Give the internet a break, spend some time with your family today. Go eat a turkey or something. Frying a turkey? See my post, “Lessons of a first time turkey fryer.”
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Lessons of a first time turkey fryer
- 24 hour brine – highly recommended
- 14 lb bird +12 people = no left overs
- 5 lbs of mashed potatoes isn’t very much
- There are no drippings from deep frying, which complicates gravy
- Cover during frying, or you’ll never hit the right temperature (350 degrees F)
- Get the bird to room temp before you drop it in the oil.
- Don’t actually drop it in the oil
- If you have an electric fryer read the directions
- Watch the episode of Good Eats about deep frying a turkey before you do anything else
- If you’re going through all this trouble you might as well fry two turkeys
- Peanut oil is ridiculously expensive
- You need like 4 gallons of oil
- Test your displacement with water before filling your fryer with oil (Thanks Archimedes)
- Forget the whole flavor injection thing
- Fry some other stuff while you have the fryer set up. Experiment.
Kind Bars
The bars I picked up yesterday were called Kind bars. Good stuff.
Kenny from MD’s vegan pumpkin cookies at GrappleMania today also came in handy. I had a bunch of those.
I’m so tired after today’s tournament I’m finding it difficult to form sentences.
On the road again
No Larabars at the local megamart, but they had some other kind of vegan type compressed food product bar. I forget what they’re called right now, and they’re buried under a pile of gear. When I dig one out I’ll write about them.
We’re on the road to Wake Forest right now and I’m still doing some troubleshooting on the Bracketing software… should be interesting.