Umm... turkey wasn't in a cooking bag to help preserve moistness? I merely ask because I didn't see mention of a bag. But maybe there was and it ... got disappeared. Or was simply irrelevent to the final results. Just curious. :)
I'm weird in that I believe the only plastic things that should go in an oven are Shrinky-Dinks. Also I had a bad 'microwave-able Jiffy-Pop' experience in college involving a plastic covered microwave popcorn thing and 20 cubic meters of melted-plastic smoke in a 2 cubic foot microwave, followed by black, greasy fire.
Also... I think I'm safer not experimenting with such things. This turkey was almost entirely salvageable in one form or another. Odds are, regardless of cooking bag properties, I would have managed to melt it or set it on fire and made it entirely unsalvageable. I did have a kind of tinfoil wrap though. Most of the rest is either going to be soup or reheated in sauce of some kind, so the desiccation isn't a bad thing. :-)
No, I totally see where you're coming from in the "plastic+oven=not good" thing. I just asked because I remember back in my childhood my mom used to cook them covered by tin foil, and at some point she did switch to the special cooking bags, and there was a noticeable difference in the moistness. Turkeys probably one of the few things I'd use the bag in an oven for, lol. But both ways work, obviously. :)
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/is a brat, sorry.
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Also... I think I'm safer not experimenting with such things. This turkey was almost entirely salvageable in one form or another. Odds are, regardless of cooking bag properties, I would have managed to melt it or set it on fire and made it entirely unsalvageable. I did have a kind of tinfoil wrap though. Most of the rest is either going to be soup or reheated in sauce of some kind, so the desiccation isn't a bad thing. :-)
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Am going to have to procure myself a kitchen chisel.
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I like the jerky by-product!
Anyway, it's 20 minutes a pound at *250* - not 350. At 350, it's 9 minutes a pound or so.
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It's rather tasty, actually! :-)
Anyway, it's 20 minutes a pound at *250* - not 350. At 350, it's 9 minutes a pound or so.
Yeah, that would make quite a difference.
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