OT: Turkey Talk
My fellow MGoBloggers: On this Thanksgiving eve, I would like to pick your brains on the subject of turkey. This year, I splurged and got a Kelly Bronze turkey. It's about as natural a turkey as I can handle; I normally just get a turkey breast, as this is my family's favorite part anyway. The instructions for the Kelly Bronze are very simple. But I'm somewhat confounded by the "nubs" or bits of feather still stuck in the turkey. I've been told they will burn off in the oven. Can I trust this information? I know some of you hunt and therefore clean your own turkeys by hand. Let me hear what you got on this.
November 27th, 2019 at 8:21 PM ^
Real men eat the turkey nubs and all.
November 27th, 2019 at 8:25 PM ^
warm/almost hot water will loosen the skin and make the pin feathers much easier to remove. you can pour it on the bird (not the best method) or dunk it in a pot that has warm water in it. careful you don't dunk it too much because it can kind of start the cooking process. also, although i/we have defeathered uncountable thousands of chickens, turkeys and grouse, i have never had to go back and do it after the bird had already been processed months/weeks before, as i assume yours has been.
November 28th, 2019 at 1:02 AM ^
Hot paraffin wax is another method. Give that bird a Brazilian!
November 28th, 2019 at 5:49 AM ^
tldr He is telling you to get the feathers out before you cook it.
November 27th, 2019 at 8:31 PM ^
Call the butterball hotline
November 28th, 2019 at 5:58 AM ^
I called it & got this guy:
November 27th, 2019 at 8:34 PM ^
I hate Turkey so let's talk sides and pies. Stuffing + Mashed potatoes + gravy +++ and pecan pie ++ PLUS a great Malbec from Argentina? Nirvana. Turkey is irrelevant for me.
Edit - plus Bloody Mary's at 12noon to pre-game UM's upset of UNC ... Go Blue !!!
November 27th, 2019 at 8:38 PM ^
Anyone who calls stuffing “dressing” is wrong.
Deep fried turkey is amazing. I know some people who also arent huge turkey fans and do a big ass prime rib roast instead
November 27th, 2019 at 9:13 PM ^
They are fucking Canadians.
November 27th, 2019 at 9:28 PM ^
Wait .... are they fucking Canadiens like “man, fuck those Canadiens” or are they intercoursing Canadian people?
November 28th, 2019 at 12:25 AM ^
Why can't they be both?
November 28th, 2019 at 2:08 AM ^
Because it looks like drjaws doesn't like the French but are okay with the English ones. /s
November 27th, 2019 at 9:38 PM ^
I called the Butterball hotline and they assured me that fucking Canadians had nothing to do with the term stuffing.
November 27th, 2019 at 9:41 PM ^
As a native of Michigan who has lived in the south for 25 years, they do not call it stuffing down here because they don't stuff the bird. How a region that came up with a bunch of disgusting shit to eat thinks putting bread in a bird cavity is somehow gross is beyond me.
November 27th, 2019 at 9:33 PM ^
November 27th, 2019 at 9:52 PM ^
The level of absolute incorrectness in this post is astounding
November 27th, 2019 at 10:35 PM ^
Geez, what did a pecan ever do to you?
Besides the worst nut on the face of the Earth, and would be a better place without it, is clearly the buckeye.
November 28th, 2019 at 4:40 AM ^
The level of wisdom in this comment is astounding.
November 28th, 2019 at 6:07 AM ^
It's not the pecans, It's the jellyfish cum.
November 27th, 2019 at 9:32 PM ^
November 27th, 2019 at 9:42 PM ^
What is our collective stance on “Jive Turkeys”?
November 27th, 2019 at 9:49 PM ^
I think we’re all tired of UM Fan from Sydney’s schtick
November 27th, 2019 at 10:04 PM ^
I hope Sydney is Brian's crappy alter ego just trolling us, low these many years.
November 28th, 2019 at 2:26 AM ^
I thought it was His Dudeness' alternate account.
November 28th, 2019 at 12:58 AM ^
"It ain't cool being no jive turkey so close to Thanksgiving."
November 27th, 2019 at 10:00 PM ^
Thanksgiving is all about the sauce...
November 27th, 2019 at 10:08 PM ^
Good call Putin, I love that stuff!
November 27th, 2019 at 10:44 PM ^
Eww...
November 27th, 2019 at 10:33 PM ^
That's just scarlet colored high fructose corn syrup.
Canned cranberry sauce is a food crime. That's how wars have started.
But when people are too lazy to boil water... yep, that's all it takes to make real cranberry sauce, I can see how this is a thing.
November 28th, 2019 at 1:54 AM ^
You must do Crossfit...live a little!
November 28th, 2019 at 2:05 AM ^
I'll take that as a compliment but you should be able to tell that I don't do crossfit... because I don't talk (nonstop) about doing crossfit. :)
November 27th, 2019 at 11:04 PM ^
This on toast the day after thanksgiving is IT.
November 28th, 2019 at 4:55 AM ^
Hmmmmmmmmmm.
I wounder if it reverts back into that shape once it is in your stomach?
November 27th, 2019 at 10:47 PM ^
What XM posted is true. But if they're small, yeah, they'll cook off. You can use needle nose pliers to pull them out, also, though. Just make sure you have gas for the oven, you don't want to cook that fancy bird over pallet wood, like Bob did...
November 28th, 2019 at 12:57 AM ^
My 91 year old mother would go crazy pulling the pin feathers out of a bird I’d get that was gobbling just a week before Thanksgiving. I never did that. Was there a difference in the end result? Not that I could tell. I don’t eat the skin. Can’t do stuff like that when your are missing a gall bladder.
November 28th, 2019 at 1:55 AM ^
TMI man!!!