/ck/ - Food & Cooking

Tried dry brining?

OP vs. Turkey
Fight!
Turkey Win
Fatality

>expecting a turkey not to be dry in 2020 minus 6 days

cook smaller birds.

u also got to inject the meat with brine.

The trick is to start with the bird breast down, then flip it after it's two thirds cooked. Will amaze everyone.

I deep fry the turkey. Post the >Do Americans really? I don’t give a fuck, deep frying is by far the best way. Just make sure it’s completely thawed out and have a fire extinguisher ready just in case. If you do it properly, the bird is never dry.

>>13413632
This shit is the most overrated meat in existence

>>13413632
Should've spatchcocked it

>>13413767
That would be anything pork

>>13413779
Pork at least tastes something

>>13413632
Did you brine it? Are you checking temp or going off time? Spatchcocked? Deconstructed? Whole? This bird isn’t a shit animal you just might be a shit cook.

Just had some very moist turkey, you did something wrong OP

>>13413632
That’s why you buy prime rib.

>>13413632
Turkey's only good when it's the sliced deli kind. The turkey people make for Thanksgiving and Christmas are 100% of the time bad, although everyone claims it's everyone else who's cooking it wrong and that their turkey is great. At some point you gotta drop the "didn't cook it right" excuse and just accept that fundamentally some ways of making food simply are not good.

>>13413907
Ground is good too, turkey chili can be pretty good if made right, it's more or less the same as regular chili but can be dryer than if using beef so add a bit more oil and make sure it doesn't dry out.

>>13413907
It's great with bacon as well, like a good ol turkey w/bacon sandwich on rye.

Christmas is peasant meat central
>omg here's the obligatory turkey and ham because i'd rather serve dogshit in the name of '''''''''''''''''''''''tradition''''''''''''''''

>>13413921
What's that even mean? Were you trying to make a point, if you were you failed miserably.

>>13413632
Well I guess you know what your New Years resolution will be: stop sucking so much at cooking.

Turkey isn’t even that hard.

>>13413925
Fuck you and your fucking turkey, you fucking bitch

>>13413848
I whacked a load of butter over it, tin foil over the top and stuck it in the oven. It was 8.4kg, so going by most guidelines should have needed about 4.5 hours at least. I should have trusted my instincts when I took it out after 3, tested it with me meat thermometer, and the temperature was well above what was needed anyway. That last hour I put it back in for fucked it a bit. Oh well, chucked a load of gravy over it and it wasn't that bad.

>>13413941
Fuck you and your pathetic mother that was doing the gobble gobble behind your local drug store last night. Fucking turkey headed bitch!

>>13413956
I mean get Reddit with it if you want but turkey still sucks and you know it
tastes like cardboard

>>13413960
I bet your mom gave tyrone 5 stars on reddit while behind your rite-aid.

>>13413970
>literally not one (1) defence of turkey (the animal not the country you stupid fucking dork)
I have defeated you

>>13413960
From what I hear from tyrone, your mom tastes like cardboard and couldn't even be sold to Brasilians.

>>13413976
Do you lack reading comprehension?
See here >>13413913

Not only are turkey delicious they’re actually reall fucking cool animals in general. Ever seen one in the wild or hunted them? Theyre fucking majestic . Based giant wild birds.

>>13413976
it big

>>13413782
t. Hasn't had a good smoked turkey

>>13414124
always the convenient excuse when pointing out turkey is shit

>>13414017
>young turkeys will continue to look up during a rain storm to the point where they literally drown
Yeah, pretty smart they are.

>>13414125
Nothing you said proves me wrong

>>13414126
Myth.

>>13414130
You neither

>>13413632
he doesn't reserve some the meat juices and fat, then dump them over the sliced turkey.

Ancient chinese secret!

>>13413632
Did you air fry it? Heh.

>>13414017
>Based

>>13413632
A wild OP appears.

Turkey uses overdone, and dry!

It's super effective.

Did you measure the internal temperature? I have a feeling you just winged it. You're a piece of shit cunt animal.

>>13413632
You didn’t brine it and didn’t cover the bird tightly in aluminum foil for the majority of the cooking time.

Can you not use a thermometer?

>Ben Franklin wanted this piece of shit to be the national animal
At least then we wouldn't have to eat it

>>13414165
haha winged it lol because it's a bird i get it haha

>>13413632
So basically, you don’t understand larding, basting and covered baking dishes or alfoil.
In other words, you’re a shit cook blaming his own ingredients, not just skills. Maybe you should stick to one of those Christmas dinners in a can.

>>13415909
>alfoil