Posted on 11/24/2011 7:42:00 PM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets
No, it’s a pain in the neck. We have a perfectly good oven tolerant meat thermometer, it’s just a little bit hard to read.
My Mom often roasted turkey in brown paper bags. They always appeared wet to me. I’ll call my sister tomorrow and ask her what Mom’s trick was.
I recall that the Butterball Hotline gets lots of goofy calls. Here’s some to ease your woes:
“What’s That Smell?”
A young mother once shared her tale of turkey woe. Apparently, her kids had been playing in the kitchen while she was stuffing the turkey. Many hours later, the mother discovered that the kids had chosen the turkey for their new parking space. It isn’t clear whether she discovered the toy cars immediately after removing the turkey from the oven, or if they were revealed during carving. Regardless, those turned out to be some hot, melted, and probably traumatized little vehicles. She should have entered a contest for the most creative stuffing recipe.
Another caller asked if he could use his chainsaw to cut the turkey - and was concerned a bit about the chain oil and if he could use vegetable oil.
One gal washed her bird with a metal brillo pad inside and out and wondered how to get rid of the metal pieces.
One gal used bleach to wash her bird and was wondering why it didn’t seem to rinse out.
One guy had his bird in since 8 am the previous morning and wondered if they thought it was done.
One guy didn’t have that sort of time, so to speed things up he put it on the highest temperature - Cleaning Mode!
I seem to recall a family story where one of the boys didn’t take the plastic bag of giblets out of the inside!
Why is that thing staring at me? Cute nose.
Hey Laz - is it one of those little red pop-up ones!?
And remember,
Sexy is when you use a feather.
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Kinky is when you use the whole &%$# turkey.
What kind of thermometer says your oven was at 350 dgerees when it clearly was closer to 2,000 degrees?
All I know is the way my aunt did it is not to be recommended...
That thing looks like it took the temperature and then didn’t know what to do with it.
Dumbest thing I ever did was follow a Chilton manual for setting the butterfly valve opening for a Ford Maverick carburetor. The picture showed a 1/8 inch drill bit being placed in the valve to set the .125” opening.
I didn’t realize the picture was of a carb ON A BENCH. Duh!
I promptly dropped the drill bit right into the carburetor throat.
Had to ask my Dad to help get it out—was that ever embarassing.
It was my girl’s ( now my wife of 35 years) ‘73 Ford Maverick.
We all do dumb stuff.
Thanks for sharing so we could laugh with you, and well, at you too!!!!
Newly married, my wife and I gathered a whole bunch of apples from a friends farm. Apple pie! We got started and looked at the apples - hmmmm - do we peel them or not? After numerous cookbooks with no help, we thought and thought some more. None of the recipes said anything about peeling them, just slicing them, so in they went. Baked it with the peels on thinking they would soften up or whatever.
First bite told us we were wrong!
I’m surprised the battery didn’t explode.
Needs more basting.
I’d say you’re right.
};^)
Taylor, huh?
“They blew it up!”
I once forgot to take the plastic off a bag of microwave popcorn.
Bad mistake!
I once forgot to take the plastic off a bag of microwave popcorn.
Bad mistake!
In my best Pip’s voice:
I’d pay $50 for one!
lot of chattin but no buyers looks like the crowds not takin it.
They work just fine, I've had one for years. I never tried your novel method, though.
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