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[BobLoblaw]

Now, I'll go to war when it comes to fried vs baked. But fried vs smoked? Don't make me pick a side GAF.

 

[xxracerxx]

Deep fried a turkey for the first time this year. Amazing! So juicy and delicious, not too mention fast as shit and left the oven open for other dishes.

 

[post-S]

Oven baked food could taste good, but there are usually better alternatives.

 

[thespot84]

you can still do stuffing in an oven baked bird without ruining the bird, you just pack it in cheesecloth and remove it before the bird is done to finish it in a different oven or on a range.

Also butter the inside of the skin as was mentioned, along with cheesecloth soaked in white wine and butter that is laid over the bird and constantly basted. The bird comes out amazing and the skin is something worthy of the OPs pic.

 

[soco]

Oven baked, but brined and or consistently butter stuffed & basted.

deep frying can be ok if the right person does it, but you can still dry out the turkey that way.

 

[Regiruler]

Smoke it

Spoiler

I can't tell the difference given that it's years apart

 

[psynergylover]

always oven baked, seen too many amature videos of turkey bombs to make me and my family comfortable to deep fry.

 

[Kitsunebaby]

You can't get the drippings needed for a proper gravy from deep frying.

 

[xxracerxx]

You can't get the drippings needed for a proper gravy from deep frying.

That is why you buy some other bits of turkey like the gizzards and some tail nubs and throw them in a pressure cooker....amazing drippings for gravy and treats for dogs!

 

[Kitsunebaby]

That is why you buy some other bits of turkey like the gizzards and some tail nubs and throw them in a pressure cooker....amazing drippings for gravy and treats for dogs!

Oh, I keep a stock pot running all day filled with necks and wings that I've roasted to bulk up the drippings, but nothing quite matches the stuff sitting in the bottom of that roasting pan.

I'm going non-traditional this year, though (service industry, so I'm having my Thanksgiving a day later). Having braised short ribs. I make a damn good turkey, but ultimately it's just not my favorite meat.

 

[masud]

Smoked

Fried or baked are about the same. It's easier to make a good fried Turkey but if you know what you're doing you can make one in the oven that's just as good.

 

[hipbabboom]

Deep frying a whole fucking turkey.

There's a machine that does it now from the comfort of your own apartment. I found out about it too late this year but next thanksgiving, its on!

EDIT:
Is it just me or was Turkey really expensive this year?

 

[Brakke]

We always roast. It's just not thanksgiving without Grandma teaching some grandkid to make gravy from the pan, you know? We fried once and the bird was better but the Thanksgiving experience was worse.

When I have a family and a household and my folks are coming to my place, I'll probably start up a new fried-bird tradition. As long as I'm going to my folks' place, roast is fine.

 

[xxracerxx]

EDIT:
Is it just me or was Turkey really expensive this year?

We paid $26 for a 14lbs bird. That doesn't seem excessive at all. We got it from a local butcher though.

 

[Apt101]

Baked. No doubt. One can get more flavors in that way. Deep frying pretty much kills any spices one rubs into and under the skin.

 

[TheOMan]

Yes, please do continue to tell us how to cook a meal made from a bird indigenous to our own nation.

Insufferable non-us jackassery in these types of threads is reaching overdrive lately.

???

I was referring to the deep-fried butter.

Deep Fried Turkey I'm sure is delicious.

You a little bit mad?

 

[andthebeatgoeson]

Smoked. It was one of the best turkeys I've ever had. Blew my diet up as I went for 3rds.

 

[TAJ]

You can grill a turkey, too.
Deep-fried is best.
Baked is worst, by far.

 

[SRG01]

Sous Vide.
Roasting also works, a lot of people don't do it right, however, and turn people off with dry turkey.

Can Sous Vide actually cook a Turkey evenly? I was under the impression that it's only effective for smaller things like steaks...

 

[Tesseract]

oven baked unless you hate life

 

[helloresolven]

???

I was referring to the deep-fried butter.

Deep Fried Turkey I'm sure is delicious.

You a little bit mad?

Deep Fried Butter is a fair snack probably eaten by less than 0.1% of the population, ever. It isn't a thing of note to most Americans.

 

[masud]

Baked. No doubt. One can get more flavors in that way. Deep frying pretty much kills any spices one rubs into and under the skin.

That's why you wet brine a fried turkey.

 

[ohkay]

Can Sous Vide actually cook a Turkey evenly? I was under the impression that it's only effective for smaller things like steaks...

I only cooked the breast meat, but you'd have to cook the dark meat separately at a higher temp

 

[Yaboosh]

I only cooked the breast meat, but you'd have to cook the dark meat separately at a higher temp

How did you finish the outside?