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How big a bird?

Stuffed or unstuffed?

How many mouths?



18# and stuffed here. 5 mouths.

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20
NA
15

14 pounds, Fairway store, free with 50 bucks at the meat counter.

posting the same interesting picture all over the place

and OT

Yup, one bird a year.

15 pound bird, deep fried (not stuffed of course) along with several extra drumsticks

Pork roast and beef roast cooked together in a large Magnalite roaster, common gravy

16 people +/-

Our turkeys always were de-horned when very young, for which I was grateful because loading them onto trucks would have been even worse if they hadn't been.

2-12 lbers. One is in the brine. Other will go in the brine today sometime. Then onto the smoker tomorrow morning

13-14#

In an oven bag, it bakes faster, and stays moist.

One 10 lb bird unstuffed 4 people on Monday. One 12 lb bird unstuffed 4 people on Thursday

20#
Not stuffed, will be smoked
9 or 10 to feed.

Trying to figure out everything else

Cornbread, oyster, pecan dressing
Green bean/mushroom casserole
Pureed rutabagas
Mashed potatoes
Orange/cranberry sauce
A gallon of Smokey gravy

Not sure what the pies will be. I'm.leaving that to the ladies.

14 oz.

Don't know.

1.

Thank goodness for Marie Calendar's turkey & dressing tv dinners. Just think, boys and girls, pop it in the oven at 350° F for 35 minutes and VOILA! Gourmet Thanksgiving dinner with only one fork to wash afterward. Hard to beat that, huh?

L.W.

22 pounds, stuffed, 8 people. I like leftover turkey.

21 1\2 lbs, spatchcocked on the treager, 5 eaters.

I think she said this one was 23 lbs? Brined over night, smoked this morning, just pulled it off an hour or so ago when I was home for lunch. Skin and some backmeat tasted good at least....

Not sure what we're going to do with it. Eat it tonight? Take it to mom and dads tomorrow? Save it for when her grandparents get here Saturday from Texas? Who knows, but I did my part.

16 pounds, stuffed, 3 mouths

I'll eat it all weekend.

15 lb unstuffed, trash can cook. Just less than 2 hours. Also a large ham and brother is bringing a big beef roast. Can’t divulge number of players! Lots of dressing and sides and just finished the giblet gravy w magic pouch within the bird. Happy Thanksgiving to all.

13 pound, local turkey.

Stuffed.

7 people.


Mom always cooks a ham too.

12 lb.

Unstuffed

6-7

Oh wait...............it's a standing rib roast.

24 lbs. feeding 6 of us and stuffed

hmmm...raises suspicion

That’s a thing of beauty right there!

Trash can cook? 🤷‍♀️

24#
+second 13# bird deboned (breast and thighs vacuum sealed and saved for another day), carcass browned and made into broth.

on side (made with broth from bird #2)

7

Trash can sounds crazy. But...take a brand new galvanized 20-30g can and roll it around in a good hot fire. Burn off the processing oils and coatings. On day of cook, lay down double layer of hd foil on ground twice the width of can diameter. Drive wooden foil wrapped stake in center allowing bird to sit legs down about 8” off foiled ground area and about same distance to top of can. Place ball of foil atop stake and sit the bird upon it from back cavity. Any style of bird, brined or not. Dry bird and add outer seasoning and cavity seasoning. Center can over it and make a good seal to ground. 20lbs of charcoal. About twenty PCs on top and surround can base w rest. Keep the tight to can. Light coals and time a 15lb bird 2 hours from time coals turn gray. Pull can at time limit and check deepest thigh and breast 162-165 degrees. Bird is typically gorgeous and very moist. Plus your oven is freed up for the important stuff!! Good luck. Super simple.

5 lbs breast. 2 people. Been dry rub brining for last 3 days. Smoker tomorrow for 3 hours or so

13# & 17#

Un

8 people.

Everyone goes home with an ample supply of turkey.

I smoked just a trukey breast. Don't remember the weight. Sliced it up yesterday evening. Also had a hunk of pork shoulder left over from making sausage, that I smoked and sliced too. Just me and the wife, and She don't eat much. Covid had the girls staying at home. miles

16lb smoked. We got about 10 this year.

18 lb injected

Air fried in the Big Easy.

4 people the rest vac. sealed for later.

Evahbody eating well!!

13 pounds brined
Unstuffed
Five mouths

13.3 pounder. Deboned and stuffed.

4 mouths. 2 of which are under 7 yo. 😁

Our turkey is done too....about an hour early.

As always.

Regular stuffed?

Yes sir.

Bread, onion, celery, sausage, sage/thyme/rosemary. Pretty standard.

Kinda a combination of these two:

https://www.onceuponachef.com/recipes/turkey-breast-sausage-herb-stuffing.html

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Fair. Duck, brussel sprouts with bacon and potatoes.



Dessert is a two phased program



And a glass of "fair" rye.

14# stuffed 4 people.

Always will be for Thanksgiving.
We are traditional here.


Sidenote, my great aunt used to raise turkeys, she would give Mom
the biggest one for Thanksgiving, of course she came.

They would run from 45 to 53 pounds, dressed.
Weird, but they were solid. The cavity was the same as a 15 pounder.
Couldn't get much stuffing in them.
The biggest one wouldn't fit Mom's roaster.
We had to make a 30 mile trip to buy 3 of the biggest cheap aluminum
roasters sold. Two doubled up on a cookie sheet for the bottom, one on top.
Then, it didn't fit in her normal oven.
She had an ancient stove in the basement, it just fit.

Fed 18 people, lots left over.

Somehow I failed to get a pic of our bird. Trust me, 🤔 it were pretty!

The hell with the whisky Allen, tell me ‘bout that pie!!

Some sorta wildass apple pie!

Turkey Two Ways

10 lb, unstuffed, cooked on the coals for an hour, hour and a half maybe for taste, finished in the oven:

French Apple Tart - Very tasty stuff!

neat story

i sure love turkey, still got a lot left. probably take turkey and fixins across the street to ole bob

15 pound,
stuffed.
Two mouths.

Could not find any smaller ones. Walmart was selling for$.78 /pound

Kings Sooper and Safeway,you had to spend $25 first to get a better price
With the price of beef, it looked like folks were stocking up with 4-5 turkeys instead

Thank you. Done saved that!

An 8# breast. Injected and seasoned, stuffed with a mix of pork sausage, chopped apple an onion. Smoked on Lang smoker with a mix of cherry and pecan. Also an 8.5 ham. 3 people Dressing cooked in the stove. Turned out very tasty.