Turkeys: November 2008 Archives

We dispatch and process our turkey the weekend before Thanksgiving. This year I chose broad breasted bronze's and grew them up from eggs to the beauties they are now.

On the ground we figured they were about 30 pounds or so for the largest ones.

All of those feathers make them look a lot bigger than they really are.

Or do they?

Dressed these birds are weighing in at over 40lbs. My scale won't go as high as it needs to weigh them accurately.

Thursdays centerpiece is a beauty.

It is in a 60 quart igloo cube cooler brining in sugar and salt and ice water.

Wednesday he will come out and be soaked in pure clean water. Later he will be brought up to room teperature in anticipation of the oven.