re: #134 Fenway_Nation

How about deep-fried Turduckens?

I actually thought about that. I concluded it wouldn’t work - deep frying only works on relatively thin foods, like a hollow turkey. With a turducken, by the time the inside was safe to eat the outer portion would be burnt to a nasty black crisp.

Which is sad, because deep frying is a gift from the gods.

I haven’t completely given up on the idea. As noted above, the skin is critical to success, so one idea would be to deep-fry each bird individually, then assemble afterward and reheat in the oven. The birds themselves wouldn’t be as cooperative, since cooking makes them less flexible and it’s already a huge bitch trying to insert one bird into another.

I haven’t tried the deep frying idea yet, either. Maybe next year. There are some very entertaining YouTube videos of deep fried turkeys going horribly wrong, though.