[Sca-cooks] OOP - Turkey, again!

[Aurore]

Ok here is a combining of all the discussions for me.  My turkey is .57 a
pound (Central Texas, the cheapest I've seen) with totalling 18 1/2 lbs.
The other thing is I'm very nervous cooking poultry.  I know every year my
turkey has always cook perfectly, don't ask, don't know how I do it, just
do.  I want to try this brining thing, and the biggest thing I've got to
hold the turkey is my kitchen sink or the tub I use to wash my dishes in.  I
don't feel comfortable about leaving my turkey in the sink overnight.  And
as for the tub, I know wash the heck out of it and can use a garbage bag,
all I got is plain white ones.  Now for the cooking part, all my pans are
too small, bad idea going for the largest turkey, so going to have to go buy
a big one.  The other thing I do is a roasting bag, had no problems and
always juicy bird.  I may skip the bag this year and do the celery, carrots
and onions laying in the bottom of the pan, cover with foil, except last
half hour will be uncovered.  And I'll be trying the butter and herb mix
under the skin trick.  Anyone see any problems with this or can add a
suggestion?  Aurore


>
>
> Speaking of turkey shopping, I had the nicest thing happen to me
yesterday.
> One of the local supermarkets is running a special where if you buy $20 of
> groceries, they give you a 16-20lb turkey for $9. I had more than $20 of
> groceries to buy, so I was digging (literally) through the great big bin
of
> frozen turkeys, trying to find the biggest one. (It was a flat-rate deal,
> you see.) One of the workers came up to me and asked me if he could help
me
> find anything, and I told him that I was looking for a 20lb turkey. He
said
> that they'd all been bought, that people had been taking the big birds out
> of his hands as he'd been restocking. I shrugged my shoulders, said
> something about how I should've gotten there earlier, and grabbed the
> biggest bird I had found (a 17 pounder.) The guy looked at me, said "Hang
on
> a second..." and disappeared into the back. He came back with a
TWENTY-FIVE
> pound turkey (because of the brand, it still fell under the deal), and
> handed it to me. He said, "You're the only person all day who hasn't
yelled
> at me because they couldn't find a 20lb turkey." (Of course, I thanked him
> profusely, and went and complimented him to the manager.)
>
> A TWENTY-FIVE pound turkey. It's the biggest bird I've ever seen. It's
> bigger than my son.
>
> Now, I'm just hoping it thaws in time.  :)  We may have to defrost in the
> sink in some cold water.. no, scratch that, it'll have to be the bathtub.
> :)
>
> More on topic, though, the lowest I've seen here in Albuquerque was
running
> about 38cts/lb.  We'll see next week, though.
>
> -Gytha "Eating turkey for the forseeable future" Karlsdotter
>
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