollen, Sauerbraten, Knödels, Riesling, and Silvaner?Feed me.

Turkey is bad. :gundge:

My christmas dinner is chicken breast, pigs in blankets, roast potatoes, carrot, sprouts, yorkshire puddings and gravy. :)

Bah! I HATE turkey. And being a Jesus-baby (take that, Christain fundies!) I have to have it for my birthday dinner.:mad:

I would have thought that it deep frying a turkey would be a health hazard as the centre would not be cooked through by time the outside was overdone.

Feed me.

I'd invite you to my thanksgiving* dinner party tomorrow, were it not for the distance and the fact that it got called off due to my lack of space and that none of my pals were willing to help host it. Even when given the option of my awesome gumbo (oven's being a rarity here, turkeys a real rarity, and a whole goose utterly unheard of). :(

*Just barely caught the humorous "tanksgiving" typo. Anybody want an Abrams?

http://axewielderx.wordpress.com/files/2006/11/turkeyday.gif

I thought it was Thanksgiving :confused:

fried turkey is pretty good, however, I prefer my Turkey smoked anything as long as it's not roasted (because then I have to cook it)

Well? How do you like your turkey done? Fried? Or cooked in the oven?

I guess I'd have to go with the oven, but that's only because I've never had it fried..

Really want to try it though.
Fried Turkey?
That is Hilly Billy stuff!
At least you weren't talking about the Jews...

First, we soak our twenty-two pound/ten kilo turkey in a balt of salt water for approximately 24 hours. (As counterintuitive as this seems, this helps preserve the moisture and makes the turkey a damned sight better than cooking it without this bath. Trust me.) After that, we slow roast it for about five to six hours, thus ensuring a perfectly cooked turkey.

Though apparently my parents have added sugar to the salt bath this year in a slight experiment to see if giving the salt something to work against will enhance its already amazing ability to preserve a turkey's moisture.