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How did you used to cook your turkey?

PhilsGrill
PhilsGrill Posts: 2,256
edited November -0001 in EggHead Forum
Before you got your egg, how did you all used to cook your turkey?

My mom did it in a paper bag or a she always used a new white tee shirt to cover the bird and baste it.

For all the years I did it, I found those turkey bags works perfect. The turkey would just about boil in its juices on the bottom and the skin got perfectly brown. Of course I always had a stuffed turkey then too.
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  • Mainegg
    Mainegg Posts: 7,787
    Nothing exciting here, In the old roaster in the oven. I am so happy I am on the egg now :)
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  • fishlessman
    fishlessman Posts: 34,584
    325 stuffed with a bells seasoning sausage stuffing is has always been the family bird. dont think they sell bells outside newengland. back when doing them in volume found the meat pealed off the bones easier for carving 20 or so birds if cooked upsidedown.
    fukahwee maine

    you can lead a fish to water but you can not make him drink it
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  • Celtic Wolf
    Celtic Wolf Posts: 9,773
    Same way I do now, except in an oven.. Ohh and I use the ice bag trick now..

    In 40 years I only ruined one. I tried to smoke one on a chargriller.. Evil device..
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  • Celtic Wolf
    Celtic Wolf Posts: 9,773
    Thy sell it in NY.. Great stuff. I have my supply down here.. :) though I am running low..
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  • mad max beyond eggdome
    mad max beyond eggdome Posts: 8,134
    basically the same way i do it now....just in the oven....hit on the ice bag trick about 12 years prior to getting the egg. ...before that i did try the 'fad de jour'....paper bags, breast side down, baste through the terry cloth towel, etc. . .all worked with varying degrees of success. ...i was taught at an early age though to baste baste baste!!!. ..that has always stuck with me for whatever reason. ...guess i just reall like how all the juices/butter/wine mingle together that way. ...
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  • Celtic Wolf
    Celtic Wolf Posts: 9,773
    Did you see the Turkey Throwdown with Bobby Flay? I wanted to tell Flay so she answered Butterball's hot line for years - Max has a cult following...
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  • Davekatz
    Davekatz Posts: 763
    I've grilled a turkey just about every year for the past 15 years. Pre-BGE, I did it in a Weber kettle. The Egg is sooooo much easier.
    Food & Fire - The carnivorous ramblings of a gluten-free grill geek.
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  • vidalia1
    vidalia1 Posts: 7,092
    When we lived in Reno my Mom cooked a turkey in a paper bag...
    coat the inside of the bag thoroughly with Crisco

    put the turkey in the bag and seal up the bag as tightly as possible

    put the turkey in a roasting pan in the oven

    if it was a 12 # or larger turkey you cooked it for the first hour in the oven at 500 degrees, 2nd hour at 400 degrees and 3rd hour at 300 degrees...it was delicious..
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  • Celtic Wolf
    Celtic Wolf Posts: 9,773
    You really need to stop using the flat view

    :woohoo:
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  • mad max beyond eggdome
    mad max beyond eggdome Posts: 8,134
    yeah, i did see that....what was that apricot jam thing???

    and when they showed her slicing the breast, did you see how it crumbled...geez, just a little dry!!!
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  • mad max beyond eggdome
    mad max beyond eggdome Posts: 8,134
    i learned how to do it (as i recall) using your basic grocery store paper bag ....rub butter all over the bird, aromatics in the bird (kinda like i do now) ...bird in the bag, wrap the opening tight, and roast it at regular temps (325) ....worked pretty well as i recall...you could open the bag up the last hour or so to allow for browning....
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  • Morro Bay Rich
    Morro Bay Rich Posts: 2,227
    In a Weber for 30+ years. :whistle:
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  • RVH
    RVH Posts: 523
    I never cooked a turkey before trying it on the BGE. But I did read the forum for awhile. I contacted M. Max and we exchanged a few emails. He was kind enough to answer all my questions. I did one trial run two weeks before The Day for some LE types who are anything but bashful and they raved about it. Cooked for my wifes whole family on the holiday, and this is now the only way they want to have a turkey prepared. Of course, I do require a heck of a lot of help from my wife getting everything ready to cook.
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  • SoCalWJS
    SoCalWJS Posts: 407
    Another Weber Turkey here (whenever it was my turn)
    South SLO County
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  • EGGARY
    EGGARY Posts: 1,222
    Last few turkeys were fried in the turkey fryer.

    Since we are going to Brother-in-law's house for Turkey Day. Will have to look forward to making a turkey from now to the New Year.

    I was looking forward to making a turkey.
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