McKinnon's Turkeys

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

So is anyone buying their Thanksgiving turkey from McKinnon's? Are they better turkeys than what I might get at Star? More expensive? Do you need to order in advance?

Thanks!

Comments

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

Am I still able to borrow your roasting pan? If so what I might do for inversion is this:

Start it breast-down in a foil roaster pan. When it's time, flip the creature from the foil pan into the real pan, possibly with the help of beowabbit if he's there early.

From a physics perspective, does that sound feasible?

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

That icon is so bad, yet so perfect. I want to steal it, but I don't know if I could bring myself to actually use it.

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

Aw, go on, take the icon. :-) (I made it, so no royalties to pay. And it's not like it's the worst un-PC icon I've made, either.) You can reserve it for use only when you're replying to me!

[gmpe.livejournal.com]

Yes, unless you have hot turkey juices on the bottom of your pan. Then you have a "hot liquid spilling" problem. I just use a couple (large and clean) towels I don't care about and use them to grip the bird and flip it. Make sure you do it before the skin starts to crisp. I used a new oven that cooked the turkey faster one year, and the skin was fragile already by the time I flipped the bird, so it ripped a bit and didn't end up quite as pretty. Also, it's a production (at least with a stuffed, giant bird like I make) so I try not to have too manyn kibbitzing specators around to distract me and make me drop the bird. ;)

Oh, be sure to tent the white meat with foil after flipping and until the last half hour or so. It'll slow the cooking on the white meat.