Oven cooking a turkey

[luv]

For those of you old-fashioned people who still use an oven to prepare your turkey, how do you prepare it? Any special rubs? What do you use to stuff it?

I don't like to cook my dressing in the bird. I was thinking of butter, apples, and onions. Also, was thinking of just brushing it with olive oil to cook it.

[Valiant]

Originally Posted by Mecca

I wonder if anyone will set their house on fire deep frying a turkey.....like that All State commercial.

LOL, you cut it up first..

[tommykat]

Originally Posted by luv

For those of you old-fashioned people who still use an oven to prepare your turkey, how do you prepare it? Any special rubs? What do you use to stuff it?

I don't like to cook my dressing in the bird. I was thinking of butter, apples, and onions. Also, was thinking of just brushing it with olive oil to cook it.

Butter, apples and onions? You tend to take after your Dad for adventure with cooking....however, can we stick to a normal one just this one time?

[penguinz]

Originally Posted by luv

I've never deep fried one, but I've heard that's easy to do if you don't pay attention to what you're doing.

I was thinking about marinating my turkey. I don't think I have a container big enough, though.

Use your bath tub!

[Donger]

Do they still put the neck (or whatever it is) inside the turkey?

[penguinz]

Originally Posted by Donger

Do they still put the neck (or whatever it is) inside the turkey?

That is the turkey penis!

[Donger]

Originally Posted by penguinz

That is the turkey penis!

Oh. That kind of puts a damper on the "hung like a bird" expression.

[Megbert]

Cooked 3 Turkeys using this method.

Good Eats Brined Turkey

1 (14 to 16 pound) frozen young turkey
For the brine:
1 cup kosher salt
1/2 cup light brown sugar
1 gallon vegetable stock
1 tablespoon black peppercorns
1/2 tablespoon allspice berries
1/2 tablespoon candied ginger
1 gallon iced water
For the aromatics:
1 red apple, sliced
1/2 onion, sliced
1 cinnamon stick
1 cup water
4 sprigs rosemary
6 leaves sage
Canola oil

Combine all brine ingredients, except ice water, in a stockpot, and bring to a boil. Stir to dissolve solids, then remove from heat, cool to room temperature, and refrigerate until thoroughly chilled.

Early on the day of cooking, (or late the night before) combine the brine and ice water in a clean 5-gallon bucket. Place thawed turkey breast side down in brine, cover, and refrigerate or set in cool area (like a basement) for 6 hours. Turn turkey over once, half way through brining.

A few minutes before roasting, heat oven to 500 degrees. Combine the apple, onion, cinnamon stick, and cup of water in a microwave safe dish and microwave on high for 5 minutes.

Remove bird from brine and rinse inside and out with cold water. Discard brine.

Place bird on roasting rack inside wide, low pan and pat dry with paper towels. Add steeped aromatics to cavity along with rosemary and sage. Tuck back wings and coat whole bird liberally with canola (or other neutral) oil.

Roast on lowest level of the oven at 500 degrees F. for 30 minutes. Remove from oven and cover breast with double layer of aluminum foil, insert probe thermometer into thickest part of the breast and return to oven, reducing temperature to 350 degrees F. Set thermometer alarm (if available) to 161 degrees. A 14 to 16 pound bird should require a total of 2 to 2 1/2 hours of roasting. Let turkey rest, loosely covered for 15 minutes before carving.

[Eleazar]

someone's got to:

http://www.google.com/search?q=cooki...key+in+an+oven

[StcChief]

If you go oven route... Use a cooking bag time drops saves from drying out.

[BigVE]

I have fried, smoked, baked many turkeys and by far the best one I ever made was in the oven. I bought one of those oven roaster bags to put the turkey in. I injected it with a garlic marinade the night before. I put it in the oven around 2 a.m. on about 225 until about 9 a.m when I raised the temp to 375 until the timer thingy popped up. Keep a pan of water in the bottom of the oven too. Worked great for me.

[BIG_DADDY]

Smoked Prime Rib Roast this year.

[Megbert]

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