I’ve been brining the turkey for seven weeks. Think it’s done yet?
Found By: Patricia
Actually I’m going to be doing my turkey in a Crock Pot this year, because I am insane.
Loveliest comment, just because it made my Thanksgiving dinner better, even though it’s a bit gross out of context, and even in context really, by Denita TwoDragons: You could probably finish it in the oven for the last half-hour so the skin gets crisped up.
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Jeez, are we sure its not the previous owner? By the looks of the other pictures there was quite a struggle.
“Insane Crock Pot Turkey”…a new Thanksgiving tradition is born.
Reminds me of that Japanese woman who actually broiled herself by putting too many logs in the boiler of her traditional Japanese bath-tub.
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image from my iPhone. I am grateful for iPhone. Yes, very, very grateful…
You are a lucky person.
Oh, damn, I was eating when I saw this!
Haven’t you learned not to eat and read THIS blog yet?
It looks to me like a large mollusk is crawling out – probably to dissolve something and absorb it.
Ewwwwww….
Ok, how do you fit a turkey in a crock pot??
I was wondering the same thing…
I was wondering about the math. Since it takes six hours to cook chicken legs in a crock that take 1 hour in the oven . . . .
Wouldn’t you have to start cooking a crock-pot turkey on Halloween?
Use a small 10-12 pound turkey instead of a genetically-engineered giant Turkeysaurus
i’m try the crockpot for the first time!!! got a 5.5 lb breast (jealous) and read to cook it breast side down, 1 hr high, 5 hrs low. just about 1 hr per pound… my mom is freaked out, but i think it’ll be fabulous!
I’m trying high for 3 1/2 hours, as per Not Your Mother’s Slow Cooker Cookbook. If it works, it’ll be great — the oven will be free for Brussels sprouts, stuffing, and pie (which is all really want anyway).
I’m doing a turkey breast in my crock pot too! I’ve done it with chickens for a while now. It really concentrates the meat’s flavor, especially if you strictly limit the amount of juice-producing vegetables in the pot. Just wash, pat dry, and season the bird, then throw it in the crock pot so it stews in its own juices. It’s a variation on an oven-baked recipe called something imaginative like “chicken in a pot”…which probably sounds exotic and expensive in French, where it comes from.
The only bummer is, you don’t end up with yummy crispy skin. But the flavor and juiciness of the meat more than makes up for that!
So… pardon my ignorance… do you put any liquid in the crock pot with the turkey/ turkey piece, or just let the juices already in it do the stewing? I’ve never tried cooking anything in a crock pot without adding a lot of water/ broth/ whatever.
The crispy skin is my very favorite part, so I probably would not be in a hurry to switch to this method, good as it sounds.
No liquid except what’s generated by the bird. That way the flavor becomes concentrated. You could probably finish it in the oven for the last half-hour so the skin gets crisped up.
And I agree, it’s my favorite part, too! Especially that super-crispy patch across the top where all the basting juices were poured over it. Oh great, I’ve been saving my stomach for the feast and now it’s growling like an angry Rottweiler…
Oh, I like that oven idea. I look forward to telling my husband, “According to my blog, we should put it in the oven at the end…”
So Sara, did you try it and did it work? I’m gathering from your “loveliest listing” comment that you did….
I did and it did! The turkey was fine. I’m not a big fan of turkey and don’t think it ever gets beyond “fine,” no matter how it’s cooked, so I was satisfied.
This is what I don’t understand about Thanksgiving and Christmas, there really don’t seem to be many people who actually *like* turkey, but people eat it just because it is tradition. My ex-inlaw’s friend (who always came round for thanksgiving) would make raspberry jelly/jello with chopped wallnuts, celery and cranberries in and we were expected to eat that horror purely because it was tradition. VILE! Fortunately, as a veggie I’m spared the turkey and the boiled cow’s feet jelly monstrosity
Really? I love turkey -as long as its the dark meat. I frequently buy and cook turkey legs, wings, or thighs for dinner.
Jello salad is disgusting though, I don’t mind normal flavoured jello with nothing added.
I was a vegetarian for years and years, and Jell-O was one of the few meat byproducts I missed. That and marshmallows. Oh, I’m fancy…
I’d probably make a decent vegetarian, but I don’t think I could go vegan. I salute anyone who has! It’s just that, hard as I try to force my taste buds to do so, I can’t convince them that wheat gluten and tofu are adequate substitutes for meat.
Glad the turkey worked out! You can do this with chickens, too, and they turn out finger-lickin’ good. It also helps cut down on the “Oh heavens, it’s freakin’ HOT in this kitchen!” factor, which is a big plus here in the Scorching South.
Mmm, thanks. I might have to try that sometime.
Cooking is my second favorite hobby! (Eating is my first…*grin*)
I love the Turkeysaurus. My husband bought a 25 lb turkey – just for the 2 of us!
(I can’t comment about the photo because it’s too gross.)
Wild turkeys naturally can grow as large as 25lbs (males), domesticated turkeys are bred for larger breasts and faster growth mainly. Which I don’t understand as white meat is gross -not to mention way less nutritious.
Everyone has their own tastes, m’dear. I can’t stand greasy, slippery, tendon-loaded chewy dark meat except in soup. It’s all in how it’s prepared!
Sit on a leaf and wait for fall. No, wait…
What a polite little house! It tips its cap to ye!
Or maybe it is just sinking slowly into the ground, one corner at a time…
I wouldn’t want that house. The thing in the tub looks like it has squatters’ rights.
I can’t believe you can buy an entire neighborhood for less than the price of a moderately-priced new car. :looks again at pictures: Wait, yes, yes I can.
I was thinking that must be a misprint, I mean really? $5k for a house? Really?
Some zombies like to be clean…
Whatever that is in the tub, IT’S CLIMBING OUT!
RUN! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!
Just put a lime in the picture. Or a stuffed cat. That’ll make it all better.
No, it needs a stuffed lime!
Or one of those leaning-against-the-wall dolls.
I think that is what is in the bath
My first thought was “druggies”, but it could also be just abandoned due to foreclosure.
Half the houses in that area are $40-80,000 and the other half are $4-9,000 -very weird.
I guess if you buy the livable houses you hope the needs-to-be-condemned houses are going to get fixed up and the neighbourhood will be restored to its former glory?
Cuz, I think I’d be the one selling now before things get worse!
When I was looking at the house that I am living in now, the original owners had left a turkey in their downstairs upright freezer. This would have been all well and good if they hadn’t unplugged the freezer and left the door open. The whole basement smelled like sour meat. Thankfully, once the freezer and it’s companion carcass removed. the smell went away on its own. Who leaves a decomposing turkey in a house you are trying to sell??
Well, it all depends on who you’re trying to sell it to.
I’m now a convert.