Cooking with JudyI have a reputation, among those who love me, to have an “interesting” sense of humor. Even though this sounds like a joke IT IS NO JOKE.
I read about this and tried it. The turkey comes out brown, beautiful and MOIST. I’ve done this every year for over a decade and it’s never failed. (One time I did a 20-plus pounder and parts were not completely cooked so I zapped the parts in the appliance of choice – my microwave)
I’ve shared this with many others and it has failed only once — the woman bought a ButterBall Turkey . . . and has never eaten turkey since. To see why, keep reading.
Ingredients:
10 – 18 pound turkey* and a sense of adventure
Directions:
- Clean the bird
- Throw it into a covered container – put on lid or aluminum foil
- Do not add ANYTHING to the pot and/or the bird.
- PreHeat oven 500 degrees
- Do NOT baste or look at until time is up (you will hear burbling, don’t worry, by the time you hear burbling the turkey is dead)
- Bake (and I do mean BAKE), 7 minutes per pound, unstuffed
- 7 1/2 minutes per pound, stuffed
WARNING: Do NOT buy any *turkey that has ANYTHING injected under the skin (especially butter!) or the fire department will be there and you will be scrubbing black soot from your ceiling.
Q & A (I won’t bother you with the Q-part)
- Yes, it comes out brown and beautiful.
- No, it is moist and delicious
- I always put the stuffing in a casserole rather than the turkey – others have stuffed the bird and said it was great.
- Yes, it will smell like Thanksgiving not like a house-on-fire.
- No, PETA would not endorse this because it is more humane for the cook
- Yes, 500 degrees. It is not a typo
- Yes, 7 minutes a pound
P.S. The first year I made the turkey this way I had it sitting out raw and naked as a J-bird when the guests arrived.
When they found out nothing was in the oven they nervously inquired what time we were going to eat.
Made me smile.
CURIOUS to the MAX 
Hehehe I have to try this with my post-new-year’s-i’m-finally-not-sick-of-turkey-turkey-bought-at-thanksgiving-while-turkeys-are-super-cheap turkey! I’m no cook, so minimal prep + short cook time = SIGN ME UP!
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I,too, have an interesting sense of humor! This intrigues me……………..(and I have had the FD at my home)….
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