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Obligatory: make sure your deep fryer turkey is fully thawed before dunking it. If you’re pulling it out of the freezer at the time of this writing, you’re gonna start a fire. Happy turkey day!
I’m not from the USA and ice always wanted to ask, is deep frying the turkey really how it’s done or is it just a joke?
Most (99%) oven roast the turkey but the fattest of rednecks deep fry it to show reverence to their fat ancestors.
Amazing answer, exactly why I I thought it was better to ask than Google it.
As a fat redneck, you’re mostly correct. You just forgot to add the word drunk in there somewhere.
Imma fry one up in about half an hour. I’m also gonna start drinking in just a minute. My fat drunk uncle who lost several of his fingers in a fireworks incident is smiling down on me from redneck heaven.
I read an article about not defrosting if you’re cooking it in the oven. It said you just add 50% time at temp.
I’m not a bird guy though, so I’m really just here to hint at knowledge that exists for you to find, which really makes you think about how knowledge works in the first place and how your brain can trigger memory from either sensory input or thought or both, but then sometimes it’s not there also.
Anyway someone in the fam got covid so I’m doing steaks instead.
Good rambling, would read again, 8/10
Authentic frontier jibberish
How can you rub butter and spices under the skin if the turkey is frozen solid?
How are you doing it under the skin?
Get your fingies in there. Really cram it
You seperate it around the neck
Sounds like a question for a bird person, I’m intrigued by the under the skin thing though.
Could you consider that thoughts are just a form of sensory input?
Boy howdy, I have adhd and I am certain that is correct.
If you leave it in a full bathtub now, you should be ready to fry tomorrow (~9 hours to thaw 10-14lbs turkey in a tub). Too late for a good bake though.
Spatchcock that turkey and it’ll bake no problem
I’ve started with a frozen bird in the morning, and had a nicely baked turkey at a reasonable time this way. Put it in a bath until it’s not entirely a brick, replacing some of the water frequently. Balance it in the sink so you can run the faucet down the neck. Run water until spine is thawed enough to spatchcock. Doesn’t matter if most the meat is still frozen, it’ll cook fine.
*Went to brine my turkey the day before and found a weird “growth”. It was really unappetizing and concerning, so I overreacted and threw out the bird. Could only find frozens, so the new bird only had overnight in the fridge. After buying a new turkey I thought to get on the Butterball turkey help line. They were fantastic and assured me the growth was actually a processing burn and totally safe.
There is a butterball helpline? Wtf
Yep, it’s great! You can call or text with all your turkey questions. I texted and so the lady helping me even asked for pictures of the “growth”! She sent the issue up the line until it was identified. This was just last year, and I’m still mad about throwing out a perfectly good turkey before trying the helpline.
Sure, lemme just fetch the turkey chainsaw
Men’s been in the brine for about 24 hours. Just added another bag of ice and flipped the bird.
Nothing like a few long pigs to celebrate.
This is why I do a ham. Much easier.
It’s too late to defrost a frozen ham, too.
Depends on the size of the ham. One chunk of ham just for two people? Its possible.
But I just didn’t freeze mine, its got a sell-by date of Dec. 3rd, so kept it in the fridge.
OK? One chunk of turkey just for two people can defrost in a day, too.
It’s only too late if you expect to have company.
It’s never too late if you’re planning on eating that whole big boy yourself.
Just in case anyone needs to hear this, 12 hours ago was also too late.
I’m at a US military base in the Eastern hemisphere so it’s absolutely too late for us here.
