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*laughs* My oven won't do two turkeys. Mission Impossible.

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feyandstrange.livejournal.com

We've successfully done two turkeys, in two roasters, side by side, in one oven, if they're smallerish turkeys and if you either tie the wings or don't care if they burn (we do 'em breast side down for extra juiciness).

This does mean lots of rotating and basting, and finding two roasters to fit; but the oven in question is an old-fashioned electric oven of no particular merit. We do two medium turkeys (say, 13-pounders) in there every year to feed around 30 people, because the oven is too short to roast a twenty-pound turkey in.

Mind you, I like ham, and it sounds a lot easier. I'm just sayin'. :)

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annenahaymus.livejournal.com

Every year for Thansgiving my folks deep fry a turkey, and cook a beef and pork roast (in the same pot) in the oven. The mingles juices of beef and pork make for a fantastic gravy! And cooking them in the over means it requires less attention, leaving you free to work on other stuff.

Then dishes that are like hearty and keep warmed well. Like I read one tip where folks put their mashed potatoes in a crockpot on low and it kept up to four hours very nicely.

Oh, it's so much fun to have a big crowd for the holidays! Aren't you are well seasoned veteran at large family holiday dinners?

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I've so firmly nixed the idea of any kind of deep-fried turkey at Thanksgiving, it's sad. (When we haven't even tried it on a chicken, at our leisure? No.)

The sweet potato dish gets made ahead and heated through with the topping added at the last minute. The potatoes are a tradition I rarely skip.

1) Get up early and stuff the bird, put in oven.
2) Get breakfast and then start in on the potatoes.
3) Entertain/put to work anyone who shows up afterward.

It works out okay if I set the table up the night before.

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foogod.livejournal.com

Sounds like it might be time for a turducken!

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snobahr.livejournal.com

If I had any clue how to debone a bird (and any confidence in myself to do so), I'd be all over that!

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caitlin.livejournal.com

*snicker* Just as well I don't care that much for turkey. My parents usually have a pork roast for me (mostly) and shared with the rest of the family...

Anything you want me to try making with my limited cooking skills? *wry*

C.

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Keep that thought - we'll see.

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they don't make turkeys big enough for that many people.

Yes, they do.

Go get an organic free-range one. Some of those are *quite* large. (I remember the year I sent a friend to get one, and he came back with a 25 pounder. I said, "I told you to get a small one!" "This was the smallest one they had," he said.)

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filkerdave.livejournal.com

Of course, the real problem with those is getting them in the oven. That and getting them OUT of the oven. And carving them.

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Last year's turkey was a tad over 25 lbs. The calculations I'm working with call for 27 lbs - and after calling the market, the bird shopping begins now because the ads begin the 14th - and I won't be back until the 19th.

And I fully intend to have everything in the house before I leave. *nods firmly*

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Deb and Pat cooked a forty-pounder for their wedding. It was the smallest one *they* had, too; the others were still running around and quite a bit larger. Pat had to deform outward the largest aluminum roasting pan to be had in Bellingham, and it still only just barely held the turkey. It was do-able, though.

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*blinks* 40 lbs.

I know Mom was good at doing mock-ups like this, but that's admirable.

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They had just killed and plucked it earlier in the day - their wedding day, as I mentioned. I'm the one who married them. :-)

Next time you come up here, we need to get you and

unclejimbo up there to their farm; they're entirely nifty people. If Jim thinks my three retrievers are fun, wait until he gets around all those dogs, most of them related to mine. He'll have a ball (and so will the dogs).

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If you have a barbecue (the regular old charcole (sp?) kind) it isn't very hard to barbecue the Turky, and it is really yummy. We did that the last 2 years.

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Let me try it with something we can hide if we screw it up - and I might consider it for next year.

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was mostly thinking for possibly a second smaller bird.. but yeah, I can understand that.

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btw.. are you on yahoo or aim? if so, hit me up.. am flitterkit on both.

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Will try -

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stupid spelling.. and it leaves the oven open for other things.. I think we fit a 25lb bird in the barbecue last year. If you are going to do that.. make sure you measure the distance between the grill and top of lid, to make sure it will close.

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redqueenofevil.livejournal.com

If you have a weber, I would suggest smoking a turkey. That's what we used to do for TG, back when I ate meat. Anyway, you have one in the oven, have one in the weber with hickory chips, and then you have two flavors. Good luck.

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smoking a turkey

I've known people to smoke some weird stuff in their time: corn cobs, sunflower seeds, grass (lawn clippings, to be precise), manzanita bark...but wouldn't a turkey be awfully hard to light?

(ducks and runs)

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poetpaladin.livejournal.com

Hey, did you say Sketchers had some kinda family thing going on?

(Still looking for shoes.)

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