Ever cooked a Turducken?

[trof]

I googled it and some say 350 oven for 4-5 hours, but some say 250 oven for 7-8 hours?
Anybody done this?
What worked (or didn't) for you?
Thanks.

[GOPisEvil]

1. Trof!

Nice to see you back again! :hi:

Paul Prudhomme says 12 hours at 190 (I think). Internal temperature should be 165.

[trof]

8. Thanks, GOP.

Up in Boston for a week playing with my grandson.
Yeah, the original recipes I heard about said a low oven for a long time.
But now I see more that say 350 or so for 4-5 hours. Internal temp of 170.

[DarkPhenyx]

2. Beware! This could be your Thanksgiving!

http://pics.sluggy.com

[OldEurope]

3. alien question: what IS a turducken? Didn´t find it in my

dictionary.
:toast:

[GOPisEvil]

4. Whole chicken, stuffed inside a whole duck, stuffed inside a whole turkey.

It's a cajun thing, apparently.

Spelling edit!

[mitchum]

21. I still think you can fit a quail in there somewhere also

[Lisa]

23. Didn't the Romans do this as well?

They didn't have turkeys, but I seem to recall (either from Apicius's cookbook or maybe the Satyricon) of a banquet where a peacock or a flamingo was stuffed with smaller birds in turn?

[REP]

5. Turkey Stuffed With a Duck

stuffed with a chicken. I think.

[kanrok]

6. Thanks for the clarification

I thought it was a chicken stuffed with turd.

[OldEurope]

7. I see.

Strange thing.

[trof]

9. all about turduckens

http://www.hebertsmeats.com/page5.html

[TreasonousBastard]

10. This came up on another list...

about a year or so ago. One of the resident chefs said he had mediocre results with this thing after much experimentation, but I don't remember what the "best" cooking times were.

Note one thing-- many people writing about this have never actually cooked a terducken, but are speculating and pontificating without knowing. In fact, it seems there may only be a half dozen people in the whole world who have ever actually bothered to cook one. Prudhomme, I think, actually offered one in one of his restaurants, but I could be mistaken. According to Bob, it is an incredible pain in the ass to set one up, and there are too many variables to to get in the way of proper cooking. And all that grease that ends up inside the thing... yeccchhh! I guess skinning and cutting the fat out of the chicken and duck would be part of the process.

Purely speculating myself, I'd go with the longer cooking time at the lower temperature, and not expect much. The biggest problem is getting enough heat inside of the mess to cook the chicken properly, so the longer it's in the oven, the more time the heat has to get into it. Higher heat with anything tends to sear the outside and leave the inside cooler, and slow cooking cooks more evenly. Lot of basting involved, though, or the outside really dries out.

We did speculate on partially cooking the duck and chicken separately to get them going, and get some of the grease out, but afik, no one tried that.

[trof]

11. Yep.

Trying to find someone who's actually done the deed.
I've had boned, stuffed whole chickens and they were deelicious.
Not gonna start from scratch. I can get the turducken locally. Just need to cook it. Some I've seen for sale on the web say they skin and remove fat from the duck and chicken.

[trof]

12. Well, we chickened (or turkied) out.

Wanted to do a turducken for Christmas and thought we'd do a practice one for Thanksgiving. Decided NOT to make guinea pigs out of our guests, so we'll try the turducken in a couple of weeks.

Standard turkey & dressing tomorrow.

STILL like to hear from anyone who's cooked the turducken.

[onebigbadwulf]

13. Aren't there a million bones in a turducken?

It seems like nothin but bone to me

[fishnfla]

15. they are boneless

the fowls are deboned

[northernsoul]

14. I'm leary of eating anything with "Turd" in the name

:evilgrin:

sorry, cheap shot, couldn't resist.

[fishnfla]

16. I've done it

I did the 350 for 31/2 hours.

These things are awesome! I did one for Easter last year. My guests demanded to take home the leftovers.

Very good, cant afford the 100 bucks this year.

[XNASA]

17. No, but I've hunted many of them.

Wily beasts they are, turduckens. One time I was attacked by an entire madden (turducken flocks are called "maddens").

I barely escaped with my fork.

[Blue-Jay]

18. "Turducken" sounds intriguing....

Although I'd prefer stuffing the 3 birds in a roasted pig, inside a deep-fried cow, inside a flame-broiled elephant. Then covered with fried eggs and Velveeta®.

Now that's a meal!

[GOPisEvil]

19. *snarf*

:D

[trof]

20. Velveeta? No way, man!

Cheese Whiz in the spray can is the ONLY way to go.

[Blue-Jay]

22. True, Cheese Whiz is crappier,

but I was looking for maximum heart-stopping, colon-blocking power. In that, Velveeta is the king.