How do you cook a turkey?

I'm a little surprised by the deep fry hate. I've never tried deep fried turkey, but have always wanted to, and most reports I've heard were very good.

I like turkeys so much. My mum cooks it well and I don't care how. [emoji1]

MaggieD said:

We have. On three occasions. The first two, Tom was sooo disappointed there wasn't any gravy. Found it very dry. The third time was the charm! His nephew injected it with who-knows-what. Sooooo moist!

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Maggie my dear friend did you ever report back and tell us how your turkey came out ??

I am making another duck today. My early Thanksgiving duck was sooo goooood !!!

As I was shopping for the frozen duck it reminded me of your thread.

Well ???

Ok this time I quartered the duck and roasted all but the breasts first.

Everything came out really nicely done after 1 1/2 hours.

I'll roast the breasts tomorrow. They take more time to cook.

I often set the thing out for a couple hours before hand. In that time, one of the main thing I do is put ice packs on each breast (you can tie string around each in a way that tethers them together, allowing you to rest them so that the ice pack covers most of the thickest part of exposed breast.

Reason: it apparently takes the thighs a longer time to reach adequate internal temperature. (I have no explanation for my disagreement with Riveroaks statement that breasts take longer).

This way, the breasts are moist when the turkey comes out.

I've cooked the same general weight birds in the same way for the same amount of time, changing only this technique, and the ones in which I didn't had dryer breast meat.

Riveroaks said:

Maggie my dear friend did you ever report back and tell us how your turkey came out ??

I am making another duck today. My early Thanksgiving duck was sooo goooood !!!

As I was shopping for the frozen duck it reminded me of your thread.

Well ???

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We arte at friends' house. Chicken. No turkey.

MaggieD said:

We arte at friends' house. Chicken. No turkey.

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Yup exactly !!

Turkeys are just way too big for a small group.

I had roasted duck again yesterday and cold duck for breakfast today.

I'll roast the duck breasts this afternoon. They are in the fridge right now.

With Russian Airstrikes.