so tell me about turducken ( my SIL is making one)

[tigereye]

I'm more of a traditionalist and I'm not cooking Tx. Dinner this year.



I have no idea what turducken entails, and how it is made or cooked.


:shrug:

[Stinky The Clown]

1. An orgy of cooked fowl

A chicken inside a duck inside a turkey.

Each is boneless. The net result is sliced meat with three species in each slice.

It seems a bit excessive to me.

I don't know anyone who has ever seen one, let alone eaten one, and surely never made one.

[BOSSHOG]

4. It is rather tasty

And can be consumed in small quantities so the excessive part extends to he who loads up his plate. I think the next step is for Boo-dro to stuff one in an alligator then it would be a turduckengator. Brought to you by people who burn down carports while frying turkeys during the hoidays.

[tigereye]

13. ha ha ha

this is cracking me up! Alligator!



They plan to do it far away from the carport- well, where the carport once was. (removed due to them not liking carports, not because it was charred or anything in any previous food forays!)



I hope my relatives don't see this thread! :hide:

[Tangerine LaBamba]

5. It's not good

As a novelty, it's cool. The idea is so goofy as to be fun. But, when you get down to eating, it's a big, collective "huh?" Not terribly interesting, not terribly good, just sort of - chewable poultry.

I'd never have one again. The one we had was a gift, so no one was held responsible or properly punished.

[wildflower]

7. LOL

I'm trying to picture how someone would give turducken as a gift. :)

(edited to correct embarrassing typo)

[tigereye]

15. is it crazily large?

I guess I should google it and see what it looks like, huh? But it's much more fun to get the DU analysis!

[tigereye]

14. hmm. Trendy eh?

"no one was held responsible or properly punished." This thread may have the best ripostes of any I have ever started!


(well except for the witty and much lamented repartee of whoisalhedges and Screaming Lord Byron in the lounge way back when)

[tigereye]

12. he he

An orgy of cooked fowl" :rofl:


I think it sounds excessive, too, but then I'm a bit more inclined toward the "slow food" thing.

[Gwendolyn]

2. Is she making it from scratch herself?

It looks like a lot of work!

Pics and instructions here: http://www.thesalmons.org/lynn/turducken.html

But I think you can get a butcher to assemble it for you. Never tried it either but it's probably good eats. :P

[pengillian101]

9. Thanks for the picture link. I'll never try it. It looks like a car-killed deer cut in half.

[tigereye]

17. wow, that's bizarre looking.

But I suppose if you really like specific types of fowl, it might make sense.


Is the idea that the different types of meat will influence and marinade each other? (scratches head)

[tigereye]

16. I don't know.

she's a pretty motivated woman, though, so you never know.

[Warpy]

3. It's a mostly southern perversion

of a deboned chicken stuffed inside a deboned duck and the two then inside a deboned turkey. A slice of the finished huge roll of solid meat would then give a diner a little turkey, a little duck, and a little chicken. Why this is a good thing is beyond me. One presumably hides the whole mess under cranberry sauce and generic gravy, thus further blurring the distinctions among the three birds.

A better idea would be to cook all 3 separately, bones in, with sauces/gravies tailored to each bird.

But then it wouldn't be turducken, would it?

[tigereye]

18. you always have a well-rounded and insightful perspective

:hi:


husband said you can stuff the chicken with hamburger and then it would be a turducken burger.... :think:

[yy4me]

6. When I hear of this Turducken, all I can visualize is globs of fat .

When you roast poultry, the fat leeches out, but if you have 3-in-1, the fat will not really exit the birds. Great globs of chicken fat inside the duck, duck fat inside of the turkey. Artery clogging, labor intensive novelty. Never mind the time spent de-boning the birds.

Cook a chicken, duck ot turkey but all stuffed together? UGG. I saw Paula Deene do one once and it looked awful.

[peacefreak]

8. My daughter made one last Christmas.

It was yummy. Would I make one? Probably not.

[tigereye]

20. is it baked, or deep fried?

[peacefreak]

21. Slow baked.

nt

[hippywife]

10. I've never had one but

it seems trendy and wasteful. Like Warpy, I think I would prefer each separately, and even at separate meals. LOL

[tigereye]

22. my brother now tells me it was his and my other brother's idea

they ordered it from Louisiana somewhere.

[Callalily]

11. Had turducken at

a party last year. It was very tasty, not fatty at all. Good to try, but I'd never make one or buy one for that matter.

[tigereye]

19. I'm not cooking this year, so I'm game for the novelty and intrigue...

and not having to run the dishwasher three times after dinner....

[HamdenRice]

23. I wonder if the idea came from the Arabs

A long time ago I remember seeing something on TV about Arab princes making a dish that was something like a lamb inside something inside a camel -- cooked for a very, very long time.

[hippywife]

25. I was wondering how long it would take

for someone to mention the whole stuffed camel. I always thought it was a joke, but apparently it isn't.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whole_stuffed_camel

[Kali]

24. are they going to deep fry it too?

I don't think that will work. The turkey needs to be empty for frying because it cooks hotter and faster - if it was stuffed (with anything) it probably wouldn't cook all the way through.

[tigereye]

26. no it was baked after all and it was really quite good!

I rarely eat duck and it was nice to have a little bit.