Anyone Else Gonna Dump Oil In Their Kettle??

[BierMuncher]

For Thanksgiving I mean...

After all, aren't a lot of our full-boil setups made up of turkey fryers?

I'm definitley NOT going to be frying up the bird this year (first time in 5 years). After all...I gotta brew Friday morning and I don't want to be dumping 3+ gallons of new peanut oil down the drain.

So how bout it...who's frying up the turkey this year?

 

[Joker]

I leave deep frying to Mc D's my bird goes in the BBQ.

 

[Fingers]

Oil in your brew kettle? I'd flip on anyone that put oil in my kettle. They are for water based liquids only.

Step away from the pots....

 

[uglygoat]

nope, but we will fill it up with sweet sweet wort. :fro:

 

[Drunkensatyr]

I am letting everyone else use their pots, I am just bringing the burners

 

[olllllo]

I like the taste of a deep fried bird, but I like to have the turkey stuffed.
The deep fry thing is out on all accounts.

 

[brewt00l]

No sir! We will be dining on a perfectly smoked turkey this Thursday.

 

[Chris_Dog]

I am smoking my bird also.

 

[Kaiser]

Oil in your brew kettle? I'd flip on anyone that put oil in my kettle. They are for water based liquids only.

I have done it a few times and the oil will come out completely in the dishwasher. But I don't like deep fried turkeys anymore. Though it produces a very tasty and crispy skin, it leaves you with a tough bird. Turkey meat is full of connective tissue that can only be broken down with long roasting or BBQ. 45min in the frier won't do that.

Kai

 

[EdWort]

No frying this year. The daughter is home from school and has requested SWMBO's famous oven roasted turkey with 3 bread, Apple & Pecan stuffing. Hmmm good.

Time to brew some beer though.

 

[ohiobrewtus]

Plain old oven roasted here. My keggle is for beer only.

 

[Chriso]

I'm still in my 20's, f* cooking a turkey, my parents still get to take care of that long job.

You can bet I'm trying to squeeze in 2 batches of beer this weekend though. :fro:

 

[Yooper]

My turkey is brining as we speak- going on the charcoal webber tomorrow. It's supposed to get up into the 20s tomorrow, so it'll be fine BBQ weather. For my husband.

I'm on the inside duty- pies, stuffing, potatoes, breads, rolls, squash. I'm making the stuffing in the slow cooker again this year. It sounds strange, but really is good!

 

[the_bird]

I cooked the MIL Thanksgiving dinner a couple years back. Everyone noted how mine was the juciest turkey they'd ever had! I did a brine a la Alton Brown, it was really good.

Once I started cutting into the dark meat, I realized that it wasn't really cooked all the way...

"Seriously, I'm NOT TRYING TO KILL YOUR MOTHER!"

 

[BierMuncher]

My turkey is brining as we speak- going on the charcoal webber tomorrow. It's supposed to get up into the 20s tomorrow, so it'll be fine BBQ weather. For my husband.

I'm on the inside duty- pies, stuffing, potatoes, breads, rolls, squash. I'm making the stuffing in the slow cooker again this year. It sounds strange, but really is good!

Yooper,

Do you BBQ whole or split it down the middle?

I have to do two turkeys and I'm toying with the idea of grilling the other on my gas grill.

 

[abracadabra]

Man! I'm with Kaiser on this one. I was just not impressed with fried turkey.

I'll take a smoked or oven roasted turkey anyday over fried (fresh turkeys only please) keep those frozen turkeys away from me!

 

[Yooper]

Yooper,

Do you BBQ whole or split it down the middle?

I have to do two turkeys and I'm toying with the idea of grilling the other on my gas grill.

We grill it whole. I put "stuff" in the cavity- celery, sprigs of parsley, garlic, onions. Then we put a pan on the bottom of the grill with a little bit of water and put the hot coals around it. It keeps the turkey from burning, and has nice even heat. And oh, is it good! The brining makes it so juicy and not at all dry. Probably like the_bird's except ours are cooked.

Bob got some cherry wood this year, and he made a few chips of that and he's soaking them. that's the only thing different we're doing.

The turkey fryer is off limits, though. Forever. He can use the burner to fry fish in the summer, but not my pot!

 

[Reverend JC]

Brineing a turkey is the key to excellent meat whether you smoke it or roast it. If it is in the oven roasted like i like mine then it also needs to be rubbed with butter, covered with slices of your favorite bacon and then tossed into a 400 degree oven for 20 min. after that put the tin foil breast plate on it and slow roast that bitch for hours.................................i can see the juice roll out of the meat now as i imagine it. No stuffing inside the bird either, dries it out.

 

[Hopleaf]

Going to sister's house for turkey.. and hooray it's finally getting cold.. dropped from 80 yesterday to around 50

 

[david_42]

I've only seen a turkey deep-fried once. Rather spectacular and the parking lot only required minimal re-paving afterwards.

I like to BBQ the dark meat & pan roast the white, but someone else is doing the turkey & ham tomorrow.

 

[Dude]

I don't have to worry about a bird or a pig this year. Going to MIL's and they are doing the majority of the cooking.

I've got squash, pumpkin pie and pumpkin bars (a new experiment this year) duty.

 

[derogg]

I'm frying one this year. I was using the same pot for my beer also, but I have a new 10 gallon pot being shipped. No more multi-tasking pot for me. I'm gonna soak my turkey over night in some bourbon, after injecting it with cajun sauce. Happy Thanksgiving to all !! - Dirk

 

[Bernie Brewer]

I have done it a few times and the oil will come out completely in the dishwasher.

Kai

I'm glad it works for you, but I've known people that have permanently wrecked their kettles by putting oil in them. Getting a big stock pot for the oil is a pretty cheap safeguard, IMHO


I'm doing the oven thing. I gotta have my in-the-bird stuffing. Yummm!

 

[dantodd]

for the life of me I can't figure out how someone is incapable of getting oil out of a stainless or aluminum pot but....


We are doing 2 birds, one smoked and one oven roasted.

 

[Yuri_Rage]

I might fry one later in the weekend. SWMBO wants leftovers, but we're not having Turkey Day at our house this year. I have a dedicated turkey/food fryer. I know you can clean the oil out of your brew kettle, but I'd rather not be faced with that.

 

[EdWort]

for the life of me I can't figure out how someone is incapable of getting oil out of a stainless or aluminum pot but....

I've brewed and fried turkeys out of the same pot for a while. Nothing a soak in Dawn followed by cleaning with PBW & BKF won't fix.

I may convert a keg just for a massive cajun boil if I can find a basket big enough to fit in it.

 

[DeathBrewer]

i'll be boiling up a turkey for my stew and yes i will use one of my brewpots

...but no oil, of course

 

[Liquidsandwich]

How do you smoke a bird? Do they make Zig Zags that big?.... Sorry I'm bored at work! Have a good Thanksgiving!!